Wall Street

Hackers of suspected Russian descent would have broken into Dow Jones, the parent company of, among others, The Wall Street Journal. There they would have stolen confidential information about companies, presumably to make money.The…

Nintendo's upcoming console, tentatively called NX, will consist of a console and a mobile device. The two parts can be used together or separately and Nintendo will use 'leading chips', claims the Wall Street Journal.The American…

Dell is said to be in talks to acquire EMC. A possible acquisition would make Dell the market leader in the business storage market in one fell swoop. Part of the talks would be that EMC will divest VMware.It is not known what…

Dell is said to be in talks to acquire EMC. A possible acquisition would make Dell the market leader in the business storage market in one fell swoop. Part of the talks would be that EMC will divest VMware.It is not known what…

Apple plans to launch an electric car as early as 2019. That decision would have been taken after more than a year of studying the feasibility of such a plan. There have been rumors of a car developed by Apple for quite some time now.The…

IBM is working on open source software that allows companies to conclude contracts by means of a blockchain. In theory, this would speed up the speed at which companies can make formal agreements with each other and thus do business.A…

A US judge has sentenced the director of retailer Wireless Zone to jail, house arrest and a fine for leaking figures on how many copies the retailer's 400 stores had sold and how many customers brought back.The CEO received $2,000 a month…

Nine major banks, including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Goldman Sachs, have formed an alliance with New York financial technology firm R3 to "build a framework for bringing blockchain technology to market."The new project is the…

Nine major banks, including Barclays, Royal Bank of Scotland and Goldman Sachs, have formed an alliance with New York financial technology firm R3 to "build a framework for bringing blockchain technology to market."The new project is the…

Now that the total worldwide stock of Amazon's Fire Phone has sold out, the curtain seems to be falling for the Fire Phone. At the end of August, it already leaked that many layoffs had occurred at the Fire Phone division at Amazon's…