As the sales of recorded music plummets with the rise of media piracy, the artist-fan relationship is getting personal.
In the wake of the release of Samsung's healthy financial results for the second quarter of 2012, research firm IDC let out a new report saying that the South Korean tech giant's smartphone division is considerably ahead of its arch rival Apple and the rest of the competition.
The top after-market Nasdaq gainers Friday were Meru Networks Inc, Lincoln Electric Holdings Inc, Amkor Technology Inc and Amarin Corporation Plc.The top after-market Nasdaq losers were WisdomTree Investments Inc, Alaska Communications Systems Group Inc, Ironwood Pharmaceuticals Inc and Mid-Con Energy Partners LP.
The top after-market NYSE gainers Friday were Sprint Nextel Corp, Belo Corp, Natural Grocers by Vitamin Cottage, Green Dot Corp and Sauer-Danfoss Inc. The top after-market NYSE losers were Tata Motors Ltd, Owens & Minor, Infoblox and Graphic Packaging Holding Co.
Most of the Asian markets fell in the week following the revival of the investor concerns about the deepening debt burden faced by the euro zone and worsening global economic growth.
IBTimes presents its weekly roundup of winners and losers in the financial world.
Just 48 hours after Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL) launched its latest Macintosh operating system, OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion, the tech giant has already sold more than 2 million copies of the system, according to industry analysts.
Chick-fil-A may have irreparably damaged its relationship with a core constituency because of its same-sex marriage stance.
Conservationists have warned that the global wild tiger population, which totaled some 100,000 in 1900, has since shrunk to about 3,000. The animal could be extinct in the wild within two decades, they add.
If Apple and Samsung were people instead of corporations they would get along about as well as the Hatfields and McCoys. That is to say they'd probably take up arms against each other.
Prince George's County police have arrested Neil Edwin Prescott after he allegedly made threats and referred to himself as the Joker this week. According to police, they arrested Prescott and recovered numerous guns from a home Thursday night. Julie Parker, a spokeswoman for the Prince George's County police, told NBC News Friday that authorities had "thwarted a terrorist threat."
The head of public relations at Chick-fil-A died Friday morning of an apparent heart attack, according to the company.
The president of CNN Worldwide, Jim Walton, said he would resign at the end of the year as the cable television network struggles with falling ratings.
Austrian media reports that the opera will likely have to raise ticket prices.
The 2012 Aston Martin V8 Vantage is the coolest car on the road, a fighter-jet dressed up in a tuxedo.
The Salt Lake City Police Department was flooded from phone calls from reporters on Friday after the Drudge Report linked a story about how a man stopped another man's stabbing rampage in a Salt Lake City. Though the linked article from the Drudge Report front page was clearly published on April 26, many reporters did not take notice and published the news as if it had occurred the night before.
Potatoes are eaten in 95 percent of Irish households, making it the island’s pre-eminent staple.
The influx of millions of conscientious and low-cost Chinese graduates in the global job market could exacerbate the woes of a U.S. job market that is already staggering from high unemployment.
On June 22, 2012, Jerry Sandusky was found guilty on 45 of the 48 charges of sexual abuse of young boys over a 15-year period. Despite the fore mentioned facts, Dottie Sandusky, the former Penn State football coach's wife, says she still loves her husband.
Cleveland Browns owner Randy Lerner admitted on Friday that he is in negotiations to sell the team to Tennessee businessman Jimmy Haslam after months of speculation.
The Samsung Galaxy S3 will be available in a limited edition Olympic version to celebrate the worldwide London-based sporting event. The special rendition of the Samsung’s flagship smartphone for 2012 will be available exclusively through Carphone Warehouse on August 1.
The premature baby needed the incubator in order to survive and died shortly after being taken away from the life-saving machine.
The 2012 Olympics Opening Ceremony will draw the world's audience to London on Friday night, but signal an Olympics that will be more glitz than substance for the host city.
The U.S. economy grew more slowly in the second quarter than in the first three months of the year as consumers, struggling with a softening jobs market, spent less, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday.
Rationing was so severe, that British athletes were forced to consume whale meat for sustenance.
U.S. GDP grew 1.5 percent in the second quarter, slightly better than economists expected but less than the previous quarter's growth and not enough to bring down the unemployment rate, the Bureau of Economic Analysis said Friday.
While all the headlines in recent months have been devoted to highlighting the "sluggishness" of job creation, the U.S. labor market is actually actively stitching together its wounds.
A group of Syrian government officials visited Tehran, one of Damascus’ few remaining allies, to approve the deals.
Expedia Inc, Barclays Plc, Synacor, Amgen, Nokia Corp, Starbucks Corp, Facebook, Logitech International, Newmont Mining and Zynga Inc are among the companies whose shares are moving in the premarket trading Friday.
ICICI Bank(ICBK.NS), India's top private lender, posted on Friday a 36.3 percent jump in quarterly profit, its strongest growth in more than a year, helped by robust loan growth, high fee income and better asset quality.
