Facebook Credits will be the mandatory virtual payment processing system for Facebook’s social gaming platform July 1. The social network wants to run all payments in-house. – Facebook is throwing its muscle into its vaunted application
platform, requiring that its Facebook Credits system be used by all social game
developers to process payments on the social network.
Launched to beta in 2009, Credits is a virtual currency system that lets consumers enter their payment…
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The Serbian government decided on Thursday to set the minimum starting price for the sale of its 51 percent stake in Telekom Srbia at EUR 1.4bn. The government tasked the Finance Ministry and the working group for conducting the tender for the sale of state-owned telecommunications company shares with informing all participants in the tender for the privatization of the Serbian company about the initial price.
The real estate company hired Deutsche Bank AG, Standard Chartered Plc and UBS AG to help arrange the meetings, the person said, asking not to be identified as details are private. It may consider a sale of yuan-denominated bonds, whose coupon and principle would be settled in dollars, another person familiar with the matter said on Dec. 7.
1903: Clyde J. Coleman is issued a patent for an electric automobile starter.
Coleman originally applied for the patent in 1899, but his early designs proved impractical. The need for this kind of starter for an internal combustion engine was obvious. Automobiles were getting larger, and hand-cranking — the method used to get the pistons moving [...]
Verizon Wireless will begin selling the Samsung Galaxy Tab for $599.99 on Nov. 11, but this price point may scare even Android lovers into buying Apples iPad. – Apple CEO Steve Jobs may have called it correctly when he said Android-based
tablets such as the Samsung Galaxy Tab would not be able to compete with Apples
iPad on price.
Verizon Wireless and Samsung Mobile shocked the tablet-watching world on Oct.
20 by announcing
that that they will sell t…
“We’re very close to start-up,” Jarmo Honkamaa, deputy chief executive officer of Neste Oil, Finland’s only petroleum refiner, said yesterday in a telephone interview. “We’re well on time and within the budget” for the project, which uses plant and animal products as feedstock.
Singapore Exchange (SGX) today said that corporate bonds for retail investors will be available, for the first time, on SGX primary and secondary markets.
These corporate bonds, issued by SGX-listed companies and other organisations, will be traded in smaller denominations, making it attractive to the growing pool of retail investors in Asia. SGX offers an easily accessible, cost efficient and transparent bond market. Real-time prices as well as volume and price information will be made available on its website.
In this regard, Singapore Airlines has today announced an offer of $300 million in bonds due in 2015, a portion of which is to be offered to the public. The public offer will open on 22 September. This issue of corporate bonds will be tradable on SGX Mainboard on 1 October.
SGX, Asia’s second-largest bourse operator by market cap, will start by clearing U.S. and Singapore dollar interest rate swaps, and it plans expand the service to include foreign currency options and forwards, SGX President Muthukrishnan Ramaswami told Reuters.
T-Mobile revealed on Facebook its plans to offer the BlackBerry Curve 3G 9300 starting Sept. 8 for $79.99 with a two-year agreement. – T-Mobile has announced plans to sell the BlackBerry Curve
3G 9300 smartphone starting on Sept. 8 for $79.99 with a two-year contract. The
new Curve is the first phone to support 3G on a GSM-based network.
The carrier dropped the news to its Facebook followers on
Aug. 30.
The Curve 3G, announce…
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Singapore stocks open higher, with 4 gainers for every decliner, following positive cue from Wall Street Friday, says Dow Jones.
Blue chips, however, struggling as interest turns to lower liners. STI +0.1% at 2,975.04 vs +0.2% in early trade, expected to encounter resistance at 3,000, with last week’s low of 2926 tipped as support.
Technology graduates of the class of 2010 are seeing average salaries ranging from $55,000 to $60,000 and are out-earning every other category out of the gate. Now, if only there were more job openings. – Buck up, recent computer science
bachelor’s degree holders. You are earning (or have the potential to earn) more
than your peers by a nice margin.
Computer and engineering graduates are receiving some
of the highest starting salaries at present, although year-over-year starting
salaries for …
Singapore Exchange (SGX) today said its derivatives market will start trading the new SGX Nikkei Dividend Point Index futures from 17 June, making SGX the first Asian exchange to trade a dividend futures contract.
Apple plans to host its annual Worldwide Developers Conference June 7-11 in San Francisco. While the multiple sessions and labs for developers suggest the companys focus will be on the iPhone OS 4 and iPad, speculation is rampant that Apple may use the conference to announce the next version of its popular iPhone. Although Apple usually likes to control every aspect of such unveilings, the recent online dissection of a supposed iPhone prototype could have put many of the devices new features into the open.
– Apple plans on holding its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC)
from June 7-11 at San Franciscos
Moscone West, the company announced on April 28. The event will certainly be
dominated by the iPhone OS 4 and the iPad, and the next version of the iPhone
may also make its debut.
“This ye…
Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced Tuesday that a general election will be held in Britain May 6 in what analysts believe could be one of the closest and most unpredictable contests in modern British politics.
Brown, 59, will be seeking an unprecedented fourth term for the ruling Labour Party which has been in power since 1997. [...]
Samsung is one handset company that seemingly benefited from the Chinese New Year and a strong start to the 2010 global handset market, according to a new report. Led by Asia and Latin America, the Year of the Tiger is predicted to be a good one for handsets, which should grow 11 percent over 2009 numbers.
– The Year of the Tiger is already proving a successful one for the
global mobile handset market in general and Taiwan-based Samsung in
particular, according to analysis firm Broadpoint AmTech.
In a March 11 research note to investors, Broadpoint reported that 2010
is expected to continue the …
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MSI Computer released four new notebooks that run Windows 7, are powered by Intel Arrandale or Pentium Dual-Core processors, and make promises of cinematic viewing experiences.
– MSI Computer is introducing four new notebooks, each pairing
Microsofts Windows 7 Home Premium operating system with Intel
processors and cinematic promises of an “ultimate viewing experience”
on backlit HD displays.
Three models, under a CR620 umbrella, feature 15.6-inch displays, while
…
Both long and short U.S. bond auctions are starting to fail. See this, this, this and this.Tyler Durden concludes:China is finally coming through on its Bond boycott promises. For background, see this.
