Motorola Network Ops Acquired By Nokia Siemens in the Success of EU Nod

Nokia Siemens Networks has won the European Union regulatory approval this Wednesday and has been granted the rights to acquire Motorola's mobile telecom network equipment business for $1.2 billion, in a deal intended to literally elevate its presence in Japan and North America. This acquisition might form to be a source of aid to Nokia Siemens Networks as well, as this joint takes the shape of a joint venture of Nokia and Siemens. This endeavor is expected to gain a source of competition among rivals and bring superiority among companies like Sweden's Ericsson, China's Huawei and France's Alcatel-Lucent.

The European Commission, the watchdogs for the actual EU competition, stated that the each of the product portfolios were in one way or the other a slightly overlapping whereas the Motorola business being bought only had a partial presence in the European Economic Area.

Microsoft Sends a High-Priority Security Update For Windows and Internet Explorer

Microsoft Corp has issued one of its most crucial security fixes this Tuesday, these includes major repairs for its ubiquitous Windows operating system and Internet Explorer browser for recently pointed out mistakes which indicated that both software’s are vulnerable enough to allow hackers take control of a PC.

Mark Zuckerberg Named As the 2010 ‘Person of the Year’ By Times

Mark Zuckerberg, the renowned founder and acting chief executive of Facebook since then, has his social networking website currently even more than half a billion users. He was entitled as Time Magazine's 2010 Person of the Year on this Wednesday. Time has portrayed their ‘Person of the Year’ to be a person who stands most influential in all the event highlights of the year.

Zuckerberg’s story to success as being a nobody at the age of 19 but just another sophomore at Harvard University in 2004 as he initiated his Web experience as Thefacebook.com from no place other than his dorm room, is a true inspiration and makes his life so worth praising. Hence as the story continues till the person ending up as one of the world's youngest billionaires of all times and having his privately owned and operated company, which is predicted to have 2010 revenues of almost $2 billion, Time declared. Above the exhilarating life story, Zuckerberg activities like pledging a $100 million donation to the Newark, New Jersey, school system this year, and his huge success over the Hollywood movie on the subject of his life "The Social Network".

Facebook Is the Best among Large U.S. Companies to Work For: Survey by Glassdoor

Facebook, the most highlighted company over the past few years, was kept at a place ahead of even companies like Southwest Airlines and Bain & Company, a major management consultants firm, on the list published by Glassdoor, an online website where different users secretly publish valued feedback and observations on their employers. Giving a little insight, the Chief Executive of Glassdoor confirmed that according to his statistical analysis over-all most of the employees seemed most unhappy and disturbed whenever there is a poor communication within a company, whereas on the contrary, he also declared that the most highly rated and well reputed companies have "a very solid and distinct company culture."

UK Court Grants a Temporary Bail to Julian Assange, Famous Founder of WikiLeaks Website

A British judge has now granted bail to the extremely controversial WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on this Tuesday evening, although he still yet remains in custody for a possible and pending appeal at hand. The Swedish authorities are now being giving a time gap of two hours to file an appeal. Whereas the lawyer for the Swedish authorities, Gemma Lindfield, gave a discrete affirmation that it was most likely that she would lodge an appeal soon.

Nokia Cuts another 800 Jobs, This Time Only in Finland

 Nokia, which if calculated by volume is the biggest cellphone maker in the entire world, made an announcement this Tuesday stating that it has already planned and has decided to cut about 800 jobs in its home Finnish market. The company elaborated giving a statement that has come to this conclusion after detailed negotiations with employee representatives on the planned reductions; these planned reductions are scheduled to begin affecting the employees in January.

Nokia has full intentions and plans to now offer severance packages of worth between 5 months to even upto15 months of regular routine salary. Though the company has showed it concern and has stated that it hopes and wishes that some of the affected employees be attempted to be relocated elsewhere in the company.

Facebook Announces Their Trends in Status Updates for 2010

Right after Twitter, which just released its 2010 trends as recently as yesterday, Facebook has now announced their top 10 trends among status updates of their huge number of users this year. Interestingly as almost half of these trends did actually matched, in one way or the other, with Twitter trends, there is mostly huge blabbing about huge world events like the World Cup and the Haiti earthquake or technology like the iPhone 4 and movies like Inception. However, there are also very few interesting deviations from the expected trend as well, intriguingly most noticeable amongst them was the acronym and a popular song.

Canadian Blackberry Manufacturer, RIM, Announces It Cannot Share Encryption Keys With UAE Authorities

‘Research in Motion’ (RIM) the renowned manufacturers of Canadian BlackBerry made an announce this Tuesday stating that they cannot share their encryption keys for the mobile phones with any UAE authorities because the technology used to secure phones won’t allow it. This announcement was made through Gulf News after several media reports both home and abroad suggested that on Monday RIM had already given authorities the keys to decode BlackBerry content of consumers.