The buzzword in gaming at Mobile World Congress was definitely "quad-core," and that's likely to become an even hotter topic when Apple is expected to unveil its iPad 3 device next week in San Francisco.
Law enforcement officials announced charges Wednesday against seven hedge fund and investment professionals in an insider trading case they called "a stunning portrait of organized corruption on a grand scale."
A lot of new developments surround Starbucks. The coffee chain acquired juice maker Evolution Fresh for $30 million as part of a larger effort to diversify its revenue stream.
Just when investors' sentiment turned utterly negative and seemingly could not get worse, the stock market rebounded on Wednesday.
Shares of chipmaking companies soared on Tuesday following Texas Instruments' late Monday $6.5 billion bid for rival National Semiconductor.
JDS Uniphase, a company that lost a then-record $56 billion in 2001, is now one of the hottest tech stocks of 2011. As '80s sitcom "star" Yakov Smirnoff would say, "What a country!"
The United States no longer owns the world's fastest supercomputer.
When Jen-Hsun Huang (pronounced Jenson Wong) was 10 years old, his Taiwanese parents sent him to a boarding school in rural Kentucky. It turned out to be a reform school, where Huang was the youngest kid, and he and his brother the only Chinese. "I got beat up now and then," he says. "But I learned how to survive."
From "Mario Kart" to "Mortal Kombat," last week's Electronic Entertainment Expo made one thing abundantly clear: 3-D gaming is just around the corner.
After the rush by audiences to Hollywood 3-D blockbusters "Avatar" and "Alice in Wonderland," game designers and developers are hoping to strike gold with 3-D gaming.
Google's Android operating system is seen as a future favorite for smartphones and tablets, according to a research note released Tuesday and comments from the chief executive of graphics chip supplier Nvidia.
The Boxee Box, a cubelike device that shares Internet content with your TV, won the annual "Last Gadget Standing" competition Saturday at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
Fortune: Nvidia goes mobileupdated: Tue Jun 30 2009 10:38:00
You say, "potato," I say, "netbook." That's a bit how I feel when Michael Rayfield, who heads up the mobile computing effort at graphics chip specialist Nvidia, drops a tiny computer on my desk. Branded Mobinnova, it had an almost 9" diagonal screen and a solid keyboard that folded around a tube stuffed with batteries and various connectors.
Apple Inc. touched up its line of laptop computers Tuesday with a minimal nod to the economic turmoil that might push consumers to be more frugal this holiday shopping season
CNNMoney: Futures turn higherupdated: Thu Jul 03 2008 08:56:00
Stock futures turned higher early Thursday as investors responded to a key report on the nation's labor market and the European Central Bank's decision to raise interest rates.
The Asus EN8800GT is the first card we've reviewed with Nvidia's new GeForce 8800 GT graphics chip. You should be able to find this card for just less than $300 or so online, which puts its real world price a bit higher than Nvidia's suggested price of about $250.
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The Gateway one and others have the iMac in their sites as we take a look at all-in-one PC's.
The current flood of excellent gaming laptops (Dell's XPS M1730, HP/Voodoo's Envy, and Alienware's m9750) means that PC gamers have plenty of choices when it comes to picking a new mobile rig.
Working from home can be as or more productive than renting yourself out daily, but only if you have the right equipment.
Stock declined Wednesday, as investors retreated after the recent run up and ahead of the September jobs report, due Friday.
SIGN THE GUEST BOOK: Had some great visits last week. First, sorry to have missed Kiril Sokoloff, a man who knows markets and the Dalai Lama, who came by to speak with some folks at Fortune early last week. Thanks Kiril.... Then we were thrilled to have Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson drop by. Hammerin' Hank, was as you might expect, upbeat, yet cautious. Think about the spot he's in. You have to be thrilled with the economy and all, but just terrified knowing that it's going to end somehow, and not knowing how.... Dined with Zach Nelson, CEO of NetSuite, at the Four Seasons. They've taken their sweet (suite!) time building that company and it looks like it's beginning to pay off. Saw Sandy Weill there, and said hello to Ralph Schlosstein, prez of BlackRock and Paul Fribourg of ContiGroup. Ralph expressed amazement that I was picking up the tab. (Nice one Ralph!) Also saw Steve Rattner, whose Quadrangle is the new owner of Dennis (Maxim) Publishing....
Our annual rankings show another banner year for the businesses leading the tech revival.
The CineMagix Grand Theater represents Velocity Micro's first foray into the realm of the all-out home theater PC.
Nvidia tops the list for best performing tech stock in the S&P 500 this year. With a gain of 98 percent as of Wednesday, the graphics chip maker led the winners in 2006.
It was a frosty first day of December for stocks Friday after a manufacturing report came in weaker than expected and slowdown worries gripped investors - although the major gauges mounted a comeback and cut their losses late in the session.
Stocks pared their losses in the final hour of trading Friday but finished the session in negative territory as slowdown worries gripped investors.
The blue-chip Dow industrials lost as much as 131 points Friday afternoon before backing off its lows as concerns about the health of the economy kept stocks under pressure.
Stocks sank while Treasury prices soared Friday after a key manufacturing index came in below estimates, sparking more concerns about the health of the economy.
CNNMoney: Relief on Wall Streetupdated: Thu Aug 10 2006 09:52:00
Stocks climbed Thursday, led by technology, as investors welcomed falling oil prices and breathed a sigh of relief that a terrorist plot was thwarted in Britain.
Regardless of what the market makes of the impending nuptials of PC chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices and graphics chip maker ATI Technologies, one clear winner in the match-up appears to be Nvidia, at least as far as traders are concerned.
You can already buy just about anything from Amazon.com. But now, TechCrunch reports, you can buy space on Amazon.com's servers. Unlike Google's Gdrive, though, Amazon's online-storage offering isn't meant for consumers. Amazon, whose servers already host terabytes of book-cover images, music-CD reviews and sales data, is offering online storage space to companies who want to store their own data. The new service could make it easier for startups to build new services without worrying about buying and maintaining their own storage servers, writes former Goldman Sachs analyst Michael Parekh on his blog.
If you want to invest in semiconductors while steering clear of the industry's bigwigs such as Intel and Texas Instruments there are plenty of other options, analysts and investors say.
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Nvidia Corp. will supply graphics technology for Sony Corp.'s next-generation PlayStation video game console, the companies said Tuesday.
Technology stocks sank Friday after Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, disappointed investors by slashing its revenue forecast.
Technology shares posted a broad advance Friday, led by gains in the Internet and software sectors as stocks rallied on a drop in oil prices.
Investors will look to the Fed Tuesday for signs of economic strength, after mostly positive after-bell news emerged from companies Monday.
CNNMoney: Stocks get knockedupdated: Fri Aug 06 2004 09:16:00
A surprisingly weak July payrolls report sent U.S. stock markets reeling early Friday.
CNNMoney: Market woe aheadupdated: Fri Aug 06 2004 05:39:00
A much weaker-than-expected jobs report Friday set the stage for another hit to the U.S. stock market.
At Sony Pictures Imageworks, the special-effects house behind Spider-Man 2, there's no such thing as faster. "You just get it done better," says VP for technical operations Bill Villarreal. Yet the...
Tech stocks ended mixed Friday after an unexpectedly robust April payroll report reinforced views that the economic recovery has gained momentum.
Investors will have a better sense of direction on Friday after the release of the crucial April unemployment report.
Investors barely noticed Dell Inc.'s better-than-expected quarterly earnings report Thursday, but ImClone Systems shares received an extra boost in after-hours trading.
Earnings reports continued to flow in after the bell Tuesday, and a ratings upgrade for Ford Motor Co. may make the automaker's shares a hot stock on Wednesday.
Business 2.0: Hits & Missesupdated: Wed Oct 01 2003 00:01:00
Better product, lower prices, and they actually give a damn: Major airlines canceled hundreds of flights during the Aug. 14 blackout. JetBlue could've easily followed suit. Instead, the popular low...
Most senior executives these days are likely to base their most important decisions on what they guess will be the effect on their company's stock price. They spend hours and hours with investors a...
There's a great scene in the sci-fi movie Contact in which the astronomer played by Jodie Foster--despondent after a terrorist destroys her dream of intergalactic travel--receives a video call from...
Quick-fired with peanuts, chilis, and scallions, the kung pao scallops at P.F. Chang's new spinoff, Pei Wei Asian Diner, pack a wallop, yet they're nowhere near as sizzling as the company's three-y...
Fortune: Richest Newcomerupdated: Mon Sep 17 2001 00:01:00
Jen-Hsun Huang freely admits it: He rarely has a weeknight dinner with his wife and two kids. The 38-year-old CEO has been too busy working 14-hour days building and running Nvidia, the 3D-graphics...
As you walk the halls of Nvidia's Silicon Valley headquarters, you pass rooms named after the stadiums and arenas of some of the great sports franchises of our time: the Candlestick Park room, the ...
FSB: Editor's Notesupdated: Sat Sep 01 2001 00:01:00
Over the course of the year we field a number of questions about our readers from folks who are interested in what makes the small business owner tick. Among the most common: What do they like to r...
I'm always on the prowl for sucker investment plays. And right now nothing can match the potential fake-out offered by specialty semiconductor chip companies.
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