 | Good afternoon Bit |  |  | Twitter revamped its website to make the microblogging service easier to use and to help companies better showcase their brands. The new version of Twitter features a redesigned look that the company hopes will make it easier to find interesting content on the service, as well as technological improvements that it said will speed up the service. It also features a revamped profile page, in which a company can highlight specific feature, such as videos or photos. Previously, the profile pages displayed a chronological list of the company's most recent Tweets.
Apple's next iPad will be available in February, Business Insider's Jay Yarrow writes, citing Citi analyst Richard Gardner. The new iPad will feature a screen with twice the resolution of the current model, Yarrow adds.
Verizon Wireless blamed technical problems for an outage on its recently launched high-speed, 4G network, which prevented some U.S. customers from accessing the Internet for about 24 hours. It is at least the second outage since Verizon launched its 4G data service. Trade publication FierceWireless said the company had a major service disruption in April.
Zynga CEO Mark Pincus said the social networking games company can double the number of its paying players, but he and other executives sidestepped questions about player retention and churn rates at an IPO roadshow luncheon in Boston. At the end of September, Zynga, known for popular games such as FarmVille and Mafia Wars, had about 6.7 million unique players. Paying players account for less than 3 percent of Zynga's total number of players.
Google does not work with nor does it support Carrier IQ, the software maker which has been accused of violating millions of mobile phone users' privacy rights, according to Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt. "Android is an open platform, so it's possible for people to build software that's actually not very good for you, and this appears to be one," Schmidt said.
Nintendo denied a report that Shigeru Miyamoto, widely seen as the world's most influential games designer, would step down from his current position and take a smaller role in the company. Wired magazine had quoted the 59-year-old creator of popular games franchises including Super Mario Bros and The Legend of Zelda as saying in an interview that he wanted to retire and work on smaller projects, passing the torch to younger designers. | | | LATEST NEWS | | Cyber attacks could wreck world oil supply | | December 08, 2011 11:02 AM ET | | DOHA (Reuters) - Hackers are bombarding the world's computer controlled energy sector, conducting industrial espionage and threatening potential global havoc through oil supply disruption. | Full Article | | Reading is alive and increasingly electronic | | December 08, 2011 12:08 PM ET | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Times may be tough for neighborhood bookstores, but people are reading more than ever and e-books are nurturing bookworms who hunger for everything from blockbuster biographies to literary fiction. | Full Article | | Distracted driving "major problem" | | December 08, 2011 03:58 PM ET | | WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Most U.S. motorists surveyed acknowledged few situations in which they would not use a cell phone or text while behind the wheel although they support measures to curb both practices, data released on Thursday by the Transportation Department showed. | Full Article | | Apple's founding contract coming up for auction | | December 08, 2011 01:01 PM ET | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - The contract that established Apple as a corporate entity in 1976 and another document, signed 11 days later, that removed one of the partners are expected to fetch up to $150,000 when they are auctioned next week by Sotheby's. | Full Article | | Russian site snubs FSB request to block opposition | | December 08, 2011 02:07 PM ET | | MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's top social networking site on Thursday defiantly rejected a request by the Federal Security Service to block opposition groups from using it to organize street protests accusing the authorities of rigging this week's election. | Full Article | | | BUSINESS NEWS
| | Wall St ends down on dashed euro-zone hopes | | December 08, 2011 04:10 PM ET | | NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wall Street fell on Thursday after the European Central Bank dashed hopes that policy-makers were preparing a financial "bazooka" to contain the debt crisis, and Germany rejected some proposals to add power to the euro zone's bailout fund. | Full Article | | EU leaders commit to new "fiscal compact": draft | | December 08, 2011 03:55 PM ET | | BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU leaders are committed to a new "fiscal compact" for the euro zone, including much tighter budget deficit rules and debt issuance procedures, draft conclusions from a summit of EU heads of state showed on Thursday. | Full Article | | Ford brings back dividend after 5-year gap | | December 08, 2011 02:53 PM ET | | DETROIT (Reuters) - Ford Motor Co restored its dividend for the first time in five years on Thursday, with a quarterly payout of 5 cents per share that the No. 2 U.S. automaker said it could maintain during any future downturn. | Full Article | | | | U.S. TOP NEWS | | | | | RELATED VIDEO | | |  |  | | A daily digest of breaking business news, coverage of the US economy, major corporate news and the financial markets. Register Today. |  | | Your daily briefing on the latest tech developments from around the world from Reuters expert tech correspondents. Register Today. |  | | The latest Reuters articles on M&A, IPOs, private equity, hedge funds and regulatory updates delivered to your inbox each day.. Register Today. | | | » MORE NEWSLETTERS | | | ODDLY ENOUGH | | | | | | |
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