Neowin News Feed for: Money

Gmail to receive Google Wallet button soon; sending money just got easier

Paul Ferson — Thu, 16 May 2013 03:24:40 +0100

Google is to add functionality for transferring money to friends via Wallet and its most popular non-search service, Gmail. The concept should make moving money between people easier than ever. Read more...

Bill Gates is still rich, takes the number 2 spot in the world

Brad Sams — Mon, 04 Mar 2013 17:16:05 +0000

Did you know that Bill Gates is still rich? Well if you didn't, he is the second richest person in the world despite devoting nearly all his time to his charitable works. Read more...

Nokia's Q4 2012: €439m profit, €8.04b revenue, 4.4m Lumia sales, North America up 40%

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 11:55:37 +0000

Nokia's quarterly financial results are in, and for Q4 2012 they've reported an operating profit for the first time in many quarters, helped by strong sales of their Lumia devices Read more...

Second BundleStars pack appears, 10 games for $7

Paul Ferson — Tue, 15 Jan 2013 19:52:08 +0000

Another indie game bundle is offering 10 games for less than $1 each, with proceeds going to the good folks at the Special Effect charity. You can never have too many Steam-friendly games, can you? Read more...

Facebook charges $100 to send a message, apparently

Paul Ferson — Tue, 01 Jan 2013 19:32:26 +0000

Talent agent Micah Johnson was able to screencap some very unusual activity from Facebook. The social network wanted to charge $100 to deliver a message as part of a new counter-spam initiative. Read more...

WordPress begins to accept Bitcoins as a currency

Paul Ferson — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:50:38 +0000

WordPress has added functionality today, allowing bloggers across the world to pay using the digital Bitcoin currency while side-stepping issues such as PayPal being unavailable or limited. Read more...

Tesla museum receives funding with more than a month to go

Paul Ferson — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:36:05 +0100

With more than a month left to go, the internet has decided that Nikola Tesla had better get a museum in his honor, providing the cause with close to a million of the 1.7 million dollars needed. Read more...

GitHub gains $100 million in funding

Paul Ferson — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 04:48:40 +0100

GitHub has made the decision to switch to outside funding, gaining a cool hundred million dollars from investors to get it started on its new path. Read more...

10 minutes of downtime means big losses for Google

Tyler Holman — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 10:26:29 +0100

A marketer decided to work out how much money Google makes per minute, and how much it would stand to lose in the 10 minutes of downtime some reported earlier today. The numbers will make you jealous. Read more...

Microsoft shows interest in buying Yammer

Paul Ferson — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 13:05:58 +0100

According to tweets from San Francisco, Microsoft could be buying Yammer for a considerable sum of money, or at least considering it. Read more...

AceMoney Lite 4.20.6

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:04:30 +0100

AceMoney Lite, home budget, free personal financial software, is the best Microsoft Money or Quicken alternative. It makes managing multiple accounts a breeze. Read more...

Petition for Alan Turing on £10 note gains steam

Paul Ferson — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 21:15:50 +0000

Alan Turing, one of the forefathers of modern computing, has become a target for petitioning. Should the petition prove effective, Turing could replace Darwin on some bank notes. Read more...

AceMoney Lite 4.20.4

Razvan Mihai Asmanow Serea — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 16:47:21 +0000

AceMoney Lite, home budget, free personal financial software, is the best Microsoft Money or Quicken alternative. It makes managing multiple accounts a breeze. You can manage your budgets Read more...

Nokia gains $250 million from Microsoft WP7 deal in Q4

Tim Schiesser — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:04:12 +0000

Nokia's Q4 2011 financial report revealed that Microsoft paid Nokia $250 million to use Windows Phone just in the last quarter of last year, with much more support money on the way Read more...

Wikipedia asks you to donate (again)

Owen Williams — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 21:33:14 +0000

It's Wikipedia's annual fundraising drive, where Jimmy Wales stares into your soul and asks for your help, but it appears it may not be enough this year after the organization starts emailing users. Read more...

Warren Buffet warns against investing in social networks

Tzvi Friedman — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 15:34:15 +0100

Warren Buffet has spoken, and when Buffet speaks, people listen. Specifically, the CEO and founder of Berkshire Hathaway, and one of the most prolific and successful investors the world has ever known, has spoken out... Read more...

Researcher attaches transistors to money

Christopher White — Sat, 26 Feb 2011 03:51:40 +0000

Living “off the grid” may become a bit more difficult in the future if Hagen Klauk’s research takes hold. Discovery News is reporting that the researcher has managed to place organic transistors on your cold,... Read more...

MS: "Too many people with too much money invested to let Apple win"

Brad Sams — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 23:22:14 +0000

It's no secret that Microsoft is willing the do what ever it takes to be a solid competitor in the mobile marketplace. When it went back to the drawing board and started fresh, Microsoft knew... Read more...

Microsoft to propel WP7 with over a half-billion dollars

Brad Sams — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 14:34:30 +0100

When you are entering a fiercely competitive market late, you better either have a unique product that changes everything, or enough money to promote your device like your life depends on it. While Windows Phone... Read more...

Bill Gates is no longer the world's richest

Benjamin Rubenstein — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:40:01 +0000

For as long as most can remember, Microsoft's co-founder and chairman, Bill Gates, has been the richest man in the world. Weighing in at $53 billion, it's easy to understand why. Forbes, however, is reporting... Read more...