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Facebook listing could trigger IPO surge: Nasdaq
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nasdaq OMX Group Inc is looking forward to a spike in the number of companies going public in the near term as they look to take advantage of the market buzz created by Facebook's listing next week, an executive at Nasdaq said on Thursday.
Facebook aims to raise about $10.6 billion, dwarfing the coming-out parties of tech companies like Google Inc and granting it a market value of up to $96 billion - rivaling Amazon.com Inc's.
"Facebook is obviously the most anticipated IPO in history and once...
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Testosterone Linked to Weight Loss in Obese Men
May 9, 2012 -- Testosterone replacement may promote weight loss in obese older men who have low levels of the male sex hormone, a new study shows.
But before men try to lose weight by bumping up their testosterone, experts agree that more studies are needed to show that the treatment is both safe and effective.
Researchers followed a group of mostly older, overweight men receiving injections of the hormone for up to five years to treat erectile dysfunction and other symptoms associated with low testosterone.
Their findings were...
What does it mean to say that something causes 16% of cancers?
A few days ago, news reports claimed that 16 per cent of cancers around the world were caused by infections. This isn’t an especially new or controversial statement, as there’s clear evidence that some viruses, bacteria and parasites can cause cancer (think HPV, which we now have a vaccine against). It’s not inaccurate either. The paper that triggered the reports did indeed conclude that “of the 12.7 million new cancer cases that occurred in 2008, the population attributable fraction (PAF) for infectious agents was 16·1%”.
But for me, the reports...
Caffeine protects against brain degeneration in diabetes
Badly controlled diabetes is known to affect the brain, causing memory and learning problems and even increased incidence of dementia. How this occurs is not clear but a study in mice with type 2 diabetes has discovered how diabetes affects the hippocampus, causing memory loss, and also how caffeine can prevent this. Curiously, the neurodegeneration that Rodrigo Cunha, from the Centre for Neuroscience and Cell Biology of the University of Coimbra in Portugal, sees as result of diabetes is the same that occurs at the first stages of several neurodegenerative...
The relationship between TV viewing and eating
Television viewing and unhealthy eating habits in US adolescents appear to be
linked in a national survey of students in the fifth to tenth grades, according
to a report published in the May issue of Archives of Pediatrics &
Adolescent Medicine, a JAMA Network publication. The study is part of the
Nutrition and the Health of Children and Adolescents theme
issue.Television viewing (TVV) by young people has been associated with
unhealthy eating and food choices that may track into early adulthood. Young
people in the US fall short...
Zambo declares dengue outbreak
ZAMBOANGA CITY -- The City Government, through the City Health Office, has declared a dengue outbreak in this southern port city.
The declaration was made as the number of dengue cases from January 1 up to the first week of May this year has increased by 413, or more than 50 percent compared to the number of cases recorded in the same period of last year.
Have something to report? Tell us in text, photos or videos.There were a total of 361 dengue cases recorded in the same period in 2011, but the cases reached 774 this year, said City Health Officer...
Friend request: help pay my bill
ONCE Facebook was for social interaction, friendship and media-sharing; now it's morphing into a venue for serious pursuits such as paying bills.
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This process took another step yesterday when Telstra released a Facebook application that lets customers top up pre-paid mobile accounts from their Facebook home page -- while they continue to interact with friends.
The app also makes use of the Facebook friends network -- some might say controversially -- by offering a button that lets a customer ask a friend to help pay their bill.
The plea for credit can appear on their wall. Telstra customers then use the Credit Me2U to transfer money from one pre-paid account to another.
Telstra Mobile executive director Warwick Bray said: "In just a few clicks, customers can use the app to check their balance information, recharge with a stored debit or credit card and view up to 180 days of usage and recharge history.
"And should a customer run out of credit, they can ask their mates for a top-up using the 'request credit from friends' feature, which provides the option to put a call out on their Facebook wall or via a direct message."
Users search for and download the application, install it, and verify their mobile phone account. The bill-paying facility then appears as a link on their Facebook homepage.
Telstra said the app pointed to "a future where all types of transactions are embedded in the world's most popular social network".
"This is part of Telstra's strategy to improve customer satisfaction by making it more convenient for people to manage their mobile services at a time and location that suites them," the telco said.
Its new app coincides with Facebook's revamping of its application network. In a developer's blog post yesterday, Facebook said it would open its own app centre, where users could download free and paid apps and run them from within their Facebook account. Apps could be accessed in a browser, or from apps on Apple/Android devices.
While apps have been part of Facebook for years, the difference is their organisation into a single online location and their categorisation into genres.
Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Smartphone ownership in US continues to grow, led by Android OS
Smartphone ownership in the USA continues to grow with 50.4 percent of mobile subscribers now owning a smart device, according to a Nielsen study published May 7. The study found that from December 2011 to March 2012 the percentage of US mobile subscribers owning smartphones increased for 47.8 percent to 50.4 percent.
Among those smartphone owners in the...
Top new tech products: Samsung Galaxy S III, LG Optimus LTE2
High-tech product releases announced the week ending May 9 include the Samsung Galaxy S III, the HP Envy Spectre XT, the world’s first smartphone for seniors, a waterproof Android smartphone, and a tough camera from Olympus.A powerful and sleek ultrabook with Beats AudioComputer maker Hewlett-Packard (HP) showed off a barrage of new laptops this week, among them...
Twitter passwords bared online
Twitter on Tuesday said that it was trying to figure out how user names and passwords from thousands of accounts apparently wound up posted at an online file sharing website.Information posted on Pastebin.com pages appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, not counting about 20,000 that seemed to be redundancies, according to a message "tweeted" by the San Francisco...
PAGASA website hacked
MANILA, Philippines (UPDATED) - The Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA) website was hacked on Wednesday.
The hacker did not leave any identification, only the words: “Hacked by Net user! Team:X-fuck ! E-mail:794399786@qq.com!”
A PAGASA official said computer experts are now investigating the incident. In the meantime,...
Samsung reveals Galaxy S III Olympic Edition with Visa Paywave
KOREAN PHONE MAKER Samsung will release a limited edition Olympic Galaxy S III handset that will have Visa Paywave technology.
Don't go getting too excited, though, as Visa has said that the 'mobile wallet' won't go on sale to the general public yet, as it will be made available only to sponsored Olympic athletes.
According to Samsung the Paywave enabled smartphone will enable users to "buy merchandise with a wave of the device at thousands of retail locations throughout London", which given that the athletes are unlikely to have...
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
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Justin Bieber’s ‘Boyfriend’ video hits more than 12m views, Shakira’s ‘Addicted To You’ passes 4m
Twitter stars Justin Bieber and Shakira are celebrating huge viewer milestones for their recently released video clips.On May 6 Justin Bieber tweeted that the music video for his hotly-awaited single “Boyfriend” had reached over 12 million views in just two days while Shakira tweeted “Almost 4m views of #AddictedToYou in 3 days! That's amazing. Thanks for the support guys.”Twitter’s most popular microblogger, Lady Gaga, has been busy posting photos from her Born This Way Ball tour on her account. TV celebrity Kim Kardashian donned a mustache cookie...
Google+ rolls out 'Hangouts On Air' worldwide
Google on Monday began letting members of its social network worldwide broadcast "hangouts" live to Internet titan's growing online community.Hangouts On Air were introduced last year at Google+ with select high-profile members testing the service that lets as many as ten people at a time take part in virtual roundtable style video chats broadcast for anyone to see.
"This small community has grown the feature in lots of creative ways," said Google+ engineering director Chee Chew.
"And they've made one thing crystal clear: when groups of...
Samsung unveils Galaxy S III to challenge iPhone
By:David Sarno
Los Angeles Times
Samsung Electronics unveiled its latest hand-held weapon in its war against Apple — a smartphone dubbed Galaxy S III that is lighter and thinner than the iPhone despite having a screen nearly twice as large.The S III, with voice command, will go on sale in Europe at the end of this month and...
Twitter passwords bared online
Twitter recommended users change their passwords/F...
Information posted on Pastebin.com pages appeared to be from about 35,000 Twitter accounts, not counting about 20,000 that seemed to be redundancies, according to a message “tweeted” by the San Francisco firm.
“We’re looking into the situation and have pushed out password resets to potentially affected accounts,” Twitter said.
Twitter, which rocketed to popularity by letting people fire off short text messages to limitless numbers of people using smartphones, recommended users change their passwords.
The list at Pastebin included spam accounts and incorrect login credentials, according to Twitter.
The evident data breach came as Twitter challenged a court order to turn over to law enforcement data on one of its users involved in Occupy Wall Street.
The motion filed Monday in a New York state court said the order would require Twitter to violate federal law and denies the user the ownership rights to his Twitter messages.
The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday applauded Twitter’s action, saying the company was standing up for free speech.
