Technology

Quantum Dots were discovered in 1980 by Alexei Ekimov, and have been playing an ever more important role in tech advances for televisions and solar cells, as well as a host of applications further away from commercialisation. The unique properties of quantum dots allow the photonic emissions to be tuned by the size of the […]

Online publishing solutions provider, Publishing Technology plc (LSE:PTO),  expects to end 2012 in line with market expectations, the AIM-listed firm said on Monday, 14th January. The firm that provides digital hosting platforms to over 80% of the world’s most recognized publishers including HarperCollins and McGraw-Hill said its new products – the Pub2web and Advance – […]

Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL): The stock is trading up on the rumors of the company going private. It has already traded 42.661 million shares, in comparison to its regular trading volume of 23.451 million shares.

ARM Holdings (LSE:ARM) is all over the financial news this morning as there seems to be a downgrade consensus by analysts.  ARM’s share price was down 33.50 to 839.50 at midday. Morgan Stanley cut ARM to equal weight from overweight, but raised its target from 725.00 pence to 911.00 pence.  Investec dropped it from hold […]

In spite of the bearish correction it is currently experiencing, Google shares (NASDAQ:GOOG) are expected to become dearer this year. Buyers will therefore, do well by following the example of the bull. A horse follows the example of the one put before it in a race. The scenario on Google is bullish for this year. […]

The following is an extract from Zak Mir’s Amazon eBook bestseller, Lessons From The Financial Markets For 2013 which you can read by clicking here Facebook (NASDAQ:FB): The Set Up IPOs are one of the most serious/pivotal business days as far as any company is concerned, very often the all-time highlight. To my mind the […]

US patent authorities rejected Apple’s Inc’s key “pinch-to-zoom” patent, the second piece of  bad news in the last two months for the iPhone maker in its battle against Samsung Electronics. The United States Patent and Trademark Office declared that the “pinch-to-zoom” patent, that helped Apple win $1.05 billion in damages against Samsung in a jury […]

A mob of angry users filled the spaces of social media sites today in reaction to new terms of service and privacy policies published by Instagram, a photo sharing application owned by Facebook, giving the service rights to use its users’ information and contents as a means of generating revenue. In an unadultered form, I […]

As luck would have it I started writing Lessons From The Financial Markets For 2013 in the first week of October, the anniversary of the death of Apple (AAPL) supremo Steve Jobs. At that time the shares had soared almost exponentially, not even blinking when Jobs died and slapping down all of those who had thus far attempted […]

The chips are down this morning as ARM Holdings (LSE:ARM) has made yet another bold move to wrestle for dominance in the microprocessor sector of the technology market.  The share price of the UK’s leading Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor-design firm was up 11.50 pence to 706.50, after having reached 735.00 in early trading. […]