Twitter's user base will increase 24.4% in 2014, according to eMarketer's first-ever forecast of Twitter users worldwide. But what is even more surprising is that more than 40% of the Twitter users worldwide will be in Asia-Pacific alone by 2018. The user growth is expected to continue growing with double-digit gains through 2018, as eMarketer estimates, thus opening up significant opportunities for Twitter to increase its audience across emerging markets.

According to eMarketer, the number of Twitter users in Asia-Pacific has already eclipsed those in North America and Western Europe by a wide margin-even excluding China where there is a ban on the site. In 2014, the Asia-Pacific region will account for 32.8% of all Twitter users, compared with 23.7% in North America and by 2018, Asia-Pacific will break the 40% mark in terms of worldwide market share.

eMarketer’s latest forecast dissects Twitter’s total users by region and country based on an analysis of approximately 400 data points from more than 90 sources, including Twitter company releases, survey and traffic data from research firms and regulatory agencies, historical trends......See More

Apple is set to acquire Beat's music streaming service as well as the audio equipment arm, which will its biggest ever deal so far. The deal which is worth $2.6bn in cash and around $400m in Apple shares will see co-founders of the brand, music producer Jimmy Lovine and rapper Dr Drejoining Apple.The announcement comes nearly three weeks after the negotiations of the deal were leaked to the media.

"Music is such an important part of all of our lives and holds a special place within our hearts at Apple," said Apple's Chief Executive, Tim Cook, in a statement. “That’s why we have kept investing in music and are bringing together these extraordinary teams so we can continue to create the most innovative music products and services in the world.” Established in 2008 by both Dre and Iovine, Beats Electronics has worked in collaboration with music superstars such as Lady Gaga, Lil Wayne and Nicki Minaj and creates headphones, earphones, and speakers as well as patented Beats Audio software technology and streaming music subscription service Beats Music.

“I’ve always known in my heart that Beats belonged with Apple,” said Lovine. “The idea when we started the company was inspired by Apple’s unmatched ability to marry culture and technology. Apple’s deep commitment to music fans, artists, songwriters and the music industry is something special......See More

As per the latest update, NVIDIA has released its Geforce GTX Titan Z graphics card. The new GTX TITAN Z has 12GB of 7 Gbps video memory, a 12-phase power supply with dynamic power balancing, full-speed double-precision support, 5,760 CUDA Cores, and two GK110 GTX TITAN Black GPUs to power 3840x2160 resolutions.

Due to the unrivalled power efficiency of our Kepler architecture, GTX TITAN Z is able to deliver ultimate performance in a simple and convenient air-cooled solution.

The double-precision computational power of a GTX TITAN Z-accelerated system now eclipses that of multi-million dollar supercomputers, while using a fraction of the power, and a fraction of the space.  So, for researchers, scientists and other CUDA developers, GTX TITAN Z delivers unparalleled double-precision computational performance in a PC chassis that can fit under your desk.

GTX TITAN Z is now available from the leading system builders.......See More