Rate Hikes Squeezing Australian Purses

Published on November 23, 2010 by Technology Slice

Rate Hikes Squeezing Australian Purses – An online survey by mortgage broker Loan Market also found that almost two-thirds of respondents were re-assessing their spending due to higher mortgage repayments. Loan Market’s chief operating officer Dean Rushton says four official rate hikes by the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) in 2010 has had a major [...]

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Zynga Hires MySpace CEO

Published on August 14, 2010 by Technology Slice

Zynga Hires MySpace CEO – Former Facebook Inc. executive and MySpace Chief Executive Owen Van Natta has been hired by Zynga Game Network Inc. as executive vice president of business operations, a Zynga spokeswoman confirmed on Friday. Zynga’s association with Van Natta, who left News Corp.’s (NWS,NWSA) MySpace in February, was previously reported by the [...]

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World Cup Breaks Twitter Record

Published on June 28, 2010 by Technology Slice

Twitter said Friday that World Cup football kicked the number of “tweets” fired off at the micro-blogging service to a record high of 3283 per second. The winning spike in tweets came right after a referee’s whistle ended a Thursday match in which Japan beat Denmark 3-1.

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Bloom Energy Press Conference

Published on February 25, 2010 by Technology Slice

Bloom Energy Press Conference – The veil has been lifted on Bloom Energy, the secretive energy start-up that has been quietly installing its fuel-cell servers that promise cleaner and cheaper energy at some of Silicon Valley’s biggest businesses. The Sunnyvale, Calif., company says that it has developed a new method of making fuel cells, which [...]

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Pac 10 Expansion

Published on February 10, 2010 by Technology Slice

Debating Pac-10 expansion is no longer idle chit-chat. Pac-10 commissioner Larry Scott made that clear during a teleconference with reporters Tuesday. “It really is over the next six to 12 months that we’ll start having serious analysis and serious conversations,” Scott said about potential expansion. Scott was joined on the conference call by Kevin Weiberg, [...]

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