Altera Cuts Q1 Guidance

Altera Cuts Q1 Guidance

Altera Cuts Q1 Guidance

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:13 PM PST

Altera late Thursday cut its guidance for the first quarter. The company now sees revenues down 7%-9% sequentially; previous guidance was for a 5%-9% drop. The company had previously said it was seeing ?program timing? issues in the military vertical market and softness in sales to wireless customers. But the trouble has spread. ?As the ...


Fanplayr Lets Retailers Gamify Their Sales Promotions Across Platforms

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:00 PM PST

Fanplayr is a web service that allows retailers to offer coupon promotions across platforms both virtual and physical.


Google Ekes Out U.S. Mkt Share Gain In Search In Feb.

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:57 PM PST

Google took 66.4% of the U.S. search market in February, according to ComScore, up a bit from 66.2% in January. It was third month in a row that the dominant player in the market took additional share. Microsoft Bing had 15.3% of the market for the month, up from 15.2% in January, and continuing a ...


12 Lessons from KONY 2012 from Social Media Power Users

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:17 PM PST

The KONY 2012 video has clocked more than 43 million views in only two days on YouTube (and millions more since appearing on Vimeo two weeks ago), which is fairly amazing considering 1) it?s about something most people have never heard of and 2) it?s a half-an-hour long. (The average viral video on YouTube is ...


VIDEO: Clearing tsunami's '100 years of debris'

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:30 PM PST

The task of clearing the millions of tonnes of debris left by last year's Japanese earthquake and tsunami is far from complete.


VIDEO: Global seabird numbers falling

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:21 PM PST

Almost half of the world's seabirds have populations that are thought to be in decline, according to a new review


VIDEO: Oxfam warns of West Africa crisis

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:57 PM PST

Oxfam is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Sahel region of West Africa.


VIDEO: What hope of Afghanistan stability?

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:39 PM PST

The BBC's James Robbins looks at the prospects for stability in Afghanistan once security for the country has been handed to the Afghans themselves.


VIDEO: Abkhaz-Georgian relations: Tough game

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:09 PM PST

On Saturday parliamentary elections will be held in the separatist territory of Abkhazia, which broke away from Georgia in a bloody war in the 1990s - but signs of instability are growing in the region.


VIDEO: Clearing tsunami's '100 years of debris'

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:30 PM PST

The task of clearing the millions of tonnes of debris left by last year's Japanese earthquake and tsunami is far from complete.


VIDEO: Female Afghan boxer eyes Olympics

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:21 PM PST

Afghan female boxer Sadaf Rahimi is hoping to compete in the inaugural women's boxing tournament at the Olympics.


VIDEO: Oxfam warns of West Africa crisis

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:57 PM PST

Oxfam is warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in the Sahel region of West Africa.


VIDEO: Abkhaz-Georgian relations: Tough game

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:09 PM PST

On Saturday parliamentary elections will be held in the separatist territory of Abkhazia, which broke away from Georgia in a bloody war in the 1990s - but signs of instability are growing in the region.


Greece secures backing for debt swap deal

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:11 PM PST

A critical part of country's second bailout, restructuring plan aims to reduce the national debt by $140bn.


Haitians seek UN redress for cholera victims

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:10 PM PST

Protesters blaming global body's peacekeepers for cholera outbreak stage march in Port-au-Prince demanding justice.


Creditors agree to Greek bond deal

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:03 PM PST

Creditors have agreed to a plan to restructure Greek government bonds -- a move that was vital to the financial future of the country -- Greek government officials said Friday.

Greece to Invoke New Powers in Debt Swap

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 11:16 PM PST

Just over 80% of Greece's private-sector creditors had agreed to turn in their bonds for new ones with less than half the face value, touching off a massive debt swap.


Iran urged to grant access to military site

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 02:44 PM PST

International powers that agreed to resume nuclear talks with Tehran reaffirmed their support for "a diplomatic solution to the Iranian nuclear issue and readiness to restart dialogue with Iran" on Thursday.

Briton, Italian killed amid rescue

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:33 PM PST

The suspected killers of Italian and British hostages held in Nigeria have been arrested, an adviser to President Goodluck Jonathan said in a statement, according to the government-run Nigerian Television Authority.

12 Lessons from KONY 2012 for Social Media Startups

Posted: 08 Mar 2012 10:17 PM PST

The KONY 2012 video has clocked more than 43 million views in only two days on YouTube (and millions more since appearing on Vimeo two weeks ago), which is fairly amazing considering 1) it?s about something most people have never heard of and 2) it?s a half-an-hour long. (The average viral video on YouTube is ...


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