Sharp received from Qualcomm $ 60 million investment

Japan's Sharp today announced the receipt of an investment of $ 60 million from the U.S. Qualcomm. The statement said that the two companies are working to bring the mass production of a new generation of fuel-efficient and high-performance displays for mobile devices.

Qualcomm through its subsidiary Pixtronix start interacting with Sharp for the release of the displays based on the technology of MEMS (microelectromechanical systems), in which the screen pixels are based on tiny mechanical zatvorkah, which open and close certain colors on the display. Potentially, this technology allows you to create faster displays, capable of quickly change the picture without moire and loss in quality. At the same time, the new technology promises to be a cost-effective, even though today the mass production of MEMS is not yet established.

"We are moving toward commercialization," - says Sharp spokeswoman Miyuki Nakayama. According to her, the two companies are still in the research phase and has not yet announced a release date versions of commercial displays.

Logitech Acquires TT Design Labs

The Swiss manufacturer of computer mice and joysticks Logitech acquired the company TT Design Labs.

The latter was established through public funding Kickstarter project about two years ago, the founders of TT Design are Derek Tarnou and Zahra Tashakoinia.

Initially bought a company specialized in the production of iPhone-accessories. Its first product was TidyTilt - protective case, stand, magnetic holder and elegant cover in one. Note that when the company raised money at the beginning of the production TidyTilt, she managed to collect 2,000% more funds than initially needed.

Today, no Logitech, nor TT Design does not officially informed about the purchase and did not provide information about the conditions of absorption. However, sources in the Logitech say the company in the near future will begin to sell all of TT Design products under its own brand.

Oracle and Dell signed a massive partnership agreement

Dell announced on the eve of the expansion of partnerships with its corporate partner of Oracle. The two companies said Tuesday evening on a multi-year agreement to integrate each other's products.

It should be noted that the strategy of Dell's partnership with both hardware manufacturers and software developers have previously brought us the dividends related to the positioning of Dell as a supplier of complete solutions for the business cycle.

Thus, the earlier Dell signed a major partnership agreement with EMC, the world's largest manufacturer of storage systems.

Samsung buys 10% Pantech stake

Samsung Buys 10% of Pantech for $48 Million

Samsung Electronics today buys about 10% of the shares of a competing manufacturer of mobile phones and smartphones Pantech.

South Korea's Pantech is the third largest after Samsung and LG. According to analysts, the transaction value is about 53 billion Korean won, or $ 48 million. In a joint statement, the parties said the deal will help strengthen bilateral cooperation in the field of smart phones and other lines of business.

With today's purchase securities Pantech, Samsung has become the third largest shareholder in the company after the American Qualcomm and Korean State Development Bank of Korea. The latter two own stakes in 11.96% and 11.81% stake in Pantech. As explained in the Samsung, their company has links with Pantech in semiconductor manufacturing and display industry.

Investor Warren Buffett launched a blog on Twitter

The legendary American investor Warren Buffett opened his microblog at Twitter.

Until now, Buffett has been known in the corporate environment as one of the most distant from the information technology investors and economists. Meanwhile, he discovered the blog Sage of Omaha could become one of the most widely read.

Now users to actively "Follows" Buffett. Only in the last three hours about 10 000 people have signed up for his blog. Now the total number of followers exceeds blog Buffett's 233,000 members, although only two blog posts, one of which - is "Warren is in the house".

The world's largest Bitcoin exchange, Mt. Gox, was sued by CoinLab

In February of this year, the world's largest virtual currency exchanger Mt.Gox, based in Japan, entered into an agreement with the American company CoinLab, under which CoinLab Bitsoin becomes the operator of all transactions conducted on Mt.Gox users from the United States and Canada.

Initially stated that CoinLab has partnered with a group of American banks, which could contribute to the output of the virtual currency Bitcoin offline.

But now the partnership seems to have collapsed. CoinLab sued Mt.Gox, accusing the latter of not fulfilling the contractual terms that were reached in November last year. Signed a legal agreement called for the transfer of Bitcoin-North American operations under the management of CoinLab in March. However CoinLab say that this has not happened.

Commercial using of Wi-Fi

Commercial access to services based on Wi-Fi available in places such as Internet cafes, airports and coffee shops around the world (usually these places are called Wi-Fi-cafe), but their coverage can be considered a point in comparison with cellular networks:

- Ozone and OzoneParis France. In September 2003, the beginning of Ozone network deployment OzoneParis through The City of Lights. The ultimate goal - the creation of a centralized network Wi-Fi, fully covering Paris. The basic principle of Ozone Pervasive Network is that it is a network of national scale.

- WiSE Technologies provides commercial access in airports, universities, and independent cafes in the United States;

- T-Mobile provides the network of hotspots for Starbucks in the U.S. and the UK, as well as more than 7,500 hotspots in Germany;

The largest DDoS-attack on the stock exchange Bitcoin - Mt.Gox

The representative of the victims feel that their actions are trying to bring down the rate of fraudsters Bitcoin.

April morning of the fourth exchange Bitcoin - Mt.Gox faced massive DDoS-attack. Note, that this exchange is about 70% -80% of all exchange transactions with e-currency. The attack caused the violation is of the transaction.

Representatives of Mt. Gox said they guess the motive for the attack. Since the last few days Bitcoin value rose to a record $ 142, then the instability in the market, in this case, the DDoS-attack that can significantly reduce the cost, as well as "cause panic among users."

Analysts estimated sales of Windows 8

According to research by Net Applications, at the end of the first quarter 2013 sales of Windows 8 have increased from 2.79% to 3.31%.

Moreover, despite the fact that Windows 7 previously suffered losses, it grows again with a share changed from 44.55% to 44.73%. Market share of Windows Vista dropped to 5%, according to the portal thenextweb.com.

Analysts have seen a rapid growth in sales of Windows 8, which they had hoped. The share of Windows 7 in March increased, while last month it grew by only 0.07%, and in January - has fallen by 0.63%, the first failure in the market after the operating system on the market. The experts also noted a drop in sales of Windows Vista 5.17% to 4.99%.

Visa and iBox launched a joint mobile payment terminal

Visa and company ibox, provides mobile acquiring, today launched a new solution for the payment by cards - mobile terminal ibox.

Mobile payment terminal ibox - ibox-reader - a reader that connects to your phone or tablet running iOS or Android.

Ibox for individual entrepreneurs and companies with a large network of agents - insurance companies, courier services, taxi services, meal delivery and network marketing.

Votlichie from traditional bank acquiring iboxne requires the purchase of expensive equipment and is available to all businesses regardless of their sales volume.

From a marketing point of view, this decision is competing with a number of previously featured mobile payment terminals, such as NFC-service company PayPal, a Swedish product iZettle Square or from the creators of Twitter.