‘Technology and Science’ Articles
THQ misses Street on weak game sales, cuts forecast
Feb 2 - THQ Inc's cut its annual earnings forecast on Thursday and told investors it would become a much smaller video game company with half the volume of sales next year.
Advice to new Facebook millionaires: take a breath
(Reuters) - The first thing the 1,000 or so new post-IPO Facebook millionaire employees might need: a reality check.
Take-Two quarterly revenue falls on NBA video game
(Reuters) - Take-Two Interactive's third-quarter revenue missed Wall Street expectations after the video game maker sold fewer copies of its basketball video game, "NBA 2K12", than expected.
Group seeks to save data on Megaupload servers
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Electronic Frontier Foundation on Thursday asked federal prosecutors and lawyers for the Megaupload.com file-sharing service to allow users who uploaded material to retrieve it as long as it was not copyrighted material.
Precedent warning as Assange extradition case ends
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain's Supreme Court risks jeopardizing extraditions to many neighboring countries if it stops WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange being sent to Sweden for questioning over sex crimes, a lawyer for Swedish prosecutors argued Thursday.
U.S. shuts 16 sports piracy websites pre-Super Bowl
(Reuters) - Three days before Super Bowl XLVI, U.S. prosecutors said they seized 16 websites that illegally streamed live sports and pay-per-view events over the Internet, and charged a Michigan man with running nine of those websites.
Under the hood: GM blueprint for Volt 2.0
TROY, Michigan (Reuters) - The Chevrolet Volt stands as the most heavily promoted - and harshly scrutinized - vehicle from General Motors Co in decades. And that's just version 1.0.
Groupon basks in Facebook light, for now
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Groupon Inc shares jumped to their highest level of 2012 Thursday as the daily deal company got a boost from social networking euphoria sparked by Facebook's IPO filing.
