Neowin News Feed for: Raises

Twitter raises $35M to go from geek to mainstream

Andrew Lyle — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 07:45:10 +0000

With $35 million backing Twitter to help it go from geek to mainstream, the amount is expected to help it keep up with the growth it has recently received. Twitter has seen a 900%... Read more...

AT&T Raises Broadband Rates

Tue, 05 Feb 2008 04:17:25 +0000

Telecommunications company AT&T Inc. announced today that, starting next month, it will raise the price of its most common broadband Internet services in many of the states where it operates. The $5-per-month hike will apply... Read more...

Review: Firefox 3 Beta Answers Some Questions, Raises Others

Daniel Fleshbourne — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 12:28:07 +0000

CRN Test Center downloaded Firefox 3 Beta 1 from Mozilla for a peek to get an idea of what users can expect when Firefox 3 is officially launched. Since this is a beta, the browser... Read more...

Western Digital Raises Q1 Adjusted Forecast

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 00:41:12 +0000

Digital storage company Western Digital boosted its first-quarter outlook on Monday, citing higher selling prices and increased demand. For the quarter ending Sept. 28, the company now expects adjusted earnings per share between 61 cents... Read more...

Greenpeace raises Apple green rating

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:24:50 +0000

In April Greenpeace listed Apple at the bottom of its rankings but now the environmental campaign group has bumped the company ahead of Sony, LG Electronics, Panasonic and HP to tenth place on the 14-company... Read more...

iSuppli raises 2007 computer sales forecast

Tue, 19 Jun 2007 19:38:41 +0000

Analysts at iSuppli have increased predictions for PC sales in 2007: global PC shipments will rise to 264 million units in 2007, up 11.2% from 239 million in 2006. The previous forecast envisioned 10.7 %... Read more...

Joost Raises $45 Million in Funding

Thu, 10 May 2007 22:39:40 +0000

Internet-based TV service Joost said it has raised $45 million from five investors: CBS Corporation, Viacom Incoporated, Sequoia Capital, Index Ventures (a European venture capital firm) and Li Ka-shing (chairman of Hutchison Whampoa Limited and... Read more...

Nintendo Raises Profit Estimates

Joe Cashman — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:33:44 +0000

Nintendo has raised it's full year sale estimates from 900 billion JPY to 966 billion JPY, following continued sales and profit success from their DS Handheld. Nintendo had already upped their estimates four times already... Read more...

New Microsoft Browser Raises Google's Hackles

Mon, 01 May 2006 14:27:19 +0000

With a $10 billion advertising market at stake, Google, the fast-rising Internet star, is raising objections to the way that it says Microsoft, the incumbent powerhouse of computing, is wielding control over Internet searching in... Read more...

UBS Raises Apple Price Target to $100

Wed, 11 Jan 2006 17:34:03 +0000

On the heels of Apple's announcement that it sold 14 million iPods and achieved revenues of $5.7B last quarter, UBS Investment Research on Wednesday raised estimates and increased its target price on the company's shares... Read more...

Microsoft Raises Quarterly Dividend

Thu, 15 Dec 2005 13:22:22 +0000

Microsoft Corp., the world's largest software maker, late Wednesday said its board raised its quarterly dividend 12.5 percent to 9 cents, citing confidence in its product lineup and growth prospects. The... Read more...

Nintendo raises profit estimates to 36 billion Yen

Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:41:37 +0000

Nintendo's first half sales figure shows a 6.9% sales drop as the GameCube did not perform up to estimates, however weakened Yen and growing DS sales have almost doubled Nintendo's profits. The drop in sales... Read more...

Microsoft's Beijing win raises concerns in China

Tue, 30 Nov 2004 03:00:08 +0000

There is growing disquiet about public sector IT contracts being awarded to Western vendors in China, a country long known for its fondness of open-source and homegrown companies. According to reports following... Read more...

Microsoft Raises Curtain on Yukon Beta 2

Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:27:16 +0000

Microsoft Corp. is peeling back the covers of its highly anticipated SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 database this week to reveal enhancements such as support for 64-bit x86 platforms, as well as improved security and... Read more...

'Pirate Act' raises civil rights concerns

Todd Tanner — Wed, 26 May 2004 19:35:11 +0000

File swappers concerned about getting in trouble with record labels over illegal downloads may soon have a major new worry: the U.S. Department of Justice. A proposal that the Senate may vote on as early... Read more...

Google mail raises privacy fears

Mon, 05 Apr 2004 09:20:11 +0000

This week should have seen a public relations triumph for Google. The company began offering a free e-mail service with 100 times as much storage as Yahoo's $59.99 service. Instead the criticism has taken Google... Read more...

Spam surge raises fears of junk mail assault

Daniel Fleshbourne — Tue, 11 Nov 2003 17:46:32 +0000

Organised spammers may have launched a new assault on Web users, with an anti-spam company reporting a spike in the amount of junk mail being sent. An email security firm has warned that spammers may... Read more...

Telewest raises remote dial-up charges

Daniel Fleshbourne — Mon, 08 Sep 2003 09:16:19 +0000

Telewest has increased the cost of connecting to its Blueyonder dialup Internet service from non-Telewest lines, while falsely claiming that users will not incur extra charges from the change. Instead of using local phone numbers... Read more...

TiVo Raises Price for 'Lifetime' Membership

Fri, 31 Jan 2003 21:46:58 +0000

oh dear oh dear oh dear :). TiVo Inc. in March will increase the price for a long term membership to its television recording service by $50 to $299, the company said on... Read more...

ICANN raises concerns over VeriSign IDN change

Wed, 08 Jan 2003 10:04:57 +0000

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) on Tuesday expressed concerns regarding a service launched last Friday by VeriSign Inc. designed to handle internationalized domain names (IDNs). According to ICANN, "some... Read more...

AT&T raises prices for cable modem owners

Wed, 29 May 2002 12:37:14 +0000

While having my morning read of /. I came across this story... A new pricing structure from AT&T will result in modem owners paying an extra $7 for their high-speed Internet service whilst... Read more...

Hotmail policy raises privacy concerns

Wed, 22 May 2002 17:23:23 +0000

Found this over on NewOrder... Hotmail users can now get a better look at their personal account settings -- but some of the service's estimated 110 million active users may not like what they... Read more...

MPEG-4 rival raises antitrust specter

Wed, 10 Apr 2002 14:19:02 +0000

Video-compression provider On2 Technologies is taking a swing at MPEG-4, complaining that companies cooperating to create a digital media standard may run afoul of antitrust laws. New York-based On2 said Tuesday that it has... Read more...

Yet another PC manufacturer raises prices

Mon, 25 Mar 2002 02:47:01 +0000

NEC said on Monday it plans to increase the suggested retail price on its personal computers due to rising prices of parts such as DRAM chips and liquid crystal displays. "We are... Read more...

GeForce4 Raises $8000 in eBay Charity

Sat, 16 Mar 2002 07:51:09 +0000

Demonstrating strong consumer demand and excitement for its newest GPU, NVIDIA announced today that it has raised $8000 from the sale of its GeForce4™ Ti 4600 GPU in a fund auction held on eBay, to... Read more...

Peek-A-Booty raises a few eyebrows at CodeCon

Wed, 20 Feb 2002 18:59:33 +0000

This has been out for a few days, so I thought I'd post some info. Slashdot has a rather good discussion on this topic... Peek-A-Booty is designed to let surfers access sites blocked... Read more...

Wireless technology raises security, privacy questions

Tue, 19 Feb 2002 09:06:36 +0000

Thank you Darren Bolton for emailing us. Computer security expert Jonas Luster unearthed more than just his e-mail when he signed on to a wireless network for travelers at San Jose International Airport.... Read more...

eBay raises fees, after announcing record earnings

Thu, 17 Jan 2002 19:06:35 +0000

Two days after posting record earnings ($25m) and revenue (over $1.7billion in cash and investments), eBay said Thursday that it is raising fees, some by as much as 100 percent, starting 31st January 2002. ... Read more...

Symantec Raises Subscription Rates

Wed, 21 Nov 2001 12:57:38 +0000

Found this article while I was browsing through PCWorld.com. The cost of keeping viruses at bay just went up for users of Symantec's popular Norton AntiVirus program. The company recently increased the price... Read more...