A recent report by world’s leading IT research company Gartner suggests that global semiconductor spending will decline by approximately 2 percent in 2016 but will clock growth rates of 4.4 percent and 6.8 percent in 2017 and 2018 respectively. The forecast has been upwardly revised from its previous estimate of 4.7 percent decline. David Christensen, […]
New York, May 6, 2016: Professor Marie Curie (1867-1934) was awarded the Nobel Prize twice. Her full name was Maria Salomea Sklodowski and she was born in Warsaw, Poland, on Nov. 7, 1867. Marie Curie is easily one of the most prominent scientists of our times and was born Maria to Skłodowska and was the youngest […]
According to the world’s leading IT research and advisory company Gartner, IT infrastructure spending in India is set to hit $1.9 billion this year. The Indian IT infrastructure consists of server, storage, and enterprise networking equipment. The press release states that the Indian IT infrastructure market will register a 1 percent increase from 2015. Naveen […]
New York, April 28, 2016: Facebook now has 1.65 billion users announced Mark Zuckerberg after he gave quarterly results and gave an update on the community’s progress in connecting the world. In a statement he wrote: Our community now has 1.65 billion people. In the last few months, we launched Reactions, rolled out Live video, built […]
A startup known as Pich has been declared the winner of the Santander InnoVentures’ Fintech Venture Day, a contest organized by Santander InnoVentures, Accenture, and IE Business School. Santander InnoVentures is a fintech venture capital fund run by Santander, one of the largest banks in the world. The competition, held in Spain, looked for startups […]
In a statement issued on his Facebook account Mark Zuckerberg declared that he is joining a space initiative that will have names like Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking as well. Here is his full statement: I’m proud to join Yuri Milner and Stephen Hawking for a new space initiative to go beyond our nearby planets […]
NASA astronaut and Expedition 46 Commander Scott Kelly and his Russian counterpart Mikhail Kornienko returned to Earth Tuesday after a historic 340-day mission aboard the International Space Station. They landed in Kazakhstan at 11:26 p.m. EST (10:26 a.m. March 2 Kazakhstan time). Here is an official statement by NASA reproduced below: Joining their return trip […]
New Delhi, March 2, 2016: NASA astronaut Scott Kelly is back on planet Earth after spending a year in space! The official Twitter handle tweeted: “After 340 days in space, @StationCDRKelly is back on Earth from his #YearInSpace mission.” And here is a welcome message for the crew that spent the time in space: […]
New York, March 1, 2016: The return of supersonic passenger air travel is one step closer to reality with NASA’s award of a contract for the preliminary design of a “low boom” flight demonstration aircraft. This is the first in a series of ‘X-planes’ in NASA’s New Aviation Horizons initiative, introduced in the agency’s Fiscal […]
New York, February 22, 2016: Mark Zuckerberg, just posted an important update on his Facebook account. He wrote that he “joined Samsung to launch their new Galaxy smartphones and talk about the future of virtual reality.” Mark Zuckerberg also wrote that to the audience present he told the story of his childhood and said that […]
