The Federal Bureau of Investigation released a decades-old file it kept on Apple Inc. (AAPL) co-founder Steve Jobs that noted his past drug use and cites interviews with people who say he tended to “distort reality.”
The 191 pages of FBI records are part of a 1991 background check of Jobs, who died in October 2011, for an appointment by former President George H.W. Bush to the President’s Expo
Forexsq.com - In all likelihood, social-networking giant Facebook is going to file for an initial public offering in the very near future, as soon as Wednesday, if Wall Street Journal reports are to be believed.
Now we’ve all been hearing rumors and reading reports about a Facebook IPO for the longest time, so normally, I wouldn’t get excited about this “news.”
ForexSQ.com - Apple began last week by basking in record quarterly profits, but then ended the week in a public-relations retreat after reports of exploited workers in factories in China assembling its hot-selling iPads and iPhones.
For now, the media spotlight is on Apple and its Taiwanese contract supplier Foxconn. But China’s leaders will also be shifting uncomfortably as the gaze of the in
ForexSQ.com - Apple Inc.’s quarterly profit more than doubled as surging demand for the iPhone and iPad cemented its role as the most valuable technology company and ramped up pressure on rivals Google Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co.
Net income of $13.1 billion in the period that ended Dec. 31 ranked among the highest quarterly profits on record, putting Apple in the same league as energy com
It’s been an interesting week for Microsoft Corp., and even having “American Idol” host Ryan Seacrest as co-ringleader during Chief Executive Steve Ballmer’s keynote at the Consumer Electronics Show might not have been the most noteworthy event featuring the No. 1 software company.
Most remarkable would be what a couple of Microsoft MSFT +0.11% executives had to say about the outlook for PC s
ForexSQ.com - After a dramatic, confusing night of suspense in the Republican Party's Iowa caucuses, the big winner may well have been a Democrat: Barack Obama.
The Upresident's re-election campaign had reason to smile early Wednesday, as Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum battled to a virtual dead heat in the caucuses that kicked off the campaign for the Republican presidential nomination.
ForexSQ.com - For Americans who own cell phones or other mobile devices (at least 85% of the adult population, according to a new survey), 2011 ushered in a whirlwind of news.
Some of the year's top mobile stories were mostly hype (QR codes and cell phone radiation) or vaporware (those persistent iPhone 5 rumors). But other developments were genuinely important to the U.S. mobile landscape.
Not to worry, says a tiny Israeli start-up company called XTR3D - soon you'll be able to flick through channels and adjust the volume using only... your hand.
You'll just have to turn your palm towards the screen, and zap away without ever getting off the couch.
And no need for under-the-skin electronics or fancy microchips.
ForexSQ.com - He has invested $300m into the American technology company, which has yet to come up with a killer commercial model.
Alwaleed, the nephew of Saudi Arabian King Abdullah, is one of the wealthiest people in the world, with a net worth of $19.6 billion, according to Forbes magazine’s estimation.
He already owns a seven per cent stake in News Corporation, a ‘sizeable share’ of Cit
ForexSQ.com - North Korean leader Kim Jong-il is the general secretary of the ruling Workers' Party which will start a conference Tuesday, bringing together the secretive state's political elite for the first time in 30 years.
Early Tuesday, the state news agency KCNA announced that Kim had named his youngest son, Kim Jong-un, as a military general. This suggested that a dynastic succession pr
ForexSQ.com - North Korea said its people and military back Kim Jong Un, the little-known third son of Kim Jong Il, as leader as uncertainty around the political succession on a peninsula where 1.7 million troops are stationed unsettled stock markets from Seoul to Hong Kong.
Kim Jong Il died Dec. 17 from a heart attack brought on by mental and physical strain, the official Korean Central News Ag
ForexSQ.com - Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov said on Monday he would run for president against Prime Minister Vladimir Putin next March, weeks after falling out with the Kremlin over his abortive leadership of a small pro-business party.
Putin is expected to win the March 4 election despite growing signs of discontent with his rule after a parliamentary election that the opposition said
ForexSQ.com - The former head of the International Monetary Fund claimed today that his bid to become President of France was lost because of his ‘uninhibited’ but otherwise 'legal' sex life. Speaking for the first time about the two attempted rape allegations which effectively ended his career, Dominique Strauss-Kahn said that having casual oral sex with a New York hotel maid was something he re
