[ad_1] Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook (R) and Apple chief design officer Jonathan Ive (L) look at the new Apple iPhone X during an Apple special event at the Steve Jobs Theatre on the Apple Park campus on September 12, 2017 in Cupertino, California. An icon that appears to represent an unannounced larger model…
[ad_1] Smart speaker maker Sonos popped as much as 15 percent, then settled to modest gains Friday, a day after its stock market debut. The stock got off to a slow start Thursday, opening just 7 percent higher than its lower-than-expected initial price. But shares gained more than 30 percent by the end of trading…
[ad_1] MoviePass’ parent Helios and Matheson Analytics lost 97 percent of its market value this week, falling as low as 5 cents per share Friday. The stock closed at 7 cents. It’s a penny stock, so it doesn’t take much to send shares on wild swings. Still, the plunge stands as Helios and Matheson’s worst…
[ad_1] Emmanuel Le Bouille had a training problem. The health program director for Groupe Auchan, an international retail group, had to implement a global wellbeing course for 260,000 members of staff — everyone in the company’s workforce across 12 countries. “If we had tried to do this through the traditional classroom approach, it would have…
[ad_1] CBS CEO Les Moonves had the chance Thursday to speak to the investor community about allegations of sexual misconduct stemming from an eight-month investigation by Ronan Farrow for The New Yorker. Instead of addressing the claims, he chose to remain silent. He talked about advertising growth and streaming video and direct-to-consumer platforms — everything…
[ad_1] Late in 2014, Nicholas Woodman, the founder and chief executive of GoPro, announced what appeared to be an extraordinary act of generosity. Mr. Woodman, then 39, had just taken his camera company public, and was suddenly worth about $3 billion. Now he was giving away much of that wealth — some $500 million worth…
[ad_1] Apple CEO Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs in terms of innovation, but he’s managed to build shareholder loyalty as fierce as that of the company’s devoted user base, former Apple CEO John Sculley told CNBC on Friday. Apple likely wouldn’t be what it is today without Cook, Sculley added. “Steve Jobs created a…
[ad_1] LOWELL, Mass. — Three thousand high school students from across the United States recently trekked to a university sports arena here to attend an event with an impressive-sounding name: the Congress of Future Science and Technology Leaders. Many of their parents had spent $985 on tuition. Months earlier, the teenagers had received letters, signed…
[ad_1] Microsoft pointed to new risk factors connected to markets it’s going after in its latest annual report, which came out on Friday. The company has warned investors before about the risks involved in cloud services, where it has become a bigger force. Now, as Microsoft seeks to execute on growth opportunities associated with artificial…
[ad_1] As Mario Roussanov, a recruiter for hedge funds, began making his annual visit to clients this year, the change was apparent. Cubicles had been replaced by open-plan layouts, workers were increasingly donning jeans and casual shirts at places that once favored suits and ties, kitchens were fully stocked with food for employees, and pods,…
[ad_1] As employers duke it out over hiring the best possible candidates, especially ones coming out of school, they are starting to get a little bit more creative with their incentive packages — and that includes offering an option for paying down student debt. Goodly is a new startup that’s looking to help those employers…
[ad_1] Apple hit a market cap of $1 trillion on Thursday, becoming the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach the historic record. “Steve founded Apple on the belief that the power of human creativity can solve even the biggest challenges — and that the people who are crazy enough to think they can change…
[ad_1] YouTube is testing out two new features that might just make their way to the mobile app soon. First off, YouTube has been spotted implementing ‘Stories’ in a similar way as first seen on Snapchat, which was followed by clones on Instagram, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, and WhatsApp. As per the leak, Stories will be…
[ad_1] Getty Images DJ Koh, president of mobile communications business at Samsung, holds up the Samsung Galaxy Note 8 smartphone during a launch event for the new product, August 23, 2017. Samsung’s website in New Zealand accidentally published a video featuring the company’s soon-to-be-announced Galaxy Note 9 phone. The video was first noticed by the…
[ad_1] Portal founder Jonathan Swerdlin is just the latest media pundit to point to advertising as the root cause of the industry’s problems. But he’s not content to diagnose the illness — he thinks he’s created a cure. “Digital media has become toxic, in part, because of advertising,” Swerdlin said. “The unmet and unarticulated need…
[ad_1] Microsoft’s recently launched portable and affordable Surface tablet, the Surface Go, is now shipping. Starting at $399 (roughly Rs. 27,400), the Surface Go features integrated kickstand, Windows 10, and a similar design to the Surface Pro. “The Surface Go, Microsoft’s latest 2-in-1, is now shipping. It has all the hallmarks of a Surface tablet…
[ad_1] An “enormous” losing bet on bitcoin last week left one futures trader unable to cover the loss and counterparties on a Hong Kong-based exchange to foot the bill. The gamble made on OKEx, one of the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges, was worth about $416 million, according to a company statement and the price of…
[ad_1] Stack Overflow and other various sites and tools have made it easy to Google search for solutions — or code snippets — to the easier parts of putting together an app or program for developers, but Aidan Cunniffe wants to take that one automated step further. That’s the premise behind Optic, which gives developers a…
[ad_1] Several apps on Google Play were found to sport a new malware aimed at harming Windows machines. A report from earlier this week suggests that a total of 145 Android apps have been affected, most of which were first released in October and November last year. Google has since taken down the listed apps,…
[ad_1] Peloton’s latest financing round of $550 million may be its last before becoming a publicly traded stock. The company sells $2,000 spinning bikes that are equipped with a screen to stream recorded and live classes that are filmed from its New York-based studio. “We stream 24 hours of live television content around the world…
[ad_1] Airstream has made travel trailers for generations, and the company is ramping up plans to bring connected technology to the product line. Airstream recently announced several new products that will bring new features expected by today’s consumers including less expensive and more capable trailers. The iconic silver bullet trailers are a mainstay on America’s…
[ad_1] Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro 2 was launched on Tuesday as the successor to last year’s Mi Notebook Pro. Xiaomi Mi Notebook Pro 2 has been launched at ChinaJoy 2018 in Shanghai, China. As its name suggests, the new notebook model comes as an upgrade to the Mi Notebook Pro that was launched in September…
[ad_1] Amazon said this week that it would not let third-party retailers sell products that feature Nazi and white nationalist symbolism on its platform, amid pressure from nonprofit groups and lawmakers. In a letter dated Tuesday to Representative Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota, Amazon said it had removed products that violated its policy against…
[ad_1] In a U-turn, the Centre on Friday told the Supreme Court that it was withdrawing its notification proposing to create a social media hub, which some have alleged could become a tool to monitor online activities of citizens. A bench headed by Chief Justice Dipak Misra considered the submission of Attorney General K K…
[ad_1] We’re at the end of World Breastfeeding Week, an event created to increase awareness about the importance of breastfeeding to a baby’s health. But for working moms, it’s not so simple. For the past five months, I’ve been pumping at the office to make sure my baby daughter has enough milk while I’m at…
[ad_1] Global music streaming platform Deezer said Thursday it had raised EUR 160 million ($186 million or roughly Rs. 1,280 crores) in fresh funds from investors, including the Saudi sovereign fund Kingdom Holding Company (KHC), and French telecoms giant Orange. The cash injection takes Deezer’s valuation past the EUR 1 billion mark, it said. “Big news! We are…
[ad_1] Investors are loving Take-Two Interactive’s latest financial results. The shares of the game publisher are up 12 percent in Friday’s premarket session, a day after it reported June quarter non-GAAP earnings per share of 12 cents versus the Wall Street consensus of 7 cents. Take-Two also posted adjusted revenue of $288 million for the…
[ad_1] Peloton today announced its Series F funding of $550 million. That brings the total amount raised, according to CrunchBase, to $994.7 million. According to the announcement, this round puts Peloton’s valuation at $4 billion — it was just last May the company hit unicorn status.TCV led the round with other participation in the round…
[ad_1] Cisco Systems said on Thursday it would buy Duo Security, a venture capital-backed cyber-security company, for $2.35 billion (roughly Rs. 16,200) in cash, as part of its push to expand into a faster growing area of software than its core business. The deal is the biggest acquisition for Cisco since its $3.7-billion (roughly Rs. 25,500…
[ad_1] 1987: $34.57 1997: $51.08 2002: $31.48 2007: $51.97 2013: $78.12 2018: $115.30 Source: S&P Dow Jones Indices And It’s not just Amazon, which is approaching $2,000 a share, a level that would have been thought absurd even five years ago. In 1998, there were only six stocks over $125 in the S&P 500. Today,…
[ad_1] How should you feel to know your employer is far, far richer than Croesus? As Apple CEO Tim Cook tells it — in a memo to staff, obtained by BuzzFeed News, re: yesterday’s news that the computer company Steve Jobs founded back in 1976 is now worth more than $1,000,000,000,000 — you should feel…
[ad_1] Google has announced adding a nifty feature to its Google Maps users that includes the battery level (of the user’s phone) in the set of information that they share. “When you share your location with someone in the Google Maps app, it shows up on your friend’s map, which they can use to locate…
[ad_1] Taking a screenshot can be vital to capture a moment on your phone to remember to share with friends. Luckily, the Samsung Galaxy S9 has a huge number of ways to take screenshots to save images. The smartphone also has a number of ways to capture scrolling lists as well as make edits tot…
[ad_1] Apple has been a profit geyser well before it was valued at the $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 68.7 lakh crores) milestone the company reached on Thursday. Even Warren Buffett is impressed. “It is an unbelievable company,” the legendary investor and Apple stockholder said in May as he marvelled that Apple earns almost twice as…
[ad_1] WhatsApp allows users to send messages to their contacts over an internet connection instead of using up your text allowance. The app has the ability to store dozens of your contacts for quick and easy communication – along with a function to set up group chats. But sometimes you may want to stop talking to…
[ad_1] The official launch promo video for Samsung’s next flagship smartphone in the long-running Galaxy Note line — the Note 9 — appears to have leaked, with links to the video now cropping up on YouTube. And via Twitter… The forthcoming phablet has been pretty comprehensively leaked already. And clearly hasn’t had a radical (cosmetic nor…
[ad_1] The music streaming service Spotify pulled several episodes of the The Alex Jones Show Wednesday for violating its policy on hate content. The move comes after other major media platforms, including YouTube and Facebook, deleted content by Jones or by the account of his Infowars website last week. All three platforms have come under increasing…
[ad_1] The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is the next flagship from the South Korean tech giant. The upcoming Android handset is set to be revealed at a Samsung Unpacked event in New York on Thursday August 9. Like the Galaxy S9 and S9+, the Note 9 is expected to have a similar design to its…
[ad_1] With Facebook cutting off access to its API platform for hundreds of thousands of apps, Twitter users are no longer able to tweet and retweet automatically on their connected Facebook accounts. Facebook has deprecated its Publish actions permissions from its API – a feature that allowed apps to publish posts on the social media…
[ad_1] The iPhone and iPad maker reached the financial landmark after its shares hit $207.05 the day after the tech giant posted strong financial results. Apple reached the $1tn (£767billion) mark after having their best June quarter ever. The Cupertino firm’s stock has been rising since reporting their latest financial results on Tuesday. Speaking about…
[ad_1] iPhone maker Apple has to date paid two-thirds of the EUR 13 billion ($15.1 billion or roughly Rs. 1.03 lakh crores) which EU antitrust regulators said it owes Ireland in back taxes, the company said in a regulatory filing late on Wednesday. The European Commission in August 2016 ordered Ireland to recover the money from…
[ad_1] The Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are arguably two of the most eagerly anticipated Android smartphones being released in the second half of 2018. The devices have been the subject of much speculation, with rumours the Pixel 3 XL could sport an iPhone X-style notch. It’s also expected that the Pixel 3…
[ad_1] NASA will announce Friday morning the names of the first astronauts to fly to the International Space Station aboard SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft and Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner. (NASA)The first astronauts to fly to the International Space Station aboard privately developed and built commercial spacecraft will be announced by NASA today. The test flights and missions…
[ad_1] Envisaged to be one of the largest hackathons in the world, the NITI Aayog on Thursday launched a global mobility hackathon “Move Hack” to crowdsource future mobility solutions for India. Focused on 10 themes and open to individuals from all nationalities, the hackathon will have an online leg, followed by a Singapore leg, and…
[ad_1] The videos were recorded at the grocery store, a ferry terminal and a Walmart. Each one shows a white man shouting, sometimes swearing, at people of colour. One man was reportedly called an “illegal alien” and pushed when he tried to escape the encounter. A family was berated for daring to ask a question “in my f–king province.” Another man was threatened…
[ad_1] The revelation hit Yusuf Mehdi when he was cleaning out his garage. The corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Modern Life and Devices team used part of a three-month sabbatical to tackle some low-tech chores around the house. Untethered from his phone, the tasks sparked a newfound appreciation for the value of focusing on one…
[ad_1] As Taylor Shedd climbs into a blue zodiac and pulls out from the shore of San Juan Island in Washington State, he is preparing for another long day of keeping watch on a distraught whale that is refusing to let go of its dead calf. The calf was born on July 24, but died shortly after…
[ad_1] Google staff awoke on Wednesday to surprising news: Their company is working on a search app tailored, and censored, for China. The project, kept secret from all but select teams and leaders, sparked a furious internal debate. Yet the move couldn’t have been entirely surprising for Googlers. Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer since 2015,…
[ad_1] There were no fluffy eider ducklings waddling around at the East Bay Migratory Bird Sanctuary on Southampton Island, located at the north end of Hudson Bay, this year. Researchers say none of the eggs successfully hatched because of increased polar bear activity in the area. According to Willow English, a PhD student at Carleton University, as…
[ad_1] WhatsApp Status, the simple way to show what you’re doing in the form of multiple photos or a short video, will ultimately become a source of revenue for Facebook. The Menlo Park, California-based company is reportedly all set to start serving ads on WhatsApp Status next year. This isn’t something fresh for the parent…
[ad_1] A Fredericton-based photojournalist is travelling around Atlantic Canada, documenting the spectacular sea life off the coast in an effort bring attention to the perils facing ocean health. Nick Hawkins is a conservation photographer whose work has been published around the world. “He is all about bringing photography and storytelling together to tell that conservation narrative…
[ad_1] Ottawa has extended its funding — but has reduced its annual cash commitment — for the Experimental Lakes Area, the freshwater-science facility encompassing dozens of lakes in northwestern Ontario. Kenora MP Bob Nault and Montreal-area MP David Lametti, a parliamentary secretary to the federal science minister, visited the ELA field station on Wednesday to extend a federal commitment to fund the…
[ad_1] Apple became the first $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 68.7 lakh crores) company shortly before noon on Thursday, briefly crossing the lofty mark in a closely watched ascent that made stock market history. “Apple’s $1 trillion cap is equal to about 5 percent of the total gross domestic product of the United States in 2018,”…
[ad_1] In tiny doses, selenium is not just good for you, but essential. All animals require trace amounts of this somewhat obscure element in order for certain enzymes to function properly. But when mining digs up the Earth’s crust, enough selenium is released into the environment to harm fish and other animals. Researchers at the Experimental Lakes Area…
[ad_1] Tesla shares leaped higher after chief executive Elon Musk said the electric car maker beat Wall Street’s revenue expectations, apologized for prior bad manners toward analysts and reiterated a promise for future profitability. Tesla’s stock jumped 9 percent in trading Thursday. Oppenheimer, which upgraded Tesla shares to outperform following the earnings report, told clients…
[ad_1] Shares of Tesla closed more than 16 percent up Thursday, a day after CEO Elon Musk and the automaker promised a profitable second half of 2018 during its second-quarter earnings report. The stock had its best day since December 2013 when it gained 16.53 percent. It’s a welcome stock bump for investors, who sent…
[ad_1] Many of the new hires have previously worked at health-tech start-ups, which suggests that AC Wellness has the opportunity to dabble in cutting-edge fields like virtual medicine and might well offer smartphone consultations. Some health experts say Apple’s approach ties in with a broader trend. The U.S. health sector is starting to move away…
[ad_1] T-Mobile US on Wednesday said it added far more wireless subscribers than Wall Street had expected, as the third-largest U.S. wireless carrier invests in its network while awaiting regulatory approval to buy rival Sprint. T-Mobile Chief Executive John Legere said in an interview he felt confident regulators will approve the current merger structure without…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Tim Cook, CEO, holds an iPad Pro after his keynote address to Apple’s annual world wide developer conference (WWDC) in San Jose, California, U.S. June 5, 2017. A developer version of Apple‘s new iPad software that was released to developers Wednesday hints at a new iPad design, according to 9to5Mac.…
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[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk may have apologized to his stakeholders on this week’s earnings call for his erratic behavior three months ago, but New York University professor Scott Galloway wasn’t impressed. “I listened to the audio of the apology, It literally sounded like someone was ripping his spleen out as he was apologizing,” the…
[ad_1] I love camping, but there’s always an awkward period when you’ve left the tent but haven’t yet created coffee that I hate camping. It’s hard not to watch the pot not boil and not want to just go back to bed, but since the warm air escaped when I opened the tent it’s pointless!…
[ad_1] Cisco's announcement it would acquire Duo Security makes sense, as companies race to increase their network security. But what do all of those cybersecurity companies do? [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Investors have to be wary of companies that are facing cutthroat competition in their industries, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Thursday. “Competition may be the lifeblood of capitalism, but it is an anathema to making money,” the “Mad Money” host warned. “As an investor, you want to own companies with as little competition as…
[ad_1] Until recently, a $1 trillion valuation would have seemed inconceivable for any company, Cramer said. In March 2000, right around the peak of the dotcom bubble, Cisco’s market cap reached $550 billion; the internet giant then proceeded to loose nearly three-quarters of its value over the next year. “Investors are terrified of repeating that…
[ad_1] Apple Inc became the first $1 trillion publicly listed U.S. company on Thursday, capping a decade-long rise in its stock price fueled by its ubiquitous iPhone. The tech company’s stock jumped 2.8 percent, bringing its gain to about 9 percent since Tuesday when its reported June-quarter results above expectations and announced it bought back…
[ad_1] Apple has a history of creating new hardware products that cannibalize its current lineup, and at some point it will probably do the same with the iPhone. It’s already laying the groundwork for the next big thing after the iPhone through its augmented reality (AR) developer kit, which lets developers create apps for the…
[ad_1] Price volatility has been a non-starter for some investors, but bitcoin has paid off for long-term buyers. Since 2013, bitcoin’s annual return has been 216 percent. In comparison, stocks and investment grade bonds have risen 16 percent and 1.6, respectively, according to UBS. On a risk adjusted basis though, bitcoin only modestly beat stocks,…
[ad_1] Say what you will about the success or general usefulness of the Moto Mod line — Motorola keeps plugging away. The company currently offers 17 Mods with an 18th on the way, bringing one of the most interesting case uses yet. Along with the new Moto Z3 handset, Motorola unveiled a Mod that will…
[ad_1] Those two guys in the garage were Jobs and fellow Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. Kawasaki has been successful in technology and entrepreneurship for decades, but he got his big start as Apple’s chief evangelist in the mid-1980s and then again in the mid-1990s. Now chief evangelist at graphic design firm Canva, Kawasaki said he…
[ad_1] GoPro is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings after the market close Thursday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Loss per share: 22 cents, forecast by Thomson Reuters. Revenue: $270.2 million, forecast by Thomson Reuters. Analysts forecast a 9 percent year-over-year decline in revenue. The stock has plunged 25 percent in the past 12 months as…
[ad_1] Bitcoin investors may need to brace themselves for an even bigger drop in the cryptocurrency. In the last week, bitcoin has fallen about 9 percent and returned to the mid-$7,000s. On Thursday, the cryptocurrency was trading at around $7,500, which according to Robert Sluymer, head of technical strategy at Fundstrat, is a key level…
[ad_1] China Photos | Getty Images A driver fills his car at a PetroChina gas station in Guangzhou, China. Before Apple hit $1 trillion in market value Thursday, there was Chinese oil giant PetroChina, which reached the milestone more than a decade ago. It did not fare too well after that. PetroChina’s market cap hit…
[ad_1] Arm, the semiconductor firm you probably still remember as ARM, today announced that it has acquired Treasure Data, a data management platform for large enterprise customers. The companies didn’t announce the financial details of the transaction, but earlier reporting by Bloomberg pegged the price at $600 million. This move strengthens Arm’s IoT nascent play, given…
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[ad_1] On April 1, 1976, Wayne sat down at his typewriter and drew up an agreement outlining each man’s responsibilities, making his role with Apple official. He also drew the company’s first logo, which was used for less than a year before being replaced by the symbol associated with the company today. Wayne rapidly grew…
[ad_1] Apple hit a market cap of $1 trillion on Thursday, as the iPhone maker became the first publicly traded U.S. company to reach the valuation. The stock rose nearly 3 percent after a strong fiscal third-quarter earnings report earlier this week, briefly hitting a session high of $207.05 in midday trading before falling back…
[ad_1] PUBG Mobile for Android and iOS has partnered with Mission: Impossible – Fallout for themed content from the movie to be present in the game. This includes new PUBG Mobile skins, parachutes, and even different in-game music. The PUBG Mobile Mission: Impossible – Fallout update is live now on both Android and iOS. If you’re on version 0.7.0…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Thursday Apple hitting a $1 trillion market value reflects the company’s transition to being recognized as a consumer products maker that just happens to be great at technology. To that end, Cramer said, Apple stock needs to trade at higher price-to-earnings multiple because 17 times next year’s profit is…
[ad_1] Not content with the Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 beta this week, Activision announced its partnering with Tencent to bring a Call of Duty mobile game to China on Android. It will be a free-to-play first-person shooter that includes characters, maps, modes, and weapons across various games in the long-running Call of Duty series.…
[ad_1] Apple reached a $1 trillion market cap on Thursday after reporting strong earnings earlier this week, the first US company to reach that milestone, and with results up for a number of reasons — sales of its higher-priced iPhone X and its booming services business, among them. But there is another underappreciated earnings tailwind…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer gives billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk high marks for recognizing the need to apologize to the Tesla analysts he dissed three months ago. On Wednesday’s post-results conference call, Musk said, “My apologies for not being polite on the prior call.” The Tesla co-founder and CEO also promised future profitability, after the electric…
[ad_1] A look back at the past decade of consumer technology use in the UK has shone a light on changing gadget habits, underlining how Brits have gone from being smartphone dabblers back in 2008 when a top-of-the-range smartphone cost ~£500 to true addicts in today’s £1k+ premium smartphone era. The report also highlights what…
[ad_1] Apple may have just notched up its fourth straight quarter of double-digit revenue growth in China, but among some Chinese consumers the glow was overshadowed by Chinese state media’s tirade of criticism against the smartphone giant. On Tuesday evening in China, hours before Apple’s earnings, China’s official state broadcaster railed against the firm in a…
[ad_1] Apple shares are closing in on the historic $1 trillion market value milestone. Hitting $207.05 a share would bring it to the $1 trillion mark. The shares have soared since reporting better-than-expected quarterly earnings on Tuesday after the bell. The stock jumped 5.9 percent on Wednesday and have continued higher Thursday. This would be…
[ad_1] Jio on Thursday announced an expansion of its digital partnership with SBI. To recall, Jio and SBI are joint partners in the Jio Payments Bank, which commenced operations earlier this year; while the former has 70 percent stake in the JV, the latter has the remaining 30 percent. The expanded partnership will see the…
[ad_1] Square generated $37 million in revenue on bitcoin in the second quarter but it spent almost as much to offer free trading of the volatile cryptocurrency on its Square Cash App. For now, the payments start-up says it’s not relying on crypto to add to its bottom line. “It’s not a major monetization engine,”…
[ad_1] Apple won the race to $1 trillion in market capitalization. Following this week’s earnings release, Apple shares (NASDAQ:AAPL) are now trading at $203.57, which values the company sightly over $1 trillion by $576 million. While the smartphone market is more or less saturated, Apple managed to increase its margins and the average selling price…
[ad_1] WhatsApp Status, the simple way to show what you’re doing in the form of multiple photos or a short video, will ultimately become a source of revenue for Facebook. The Menlo Park, California-based company is reportedly all set to start serving ads on WhatsApp Status next year. This isn’t something fresh for the parent…
[ad_1] Susan Vitale, chief marketing officer of Holmdel, New Jersey-based iCIMS, a company that designs applicant tracking system and recruiting software, thinks the entrance of Google for Jobs into the market has spurred more competition in the sector. iCIMS, which serves around 35 million users around the world, is one of many recruiting companies working…
[ad_1] “I think the mistake everyone made was to think that Stories was a photography product” says Instagram CEO Kevin Systrom. “If you look at all these interactivity features we’ve added, we’ve really made Stories something else. We’ve really innovated and made it our own.” His version of the ephemeral slideshow format turns two years…
[ad_1] Gboard for Android has been updated with the ability to add a text to your custom GIFs. The updated Gboard app has also brought support for as many as 28 new languages such as Bagri, Batak Toba, Fiji Hindi, and Ge’ez among others. Google has also offered the option to let users search stickers…
[ad_1] I’m a little bummed. Going into this review, I was almost certain that I was going to end up replacing my iPad Pro 10.5 with a Surface Go. There’s a lot to like about the device on paper. It runs a full version of Windows 10 but ships with Windows 10 S, a lightweight…
[ad_1] Uber on Thursday brought ‘Safety Toolkit’ to India, said to be a comprehensive set of features in the app for riders, after rolling it out first in the US. Riders can access the Safety Toolkit on the home screen of the app from the moment the driver accepts the trip till when the trip…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Employees work at the Unity Technologies SF office in San Francisco, California, U.S., Google is strengthening its position in mobile advertising by partnering with top game development platform Unity. Under the agreement announced Thursday, marketers who use Google’s mobile ad platform AdMob can advertise on games…
[ad_1] Everything about Decathlon screams “offline.” Established in France in 1976, Decathlon is now among the world’s largest retailers of sports equipment. The company has over 1,100 stores worldwide and has been in India since 2009 with a presence in multiple cities. In a world where we Amazon and Flipkart have made huge strides in…
[ad_1] Cisco said Thursday it will buy cybersecurity company Duo Security for $2.35 billion in cash and stock. Cisco’s stock was down about 1% premarket on the news. The deal is Cisco’s biggest since the $3.7 billion acquisition of application management company AppDynamics in early 2017, and continues CEO Chuck Robbins‘ string of deals to…
[ad_1] WhatsApp Web is getting a relocated GIF search tool, if a new report is to be believed. While the ability to add GIFs has been there on WhatsApp’s desktop client for a while now, it has now been spotted in development in a new location, right next to the emoticon button placed on the…
[ad_1] As controversy swirls in the U.S. over downloadable blueprints for a 3D-printed gun, Canada’s public safety minister says the technology is a “critical issue” that’s causing concern for law enforcement around the world. Speaking to reporters in Regina, Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale said local police forces, the RCMP, their counterparts in the U.S. and Interpol are all troubled by the potential…
[ad_1] Amazon.com’s dominance in online retail is clear to see: The so-called Everything Store captures 49 percent of retail e-commerce sales in the US, thanks in large part to its 95 million-strong army of Prime customers, who in July contributed to an estimated $4 billion (roughly Rs. 27,500 crores) spent globally in just 36 hours…
[ad_1] Two more shipwrecks in the waters of Lake Superior near Thunder Bay, Ont., now have heritage buoys to help divers find them, and to provide a spot to moor dive vessels. The Superior chapter of Save Ontario Shipwrecks has been setting up the buoys for about four years now to help promote dive tourism in…
[ad_1] China’s Beijing Bytedance Technology Co plans to announce late Wednesday that it is shuttering the popular Musical.ly video app it acquired for nearly $1 billion (roughly Rs. 6,800 crores) in December and will instead move users to a revamped version of its homegrown competitor TikTok. Musical.ly, released in 2014, and TikTok, launched in 2016,…
[ad_1] The Liberal government is curtailing its plan to price carbon pollution after hearing concerns from Canadian industry officials about how the tax would affect their ability to compete. As the Globe and Mail first reported Wednesday morning, Environment and Climate Change Canada plans to release new guidelines that lower the percentage of emissions on…
[ad_1] Apple is working with Chinese telecom firms on finding ways to reduce junk messages which are received through iMessage, state media reported on Thursday. The company is exploring ways to further cut spam messages, including using advanced technology to identify junk messages and rolling out more tools to block hostile accounts, an Apple official was…
[ad_1] While preparing to build the brand new Ancaster Memorial Arts Centre workers and archeologists have discovered a key piece of Canadian history linked to high treason, the War of 1812 and a 100-year-old bottle of ginger beer. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” said archeologist Steve Brown. He’s working on the excavation on the site of…
[ad_1] Indian online food ordering and delivery platform Swiggy on Thursday confirmed it has acquired Mumbai-based on-demand delivery platform Scootsy in an all-cash deal which is likely to be to the tune of Rs. 50 crores. With this acquisition, Swiggy will strengthen Scootsy’s curated restaurant network and help the brand expand to newer cities on…
[ad_1] Katarzyna Nowak and her colleague, Atsushi Sugimoto, disregard the conventional hiking path on Mount White. Instead, they scramble up the rocky slope until they come to a ledge with a good view of a known mineral lick. It’s covered with mountain goat droppings. “Spending time on windy ledges is very likely part of a mountain goat’s…
[ad_1] The Xiaomi Bluetooth computer speakers are compatible with audio file formats such as MP3 and AAC. Xiaomi Bluetooth computer speakers have been launched on the company’s Youpin e-commerce store in China. Available starting 10am CST (7:30am IST) August 1 in the country, these 2.0 Bluetooth speakers have been made keeping in mind compatibility with…
[ad_1] From instant messaging to banking apps, the digital services we use are increasingly powered by artificial intelligence — but what users might not know is how present the human hand is in these increasingly popular tools. Recent reporting by The Guardian and the Wall Street Journal explored the issue of so-called pseudo AI, a practice in…
[ad_1] Google is preparing a version of its search engine for China that blocks results Beijing considers sensitive, according to people familiar with the situation. The initiative is code-named Dragonfly and is one of several options the company is pursuing for returning to China, the people said, while noting timing is still up in the…
[ad_1] New research is shedding light on how sea stars enrich the B.C. coast — but it took a near-complete population die-off to reach that conclusion. Scientists from Simon Fraser University have concluded sunflower sea stars play a critical role in the health of kelp forests off the B.C. coast. The sea stars, along with…
[ad_1] Apple investors have wondered for years what comes after the iPhone. The answer is a growing collection of services and accessories that increasingly rely on the device, rather than replace it. The latest quarterly results confirmed that Apple isn’t selling many more iPhones these days. Instead, higher prices have driven growth. Revenue from the smartphone…
[ad_1] A cannabis compound that won’t get users high can help ease the nausea cancer patients experience when going through chemotherapy, a new University of Guelph study suggests. One of the first medical uses of THC (tetrahydrocannabionl), the psychoactive compound in cannabis that results in a person becoming high, was to treat chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting.…
[ad_1] YouTube Music hasn’t yet convinced the masses using services such as Apple Music and Spotify in the US and European markets due to its limited list of features. But Google is now said to be in plans to uplift the experience to persuade a large number of music lovers. The search giant still probably…
[ad_1] Apple CEO Tim Cook has explained why the company is making a big push into original TV programming. “The cord cutting in our view is only going to accelerate and probably accelerate at a much faster rate than is widely thought,” Cook said in a call with analysts on Tuesday. The iPhone maker noticed…
[ad_1] Apple has just announced that it is making some major changes to its iTunes Affiliate Programme. The Cupertino tech giant said that starting October 1, apps for iOS and macOS will no longer be included in its iTunes Affiliate Programme. Apple says, after the launch of the new App Store interfaces for iOS and…
[ad_1] Tesla‘s future is a hotly debated topic, and even more so ahead of the electric car company’s earnings report that’s coming Wednesday afternoon. “This company is going through a very important transition,” UBS analyst Colin Langan said Wednesday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “It’s going to its first close to mass-market priced vehicle. This is…
[ad_1] Ride-hailing firm Grab said on Thursday it has raised $2 billion (roughly Rs. 13,700 crores) from investors to expand its offerings including electronic payments, food delivery and courier services as it fights fierce competition in the fast-growing sector. Around half of the funds came from Japanese car giant Toyota, which announced last month it…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook CEO Facebook‘s chat service WhatsApp is adding more ways for companies to communicate with customers, and opening up a new way for the parent company to cash in. While WhatsApp doesn’t have advertising outright, it is increasing functionality for businesses on its platform called WhatsApp Business.…
[ad_1] Shares of Apple touched the $200 (roughly Rs. 13,670) mark for the first time and neared a $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 68.3 lakh crores) valuation on Wednesday, after the company forecast blowout current-quarter sales and analysts said a September launch of new iPhones set the stage for sustained growth. The company’s shares rose as much…
[ad_1] Rex Curry | Reuters Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, speaks at the George W. Bush Presidential Center’s Forum on Leadership in Dallas, Texas, April 20, 2018. Amazon‘s cloud service is locking its customers into bigger and longer-term contracts, signaling a deeper commitment from its already market-leading user-base. Amazon disclosed in its latest quarterly report…
[ad_1] The Information reported on Amazon’s efforts to reduce its Oracle dependency in January. Analyst Brian White of Drexel Hamilton issued a note disputing the report, pointing to remarks Oracle Chairman Larry Ellison had made on the company’s December earnings call. “Let me tell you who’s not moving off of Oracle,” Ellison said. “A company…
[ad_1] Apple updated its latest share count on Wednesday, putting the magic stock price at $207.04 (Rs. 14,142) that would make the iPhone maker the first publicly listed US company valued at $1 trillion (roughly Rs. 68.3 lakh crores). Apple said in a quarterly filing to the Securities and Exchange Commission, or SEC, that its share count…
[ad_1] Angel investor Jason Calacanis told CNBC on Wednesday he could see Apple hitting $50 billion in annual software services revenue as soon as a year from now. That would be faster than even CEO Tim Cook predicts. So far in fiscal 2018, Apple services revenue for its first, second, and third quarters totaled about…
[ad_1] VCG | Getty Images A Tesla Model 3 car is on display during the Auto China 2018 at China International Exhibition Center on April 25, 2018 in Beijing, China. Tesla said in a second quarter earnings update on Wednesday that it has repeatedly produced 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans in a week. Previously, the…
[ad_1] Mr. Sauerberg tried to stifle the chatter on Tuesday, when he released a statement that Ms. Wintour “has agreed to work with me indefinitely in her role as editor in chief, Vogue, and artistic director of Condé Nast.” It will take more than corporate stability, however, to reverse the company’s slide. The $120 million…
[ad_1] On Wednesday, Musk said of his impoliteness towards analysts, “I violated my own rule in that regard…There’s no excuse.” The CEO’s contrite tone on Wednesday’s call may assuage the concerns of investors who worried about Musk’s leadership style under pressure. CFRA’s Efraim Levy wrote in a note to investors on Wednesday, even ahead of…
[ad_1] For the last few years, CNBC’s Jim Cramer has given investors many ways to play the “stay-at-home” economy — the increasing number of products and services that make it easy to eat, live and be entertained from the comfort of your couch. And while his past recommendations like GrubHub, Take-Two Interactive Software and Logitech…
[ad_1] As for the upcoming factory in China, Musk said the plan is to fund it with “local debt.” During its annual shareholder’s meeting on June 5, Musk and Robin Ren, head of Tesla’s worldwide sales, said they planned to build a “Dreadnought” factory in China to produce batteries and assemble vehicles in the same…
[ad_1] Got some spare time this weekend? Why not build yourself a working rover from plans provided by NASA? The spaceniks at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory have all the plans, code, and materials for you to peruse and use — just make sure you’ve got $2,500 and a bit of engineering know-how. This thing isn’t…
[ad_1] Sonos, the maker of smart speakers for the home, cut the price of its initial public offering on Wednesday. The company priced its IPO at $15 a share, below the expected range of $17 to $19. At the offer price, Sonos is valued at just under $1.5 billion. In April, MarketWatch said Sonos could…
[ad_1] Tesla CEO Elon Musk said Wednesday that the company’s custom-built chip for handling autonomous driving is nearly ready. Tesla is one of a few automakers developing self-driving technology, but it stands apart because it’s been developing its own silicon for performing artificial-intelligence computations, rather than continuing to rely on systems from ongoing chipmakers like…
[ad_1] As swaths of the technology sector wither in response to Facebook’s stock weakness, CNBC’s Jim Cramer applauded one member of FANG, his acronym for Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet, for holding up. “Amazon is a juggernaut,” the “Mad Money” host said on Wednesday. “This company is the ultimate disruptor in retail, Prime…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer has always valued product loyalty. He smiles every time he sees the inscription on the back of his Procter & Gamble Old Spice deodorant bottles: “If your grandfather hadn’t worn it, you wouldn’t exist.” “I smile because, indeed, my grandfather used Old Spice and, truly in the mindset of my era,…
[ad_1] Marketers are increasingly looking for social media celebrities and influencers who can promote their products with more authenticity (or at least, the appearance of authenticity) than a traditional ad. So Altru CEO Alykhan Rehmatullah wondered: Why can’t businesses do something similar with recruiting? And that’s what Altru is trying to accomplish, powering a page…
[ad_1] Boeing pushed back the flight schedule of its Starliner capsule by at least six months, the company said on a conference call with reporters Wednesday. The capsule, being built to fly U.S. astronauts to the International Space Station, suffered a failure during a test in June. “The resulting schedule that we have will support…
[ad_1] The Vision Fund has spooked many other VC firms, who are concerned $100 billion will spike valuations for tech companies and lead to another dot-com bubble. It’s pushed funds to raise more money to compete for start-ups alongside SoftBank. “The challenge is there’s too much money at all stages,” said Jeff Clavier, founder and…
[ad_1] Apple has a new share price threshold to hit $1 trillion in market value. The company revealed an adjusted outstanding share count of 4,829,926,000 Wednesday alongside the company’s third-quarter results. That factors in hefty stock buybacks and nudges the trillion-dollar per share price to $207.05. Investors had previously been looking for a share price…
[ad_1] FitBit’s stock price jumped in after-hour trading and is currently trading around $6.00 a share, off its 52-week intraday high of $7.79. The company today announced its latest quarterly numbers, which saw the average selling price of its wearables increase 6% year-over-year to $106 a device. New devices introduced within the last year represented…
[ad_1] Tesla reported quarterly earnings and revenue that missed analysts’ expectations on Wednesday. Here’s how the company did compared with what Wall Street expected: Losses: -$.3.06 per share vs. -$2.92 per share forecast by Thomson Reuters Revenue: $4.00 billion vs. $3.96 billion forecast by Thomson Reuters Automotive gross margins increased to 20.6 percent. Model 3…
[ad_1] Fitbit is expected to report second-quarter results after the close Wednesday. Here is what Wall Street expects: Loss per share: 24 cents, forecast by Thomson Reuters. Revenue: $285.4 million, forecast by Thomson Reuters. The stock has been flat in 2018, gaining about 2 percent. In the same period, the Invesco QQQ Trust, which tracks…
[ad_1] The attack, which took place from June 14 to June 18, was “serious” and the attackers were able to access all Reddit data from “2007 and before” including account credentials and email addresses, according to a company executive posting to the Reddit homepage. The spokesperson, who uses the alias KeyserSosa, is Chris Slowe, the…
[ad_1] It’s been a week since Lenovo’s Google Assistant-powered smart display went on sale and slowly but surely, its competitors are launching their versions, too. Today, JBL announced that its $249.95 JBL Link View is now available for pre-order, with an expected ship date of September 3, 2018. JBL went for a slightly different design…
[ad_1] Valve has announced a release date and price for Artifact. The card collection game is based on its popular MOBA, Dota 2. The Artifact release date is November 28 for Windows, macOS, and Linux via Steam. Artifact’s price is $19.99 (around Rs. 1,366). Artifact Android and iOS release date is slated for 2019. At…
[ad_1] The key question on investors’ minds when Tesla reports second quarter earnings after the market closes Wednesday is when it will start to turn a profit. Now that the company has reached key production milestones on its Model 3 mid-size electric sedan, investors are worrying less about Tesla’s ability to ramp up production and…
[ad_1] Zach Gibson | Bloomberg | Getty Images President Donald Trump, right, speaks as Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., listens during the American Technology Council roundtable hosted at the White House in Washington, D.C. Wall Street is buzzing over Apple’s strong earnings results, driving its shares to a new all-time high. But…
[ad_1] Apple still represents a reasonable investment opportunity even as it’s market value charges toward $1 trillion, according to Aswath Damodaran. “I think it’s reasonably valued. … If you look at the amount of cash they have, and you take that out of the mix, they’re actually not trading at that high a multiple of…
[ad_1] Starting a job search can be daunting for anyone, but for the over-50 crowd it may bring out an additional set of concerns. It really shouldn’t, though, according to career coaches. In fact, many of them tell CNBC that age should be seen as an asset, not a liability. “We tend to approach the…
[ad_1] Today WhatsApp launches its first revenue-generating enterprise product and the only way it currently makes money directly from its app. The WhatsApp Business API is launching to let businesses respond to messages from users for free for up to 24 hours, but will charge them a fixed rate by country per message sent after…
[ad_1] Popular messaging app WhatsApp has announced two new developments for its WhatsApp for Business app, which is only available for Android at present. Firstly, the Facebook-owned company is opening up the WhatsApp Business API for more businesses, with an aim to reach potential customers at scale. Secondly, Facebook ads are getting a new click…
[ad_1] Apple may have impressed investors with its fiscal third quarter earnings, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer thinks “the ultimate consumer products company” ought to have a price-to-earnings multiple to match. “There are many metrics Apple uses, this has a 17 multiple. How is that possible?” Cramer said on “Squawk on the Street.” “That is insane.”…
[ad_1] Olamide Zaccheaus had to quit. Things had gotten out of hand — he was addicted. In a way, the addiction wasn’t unexpected. Zaccheaus, a senior wide receiver at Virginia, admitted to “an addictive nature.” And “anything I do,” he added, “I want to be the best at it.” Even this? He wasn’t going to…
[ad_1] Flipkart Plus, the e-commerce giant’s new loyalty programme, was announced on Wednesday. It is essentially a premium account that will let users access to free and early deliveries, early access to products, and more benefits. Flipkart Plus will officially launch on August 15 to take on Amazon Prime. However, the basic difference between Amazon…
[ad_1] One consequence of the changing broadcast homes of those leagues will be that fans of Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi will have to go through Eleven Sports to view their domestic games. Add to that the suggestions that Eleven has also agreed deals to add the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) and NBA Basketball, both…
[ad_1] Google is planning to bring back its search engine to China after years of banishment, as per a new report. The tech giant first made a voluntary exit from the world’s most populous country back in 2010 citing restriction of free speech on the company’s services. However, ever since Sundar Pichai took over as…
[ad_1] It seemed like a wild gamble a year ago. As rumors heated up that Apple was preparing to launch a new iPhone in the $1,000 range, the pile on from the tech pundit community came in swiftly. The reported features of a then-unnamed iPhone wouldn’t be enough to justify the $1,000 price and spur…
[ad_1] Southeast Asian ride-hailing company Grab is set to announce that it has secured new investment of $1 billion (roughly Rs. 6,850 crores) that will help it grow its payments business, a source familiar with the matter said. The funding will come from parties including US investors and strategic backers, said the person, who declined…
[ad_1] Wall Street is impressed by Apple’s strong June quarter earnings results. Analysts say they are growing more confident in Apple’s services business, which includes its App Store, music subscription and cloud services offerings. The smartphone maker on Tuesday posted better than expected fiscal third-quarter earnings per share of $2.34, beating the $2.18 Thomson Reuters…
[ad_1] Do you worry that you, or your children, spend too much time on social media? Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday said they want to help you take control. In a statement, the social media giants – which are both owned by Facebook – announced “new tools to help people manage their time” spent on the…
[ad_1] Apple is set to open more than 4 percent higher Wednesday after a strong third-quarter report, inching the stock toward a $1 trillion market value. Shares were trading near $199 premarket, after closing Tuesday at $190.29. Shareholders had previously been looking for a stock price of $203.45 to make Apple the first trillion-dollar company…
[ad_1] The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has reportedly ordered Paytm Payments Bank to suspend the enrolment of new customers. The central bank is said to have found discrepancies in the adherence of know-your-customer (KYC) norms by the Noida-based company. Following a formal audit by RBI, Paytm stopped enrolling new customers on June 20, a…
[ad_1] Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook delivers the keynote address during Apple WWDC on June 8, 2015, in San Francisco. Apple shares rallied after the company beat Wall Street expectations on both the top and bottom lines as well as for average iPhone selling price. Apple’s stock jumped more than 4 percent in premarket…
[ad_1] Mozilla has transformed its Firefox Rocket browser into Firefox Lite. The web browser, which was launched specifically for Indonesia in October last year, is now available in the all-new avatar through Google Play. While the company has changed the name of the browser, it is still offering a similar experience that is primarily aimed…
[ad_1] This year the Silicon Valley giant is widely expected to reduce the bezels on the iPad, remove the home button and implement Face ID as the primary method of unlocking the device. But now a new alleged CAD (computer aided design) of the forthcoming iPad appears to show a massive change that would alter…
[ad_1] Chinese smartphone manufacturer Huawei is now the second biggest smartphone manufacturer in the world according to new reports from IDC and Canalys, as The Verge initially spotted. In IDC’s latest report, the firm says that the overall market has shrunk by 1.8 percent in Q2 2018. But the biggest surprise is that Huawei now…
[ad_1] It’s passive zombie feed scrolling, not active communication with friends that hurts our health, according to studies Facebook has been pointing to for the last seven months. Yet it’s treating all our social networking the same with today’s launch of its digital wellbeing screentime management dashboards for Facebook and Instagram in the US before…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Monday announced the launch of Web Authentication specification in Windows’ native browser, Microsoft Edge to provide users with password-less access. Insiders will be able to use other secure methods such as fingerprint sensor, face unlock, PIN, or portable FIDO2 devices to unlock the browser instead of using a traditional password. The move…
[ad_1] Facebook is taking an important first step in helping users figure out how much time they spend on these sites. But some outside experts are skeptical that it will make an immediate difference. “It represents a meaningful start, but it’s not clear how effective the tool is going to be,” said Brian A. Primack,…
[ad_1] Apple released the fifth beta of iOS 12 a few days ago. 9to5mac discovered strings in configuration files that reference dual SIM devices. You should expect at least one new iPhone model with two SIM trays. Apple is said to unveil three new iPhone models in September. In addition to an updated iPhone X,…
[ad_1] Google is rolling out a new feature to enable users to connect music streaming service Spotify to the Google Clock app and wake up to their favourite playlists and songs. “This works for both free and premium Spotify users. You can browse recently played music, choose from Spotify’s curated morning playlists or search for…
[ad_1] The Silicon Valley behemoth recently released the newest beta version of iOS 12 ahead of its presumed September launch to the public. But in the beta 9to5Mac noticed a very interesting new feature that could be coming to AirPods very soon. It appears more concrete details have emerged on the new case for the…
[ad_1] Microsoft’s Your Phone app helps in linking your phone to a PC Microsoft Windows Insiders in the Fast Ring who also use Android smartphones can now use the company’s ‘Your Phone’ app to transfer data seamlessly between the computer and handset. Microsoft has started testing the new mobile application that lets its users get…
[ad_1] The Galaxy S9 introduced a ton of new features when it launched back in March including turbocharged internals, a brand new camera system and addressed fan complaints with the Galaxy S8 by making the fingerprint scanner more accessible. But the flagship also was not shy about launching a direct challenge to Apple’s popular Animoji…
[ad_1] Bharti Airtel is partnering with Razorpay, a payments solution company, to enable users to make online payments through UPI (United Payments Interface). Razorpay on Tuesday announced that Airtel users will be able to make the payments via the MyAirtel app as well as its official site. With UPI-based payments, the company is promising an…
[ad_1] Shortly after releasing a series of teaser videos on its YouTube channel about the features the new phablet will have in store when it launches, Samsung sent out press invitations to a live stream set to showcase “a brand new addition to the Samsung Galaxy device line-up”. The South Korean tech giant is telling…
[ad_1] Aiming to reach out to 10 million Small and Medium Businesses (SMBs) by 2020, global PC and smart devices brand Lenovo and global chip giant Intel on Wednesday announced a partnership with Paytm Mall. Under the partnership, Paytm Mall, which is owned by Paytm Ecommerce Pvt, will host a dedicated Lenovo brand store on…
[ad_1] A mobile game created at Dalhousie University aims to educate youth in Africa about sexually transmitted diseases. STD Pong is modelled after the legendary arcade game, but uses an African storyline and characters to teach youth about nine different sexually transmitted diseases and how people can practise safe sex. The game is the brainchild of Rita Orji,…
[ad_1] Fires north of the Arctic Circle. Record-setting temperatures in England. More than 60 dead in Japan and 70 in Quebec due to heat-related causes. A fast-moving fire that wiped out an entire Greek town, killing more than 90 people. At the moment, drought and fire are ravaging much of the planet. This past June…
[ad_1] Video A Dutch inventor has created a way to clean up marine waste in California. CBC’s Kim Brunhuber reports. Posted: Jul 30, 2018 7:35 AM ET | Last Updated: July 30 A Dutch inventor has created a way to clean up marine waste in California. CBC’s Kim Brunhuber reports. 5:59 Report Typo or Error|Send…
[ad_1] Three rescue boats and a Fisheries and Oceans Canada aerial team had to call off their search again Tuesday for an entangled North Atlantic right whale, spotted in the Bay of Fundy, east of Grand Manan island, Monday morning. Jerry Conway, an adviser with the Canadian Whale Institute and a member of the Campobello Whale Rescue Team, said fog reduced visibility to less than half…
[ad_1] MoviePass, the discount service for movie tickets, is raising prices by 50 percent and barring viewings of most major releases during the first two weeks. The new $15-a-month rate (roughly Rs. 1,000) for up to one movie each day still won’t make MoviePass profitable. Because it typically pays theatres the full cost of tickets…
[ad_1] An expert on animal emotion says a resident killer whale in the Salish Sea carrying its dead calf afloat is showing what humans would call “grief.” Barbara King, professor emeritus of anthropology at the College of William and Mary in Virginia, says it wouldn’t be going too far to say the animal is experiencing profound…
[ad_1] With a view to making the experience more user-friendly than before, Facebook is redesigning the navigation bar on its mobile app to show users shortcuts based on their preferences. This means that the bar that some elements on the navigation bar will be personalised to make it easier for users to access their preferred…
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[ad_1] A US judge on Tuesday temporarily blocked the online publication of blueprints for 3D-printed firearms, in a last-ditch effort to stop a settlement President Donald Trump’s administration had reached with the company releasing the digital documents. Eight states and the District of Columbia, that houses the capital Washington, had filed a lawsuit against the…
[ad_1] Wildfires tearing through Northern California, destroying homes and forcing people to flee, are creating their own weather systems, making them even more dangerous and unpredictable, meteorologists say. In Redding, where the ongoing Carr fire has burned more than 800 homes and killed six people, firefighters have reported vortexes of fire. “That’s literally fire behaviour that…
[ad_1] WhatsApp group calling supports a maximum of four users WhatsApp group calling feature with both voice and video support is finally live. First discovered back in October last year, group calling on the Facebook-owned messaging app was officially announced by Facebook at its annual F8 developer conference in May this year. The new WhatsApp…
[ad_1] Apple is set to report earnings after the bell Tuesday, just as the tech sector witnesses a deep sell-off across other tech giants such as Amazon, Netflix and Facebook. “We continue to recommend Apple,” Baird senior research analyst Will Power told CNBC in early July. “That’s our top big-cap pick. I do think there’s…
[ad_1] The S&P 500 is about to do something it hasn’t done in a midterm election year since Dwight D. Eisenhower occupied the Oval Office. It’s on track to end July in the green after a positive April, May and June. That’s a rare bullish sign, according to Jeffrey Saut, chief investment strategist at Raymond…
[ad_1] Laser-manufacturer IPG Photonics shares tanked on Tuesday after reporting disappointing second-quarter earnings before the bell. Shares closed down 27 percent, making it the worst performer in the Standard and Poor’s 500 index on Tuesday. The company reported second-quarter earnings per share at $2.21, below a $2.25 consensus estimate by Thomson Reuters, despite growing 16…
[ad_1] The record services revenue is partly the result of a one-time line item totaling $236 million related to lawsuits, the company said. It also saw a boost from increased paid subscribers through the App Store, a 50 percent year-over-year increase in cloud revenue, and higher Apple Pay usage rates. “Apple Pay continues to expand…
[ad_1] Apple sold 41.3 million iPhones during the quarter ended June 30, which missed Wall Street estimates, the company announced Tuesday. Wall Street was looking for 41.79 million iPhones sold during the quarter, according to a FactSet consensus estimate. Apple sold 41.03 million iPhones during the same quarter last year. Apple beat Wall Street on…
[ad_1] Cook went on to say the company would evaluate potential consequences of the new tariffs and submit comments for review to the administration. Previously, the New York Times reported U.S. President Donald Trump told Apple CEO Tim Cook that the U.S. government would not levy tariffs on iPhones assembled in China. Whereas smartphones and…
[ad_1] To combat cyber threats in the upcoming Congressional election, Pence said the administration is also deploying “new sensors” to detect threats, and 37 states have opted in so far, he said. Federal cybersecurity officials are also being deployed to state and local elections commissions. He cited a cyberattack in July against government services in…
[ad_1] Apple reported strong results for its fiscal third quarter on Tuesday but the iPhone-maker lost its position as the world’s number-two smartphone vendor, according to multiple analyses. Research firms International Data Corporation (IDC), Counterpoint Research, IHS Markit and Canalys all reported that Chinese smartphone maker Huawei leapfrogged Apple to second place, based on the…
[ad_1] With Wall Street awaiting the results of Federal Reserve’s two-day policymaking meeting, CNBC’s Jim Cramer wanted investors to keep a key trend in mind. “We keep forgetting that the economy is really strong,” the “Mad Money” host said on Tuesday as stocks lifted. “Let’s remember that employment is on fire and we just had…
[ad_1] Another “rant” by Tesla CEO Elon Musk could eclipse what is expected to be a great quarter for the electric car maker, one analyst told CNBC on Tuesday. “My hope is that he’s going to be in apologetic mode,” Romit Shah, senior analyst at Nomura Securities International, said in a “Closing Bell” interview. “Because…
[ad_1] If Apple was valued as CNBC’s Jim Cramer sees it — “the greatest consumer products company in history” — the stock’s price target would be $300 a share, the “Mad Money” host said Tuesday. Speaking after Apple reported a third-quarter earnings beat driven by continued strength in its service stream revenue, which grew 31…
[ad_1] Josh Edelson | AFP | Getty Images Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks at Apple’s Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center in San Jose, California on Monday, June 4, 2018. Apple posted $9.55 billion in software and services revenue for its third quarter, as the hardware giant continues to push beyond…
[ad_1] Apple reported $3.74 billion in revenue from its “other products” division, which includes sales of Apple Watches, iPods, home products and more, beating Wall Street estimates for its third quarter. The company’s stock rose about 2 percent after hours on a strong quarter overall. That’s 37 percent more that the $2.74 billion in revenue…
[ad_1] Apple is inching closer and closer to becoming a $1 trillion company today after posting third quarter results that beat out what analysts were expecting and bumping the stock another few percentage points — which, by Apple standards, is tens of billions of dollars. The company’s stock is up around 2.5% this afternoon after…
[ad_1] Baidu is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings after the market close Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: 16.46 yuan per share, forecast by Thomson Reuters Revenue: 25.56 billion yuan, forecast by Thomson Reuters In June, the Chinese search giant said it reached 150 million daily active users on its main search and news…
[ad_1] Almost a week after Facebook reported second quarter earnings, when it lowered its outlook on revenue and raised its forecast for expenses, the stock is still down 20 percent. Nearly $120 billion in market value has been wiped away. And while slower revenue and higher costs are fundamental concerns for any company, investors are…
[ad_1] Bakish may not be the best long-term CEO for the company, said Greenfield, who suggests a combined company may want to look for external hires. But he is the logical choice “given a lack of anyone else,” he said. While both CBS and Viacom could stay independent, Greenfield believes putting the companies together is…
[ad_1] GoPro shares could rise significantly when the company posts its financial results this week, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm said the company’s stock price is now low enough for the shares to rally on a decent earnings report. GoPro is slated to report its second-quarter earnings results Thursday after the market close. “We…
[ad_1] Alphabet-owned Waymo is piloting a new use for its self-driving cars: Dropping people off at the bus station. The company just announced a new partnership with the Valley Metro transportation center in Phoenix, Arizona to shuttle passengers to and from the station. The idea is to provide first- and last-mile transportation, instead of longer…
[ad_1] The next major attack on the U.S. is more likely to come by computers than airplanes, Kirstjen Nielsen, head of the Department of Homeland Security, said on Tuesday. “We are in a crisis mode,” Nielsen said at a cybersecurity summit in New York. “A cat 5 hurricane has been forecast and we must prepare.”…
[ad_1] Istio, the service mesh for microservices from Google, IBM, Lyft, Red Hat and many other players in the open-source community, launched version 1.0 of its tools today. If you’re not into service meshes, that’s understandable. Few people are. But Istio is probably one of the most important new open-source projects out there right now.…
[ad_1] Facebook confirmed it has identified a coordinated political influence campaign believed to be working ahead of November’s midterm elections. The social media company announced on Tuesday it had detected and removed 32 fake accounts and pages from both Facebook and Instagram, because the company detected “coordinated inauthentic behavior.” Facebook said it has not been…
[ad_1] It is unclear where the UkuRobot came from and where it will go once it is done with humanity but I fear that it is up to no good. Look at this robot: small, compact, infinitely complex. Its fretting system stares at us, gimlet -eyed, while the plucking system continues its dark work on…
[ad_1] In April, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said he expected the company to become profitable and cash-flow positive in the second half of this year. On July 1, Tesla said it produced 7,000 cars in a week, including 5,000 Model 3 electric sedans to close the quarter. The feat led Musk to send a triumphant…
[ad_1] Shopify initially rose after releasing better-than-expected earnings on Tuesday before the market. The stock then turned lower later in the morning and was last down 7 percent as traders reacted to lukewarm guidance , a new offering of stock and a possible slowdown in net merchants added to the platform. The e-commerce company said…
[ad_1] Les Moonves‘ amazing track record building CBS into a media powerhouse is “totally irrelevant” in the face of sexual misconduct allegations, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. “We know what has to happen,” Cramer told “Squawk on the Street,” suggesting Moonves must step down or be removed. “This is an issue of conscience. It’s an…
[ad_1] MoviePass is raising its rates, and investors briefly shot shares of its parent company, Helios and Matheson Analytics, up 150 percent. The standard plan, which allows moviegoers to see one movie a day with certain limitations, will soon cost $14.95 a month, the company said. The plan currently goes for $9.95. MoviePass also said…
[ad_1] Gun control proponents and state officials are racing the clock to try to block blueprints to make guns from 3-D printers from going online Wednesday. The varied efforts, in courthouses and legislatures, are aimed at Defense Distributed, a Texas-based nonprofit organization that won permission last month from the State Department to post schematics for…
[ad_1] Following the launch of its high-end X470 platform controller earlier this year, AMD has just released a mid-range counterpart, the B450. This chipset will support a wide range of AMD processors, including the current and previous-generation Ryzen 7, Ryzen 5 and Ryzen 3 models, Ryzen APUs, and also legacy Athlon and legacy A-series CPUs designed for…
[ad_1] If T-Mobile and Sprint built out that network, the only way to make the math of the deal work would be to steal customers from AT&T and Verizon. The combined company would need to take millions of customers away from the big players. The only way to do that: lower prices. That’s especially true…
[ad_1] I worked Circuit City when the PlayStation 2 launched. For weeks, we were sold out, and there was always a crowd around the blue demo unit in the gaming department. It’s easy to see why the PlayStation 2 was a hit looking back. It was powerful, inventive and excelled at local gaming. It was…
[ad_1] Wall Street’s expectations for Twitter have been appropriately reset as evidenced by the recent nosedive in the company’s stock, according to Nomura Instinet, which upgraded shares to neutral from reduce on Tuesday. “Dealing with traffic and content quality on these platforms as well as protecting users’ privacy comes at a cost and is likely…
[ad_1] Qualcomm Incorporated (NASDAQ: QCOM) announced today that it commenced a “modified Dutch auction” tender offer to purchase up to $10 billion of shares of its common stock, or such lesser number of shares of its common stock as are properly tendered and not properly withdrawn, at a price not less than $60.00 nor greater…
[ad_1] When Tan Le was a child, she took a boat trip that would set the tone for the rest of her life. In 1981, aged just four years old, her mother Mai Ho carried her and her sister Min to a secret hiding place in Ho Chi Minh City, in their home country of…
[ad_1] Apple will report its fiscal third-quarter earnings after the bell Tuesday, as tech stocks continue to tank throughout a rocky earnings season. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting from Apple: Earnings per share: $2.18, according to a Thomson Reuters estimate Revenue: $52.34 billion, according to a Thomson Reuters estimate iPhone unit sales: 41.79 million,…
[ad_1] Taxi drivers across Spain were set to keep striking on Tuesday against ride-hailing competitors such as Uber and Cabify, which they say unfairly threaten their livelihoods after government negotiations ended without a deal. The strike began in Barcelona last week and spread to Madrid at the weekend as drivers blocked main thoroughfares, demanding action…
[ad_1] The Google Pixel 3 looks set to bring a swathe of new features to this hugely popular smartphone brand. Rumours are rife that Google is likely to include a faster Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 processor, improved camera and better battery life. It’s also thought that the larger Pixel 3 XL will get a full edge-to-edge…
[ad_1] Although WhatsApp recently limited forwards on the app, Ministry of Electronic and IT Secretary Ajay Kumar Sawhney on Monday noted that this alone would not be enough to tackle the growing problem of circulation of fake or speculative news. “It (WhatsApp) has become a publishing medium, so there should be rules made for it,…
[ad_1] Both the Google Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL are some of the most highly anticipated Android hardware of the year. The tech giant is expected to radically refine its smartphone lineup while addressing fan concerns from the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL. Google announced both the original Pixel, Pixel XL and Pixel…
[ad_1] While Apple has so far maintained silence on upgrading its MacBook Air family, a fresh report reveals that the Cupertino company is preferring an eighth-generation aka Intel Core processor aka Kaby Lake Refresh for the next-generation MacBook Air. The company is reportedly not waiting for Intel’s Cannon Lake chips that are expected to debut in late…
[ad_1] Football fans planning to watch games for free this season could face a tough challenge finding online streams. The Premier League has already announced a new crackdown which will force ISPs to block illegal content being broadcast online and now UEFA is joining with its own order. The new judgement means UEFA will be…
[ad_1] A Dixons Carphone data breach that was disclosed earlier this summer was worse than initially reported. The company is now saying that personal data of 10 million customers could also have been accessed when its systems were hacked. The European electronics and telecoms retailer believes its systems were accessed by unknown and unauthorized person/s in 2017,…
[ad_1] Uber on Monday said it is hitting the brakes on self-driving trucks, shifting gears to focus just on autonomous cars. Uber is among a number of technology and car companies racing toward what some contend is an inevitable future in which vehicles drive themselves. Uber’s aspirations had included self-driving trucks, with the smartphone-summoned-ride service…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has just confirmed that it’s adding a radical new way to chat on the app. The popular messaging service says that, from today, its billions of users will be able to use a new group video call feature. This allows up to four people to chat simultaneously within the app with each person…
[ad_1] As Firefox is growing its presence on the Web by getting not just new features but also adding new versions to meeting specific requirements, its creator, Mozilla, has started redesigning the traditional Firefox logo. The company believes that with the addition of voice assistance and virtual reality (VR), the original flaming tail doesn’t represent…
[ad_1] When Bryce Comer first started trudging through the dense forest of British Columbia’s Kootenay Pass in 2008, the Australian knew little about the Canadian wilderness in which he was wandering, let alone the southern mountain caribou he was trying to document. Trained as a carpenter, he admits he also didn’t know much about photography. But…
[ad_1] Swiggy, one of India’s largest food ordering and delivery platforms, on Tuesday announced the launch of its new paid membership programme called Swiggy Super. As part of this programme, users will be entitled to free deliveries at all times of the day and from all restaurants serviceable in their area. Apart from free delivery,…
[ad_1] You might already be familiar with the idea of leave-no-trace camping: whatever you bring in, take it right out again. If you add zero-waste principles to that equation, you’ll end up with a pretty light load (garbage-wise, anyway — your reusable-container load will probably be hefty). As challenging as it sounds, a pair of clean-living experts…
[ad_1] Apple has released the fifth developer beta of iOS 12 for compatible iPhone and iPad models. The iOS developer beta 5 update includes a bunch of new features, including darker Control Center controls and a new splash screen for the preloaded Photos app. The Cupertino giant has also brought some evidence to hint at…
[ad_1] Harold Hackett of Tignish, P.E.I., says that after sending an estimated 10,000 bottles with messages into the ocean over 22 years, he will stop. Hackett, who calls himself The Bottleman, said a conservation officer told him recently that he would be fined $5,000 if he continued the practice. “I see his point,” Hackett said.…
[ad_1] More than a dozen beluga whales in the Beaufort Sea have been tagged with tracking devices — and their movements can be followed on Facebook. This is the first time belugas in the Beaufort Sea have been tagged since 2005. The tracking project is a joint effort between the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO),…
[ad_1] WhatsApp group calling feature with both voice and video support is finally live. First discovered back in October last year, group calling on the Facebook-owned messaging app was officially announced by Facebook at its annual F8 developer conference in May this year. The new WhatsApp feature is now available for users around the world…
[ad_1] Starbucks is teaming up with Alibaba‘s food delivery unit, Ele.me, to deliver coffee and snacks to Chinese consumers later this year, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday. The deal is set to be announced later in the week, the Journal said, citing people with knowledge of the tie-up between the two companies. Ele.me…
[ad_1] A mechanical failure at Saskatoon’s synchrotron means research projects will be shut down for months. The Canadian Light Source Synchrotron at the University of Saskatchewan is a football field-sized facility that uses extremely bright light to peer inside matter. It is one of the world’s most powerful microscopes, shedding X-ray “light” millions of times brighter…
[ad_1] MoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticket service, was forced last week to borrow $5 million after it reported it could not pay its bills, raising new questions about the embattled company’s viability. Helios and Matheson Analytics, its parent company, said in a regulatory filing on Friday that MoviePass had experienced a ”service interruption” the day…
[ad_1] The global esports industry is on fire and, now, some investors are getting bullish on the industry. “No question this is changing the landscape for media companies and how people are participating in sports,” Tim Seymour, co-founder and managing partner at Triogem Asset Management, a hedge fund, said on “Fast Money” Monday. Last weekend,…
[ad_1] Facebook should not be considered a growth stock anymore if the social network’s disastrous revenue guidance were to become to the new normal, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “You have a company that has expenses going up dramatically … [and] revenues are decelerating dramatically,” said Cramer, whose charitable trust had previously cut its Facebook…
[ad_1] A policy paper from the office of Sen. Mark Warner, D-Va., contains 20 options for government to regulate technology companies. The proposals, which were sent to CNBC by Warner’s office, are designed to protect consumers and stop the spread of disinformation. Although Warner, who serves as the vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee,…
[ad_1] Shares of Advanced Micro Devices are on fire this year, but some traders and strategists are wary about stepping into the name after its hefty 91 percent rally. AMD is the top-performing stock in the S&P 500’s semiconductor industry group this year, outpacing peers like Micron, Nvidia and Texas Instruments by a wide margin.…
[ad_1] Investors could strike gold in the swath of stocks that collapsed on the heels of Facebook’s disappointing earnings report last week, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Monday. “The kind of panic we got today is often a cleansing action, like a big rainstorm that washes away the detritus of the weak hands,” the “Mad Money”…
[ad_1] Qualcomm may have just ended its two-year-long mission to acquire rival chipmaker NXP Semiconductors, but that doesn’t mean the latter has lost all hope, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday. “I think last week, the big washout in NXP Semis has given you a buying opportunity,” the “Mad Money” host argued. “At these levels,…
[ad_1] Hot on the heels of the effective legalization of 3D models used to print firearm components, 21 states have filed a joint lawsuit against the federal government, alleging not only that decision is dangerous but also that it’s also illegal for a number of reasons. But the lawsuit may backfire via the so-called Streisand…
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[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg, founder and chief executive officer of Facebook Inc., smiles during a news conference at the company’s headquarters in Palo Alto, California, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 6, 2010. But some value investors, such as Christian Bertelsen, are using the opportunity to add more tech stocks to their portfolios. “Facebook is getting into my…
[ad_1] Several standout companies are already taking their places as the “clear winners” of earnings season, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Monday as stocks stayed under pressure from technology-driven weakness. First on his winners’ list was semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices, which delivered a better-than-expected second-quarter earnings report on Thursday, July 26. Echoing his earlier…
[ad_1] After leading the stock market’s rally to new heights this year, shares of technology companies plunged on Monday, with the 10 most valuabe U.S. tech companies losing $82.7 billion of value. Amazon fell by $18.6 billion and Microsoft by $17.7 billion. Among the 10 highest valued companies in the sector, only Intel rose on…
[ad_1] The FANG group of stocks has entered a correction, down more than 10 percent from their high, and they have taken down most of the tech sector with them in the past week. The biggest questions for investors will be to determine when the selling will end, and if the tech stocks — Facebook,…
[ad_1] CBS will seek outside counsel to investigate claims of sexual misconduct against CEO Leslie Moonves, the company said Monday following a closely watched board meeting to review the CEO’s standing with the company. The board met ahead of its quarterly earnings this week to discuss the allegations, detailed in a New Yorker article last…
[ad_1] JPMorgan‘s Jamie Dimon and Amazon‘s Jeff Bezos are launching a joint health care venture together with Warren Buffett. But the two CEOs could have been in business much earlier had Dimon signed on to a job at Amazon. “He was looking for a president and I flew to Amazon after I left Citi —…
[ad_1] As the fate of CBS’ CEO, Leslie Moonves, remains uncertain, veteran media analyst Porter Bibb told CNBC that the likelihood that Moonves will survive as the network’s leader is slim. “I think it’s inevitable that Les is history at CBS, whether he takes a leave of absence or is dismissed outright,” Bibb, who serves…
[ad_1] Gripping something with your hand is one of the first things you learn to do as an infant, but it’s far from a simple task, and only gets more complex and variable as you grow up. This complexity makes it difficult for machines to teach themselves to do, but researchers at Elon Musk and…
[ad_1] Five stocks stand in front of Wall Street’s bull market, threatening a rally that has withstood some wicked bouts of volatility in 2018 to continue powering higher. Two sectors could come to the rescue. The FAANGs — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet — have been undercutting a market that has benefited from…
[ad_1] A dark theme option for YouTube users on Android is in the early stages of rolling out to end users, Google confirmed to TechCrunch, following a number of reports and sightings of the dark mode showing up for users in the app’s settings. The feature has taken a bit longer to launch than expected…
[ad_1] Nobody really likes meetings — and the few people who do like them are the ones with whom you probably don’t want to have meetings. So when you’ve reached your fill and decide to reschedule some of those obligations, the usual process of trying to find a new meeting time begins. Thankfully, the Google…
[ad_1] Investors should not let Facebook‘s earnings disaster last week scare them out of the entire technology sector, Goldman Sachs’ David Kostin says. “While FB’s decline [last] week highlights the risk inherent in a narrow-breadth market, market performance in its wake supports our strategic preference for Technology and growth stocks,” Kostin, the bank’s chief U.S.…
[ad_1] Every artificial intelligence startup or corporate R&D lab has to reinvent the wheel when it comes to how humans annotate training data to teach algorithms what to look for. Whether it’s doctors assessing the size of cancer from a scan or drivers circling street signs in self-driving car footage, all this labeling has to…
[ad_1] As big tech companies face increased scrutiny at home and abroad, Google‘s general counsel just got a new, bigger role. The company has promoted senior vice president and general counsel Kent Walker to senior vice president of global affairs to oversee its policy, legal, trust and safety, and corporate philanthropy teams. The company announced…
[ad_1] Lisa Su’s AMD has “caught and passed” rival Intel in gaming and other key growth areas, according to CNBC’s Jim Cramer. AMD’s stock was higher Monday, at around $19.40 a share, after Cowen raised its price target for AMD shares to $25 from $21, predicting the chipmaker will report better-than-expected profits in 2019. “Only…
[ad_1] Wall Street’s crown jewels, the FAANG stocks, have lost their shine lately. Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet are selling off again Monday after losing a combined $185 billion over the previous two sessions. Ahead of Apple earnings scheduled for Tuesday evening, Larry McDonald, editor of the Bear Traps Report, warns to…
[ad_1] Several Wall Street firms are cautioning their clients about the prospects for Twitter shares, saying the social media company’s stock will not outperform until user growth returns. On Friday the company posted slightly lower-than-expected second-quarter monthly active user (MAU) numbers. But the bigger disappointment was Twitter’s guidance for the third quarter, when it forecasts…
[ad_1] Fabric, a personal journaling app that emerged from Y Combinator’s 2016 batch of startups, is relaunching itself as a Facebook alternative. The app is giving itself a makeover in the wake of Facebook’s closure of the Moves location tracker, by offering its own tool to record your activities, photos, memories and other moments shared…
[ad_1] It is a rough day for growth-technology investors. The so-called FANG stocks are falling Monday after disappointing quarterly results from two of the top companies in the sector. Shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet are all in the red to start the trading week. Facebook and Netflix were off by 4 percent. Amazon…
[ad_1] David R. Andelman is a partner at a Boston law firm and also a director of NAI. Joseph A. Califano, Jr.’s background is primarily in the field of public health, serving as the U.S. Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare in the 1970s and as President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Assistant for Domestic Affairs in…
[ad_1] There’s an Apple iPhone feature that you might turn on by accident from time to time. As you can see in the picture above, it just looks like a rectangle that sits on your display and gets in the way of everything. This rectangle actually has a purpose. It’s called “Zoom” and is used…
[ad_1] Cowen is more optimistic on AMD’s future gains in the server chip market after meetings with the company’s chief executive. The firm raised its price target for AMD shares to $25 from $21, predicting the chipmaker will report better-than-expected profits in 2019. The stock closed at $18.94 Friday. On Thursday AMD shares rose 14…
[ad_1] Consumers using drones in the UK have new safety restrictions they must obey from today, with a change to the law prohibiting drones from being flown above 400ft or within 1km of an airport boundary. Anyone caught flouting the new restrictions could be charged with recklessly or negligently acting in a manner likely to endanger…
[ad_1] Amazon is reportedly working on a redesign of its Prime Video interface on mobile devices. According to a new report, Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios has confirmed that a completely refreshed user interface is in the works for the Amazon Prime Video mobile app. The Amazon Prime Video app has not seen a…
[ad_1] Tesla shares will fall significantly because the company will not be profitable in 2019, according to UBS. The firm reaffirmed its sell rating for Tesla shares, predicting the carmaker will report second-quarter earnings per share below expectations. “We are cautious on TSLA Q2 results … Q2 results [will] likely highlight cash flow and profit…
[ad_1] Here is the DJI Mavic 2 before you’re supposed to see it. Just like the original, it’s a small, foldable drone with amazing capabilities. This time around, there will two different version, the Zoom and the Pro, though both will reportedly have the ability to fly at 45mph with a range of five miles.…
[ad_1] AT&T’s merger with Time Warner, combined with better-than-expected wireless business trends and a lower corporate tax rate, presents a compelling opportunity for investors, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Analysts at the brokerage upgraded shares of the telecommunications giant to buy from neutral on Monday, advising clients to pick up the “new and…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has had quite an eventful 2018 up until now. The world’s most popular messaging platform now has over 1.5 billion monthly active users, as last recorded in February this year. Despite the massive success, WhatsApp has constantly updated its mobile apps to offer the best experience to its billions of users. Whether be…
[ad_1] It’s been a hot July. Wildfires in Greece killed at least 83, Sweden is desperately fighting fires above the Arctic circle, heat waves have struck everywhere from the U.K. to Siberia, and at least 70 deaths in Quebec in July were linked to the heat. If we want to understand what’s driving this heat…
[ad_1] Google has started rolling out YouTube dark mode for its Android users, a quarter after iOS devices received the feature. Dark mode turns the interface all black and reduces strain on the eyes while navigating the app, especially at night. The feature was first added to YouTube desktop last year, followed by iOS in…
[ad_1] More than half a billion people use Hotmail every day as their main email service. The Microsoft-owned company recently updated Hotmail to bring in a more user-friendly operating system called Outlook. Outlook has caused some confusion among Hotmail users, with many options buttons moving from their regular position. Here, Express.co.uk explains how to find the options menu in…
[ad_1] Several dummy units of future iPhone models have leaked over the weekend. It gives a good idea of what you should expect to see in September when Apple introduces the next iPhone. Most likely, the iPhones on these photos aren’t actual iPhones. They are just dummy units. Every year, a few manufacturers create objects…
[ad_1] Google Gmail is now the most popular emailing service available with more than one billion people logging on every day to check their emails. The next closest email provider is Hotmail’s Outlook, which is used by half a billion people. Gmail has become culturally synonymous with the future of email, with many tech-savvy professionals using…
[ad_1] At Google I/O 2018, the company had announced a multiple actions feature that allows the Google Assistant to perform simultaneous actions in the same voice command, using coordination reduction to figure out exactly what the user means even with longer commands. At that time, the tech giant had also mentioned that it is adding…
[ad_1] IBM launched a blockchain platform for financial services on Monday as it continued to bolster its offerings of the much-hyped technology. Blockchain is the technology that underpins the cryptocurrency bitcoin. It’s a public ledger of activity on the bitcoin network that is tamper-proof. But banks and other institutions are now looking to apply blockchain…
[ad_1] Fortnite for Android doesn’t have a release date yet, and Epic Games is yet to confirm which Android devices will actually be able to play the game. However this has not stopped Fortnite fans from uncovering the possibility of Epic Games’ battle royale shooter ditching the Google Play Store. Nestled within its official website is code…
[ad_1] Gurgaon-based urban mobility startup Shuttl on Monday announced raising funds worth $11 million (roughly Rs. 75 crores) in a Series B financing round. Led by Amazon, in connection with the Amazon Alexa Fund, and Dentsu Ventures along with existing investors, the investment will help Shuttl consolidate its leadership position in the technology-enabled seat-based bus…
[ad_1] Step outside at around 10 p.m. on Tuesday and look to the southeast. There, you’ll find a bright red object in the sky: Mars. And it’s the closest it’s been since 2003. Seeing Mars in the night sky makes for a fantastic sight. And because of its relative proximity (comparatively), it’s far brighter than…
[ad_1] In Mexico, journalists, lawyers and activists have all been targets of suspected government spyware. Members of the Tibetan community — of particular interest to the Chinese government — have faced persistent phishing attacks for years. And in countries such as the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain, access to political criticism and LGBTQ content is frequently monitored…
[ad_1] The race to $1 trillion in market value is back in the spotlight in the lead-up to Apple reporting quarterly corporate earnings on Tuesday. The California-based company had a market capitalization of $938.7 billion as of Friday and earnings could prove to be an impetus for a move higher for the iPhone maker’s stock.…
[ad_1] CBS’s board of directors is reportedly set to discuss allegations of sexual misconduct against Chairman and CEO Leslie Moonves on Monday, separate reports said, with one publication reporting that the company is weighing whether Moonves should step aside pending a formal investigation. Ahead of its quarterly earnings this week, the board is scheduled to…
[ad_1] A few analysts picked up on Nadella’s comments. “We are pleased to hear of continued early traction with Azure Stack as we think it offers Microsoft a unique hybrid-cloud play,” Stifel analysts led by Brad Reback wrote the next day. In the past few weeks, Amazon and Google have made announcements to more fully…
[ad_1] Robert Alexander | Getty Images An American Airlines Boeing 737 passenger plane taxis from a gate to the runway at Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport in Washington, D.C. A system-wide computer outage at American Airlines resulted in a brief nationwide halt on Sunday for the company’s flights. The company’s main operating system failed for…
[ad_1] Small business is starting to go digital, as smartphone apps, cloud sharing and automation help many of them get more work done in less time. Technology is often billed as a means to replace human labor, yet recent data suggest that small businesses are actually looking to boost headcount, even as they shell out…
[ad_1] Everything about the Land Cruiser is beefy and solid, from the thick-sidewall tires to the protruding grille. The volume knob, the latch for the tailgate, the controls for the off-road equipment; everything you touch in the the top-dog Toyota is made of thicker, heavier-duty material than in other luxury SUVs. And it’s not for…
[ad_1] Amazon Echo is getting a major update (Image: AMAZON) The Amazon Echo continues to be one of the most popular smart speakers on the market with millions shipped across the world. The clever device received a major refresh late last year with an updated look and lower price but now it seems more features…
[ad_1] Samsung Display has announced that it has successfully created an unbreakable smartphone panel, that could appear in the Galaxy S10. The new type of screen uses a flexible OLED display overlaid with a fortified plastic window instead of glass. Current phone displays are more susceptible to cracking and breaking on impact. This claim goes…
[ad_1] This week, the two companies that dominate internet advertising both reported earnings, and the contrast was sharp. Google’s parent company Alphabet reported blowout earnings on Monday. It showed strong growth in its core business while giving Wall Street renewed faith in several of its nearer-term businesses. Facebook’s disappointing earnings report Wednesday caused a massive…
[ad_1] A startup in Brooklyn is making spacesuits for the next generation of astronauts, and potentially for a fraction of what NASA spends on them. Final Frontier Design is already selling suits for passengers traveling inside a spacecraft for between $125,000 to $150,000. The company is now developing suits that can withstand the pressures of…
[ad_1] After a rain-soaked qualifying, Lewis Hamilton once again finds himself on pole for today’s Hungarian Grand Prix. Ferrari had looked dominant all weekend at the Hungaroring but, as the heavens opened, it was the Mercedes that coped better with the treacherous conditions. Hamilton lines up on the front row of the grid with his…
[ad_1] Nest Hello review (Image: NEST ) NEST HELLO REVIEW • £229 FOR – Nice design • Customisable alerts • Great HD video quality • Offers a good way to monitor your front door AGAINST – Very expensive • Hard to fit yourself • Needs Nest Aware for best features and that’s £4 per month!…
[ad_1] The government could switch off phone line copper internet cables in the next seven years leaving its 20 million users without internet. The alternative is fibre broadband, or for those in areas without that option, 4G over the air broadband. Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that a switch-off date for copper cables would be…
[ad_1] The Apple Watch Series 3 debuted last September and brought a host of new improvements (Image: Getty • Google) The Apple Watch Series 3 debuted last September and brought a host of new improvements to the most-popular wearable around. The Cupertino-based company’s newest watch offering allowed users to make and receive calls with the…
[ad_1] As parts of Arctic Sweden burn, an expert warns that wildfires in polar regions are a growing threat because of climate change. The nordic country is grappling with wildfires across the region, including several north of the Arctic circle. The fires are among the worst seen in Sweden in decades, with three times as many…
[ad_1] Plastic cutlery is a major contributor to the growing plastic waste crisis. An estimated 40 billion plastic utensils are used and thrown away each year in the United States alone. But, Narayana Peesapaty the founder and directing manager of Bakey’s, an Indian cutlery company, has a possible solution—spoons and forks you can eat. His…
[ad_1] We’ve reached the end of an exciting week of tech news, with Xiaomi launching the Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite at its ‘global launch’ in Madrid, Spain possibly the biggest highlight The brand new Xiaomi Mi A2 is the successor to the Mi A1 that was launched at a global launch event in New…
[ad_1] The South Korean technology firm has scheduled its Galaxy “Unpacked” event for August 9 that will all-but-surely be the grand unveiling of the Note 9. But ahead of the event Samsung uploaded three videos to its YouTube channel with the hashtag “Unpacked” to give fans a small glimpse into what August 9 has in…
[ad_1] Google has been working on a huge new look for Chrome and now iPhone users can get their hands on an early version. Chrome has now moved the tab button to the bottom of the screen in addition to the forward and back buttons on the iOS app. A search feature sits in the…
[ad_1] The Silicon Valley giant is expected to release multiple iPhone X variants this year. Rumours suggest the tech behemoth could announce a direct successor to the iPhone X, an iPhone X Plus and a cheaper iPhone X variant in September. But a new report indicates the cheaper iPhone X model could give users a…
[ad_1] Sky customers have a swathe of changes coming to their service in the coming months with the satellite TV firm announcing more 4K content and the introduction of High Dynamic Range. Improved personalisation with the addition of individual profiles and a new kids mode that will stop the younger members of the family accessing…
[ad_1] Spurs fans in the UK have an early start this morning as their team face Barcelona at the Rose Bowl Stadium, California. The match gets underway at 4am BST and it could be a classic clash. Tottenham Hotspurs have started their pre-season campaign well with a 4-1 win over Roma and Barcelona will be…
[ad_1] With tonight’s fight between Dillian Whyte and Joseph Parker, only available via Sky Box Office pay-per-view fans may be tempted to try and tune in illegally for free. Watching sport via online live streams, and TV Players such as Kodi, has become hugely popular over the past few years but choosing to view in…
[ad_1] There’s a massive evening of football as Manchester United play Liverpool in the International Champions Cup. The Premier League rivals will clash at 107,000-capacity Michigan Stadium, known as The Big House. It’s game both sides will be desperate to win with Liverpool star Adam Lallana, revealing “It’s never a friendly against United” Speaking to…
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[ad_1] Even as Musk took a heap of backlash from investors, his Twitter followers mobilized to his defense, quick to find humility in Musk’s behavior, saying that it’s “human nature” to “hit back,” while also suggesting that Musk’s language was wrong. Musk supporters even used a common defense among Trump supporters, arguing that he didn’t…
[ad_1] Getting started is really simple if you already have a Google account. You’ll log in, then connect the speaker through a Google Home app on your iPhone or Android phone. It takes just a couple of minutes. After that, the display starts to show you information it thinks will be valuable to you. That…
[ad_1] “Should someone who just created an incredibly hostile work environment, and lied to his board, after doing what he had explicitly promised not to do, be hired as a C.E.O.?” Ms. Williams said. “It doesn’t seem like a close one to me.” Mr. Cagney helped found Social Finance in 2011 to refinance student loans…
[ad_1] For start-up Como Audio, it’s all about high fidelity. Founder and CEO Tom DeVesto, who has been in the audio business for several decades, said the company is committed to making speakers for music lovers. Como’s Speakeasy model, due to be released in November, has features that tech-savvy music lovers have come to expect:…
[ad_1] The Samsung Galaxy S10 may have more than just a fancy screen and triple camera to impress, its insides are set to stun. Samsung has apparently been working on its own graphics processing unit (GPU) which could make its next phone the fastest gaming mobile yet, but by a long way. This new GPU…
[ad_1] Taking advantage of an acquisition in the enterprise messaging market, team messaging platform Flock on Saturday offered HipChat and Stride users an opportunity to try Flocks Pro plan for free for an entire year. The move came after professional collaboration tool Slack announced it is acquiring workplace chat service HipChat and Stride from enterprise…
[ad_1] Most of us do not look forward to our annual physical. It’s something to be endured, rather than enjoyed. But that could change, if Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City has its way. Over the past few years, Mount Sinai has been incubating a program called Lab100 that aims to reinvent the health…
[ad_1] Despite the daily ups and downs of the stock market — and some very public spats with investors who didn’t think management was doing enough to maximize value — some of Wall Street’s marquee names have a lengthy track record of doling out billions to owners of their stock. In fact, CNBC found the…
[ad_1] Xiaomi Mi Router 4C has been announced in China. The new router comes as a new variant of the fourth-generation Mi Router that was launched earlier this year. Xiaomi has provided 64MB of onboard memory on the Mi Router 4C alongside a smart APP management. The router also features four omni-directional antennas, similar to…
[ad_1] The ZenFone 5 comes packing a Qualcomm Snapdragon 636 processor (Image: Express Newspapers) ZENFONE 5 REVIEW • £356 PROS – Premium build, unique wide-angle camera lens • all-day battery life • incredible 1080p screen • Unbelievably cheap CONS – Annoying software bugs • Battery charging issue • Lacklustre main camera • Questionable longevity Unfortunately…
[ad_1] The Samsung Gear S4 is expected to get revealed with a new Galaxy Watch name at the company’s Unpacked event on August 9. Samsung was one of the first companies to launch a smartwatch and has been evolving the wearable market ever since. The new Galaxy Watch is expected to not only get a…
[ad_1] The Apple Store app for iOS has been updated to version 5.1, bringing features revamped search interface that like the App Store and iTunes Store now highlights trending searches, apart from support for voice search. The update will allow users to tap the microphone icon along the search bar to dictate their search details instead…
[ad_1] Fitbit Ace review (Image: EXPRESS NEWSPAPERS) FITBIT ACE REVIEW • £79.99 PROS: Robust design • On screen rewards help boost activity • Long battery life • Sleep tracking CONS: Awkward charger • More strap designs would be an advantage • Price Fitbit is now synonymous with getting adults a little more active. The US…
[ad_1] A Vancouver Island man escaped a distracted driving ticket thanks to software on his phone that he claimed made it unusable in a moving vehicle. Patrick Tannhauser was ticketed for using his phone while driving outside of Victoria in August 2017, court documents stated. Police were watching for drivers using their phones during the afternoon…
[ad_1] We all know herding cats is difficult, but counting them — especially feral, stray and outdoor cats — is also harder than it looks. And so is counting birds and wildlife, especially when they’re spread out over huge regions of a country or continent, including private lands and remote areas. But scientists and government need good…
[ad_1] The Galaxy S9 and S9+ prided themselves on their cameras with Samsung boasting the Dual Aperture lens made for the “best ever” photo capturing experience. The primary lens was able to adjust itself depending on lighting conditions with the South Korean firm likening the feature to the human eye. But new rumours point to…
[ad_1] Web browser developer Opera’s shares rose as much as 30 percent in their US market debut on Friday, giving the Norway-based company a market value of about $1.72 billion (roughly Rs. 11,803 crores). The company’s shares opened at $14.34 (roughly Rs. 984), about 20 percent above its initial public offering price of $12.00 (roughly…
[ad_1] Apple announced its new MacBook Pro earlier this month with the US technology firm giving its laptop a major boost in power. With a big upgrade under the hood, the 15-inch Pro model is seeing speeds around 70 percent faster than its predecessor. However, a video posted online by Dave Lee revealed that this…
[ad_1] A bench of Justice Madan B. Lokur and Justice Deepak Gupta granted one month to the social media sites to ensure a foolproof mechanism to prevent uploading of objectionable materials. The Supreme Court on Friday raised concern over irresponsible behaviour of search engines and social networking sites like Google, Facebook, WhatsApp, and Yahoo in…
[ad_1] When the Galaxy S9 and S9+ launched back in March the smartphones brought a number of new features to the table. A variable aperture lens allowed for better low light photography, supercharged internals brought snappier performance and new slow-motion video features made for some of the biggest reasons to grab the Samsung flagship. But…
[ad_1] A US jury on Friday awarded International Business Machines (IBM) $83 million (roughly Rs. 569 crores) in a patent dispute with e-commerce company Groupon. A jury in Delaware said Groupon used IBM’s patented e-commerce technology without authorisation following a two-week trial. “IBM invests nearly $6 billion annually in research and development, producing innovations for society,”…
[ad_1] If you use WhatsApp there’s a fresh new scam to be aware of. Users are being targeted by a fraud which attempts to access their personal details via the offer of free vouchers at Costa Coffee. The issue has been highlighted by consumer group Which?, who are warning WhatsApp’s millions of users not to be…
[ad_1] The Justice B.N. Srikrishna Committee on data protection in India has suggested amendments to various laws including the Aadhaar Act to provide for imposition of penalties on data fiduciaries and compensations to data principals for violations of the data protection law. The 213-page report, prepared by a 10-member committee set up last year under…
[ad_1] Sky has already had a big year of announcements with the satellite TV firm introducing more 4K content and the ability to soon watch Netflix from your set-top box. But it seems customers are set for even more extras in the coming months. Sky has just released their latest financial results which includes a…
[ad_1] Alphabet’s YouTube is creating scripted series and other original programming for international markets including France, Germany, Japan, Mexico and India to try to draw new customers to its paid subscription service, a senior executive said on Friday. The programming will come in the form of multiple genres such as music documentaries, reality series, talk…
[ad_1] Amazon has announced its Echo line of products will receive an incredible new feature that will allow Alexa to give more precise details about local businesses. The tech giant has partnered with Yext, a company specialising in business data that is distilled from the likes of Google and Facebook. This will allow users access…
[ad_1] There’s another big afternoon of football ahead as Arsenal take on Atletico Madrid. The Gunners kick off their pre-season International Champions Cup campaign against in Singapore at 12.35pm. This is only the second time fans will have been able to see their new team under manager Unai Emery. Arsenal’s match with Atletico Madrid takes place at…
[ad_1] Automatic updates have long been the enemy for Windows 10 users. They used to be forced upon people, locking them out of their computers until they were completed, causing a huge uproar among those that urgently had to get work done. Microsoft appeared to head the complaints of its users by allowing users to…
[ad_1] There’s not long to wait until Samsung reveals its all-new Galaxy Note 9. This phablet will get its grand unveiling in New York on August 9 at the Korean firm’s Unpacked event and it seems there could be one big new upgrade. Samsung has just released a video on YouTube which suggests its new…
[ad_1] Oli Scarff | Getty Images Alex Jones (C), an American radio host of InfoWars, author and conspiracy theorist. Facebook removed four videos from the controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones and slapped his personal profile with a 30-day ban after deeming that he violated its policies on bullying and hate speech. The videos, which were…
[ad_1] Millennials, the generation born between 1981 and 1996, see America’s role in the 21st century world in ways that, as a recently released study shows, are an intriguing mix of continuity and change compared to prior generations. For over 40 years the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, which conducted the study, has asked the…
[ad_1] The Pentagon is working on a software “do not buy” list to block vendors who use software code originating from Russia and China, a top Defense Department acquisitions official said on Friday. Ellen Lord, the under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, told reporters the Pentagon has been working for six months on…
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO – Food, glorious (and free) food, that classic tech company perk, may soon be off the menu here. Two city supervisors have introduced legislation that would nix the installation of nonretail cafeterias in office buildings, a measure aimed at encouraging legions of workers to patronize often struggling neighborhood eateries. If the proposal…
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[ad_1] The Overwatch League competes in real life, and in real time, for the Grand Finals this weekend in New York. “Tonight we’re going to be live for the first time,” Nate Nanzer, commissioner of the esports league for the video game Overwatch, told CNBC on Friday. “There’s never been an esports event live in…
[ad_1] Back at Google I/O, Google announced two new features for Google Assistant: custom routines and schedules — both focusing on automating things you do regularly, but in different ways. The first lets you trigger multiple commands with a single custom phrase — like saying “Hey Google, I’m awake” to unsilence your phone, turn on…
[ad_1] A New Yorker article published Friday detailed allegations of sexual misconduct against CBS CEO Leslie Moonves. The report cited six women who said the longtime media executive harassed them between the ’80s and ’00s. Moonves said in a statement to CBS, “I recognize that there were times decades ago when I may have made…
[ad_1] As for AT&T, Ergen bruised that relationship over a decade ago. He reached a handshake agreement to sell his satellite TV business, Echostar, then went back and tried to get more money, according to two people familiar with the talks. Verizon CEO Lowell McAdam, who is stepping down Aug. 1, told CNBC last year…
[ad_1] Blizzard Entertainment’s esports league, Overwatch League will be completing its inaugural season this weekend, and ESPN will be broadcasting the grand finals during prime time. Activision Blizzard recently signed a deal with Disney‘s ESPN for live TV coverage of the league, bringing the professional esport to ESPN, ESPN2, Disney XD, ABC and streaming services.…
[ad_1] Amazon posted a big earnings beat on Thursday, but the e-commerce giant missed slightly on revenue. Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster gave Amazon’s recent quarter a ‘B-minus.’ “I think it’s a great story, but I think that this revenue miss … really should be weighed in combination with that earnings upside,” Munster told CNBC’s “Fast…
[ad_1] Lucas Jackson | Reuters Alex Jones from Infowars.com speaks during a rally in support of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump near the Republican National Convention in Cleveland, Ohio, U.S., July 18, 2016. Several Facebook pages tied to Alex Jones, including the official pages for Infowars and Alex Jones himself, are close to being removed…
[ad_1] A multi-year NASA contest to design a 3D-printable Mars habitat using on-planet materials has just hit another milestone — and a handful of teams have taken home some cold hard cash. This more laid-back phase had contestants designing their proposed habitat using architectural tools, with the five winners set to build scale models next…
[ad_1] Viacom announced its deal to acquire Awesomeness on Friday for a price well under $300 million, according to people familiar with the matter. That’s significantly lower than the $650 million valuation that the company reportedly commanded when Verizon invested in 2016. The Hollywood Reporter reported the price to be $25 million plus debt. Viacom…
[ad_1] Mike Kane | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc. Amazon posted sales numbers that grew by $15 billion year over year when it reported second-quarter earnings Thursday. Its peers in retail and cloud services don’t come anywhere near that level of growth. Amazon reported sales of $52.9 billion…
[ad_1] If it’s not on Instagram, it didn’t happen. Now, a photo editing website and app is providing a service to make it look like it did happen–even if it didn’t. Krome Photos connects their customers with designers to receive an edited photo within hours for $12 or less. Want to fool your friends and…
[ad_1] Prepare for the invasion of the unskippables. If the Stories social media slideshow format is the future of mobile TV, it’s going to end up with commercials. Users won’t love them. And done wrong they could pester people away from spending so much time watching what friends do day-to-day. But there’s no way Facebook…
[ad_1] The New York State Public Service Commission voted on Friday to revoke its approval of the 2016 merger agreement between Charter Communications and Time Warner Cable, alleging that the cable company failed to meet obligations related to its build out of broadband in the state. The commission also said it directed its counsel to…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Intel employees walk by a sign as they enter their office in Santa Clara, California. Shares of Intel were down more than 8 percent on Friday, on fears of stiffening competition and product delays. Despite that the chipmaker reported strong second quarter earnings and revenue on Thursday, several analysts…
[ad_1] More bad news for subscription movie ticket service MoviePass, which acknowledged yesterday that there was an unidentified issue preventing people from using their MoviePass credit cards to get tickets. A regulatory filing from parent company Helios & Matheson offers more insight about what happened. The filing (first spotted by Business Insider) announces a “demand…
[ad_1] Juniper Networks shares dropped on Friday after the company reported disappointing guidance for the third quarter, weighed down by delayed deployment of their automated multicloud-sharing platform. The data company estimated earnings would be between 41 cents and 47 cents per share for the next quarter, below a consensus estimated 43 to 55 cents by…
[ad_1] Maisie Williams, who’s best-known for playing Arya Stark on Game of Thrones, announced earlier this year that she’s founding a startup called Daisie. With the app set to launch on August 1, Williams and her co-founder Dom Santry came by the TechCrunch New York office to discuss her plans for the company. Daisie will…
[ad_1] Israel’s Redkix, whose product combines email and team messaging, said on Thursday it has agreed to be acquired by Facebook, where it will join the Workplace team to help companies collaborate. Facebook launched Workplace, its subscription-based social platform for businesses, in 2016. Redkix and Facebook did not disclose financial details. A source close to…
[ad_1] Large-cap tech stocks as a whole may not be as safe of a bet for investors going forward, leading analyst-turned-venture capitalist Gene Munster told CNBC on Friday. “I think we’re going to see in the next six to 12 months a divergence in the FAANG,” the founder of Loup Ventures said in a “Squawk…
[ad_1] Just how long has Locke & Key’s winding road to Hollywood been? Consider: It was seven summers ago that a scotched Fox pilot adapting the acclaimed IDW horror/fantasy comic first screened at Comic-Con. Now, thanks to the wide embrace of Netflix, Locke & Key has officially been picked up to series – a first season of…
[ad_1] Cloud-based software company LogMeIn fell more than 24 percent during late-morning trading due to weak outlook for the third quarter. The Boston-based company reported earnings per share of $1.32 versus Wall Street expectations of $1.25, according to FactSet. However, it lowered its revenue expectations for the fiscal year by 2 percent. LogMeIn now expects…
[ad_1] Opera is now a public company. The Norway-based company priced its initial public offering at $12 a share — the company initially expected to price its share in the $10 to $12 price range. Trading opened at $14.34 per share, up 19.5 percent. The company raised over $115 million with this IPO. Opera Ltd.…
[ad_1] Twitter posted record profit on Friday with second quarter revenue that beat financial analysts’ estimates and said penalising misbehaving users this year had paid off even though monthly usage had dropped. Twitter, like bigger rival Facebook, has been under pressure from regulators in several countries to weed out hate speech, abusive content and misinformation, better…
[ad_1] Americans buy a lot of phones that are made in other countries. And those phones keep getting better — a phone you can buy for $100 today is capable of much more (for good or ill) than the phone you bought for the same price in 2013. That means it’s more valuable. Using a…
[ad_1] Google’s not backing down in the fight for the smart home. On Thursday, the tech company said it’s releasing the first of several home assistant devices with screens slated for the summer. The Smart Display, built by Lenovo and running Google’s Android Things software for Internet-connected devices, hits stores this weekend. Like Google’s Home,…
[ad_1] Getty Images Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger walks on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) before ringing the opening bell, November 27, 2017 in New York City. Twenty-First Century Fox and Walt Disney Company shareholders have approved a deal to allow Disney to purchase…
[ad_1] Personal critical user data should be processed only within India, a government panel said on Friday, among other recommendations that are likely to form the basis of a new data protection law. The recommendations come at a time when there is heightened scrutiny by governments across the world on how companies handle user data.…
[ad_1] Microsoft employees questioned the company’s chief executive, Satya Nadella, on Thursday, presenting him with a petition signed by more than 300,000 people that called on the software maker to cancel its contract with the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, according to two people who attended the event. Mr. Nadella was attending an annual gathering…
[ad_1] I’ve completely lost them. My sons have run wild through the green thickets of Wailing Woods with their hockey camp friends. They ducked and dodged the red rock canyons of Canny Valley with kids from school. And together, they ran through the rain and built a campfire on the piney shores of Loot Lake.…
[ad_1] Thomas Samson | AFP | Getty Images As tech giants race against the clock to fix major security flaws in microprocessors, many users are wondering what lurks behind unsettling names like ‘Spectre’ or ‘Meltdown’ and what can be done about this latest IT scare. Bank of America Merrill Lynch downgraded shares of Intel on…
[ad_1] Apple has patented a technology that will provide a solution to the problem of your iPhone running out of battery when you are on the move. The technology is seen to leverage wireless charging to transfer power from a mobile device to another. The patent essentially involves a wireless charging coil that will pass…
[ad_1] Wall Street is stunned over Amazon’s impressive June quarter earnings results. Analysts say they are growing more confident in Amazon due to its increasing ability to generate more profits from its key opportunities. On Thursday the e-commerce juggernaut generated second-quarter earnings per share of $5.07, crushing the $2.50 Thomson Reuters consensus. Operating profit margin…
[ad_1] The day I watched three Netflix romantic comedies in a row, my cellphone offered its own film criticism. Whenever I typed “rom-com” in text messages, my phone auto-corrected it to rom-con. And sometimes rom-coma. I see your point, Siri. I know these films promote unrealistic ideas about love. I know that watching characters fall…
[ad_1] “Second-quarter results beat our expectations almost across the board, with torrid growth in advertising, acceleration in Amazon Web Services to 49 percent year-over-year growth, significantly improving margins across North America and international retail businesses and new highs in Amazon Web Services operating margins, driven by operating efficiencies at Amazon Web Services, international retail, domestic…
[ad_1] Google on Thursday announced an extensive network of Wi-Fi hotspots as part of its Google Station project across the African country of Nigeria. At the event, the tech giant also revealed updates that are coming to its Google Go, Google Maps Go, and YouTube Go apps, and on Google Search. The company also revealed…
[ad_1] Dark Mode was one of the highest requested features for Outlook. Microsoft has a feedback site in place for Outlook and a request for the new mode was voted incredibly high on a ranked list from users. Over 1,000 Outlook fans had voted on a comment that suggested Microsoft should add the feature to…
[ad_1] Grab said on Friday it disagreed with the Singaporean anti-monopoly watchdog’s assessment that its takeover of Uber’s operations had harmed competition and called the commission’s suggested measure of removing exclusivity arrangements with drivers as “one-sided”. Earlier this year, Uber Technologies sold its Southeast Asian business to bigger regional rival Grab in exchange for a stake…
[ad_1] Investors are looking at Twitter with a closer eye after Facebook experienced a downtick in European user numbers due to new data privacy regulations on the continent. Twitter is scheduled to report second-quarter earnings before the bell on Friday. Here’s what Wall Street is expecting: Estimated earnings per share: 17 cents, according to a…
[ad_1] Amazon has launched Alexa Cast, a new way for users to stream on Alexa devices like the Echo line of speakers. But, the compatibility is currently limited to Amazon Music only. Amazon’s rival Apple has AirPlay, while Google has Cast, so Amazon creating its own media-streaming technology was due for some time long. The…
[ad_1] Firefighters in B.C. are warning drone operators to keep their equipment out of the air when crews are battling a wildfire, after an unauthorized drone forced the grounding of a support helicopter. The drone was spotted near the Wilson Creek wildfire, east of Nakusp, on Sunday, according to the B.C. Wildfire Service. That meant a…
[ad_1] Last year, Google announced a local events feature in Google Search that allows users to discover and attend events nearby. Now, the company has updated this feature with more improvements like search results now show key information on ticket booking, time and location overview, and more. These new improvements have rolled out for users…
[ad_1] A crime-scene-type tool is being used by an Alberta university to help investigators looking into the cause of wildfires, arsons and oil spills. Gwen O’Sullivan of Mount Royal University in Calgary said the mass spectrometer separates complex mixtures and can detect chemical compounds at very low levels. She says that makes it possible to determine…
[ad_1] Just days after making the overall messaging experience on its platform easier, LinkedIn has now brought voice messaging support to let you start using your voice to speak with your professional connections. The new support is initially rolling out in the LinkedIn app for Android and iOS devices. LinkedIn says that the new feature…
[ad_1] With Saskatchewan and Ontario’s premiers bucking under a federal carbon pricing plan, new research suggests that a majority of Canadians believe that provinces should indeed have the final say on carbon pricing. A federal carbon pricing plan is to come into effect next January, and it would apply to provinces that the federal government…
[ad_1] SoftBank has announced that it will leverage the technology of India-based digital payments company Paytm in a new mobile payments service it is launching. The new smartphone-based payment service, named PayPay, will be a joint venture between SoftBank and Yahoo Japan. It will be centred around QR codes and is planned to launch in…
[ad_1] At least two Calgary malls are using facial recognition technology to track shoppers’ ages and genders without first notifying them or obtaining their explicit consent. A visitor to Chinook Centre in south Calgary spotted a browser window that had seemingly accidentally been left open on one of the mall’s directories, exposing facial-recognition software that was running in…
[ad_1] No matter which platform you are on, at some point you’re going to want to delete apps. Whether it’s an Android smartphone or a Windows PC, at some point apps start cluttering your machine and need to be deleted. This is a relatively simple process on all platforms but sometimes it can be difficult…
[ad_1] Researchers say a newborn calf from B.C.’s endangered killer whale population has died. The Centre for Whale Research, based in Friday Harbor, Wash., says the calf was alive for a few hours before it died Tuesday. Victoria-based skipper Mark Malleson said he saw something unusual among a group of orcas Tuesday morning near San Juan Island, Wash., close to…
[ad_1] Developer policies on Google Play have been updated to impose a ban on apps that mine cryptocurrency. The new move comes weeks after Apple updated its App Store Review Guidelines with a new section to restrict cryptocurrency mining apps. The updated developer policies on the Play store also prohibits several other app categories, including…
[ad_1] One of the most destructive ecological impacts of oil and gas exploration happens long before a litre of oil flows into a pipeline or a single atom of carbon enters the atmosphere. Seismic surveying — the exploration activity that helps identify where to drill — can result in as much as 15 per cent…
[ad_1] Popular messaging app Telegram on Thursday announced the launch of a new feature called Telegram Passport on its platform. This is essentially an end-to-end encrypted service where users can store their real-world IDs in order to simplify sharing of information with apps and services that require these documents. Using Telegram Passport, you can store…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s sudden and stunning vulnerability threatens to undercut the foundation of the stock market rally since Donald Trump was elected president. The social media giant has been the cornerstone of the FAANG trade — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Google parent Alphabet. Just by itself, Facebook has gained more than 80 percent since Trump’s…
[ad_1] Slack Technologies has announced that it is acquiring HipChat and Stride, both of which will be discontinued though their experiences are expected to be mingled within the Slack client over time. Alongside the acquisition, the San Francisco-based company that is taking on Microsoft Teams with its native chat service and domination in the workplace…
[ad_1] Instagram still has much more room to monetize, with heavy interest from marketers. Data marketing technology company 4C observed 204 percent growth in Instagram ad spend year over year during the second quarter. “By setting up campaigns that run on both properties, advertisers are able to take advantage of pinpoint targeting against a much…
[ad_1] Intel Corp’s fast-growing data centre business missed Wall Street targets on Thursday as the world’s second-largest chipmaker faced stiff rivalry from Advanced Micro Devices, and it again delayed the release of its next-generation chips until the end of 2019. The company’s shares fell almost 5 percent in extended trading. Sales to data centres that power…
[ad_1] The Defense Department took a large step forward Thursday in its march toward procuring a secure cloud software, an acquisition potentially worth up to $10 billion. After a nearly two-month delay, the Pentagon released its final request for proposal for the Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure, or JEDI, contract. The long-awaited final request for proposal…
[ad_1] Apple withstood the tech plunge Thursday, holding tight to its all-time highs even as Facebook dragged the sector lower. Shares of Apple lost just a fraction of 1 percent during the session. Earlier in the day, the stock reached a new high of $195.96. Meanwhile, Facebook suffered its worst day ever after its second-quarter…
[ad_1] Salto is a jumping robot that is all heart (and legs). A project originally launched in 2017 this tiny robot thrusts itself up and down and back and forth like a crazed grasshopper, jumping with absolute precision and loads of speed. Created by the UC Berkeley’s Biomimetic Millisystems Lab, this little robot uses rotor-based…
[ad_1] Of course, a big question for many investors is “do you know if you actually have Facebook in your portfolio?” “The sad part of this is that the majority of people can’t name one mutual fund in their 401(k),” said Ted Jenkin, CEO and founder of oXYGen Financial in Atlanta. Many mutual funds, exchange…
[ad_1] Virgin Galactic succeeded in the third rocket-powered flight of its Unity spacecraft on Thursday, in a test which pushed the vehicle faster and higher than ever before. Virgin Galactic Tweet Billionaire Richard Branson’s space company is one test flight closer to taking up its first passengers. Branson told CNBC after the previous test flight…
[ad_1] Meanwhile, Microsoft has seen several CEOs since it was launched by Bill Gates in 1975, and has evolved under different leaders, most recently, CEO Satya Nadella. As a result, it emphasizes “good communication and (staff) don’t have to touch on all areas of the business,” said Medina. So, which of the two would he…
[ad_1] Amazon reports second-quarter earnings after the bell Thursday, and its results could help it become the world’s first $1 trillion company. “Amazon is probably the most beloved of the FANG stocks,” RBC Capital Markets analyst Mark Mahaney told CNBC on Monday. “The revenue growth is accelerating and margins are expanding.” Analysts say Amazon is…
[ad_1] Nintendo has just announced the latest in its Labo series of whimsical cardboard accessories for the Switch gaming console, and this one looks like a must-have. Called the Vehicle Kit for obvious reasons, the flat-pack, assemble-it-yourself add-ons include a steering wheel, gas pedal, “keys” that activate different vehicles, all of which work inside a…
[ad_1] Amazon continues to break records. On Thursday, the company reported earnings per share of $5.07 compared with $2.50 as expected by Thomson Reuters. But Aswath Damodaran, a professor of corporate finance and valuation at the Stern School of Business at New York University, who is sometimes referred to as the “Dean of Valuation,” said…
[ad_1] Amazon just posted a massive beat on its bottom line. That’s not the number investors care about in the long run, says one trader. “This is not an earnings story. It’s about a growth story, and that’s what people are betting on,” David Seaburg, head of sales and trading at Cowen & Co., told…
[ad_1] Amazon reported a huge beat on profits but a narrow miss on revenue for its second-quarter earnings on Thursday. Amazon stock is up roughly 3 percent in extended trading. Here are the most important numbers: EPS: $5.07 vs. $2.50, as estimated, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $52.9 billion vs. $53.41 billion, as estimated, according…
[ad_1] Intel stock fell by more than 6 percent on Thursday following the release of the company’s second-quarter earnings, which were better than expected. Here’s how the company did in the quarter: Earnings: $1.04 per share, excluding certain items, vs. 96 cents per share expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue: $16.96 billion, vs.…
[ad_1] Yelp is planning to bring more than just user-generated reviews to your screen. This week, the crowd-sourced review forum announced that it will be nationally expanding its LIVES program, which displays health inspection information of various businesses. Launching the program in 2013 for San Francisco-area restaurants, Yelp collaborates with local governments and HDScores, a…
[ad_1] With today’s announcement from Atlassian that it was selling the IP assets of its two enterprise communications tools, Hipchat and Stride, to Slack, it closes the book on one of the earliest competitors in the modern enterprise collaboration space. It was also a clear signal that Slack is not afraid to take on its…
[ad_1] LOS ANGELES – Flippy, the burger flipping robot, has a new gig cooking fried chicken tenders and tater tots at Dodger Stadium. The robot debuted earlier this year at a Pasadena, California, burger restaurant, only to get stage fright from the rush of customers. It has since been retooled and is now working full…
[ad_1] It seems that Fortnite Android may be exclusive to the Samsung Galaxy Note 9. According to multiple reports, Epic Games’ battle royale sensation could feature heavily at Samsung’s Unpacked 2018 event and remain exclusive to the smartphone for a 30-day period. Fortnite is currently the most popular game in the world and is on…
[ad_1] Bloomberg | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook, holds his phone after the morning session at the Allen & Co. Media and Technology Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho, on Friday, July 13, 2018. Facebook approved a $10 million annual pre-tax allowance to amplify security for CEO Mark…
[ad_1] The company reported second-quarter results Wednesday that missed Wall Street expectations and sent the stock tumbling after the market closed. The social media giant’s market cap plummeted by $119 billion as its stock price fell by 19 percent. Facebook declined to comment on the stock sales. Rule 10b5-1 lets insiders of a publicly traded…
[ad_1] Amazon’s web services AWS continue to be the highlight of the company’s balance sheet, once again showing the kind of growth Amazon is looking for in a new business for the second quarter — especially one that has dramatically better margins than its core retail business. Despite now running a grocery chain, the company’s…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Andy Jassy, CEO of Amazon Web Services. Amazon on Thursday said that its cloud business grew nearly 48.9 percent in the second quarter, coming in above analysts’ expectations. The growth keeps Amazon’s cloud solidly ahead of its closest rivals, Microsoft and Google, as well as smaller…
[ad_1] Atlassian, which makes a variety of tools for technical workers to collaborate and share information, has announced a strategic partnership with rival Slack, a start-up that makes a popular messaging tool for the workplace. Shares of Atlassian soared close to 17 percent in after hours trading on the news. As part of the deal,…
[ad_1] Micron chip sales will increase later this year as companies increase their technology spending budgets, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm reiterated its overweight rating for the company’s shares, predicting strong demand for its memory chips from cloud computing vendors. “As we enter the seasonally strong 2H of the year, we expect [memory] contract…
[ad_1] Virgin Galactic is celebrating the third successful supersonic test flight of VSS Unity, the passenger spacecraft it intends to make available for space tourism in the near future. This flight took the craft higher and faster than ever, stressing the system and providing useful data for the rocket plane’s engineers. Virgin’s two-part flight system…
[ad_1] Last May, Google launched a new events feature designed to help web searchers more easily find things to do nearby, while also challenging Facebook’s dominance in the local events space. Today, Google is updating event search with personalized event suggestions, and well as a new design that puts more event information directly in the…
[ad_1] Ariana Linquist | Bloomberg | Getty Images The Supervalu Inc. logo is displayed at a distribution center in Hopkins, Minnesota. Amazon’s acquisition of Whole Foods has spurred its first big deal among the grocery distributors. With United Natural Foods‘ $2.9 billion acquisition of Supervalu, announced Thursday, UNFI lessens its reliance on Whole Foods, a…
[ad_1] Facebook was on track Thursday to post the largest one-day loss in market value by any company in U.S. stock-market history after releasing a disastrous quarterly report. Through midday Eastern Time, the social media giant’s market capitalization had plummeted by about $120 billion to about $508 billion as its stock price fell by more…
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[ad_1] Crypto merchant bank Galaxy Digital took a $134 million hit in the first quarter as bitcoin lost half its value and other cryptocurrencies struggled to break out of a bear market. In its first-ever financial disclosure released this week, the New York-based firm reported a net loss of $103.3 million on trading, with $13.5…
[ad_1] Two analysts cut Facebook targets after the company released a weak full-year outlook and second quarter revenue that missed estimates. But now is the time to buy, RBC Capital Markets lead internet analyst Mark Mahaney and Jefferies senior technology analyst Brent Thill told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” Mahaney said Facebook is being overly…
[ad_1] When Microsoft acquired GitHub for $7.5 billion smackeroos in June, it sent some shock waves through the developer community as it is a key code repository. Google certainly took notice, but the two companies continue to work closely together. Today at Google Next, they announced an expansion of their partnership around Google’s new CI/CD…
[ad_1] YouTube has removed four videos by conspiracy theorist Alex Jones, his website Infowars said on Wednesday, after the radio host used his YouTube channel to denounce Muslim immigrants to Europe and the creators of a transgender cartoon. “YouTube has removed four Infowars videos that were critical of liberalism,” Jones said in a statement on…
[ad_1] In fact, analysts looking for ways to wrap their heads around the Facebook disappointment and look ahead to the next big thing asked a revealing question on the Wednesday conference call: Given the massive data center investments the company has made, are there ways to improve the return on investment of those investments, “perhaps…
[ad_1] IGTV didn’t get the benefit of being splayed out atop Instagram like Stories did. Instead, the long-form video hub is a bit more distant, located in a standalone app as well as behind a static orange button on the main app’s homescreen. That means users can go right on tapping and scrolling through Instagram without…
[ad_1] In the midst of issues concerning the spread of fake news and misinformation through its platform, Facebook-owned WhatsApp is seeking the ‘green light’ from the Indian government to officially launch its Unified Payments Interface (UPI) based payments service in the country. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg during the company earnings call on Wednesday confirmed the…
[ad_1] Qualcomm‘s termination of its proposed acquisition of rival chipmaker NXP reveals China has plenty of options in its trade war with the U.S., Yale economist Stephen Roach told CNBC on Thursday. “It’s a reminder that trade wars are maybe not that easy to win,” Roach, a senior fellow at Yale and former chairman of…
[ad_1] Facebook had a rough day yesterday when its stock plunged after a poor earnings report. What better way to pick yourself up and dust yourself off than to buy a little something for yourself. Today the company announced it has acquired Redkix, a startup that provides tools to communicate more effectively by combining email…
[ad_1] The explosive growth of Uber and Lyft has created a new traffic problem for major US cities and ride-sharing options such as UberPool and Lyft Line are exacerbating the issue by appealing directly to customers who would otherwise have taken transit, walked, biked or not used a ride-hail service at all, according to a…
[ad_1] As Qualcomm moves forward after the fall-through of its deal to acquire rival NXP, CEO Steve Mollenkopf said he is optimistic about the company’s future. “I think we got caught up in a trade war,” he told CNBC’s Squawk on the Street. “That being said, we thought it was important to bring certainty to…
[ad_1] A facial recognition tool that Amazon.com sells to web developers wrongly identified 28 members of Congress as police suspects, in a test conducted by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), the organization said on Thursday. Amazon, in a response, said it took issue with the settings of its face ID tool during the test. The…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s plunge comes after company executives spooked investors with warnings about decelerating revenue and ongoing privacy policy changes. “Facebook’s terrible results and guidance was the second of the Q2 FANG misses,” said Fred Hickey, editor of The High Tech Strategist. “Amazon needs to come through for the tech bulls tonight or there may be…
[ad_1] VideoLAN, the group behind VLC Player, has decided to blacklist Huawei smartphones. This means users of Huawei smartphones will no longer be able to download the VLC app from Google Play. The new decision comes as an answer to what VideoLAN calls a “ridiculous policy” employed by Huawei – to kill background apps that…
[ad_1] The company missed projections on key metrics after struggling with data leaks and fake news scandals. European DAUs were down from 282 million last quarter, potentially related to the effect of the enactment of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union. The set of regulations gives users more control over their…
[ad_1] Top streaming platform Spotify said Thursday that it has reached 83 million paying subscribers, marking steady growth even as the company still struggled to make a profit. The Swedish company unveiled the figure, on the high end of its forecasts, as it released its earnings for the quarter to June. It had reported 75…
[ad_1] Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is up approximately 6 percent following a strong earnings report. Immediately after the open, it reached above 8 percent. The Santa Clara, California-based company exceeded Wall Street’s expectations in both earnings and revenue: Earnings per share: $0.14 vs. $0.13 , forecast by Thompson Reuters. Revenue: $1.76 billion vs. $1.72 billion,…
[ad_1] Amazon today announced Alexa Cast to allow for better music control on Alexa devices. Users will be able to more easily transition from listening to through the Amazon Music app to listening to Amazon Music on an Alexa device. This is a much-needed function for Amazon’s core services. Before Alexa Cast, it can be…
[ad_1] Snapchat hopes to boost ad spend by connecting businesses with its top independent creators, but it won’t take a cut of deals it helps arrange. Today Snap Inc launches its “Snapchat Storytellers” pilot program that will introduce brands to five of the app’s most popular content makers including Mplatco, Cyrene Q, and Shonduras. They’ll…
[ad_1] China’s Huawei Technologies said on Thursday it will increase its annual spending on research and development (R&D) to between $15 billion and $20 billion (roughly between Rs. 1 lakh crores and Rs. 1.37 lakh crores), as it races to be a global leader in 5G technology. Huawei, which previously pledged to invest $10 billion…
[ad_1] Samsung said on Thursday that it has developed an “unbreakable” and flexible display that may soon be used in smartphones and other gadgets. Unlike traditional smartphone displays, which are typically covered in glass that can be prone to cracking or shattering, Samsung coats its new panels with a “fortified plastic window.” The solution didn’t…
[ad_1] Based on the many, many Galaxy Note 9 leaks we’ve seen in the past few weeks and months, it seems like a pretty safe bet that the upcoming phablet won’t look all that different from its predecessors. The phablet does, however, appear to have a lot going under the hood. The most recent piece…
[ad_1] An app to fight fake medicine has helped a team of Indian students from Bengaluru win a special award at the annual Microsoft Imagine Cup world championship held at the tech giant’s headquarters in Redmond, US. The awards announced on Wednesday saw Team DrugSafe from Bengaluru’s RV College of Engineering win the award under Big…
[ad_1] YouTube issued a strike against controversial conspiracy theorist Alex Jones’ channel, and removed four of his videos from the site. Jones claimed the videos concerned were “critical of liberalism,” and linked to a statement on his website, InfoWars, which displays the videos that were removed. Tweet YouTube did not comment directly on the warning…
[ad_1] Earlier this week, Google started hosting is Google Cloud Next 2018 conference. There have been several announcements in terms of technologies, tools, partnerships, and more. At the Google Cloud Next conference held in San Francisco, the firm’s announcements touched upon several key themes. While there were announcements regarding Gmail, G Suite, and more, the…
[ad_1] Jabin Botsford | The Washington Post | Getty Images President Donald J. Trump speaks with Jean-Claude Juncker President of the European Commission during a joint statement. President Donald Trump accused Twitter Thursday of “discriminatory and illegal practice,” vowing in a tweet to “look into” the matter. Twitter shares added roughly a percent to the…
[ad_1] A couple of months ago, we tested the MSI GS65 Stealth Thin 8RF which proved to be a good option for anyone looking at a genuinely portable high-end gaming laptop. At the time, we mentioned that the Asus Zephyrus M was potentially its biggest competitor. Now that the latter is actually available in India,…
[ad_1] After shattering the screen of her iPhone, Natalie Hall thought the device was basically junk. She never expected it to wind up 11,000 kilometres away, in the hands of a man who used it to add himself as her Facebook friend and to follow her private Instagram account. But last week, a man messaged the…
[ad_1] Google at its cloud computing-focused Cloud Next 2018 has unveiled the Titan Security Key as its native FIDO-compatible security key to protect enterprise customers against online attacks. The latest development comes just after it was reported that the use of physical security keys helped over 85,000 Google employees prevent phishing attacks for over a…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Brian Roberts, CEO of Comcast Comcast reported mixed quarterly results Thursday, beating Wall Street estimates on earnings but falling short on revenue. Here’s how the company did compared with what Wall Street forecast: Earnings: 65 cents per share vs. 60 cents per share forecast by Thomson Reuters Revenue: $21.74…
[ad_1] Furthering its partnership with Google, Dropbox has now launched a new add-on for Gmail that allows users to view, share, store, and save files within the Google app. This add-on is supported on all browsers and has been released for Android users as well, while iOS users should get it soon. This allows users…
[ad_1] Amazon is expected to show bigger profits when it reports second-quarter earnings on Thursday, backed by the continued growth of its higher-margin businesses, like cloud, advertising and third-party marketplace. Wall Street estimates Amazon to post second-quarter profit of $2.50 per share, or roughly $1.2 billion, up from the 40 cents per share reported a…
[ad_1] Microsoft has begun testing a new Window 10 update that brings a Mixed Reality Flashlight feature to let users take a quick peek at the real world while continue to be immersed in a virtual world. The update also comes with a large number of new emoji characters on board. The update comes in…
[ad_1] Debra Higgins is in her 60s and doesn’t visit online porn sites but was nevertheless alarmed when she received an email from an unknown person who threatened to release a video of her doing just that. “I was panicking,” she said. “I was in tears. I was embarrassed. I was scared. I didn’t know…
[ad_1] Korean electronics giant LG is soaring to new heights, but its mobile division continues to lag well behind the rest of the company and the signs aren’t promising. LG’s latest financials released today recorded another quarter of success with operating profit jumping 16 percent year-on-year to hit KRW 771 billion ($715.1 million) as overall sales…
[ad_1] Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsoft are all working on artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance their virtual assistants. But a new report shows that Google’s Assistant has come first in an IQ test that saw it compete with Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Microsoft’s Cortana. It appears that the recent developments by the search giant…
[ad_1] The Wollemi pine, which was once thought to be extinct and rediscovered almost 24 years ago, is now the star of the newest display at Memorial University’s Botanical Garden. “[It’s] a very ancient plant that was only previously known in the fossil record going back 19 million years,” said Todd Boland, the horticulturist in…
[ad_1] South Korean consumer appliance maker LG Electronics said second-quarter profit jumped 16 percent, helped by strong television sales, but warned US trade spats with China and Europe cast a cloud on its business outlook. The world’s second-largest TV maker said in a statement on Thursday its April-June operating profit was KRW 771 billion ($688 million), in line…
[ad_1] Saline water used in the process of oil production has leaked from flowlines and pipelines in Saskatchewan more than 120 times since the beginning of 2017, according to the Ministry of Energy and Resources. Last Wednesday, Husky Energy discovered a breach in one of its salt water lines had leaked an unknown quantity of salt…
[ad_1] Facebook has launched a new feature called “Watch Party” that allows members of the social network’s groups to watch videos on Facebook together in real time, and comment. The launch of this feature on Wednesday after about six months of testing reveals Facebook’s plans to go aggressive on the video streaming space that could…
[ad_1] With an extensive refit complete, the William Kennedy will leave the port of Summerside, P.E.I., Wednesday to explore one of the most understudied regions of the Arctic — Hudson Bay. “Despite being Canada’s largest ocean watershed, the Hudson Bay is like a black hole in terms of scientific knowledge with large gaps in oceanographic…
[ad_1] You can now ask your Amazon Echo speaker, “Alexa, what time does Rite Aid close?” and get hours for the pharmacy closest to your house. Amazon.com is adding the hours, addresses and phone numbers of more than 1 million business locations to its Alexa digital-assistant platform so customers can access the information via voice…
[ad_1] A team of Italian scientists has found the strongest evidence yet of liquid water on Mars. The apparent reservoir of water was detected beneath the planet’s southern polar ice cap using radar on the European Space Agency’s Mars Express satellite. Evidence suggests that about 4.3 billion years ago, Mars was a watery world like Earth, with…
[ad_1] Lakes and rivers across northeastern Alberta and northern Saskatchewan are weathering unsustainable levels of acid pollution, a three-year study suggests. The study, by Environment Canada, Alberta Environment and Parks, Saskatchewan Environment and Trent University and published this month in the journal Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics, suggests contamination levels have reached critical levels in some areas. The pollution is threatening terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems, already…
[ad_1] Mikhail Metzel | TASS | Getty Images President Donald Trump looks on during a news conference following talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the Presidential Palace in Helsinki, July 16, 2018. President Donald Trump took a shot at the Federal Communications Commission — an agency under his own administration — for stalling the…
[ad_1] Last year, Microsoft started an initiative called Healthcare NExT which aims to apply its cloud and artificial intelligence (AI) products to the industry. One example is how Microsoft is using AI and cloud computing to help doctors scan medical imagery in order to diagnose conditions. Tech giants from Google to Apple are focusing on…
[ad_1] Manchester United has launched its MUTV channel on Amazon Fire TV, Apple TV, Roku, and Xbox in the latest effort by the Premier League club to grow its fanbase in the US, Europe, Asia, Australia and Africa, the team said. Subscribers to MUTV will be able to watch all of Manchester United’s pre-season tour…
[ad_1] Google is moving beyond developing artificial intelligence chips for its own data centers and is now designing them to work inside products made by other companies. After unveiling the Tensor Processing Unit two years ago, Google announced on Wednesday the Edge TPU, which will enable sensors and other gadgets to process data more quickly.…
[ad_1] Google will soon begin selling a plug-in security key meant to help replace using only passwords for logging into computers, an effective solution to the pervasive problem of phishing attacks, according to the company. The key, which resembles a USB memory stick, plugs into your computer’s USB port and bypasses the process of typing…
[ad_1] Walmart is making a bigger push in the baby business just weeks after the last Babies R Us store went dark. Starting Thursday, shoppers will see a revamped landing page on Walmart’s website for baby items — everything from cribs and car seats to baby food and diapers. This is just the next step…
[ad_1] Facebook investors are giving a thumbs-up ahead of the social network’s earnings. The stock hit a record intraday high for its fourth session in a row on Wednesday, hours before it’s scheduled to report after the bell. After a steep run-up, the charts warn of a pullback, and possibly even a bear market, said…
[ad_1] Hoover Dam helped transform the American West, harnessing the force of the Colorado River — along with millions of cubic feet of concrete and tens of millions of pounds of steel — to power millions of homes and businesses. It was one of the great engineering feats of the 20th century. Now it is…
[ad_1] Shares of GrubHub soared more than 25 percent on Wednesday, following a strong second-quarter earnings report and the company’s announcement it would acquire mobile ordering and mobile payments platform LevelUp. The gains pushed GrubHub’s shares to an all-time high of $138.85 per share during regular trading. The online food ordering company beat on earnings…
[ad_1] Record high home prices are taking their toll even on a market that is used to pricey properties. June sales of both newly built and existing homes in the San Francisco Bay Area dropped just more than 9 percent compared with a year ago, according to CoreLogic. The survey covers both single-family homes and…
[ad_1] Global DAUs continued to increase, rising to 1.47 billion, up from 1.45 billion. Analysts expected 1.49 billion. CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed on the company’s earnings call that 2.5 billion people use at least one of Facebook’s apps — including Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger — every month. Facebook’s North American number has fluctuated over the…
[ad_1] Leah Millis | Reuters Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is seen through reflective glass as he sits in the office of Senator Bill Nelson (D-FL) while he waits for a meeting in the Hart Senate Office Building in Washington, U.S., April 9, 2018. Facebook’s stock was already down around 8 percent after reporting second quarter…
[ad_1] Amid Facebook‘s unprecedented after-hours plunge Wednesday, Loup Ventures’ Gene Munster advised investors to stay far away from the stock in the near term. “I think you just stay on the sidelines, let the investor base process this and revisit where things are at in two months,” Munster said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” Following a…
[ad_1] In December, Apple introduced a new pay-per-install ad product called Search Ads Basic aimed at smaller developers, to complement the existing Search Ads product, which then became known as Search Ads Advanced. Today, the company is expanding Search Ads to more countries, including France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, and Spain, bringing the total…
[ad_1] Wehner also said the company expects margin compression, with operating margins trending toward “mid-30s on a percentage basis,” compared with second-quarter operating margins of 44 percent. That tightening is the result of broadening markets, investments in news products — such as the recent introduction of the company’s long-form video format, IGTV — and capital…
[ad_1] A pair of Canadian students making a simple, inexpensive prosthetic arm have taken home the grand prize at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup, a global startup competition the company holds yearly. SmartArm will receive $85,000, a mentoring session with CEO Satya Nadella, and some other Microsoft goodies. But they were far from the only worthy team…
[ad_1] Facebook’s share price fell over 20 percent in after-hours trading today after the company announced its slowest-ever user growth rate and a scary warning that its revenue growth would rapidly decelerate. Before today’s brutal Q2 earnings, Facebook’s share price closed today at $217.50 – a record high — but fell to around $172 after…
[ad_1] Facebook competitors Twitter and Snap both lost 4 percent after hours Wednesday. Investors did not see this coming. The Nasdaq Composite Index hit a record during trading Wednesday as investors crowded back into the ‘FANG’ names once again. Facebook was responsible for a lot of that boost, jumping 1 percent during regular trading. But…
[ad_1] Almost a year after it was reported Apple could drop Qualcomm modems in future products, Qualcomm has finally acknowledged the rumor and is gearing up for the loss. On a call with investors following a solid earnings beat, Qualcomm CFO George Davis said the company fully expects Apple to dump Qualcomm in favor of…
[ad_1] Qualcomm shares jumped in extended trading on Wednesday after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected quarterly results and said it plans to repurchase as much as $30 billion in stock. The buyback move — an upward revision from the $10 billion repurchase program announced in May — came as a result of Qualcomm saying it would…
[ad_1] Facebook today for the first time announced that in June, 2.5 billion people used at least one of its apps: Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, or Messenger. That’s a helpful number because it counts real people, rather than accounts, since people can have multiple accounts on a single app. 2.5 billion people compares to 2.23 billion monthly…
[ad_1] Qualcomm today said it wouldn’t extend its offer to buy NXP for $44 billion today as part of its release for its quarterly earnings, and instead be returning $30 billion to investors in the form of a share buy-back. So, barring any last-second changes in the approval process in China or “other material developments”,…
[ad_1] Tesla whistleblower Martin Tripp — who CEO Elon Musk characterized as a saboteur and disgruntled ex-employee — is slated to meet with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, his attorney Stuart Meissner told CNBC. Meissner also shared this development on Twitter. tweet The SEC did not reply to a request for further information. Tesla…
[ad_1] Facebook has hit a wall. The social network succumbed to the public backlash over its handling of fake news, privacy, and digital wellbeing to miss some of Wall Street’s estimates, showing mixed results in its Q2 2018 earnings. GDPR, Mark Zuckerberg’s testimony before congress, and more scandals appear to have contributed to Facebook’s weak…
[ad_1] Cuban doubled down. The government should be involved in funding artificial intelligence because of the seriousness and scope of the threat of autonomous weapons. “The future of warfare is on, built around, through, up and down artificial intelligence. If we don’t win that war, the next generation that are sitting here having this conversation…
[ad_1] While we might like to think all of our applications are equal in our eyes, in reality some are more important than others and require an additional level of security. To meet those requirements, Google introduced shielded virtual machines at Google Next today. As Google describes it, “Shielded VMs leverage advanced platform security capabilities…
[ad_1] Ford is set to report second-quarter earnings after the markets close Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects, based on analysts estimates compiled by Thomson Reuters: Earnings: 31 cents per share Revenue: $35.83 billion Analysts will be watching to see how the changes Jim Hackett has made in his first year as CEO are playing…
[ad_1] Riding on a wave of an explosion in the use of machine learning to power, well, just about everything is the emergence of GPUs as one of the go-to methods to handle all the processing for those operations. But getting access to those GPUs — whether using the cards themselves or possibly through something…
[ad_1] Facebook investors are waiting to see if data leaks and fake news scandals have impacted the platform’s user rates. The company is slated to report its second-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. Here’s what the street expects: Estimated earnings per share: $1.72 per a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate Estimated revenue: $13.36 billion per…
[ad_1] One of Google’s first hardware products was its search appliance, a custom-built server that allowed businesses to bring Google’s search tools to the data behind their firewalls. That appliance is no more, but Google today announced the spiritual successor to it with an update to Cloud Search. Until today, Cloud Search only indexed G…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Steve Mollenkopf, chief executive officer of Qualcomm Inc., holds the new Snapdragon 835 chip during a keynote at the 2017 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada. Qualcomm executives no longer expect the Chinese government to approve its deal for semiconductor manufacturer NXP, and CEO…
[ad_1] Good news for people who like near-final previews of mobile operating systems. Android just dropped Beta 4 for Android P, marking the last preview milestone before the full version launches. That means the still unnamed OS is just around the corner — promised to arrive at some point later this summer. As the all…
[ad_1] Google today announced it is launching its own hardware security keys for two-factor authentication. These so-called Titan Security Keys will go up against similar keys from companies like Yubico, which Google has long championed as the de facto standard for hardware-based two-factor authentication for Gmail and other services. The FIDO-compatible Titan keys will come…
[ad_1] Raw materials are getting pricier for General Motors, and a new car could soon cost you more, too. The nation’s largest automaker on Wednesday said it’s prepared to pass along a higher-than expected jump in commodity costs this year. The pricier raw materials and unfavorable exchange rates in Brazil and Argentina will cost it…
[ad_1] Many people have talked about the performances of the new MacBook Pro over the past few days. But Apple focuses on the A11 Bionic chip in its new TV ad. Named ‘Unleash’, this ad shows a young man walking down the streets of a Chinese city filled with Mobike and Ofo bikes. He’s playing…
[ad_1] Outvote, a new Y Combinator-backed startup, wants to make grassroots-style campaigning easier and more personal, with the launch of an app that allows people to text their friends with reminders to vote. The idea is to take advantage of people’s willingness to use social sharing to communicate about political issues, while also leveraging the…
[ad_1] If you are a business and want to use Google Drive, then your only option until now was to buy a full G Suite subscription, even if you don’t want or need access to the rest of the company’s productivity tools. Starting today, though, these businesses will be able to buy a subscription to…
[ad_1] Earlier this year, Google parent company Alphabet had more contract workers than direct employees for the first time ever, a person who viewed the numbers on an internal database told Bloomberg. That’s no small number: Alphabet reported 85,050 employees in the first quarter. (That headcount number jumped to 89,058 in Q2, but it’s not…
[ad_1] This review took a lot of pork. Over the last few months, I’ve used the Traeger Timberline 850 several times a week. Cooking on this grill is easier than using an oven. With a little bit of planning, a person can simultaneously grill a flock of chickens, a couple of pork butts and a…
[ad_1] Google today said it will be rolling out an enterprise version of its Google Voice service for G Suite users, potentially tapping a new demand source for Google that could help attract a whole host of new users. Google voice has been a long-enjoyed service for everyday consumers, and offers a lot of benefits…
[ad_1] Virtu, which is best known for its email encryption service for both enterprises and consumers, is announcing a partnership with Google today that will bring the company’s encryption technology to Google Drive. Only a few years ago, the company was still bolting its solution on top of Gmail without Google’s blessing, but these days,…
[ad_1] It’s also important to note that while online storage is convenient, it should not replace seeking expert advice in estate planning. It also should not replace having physical documents saved in a safe place. The “legally binding hard-copy signed versions” are the most important, said Keckler from Ameriprise Financial. There are some instances where…
[ad_1] Google is running its playbook again of releasing big new products (or redesigns) to its average users and then moving what works over to its enterprise services, G Suite, today by making the Gmail redesign generally available to G Suite customers. Gmail’s redesign launched for consumers in April earlier this year, including new features…
[ad_1] There are still a lot of obstacles to building machine learning models and one of those is that in order to build those models, developers often have to move a lot of data back and forth between their data warehouses and wherever they are building their models. Google is now making this part of…
[ad_1] Two things can help pass the time during a long commute, especially if you’re driving: podcasts and audiobooks. The latter can cost about $15 a pop from Amazon‘s Audible unless you pay for a subscription. One place you might not have thought to look, however, is your local library. You don’t even have to…
[ad_1] For Facebook, success in China was brief. Very brief. For several hours, a Chinese government database showed that Facebook had gained approval to open a subsidiary in the eastern province of Zhejiang. Facebook said it would use the company to set up an innovation hub there. Then the registration disappeared and references to the…
[ad_1] Source: CNBC Nearly 70 percent of those surveyed said Amazon will reach the trillion dollar value milestone first, followed by Apple and Alphabet. Currently Amazon has a market cap of $888 billion versus Apple’s $949 billion and Alphabet’s $870 billion as of Tuesday’s close, according to FactSet. Nearly 100 investors were polled at the…
[ad_1] Top WhatsApp executives, including COO Matthew Idema, have met the IT Secretary and other Indian government officials to outline steps the company has initiated to combat circulation of fake messages on the platform that have even incited mob lynching incidents. According to government sources, Idema met IT Secretary Ajay Prakash Sawhney on Monday to…
[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kent Walker, vice president and general counsel with Google Inc., from right, Colin Stretch, general counsel with Facebook Inc., and Sean Edgett, acting general counsel with Twitter Inc., listen during a House Intelligence Committee hearing in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017. Facebook‘s top lawyer,…
[ad_1] Grubhub announced this morning that it’s agreed to acquire LevelUp for $390 million cash. Founder and CEO Matt Maloney told me that while previous Grubhub acquisitions like Eat24 were designed to give the company’s delivery business more scale, “This is kind of a different acquisition. It’s a product and strategic positioning acquisition.” LevelUp is…
[ad_1] Asphalt 9 Legends for Android and iOS is out now after an extended soft-launch period that began in February. In our first impressions of this racing game we stated that it’s a surprisingly polished entry in the long-running series. With the final release of Asphalt 9 having a 1.5GB download size on iOS and…
[ad_1] Three years after it launched a bio fund, venture firm Andreessen Horowitz is finding opportunities in what general partner Vijay Pande calls “dark data.” The siloed nature of medical records means that valuable data often remain hidden from doctors, researchers and patients, making it difficult for people to get the targeted care they need…
[ad_1] Mozilla has claimed that Google’s redesign of YouTube performs worse on the Firefox and Microsoft’s Edge browser compared to Chrome. As per the accusation, YouTube’s pages load five times slower in Firefox and Edge than in Chrome. The reason cited for the issue has been claimed to be YouTube’s recent redesign that uses Google’s…
[ad_1] Justin Tallis | AFP | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square, Chairman of Twitter and a founder of both, holds an event in London on November 20, 2014. Twitter shares will keep going higher, even after their stunning rally so far this year, as the company benefits from its platform changes, according to…
[ad_1] Digital media provider Netflix on Wednesday announced the launch of personalised profiles on its platform. With the update, users can now choose characters from their favourite Netflix shows and movies and set as their profile icon. Profiles, as a concept to distinguish multiple users and their preferences, were first introduced on Netflix back in…
[ad_1] Tesla’s stock is roughly unchanged in Wednesday’s premarket session. Its shares are down 4.5 percent this year through Tuesday versus the S&P 500’s 5.5 return. Shah reaffirmed his $450 price target for the company, representing 51 percent upside to Tuesday’s close. The analyst increased his Tesla third-quarter sales forecast to $6.4 billion from $6.1…
[ad_1] SpaceX confirmed on Twitter this morning that it recovered the booster from the latest Falcon 9 launch. Shortly after launching from Vandenberg Air Force Base in Southern California at 7:39AM ET this morning, the booster stage landed on the Just Read The Instructions drone ship. The company will now try to catch the rocket’s fairing with…
[ad_1] Asphalt 9: Legends for Android and iOS is available for download now. The latest entry in the racing series has been in soft-launch since February and is finally available on Google Play and the App Store for users the world over. The Asphalt 9 download size is 1.5GB on Android and iOS. If you’re…
[ad_1] Brendan McDermid | Reuters Waymo unveils a self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. on January 8, 2017. Waymo, the Alphabet company that spun out of Google’s former self-driving car division, is partnering with some of the country’s largest companies to expand how many people ride in its self-driving vehicles. The partnerships with…
[ad_1] Google has announced it is working with several partners like Cisco and Genesys to build Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology that will replace some of the work in call centres. The software is called “Contact Center AI” which will install “virtual agents” that will be the first to pick up the phone when a customer…
[ad_1] [The stream is slated to start at about 7:20 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] SpaceX is set to launch Wednesday morning from California, attempting to put the seventh batch of Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket. The rocket…
[ad_1] General Motors said Tuesday it was launching a peer-to-peer car rental service to allow owners to make money by listing them as shared vehicles. The US auto giant said GM car owners would be able to list their vehicles via Maven, its car-sharing service in which the company offers hourly or daily rentals. GM’s…
[ad_1] Fish jerky is an acquired taste. Think of it as a piece of leather that’s been left to soak in a bait bucket. “We’re going to refine the recipe a little bit more,” says Mike Mitchell, the man behind El Diablito fish jerky. Mitchell, 30, is hoping to turn devil fish, an environmental plague in Mexico, into a tasty…
[ad_1] A group of computer vision researchers from ETH Zurich want to do their bit to enhance AI development on smartphones. To wit: They’ve created a benchmark system for assessing the performance of several major neural network architectures used for common AI tasks. They’re hoping it will be useful to other AI researchers but also…
[ad_1] US households are dropping their traditional pay TV packages at a faster rate than in the past amid a rise in streaming video services like Netflix, a survey showed Tuesday. The report by the research firm eMarketer found the number of “cord-cutters” who have cancelled pay TV service will climb 32.8 percent this year…
[ad_1] The successful launch of a rocket in Florida on Sunday will mean faster internet service for people in Nunavut. Telesat, a global satellite operator headquartered in Ottawa, said in a press release that its new high throughput satellite was deployed from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station over the…
[ad_1] Streaming giant Netflix has acquired popular Web series Little Things and has ordered a second season of the show. The series, which is described as slice-of-life story, features Dhruv Sehgal and Mithila Palkar in the lead. The acquisition is a part of the streaming giant’s deal with entertainment company Pocket Aces’ content studio, Dice…
[ad_1] Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources and Forestry is investigating whether construction crews building a major wind-turbine project on the eastern shores of Georgian Bay amidst tinder-dry conditions caused a forest fire that is now devouring more than 5,600 hectares of land. The fire started last Wednesday on Henvey Inlet First Nation at the site of…
[ad_1] Google has introduced several new AI-based features to its various apps on G Suite. The company has introduced smart reply in Hangouts, smart compose in Gmail, and possibly the most notable of all, grammar suggestions in Google Docs. As the name suggests, it highlights all the grammatical errors in your copy and gives correct…
[ad_1] Energy giant TransAlta paid the University of Alberta $54,000 to hand-pick one of its researchers to produce a study and other materials it used to lobby the provincial government to try to protect the coal industry, documents obtained by CBC News reveal. The deal was struck in 2015, after Rachel Notley’s NDP came to…
[ad_1] Google has started rolling out the stable version of Chrome 68 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android. The latest update for desktop users comes with new features for improving the security of sites, and other improvements and fixes. You can update to the latest version now using Chrome’s built-in updater or download it directly…
[ad_1] Uber and Lyft passengers in St. Louis learned last week that a local man who drove for both ride-hailing services had been covertly broadcasting hundreds of his riders’ trips to a channel on the online video streaming site Twitch. The live streams, first reported by the St. Lous Post-Dispatch, were technically legal under Missouri law.…
[ad_1] A new cryptographic bug has come to light that is claimed to affect the Bluetooth implementations of multiple operating system drivers manufactured by big corporations including Apple, Broadcom, Intel, Qualcomm, among others. A report suggests that this bug has occurred due to an insufficient validation of encryption parameters on secure Bluetooth connections. Tracked as…
[ad_1] Imagine floating down from above a mountain peak as high as the Rockies and passing by rugged slopes carpeted in ancient forests that are bursting with animal life. Now, imagine that instead of flying through the air, you’re slowly sinking underwater. That peak is a previously undiscovered extinct volcano deep in the Pacific Ocean off…
[ad_1] Insatiable, a new series on streaming service Netflix, is accused of mocking overweight people, and a petition demanding its withdrawal had garnered more than 125,000 signatures by Tuesday. The series, which features Alyssa Milano and Debby Ryan and will be on Netflix from August 10, features an overweight teenager who is ridiculed by her classmates.…
[ad_1] A Dutch trial with the drug best known under the brand name Viagra, has been immediately halted after 11 babies of mothers using the medication died, one of the participating hospitals said on Tuesday. When the trial was stopped on Monday, roughly half of 183 pregnant women participating were taking sildenafil, the Amsterdam University’s…
[ad_1] Twitter said Tuesday it had removed more than 143,000 apps from the messaging service since April in a fresh crackdown on “malicious” activity from automated accounts. The San Francisco-based social network said it was tightening access to its application programming interfaces (APIs) that allows developers to make automated Twitter posts. “We’re committed to providing…
[ad_1] Blockchain-based media start-up Civil Media is launching its cryptocurrency CVL on Aug. 13. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Americans will soon be able to make 3D-printed guns from their home, widening the door to do-it-yourself versions of firearms including the AR-15 — the gun of choice in American mass shootings — that are untraceable with no background check required. A settlement earlier this year between the State Department and Texas-based Defense Distributed…
[ad_1] Apple has released a macOS High Sierra 10.13.6 Supplemental Update for all compatible Mac devices. The company says that the latest update is specifically designed to improve the “stability and reliability” of the updated MacBook Pro models that debuted earlier this month. It is reported that the update fixes the CPU throttling seen on…
[ad_1] When Facebook reports earnings after the bell on Wednesday, investors will be taking a closer look at monthly and daily active user numbers to see if the Cambridge Analytica data scandal and other negative stories have driven users and advertisers away from the platform, or have had little effect. Here’s what Wall Street is…
[ad_1] US payment firms have successfully pushed India to consider diluting rules on data storage, but their lobbying campaign has sparked a bitter industry spat pitting them against local rival Paytm, according to sources and documents seen by Reuters. India’s central bank in April directed payment firms to store data locally for “unfettered supervisory access” –…
[ad_1] VCG | Getty Israeli historian and writer Yuval Noah Harari makes a lecture of artificial intelligence during the X World Future Evolution on July 6, 2017 in Beijing, China. Harari’s 25-year study of humankind has produced two bestselling books, both of which have appeared on Bill Gates’ summer reading lists. His debut, “Sapiens,” centers…
[ad_1] A retired Georgia Institute of Technology engineering professor described as a “pioneer” in developing the idea of ride sharing sued Lyft, claiming it infringed his patent for technology underlying the core of its business model. According to a complaint filed on Monday evening, Lyft has failed to pay Stephen Dickerson for using his system…
[ad_1] As Facebook soars to new highs, some traders are betting on even more gains when the social media company reports earnings this week. Shares of the tech giant were rallying Tuesday, notching a new all-time intraday high. The stock is now up more than 40 percent from its lows during the Cambridge Analytica scandal…
[ad_1] Pinterest’s head of engineering Li Fan is leaving the company to become head of engineering of scooter company Lime, a source with knowledge of the situation told CNBC. “I joined Pinterest because I saw a rare opportunity to bring together my passions for engineering and art and build products to help hundreds of millions…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s outgoing security chief, Alex Stamos, sent a telling memo in March — reported by Buzzfeed News — calling for the company to “intentionally not collect data where possible, and to keep it only as long as we are using it to serve people.” The comments, first circulated internally months ago, shed new light…
[ad_1] Alphabet’s second-quarter earnings report proved that shares of the Google parent and its fellow tech titans could still head higher, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Tuesday. The reason why came to Cramer halfway through Alphabet’s conference call, when CEO Sundar Pichai answered a question about Google’s prevalence in society. “We want Google to be…
[ad_1] Bitcoin has recovered somewhat in the past few days, but its value is still almost $200 billion less than when it hit its record high in December 2017. The flagship cryptocurrency is trading just above $8,400 on Wednesday, according to CoinDesk, but that’s still some 58 percent off the $19,783.21 record from December. Market…
[ad_1] Diane Greene, the head of Google’s cloud division, had kind words to say about GitHub, the company that key competitor Microsoft recently acquired. “We’re announcing a partnership with GitHub where you’re going to have push-button deployments,” Greene told CNBC on Tuesday at the company’s Next cloud conference in San Francisco. “Obviously, we do a…
[ad_1] Technicians and researchers are cautioning about the threat such technology poses for cybersecurity, that fundamentally important practice that keeps our computers and data — and governments’ and corporations’ computers and data — safe from hackers. In February, a study from teams at the University of Oxford and University of Cambridge warned that AI could…
[ad_1] Did you know Segway is making a pair of self-balancing roller shoes? It is! The company has been tinkering with all sorts of new form factors since it was acquired by Ninebot in 2015, from half-sized Segways to kick scooters. Next up: inline… shoe… platform things. Called the Segway Drift W1s, they sorta look…
[ad_1] The first time I tried Noveto’s “focused sound” speaker, the whole experience felt both exciting and a little bit bizarre. The start-up has created a technology that can deliver audio directly to a single person, who’s not wearing headphones, allowing everyone else in the vicinity to go about their business uninterrupted. Meanwhile, the listener…
[ad_1] Saul Loeb | AFP | Getty Images Facebook CEO and founder Mark Zuckerberg testifies during a US House Committee on Energy and Commerce hearing about Facebook on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, April 11, 2018. Facebook expects to see “bad actors” trying to interfere with the 2018 U.S. midterm elections, but it stopped short…
[ad_1] Every once in a while, CNBC’s Jim Cramer watches a once-beloved stock fall out of favor with investors. But what really interests him is how that stock gets its groove back when Wall Street throws it to the wayside. “Let’s consider the case of Danaher, the life sciences, diagnostics and environmental technology play,” the…
[ad_1] Alberto E. Rodriguez | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Jason Ropell, Vice President, Worldwide Head of Motion Pictures, Amazon Studios and Prime Video last April. Amazon confirmed Tuesday that Jason Ropell, head of the film division of Amazon Studios, is leaving the company. The tech giant did not specify why Ropell was leaving,…
[ad_1] PicsArt, the company behind the photo-editing app of the same name, has hired Tammy Nam as its first chief operating officer. Nam was most recently the CEO of Viki, the Rakuten-acquired video streaming service, and before that served as a marketing executive at Viki, Scribd and Slide. PicsArt said Nam will report to founder…
[ad_1] On a recent visit to the Southwest Airlines headquarters in Dallas, I got to fly a Boeing 737. Or, at least, I got as close as someone who is not a licensed commercial pilot can: I sat at the controls of a multimillion-dollar simulator and learned how to “land” at La Guardia Airport in…
[ad_1] Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images A vacuuming Roomba model robot is displayed at iRobot headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts, Roomba-maker iRobot soared after the company posted second-quarter earnings that easily topped Wall Street expectations on Tuesday. The stock surged 20 percent in after-hours trading. Here’s what the company reported compared to analyst estimates:…
[ad_1] Knock Knock, a startup building games for platforms like Facebook Messenger and WeChat, is announcing that it has raised $2 million in seed funding. The goal isn’t to build interactive chat fiction, but rather fully fledged mobile games that are accessed from messaging apps, while also taking advantages of the opportunities offered by incorporating…
[ad_1] Charter Communications announced Tuesday that John Malone is retiring from its board of directors, but will continue to serve as a director emeritus. Malone said in a statement that he resigned from the board in order to cut down on his travel and focus himself on fewer board positions. “I remain heavily invested in…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Randall Stephenson, CEO, AT&T AT&T is expected to report second quarter earnings and revenue after the bell on Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings: 85 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $39.39 billion, according to Thomson Reuters This quarter marks the first financial…
[ad_1] Google is hosting its big cloud conference, Google Cloud Next, this morning over at the Moscone center in San Francisco. Obviously it’s not quite as large as its flagship event I/O earlier this year, but Google’s cloud efforts have become one of its brightest points over the past several quarters. With heavy investments in…
[ad_1] Alphabet CEO Larry Page has long admired Warren Buffett’s business acumen in creating the industrial and investment conglomerate Berkshire Hathaway. And now analysts and investors are noticing Alphabet’s investments in emerging disparate businesses are starting to bear fruit — including YouTube, autonomous cars and cloud computing — drawing comparison to Berkshire Hathaway’s success. The…
[ad_1] To Clark Valberg, the screen is the most important place in the world. And he’s not the only one who thinks so. It isn’t just tech companies spending their money on design. The biggest brands in the world are pouring money into their digital presence, for many, the first step is InVision. InVision launched…
[ad_1] In one early case, in 1986, hackers from Soviet-controlled East Germany penetrated computer networks at the University of California at Berkeley. They sought confidential materials from the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, which conducts defense industrial work including for the Department of Energy. A popular book about the attack decried the lack of cooperation between…
[ad_1] The cloud isn’t right for every business, be that because of latency constraints at the edge, regulatory requirements or because it’s simply cheaper to own and operate their own data centers for their specific workloads. Given this, it’s maybe no surprise that the vast majority of enterprises today use both public and private clouds…
[ad_1] PUBG Mobile for Android and iOS finally gets War Mode as a part of the 0.7.0 update. The PUBG Mobile 0.7.0 update download size is 1.6GB on Android and 2.2GB on iOS. With this update, you can experience War Mode, which is PUBG Mobile’s take on deathmatch. Teams skydive into a small area of…
[ad_1] Apple confirmed on Tuesday that its new 2018 MacBook Pro computers were slowing down when they got too hot. The company said it was a bug, but a software update is available now that will fix the problem. Here’s Apple’s statement to CNBC: “Following extensive performance testing under numerous workloads, we’ve identified that there…
[ad_1] Traditionally, companies have gathered data from a variety of sources, then used spreadsheets and dashboards to try and make sense of it all. Outlier wants to change that and deliver a handful of insights right to your inbox that matter most for your job, company and industry. Today the company announced a $6.2 million…
[ad_1] Google‘s Cloud CEO Diane Greene took a jab at Amazon for its recent Prime Day snafu while delivering her keynote at the company’s NEXT conference in San Francisco. The retail giant’s major sale extravaganza, Prime Day, experienced all sorts of glitches last week, asits servers failed to handle the surge in traffic. Although Amazon…
[ad_1] As Google pushes further and further into enterprise services, it’s looking to leverage what it’s known for — a strong expertise in machine learning — to power some of the most common enterprise functions, including contact centers. Now Google is applying a lot of those learnings in a bunch of new updates for its…
[ad_1] Semiconductor stocks used to be a lot hotter. The popular SMH semiconductor-tracking ETF enjoyed a 36 percent rally last year, spending much of that time above its 200-day moving average as high-flyers like Nvidia, Micron and Applied Materials surged. The group has fallen out of favor as of late, now down 6 percent from…
[ad_1] Cloud Functions, Google’s serverless platform that competes directly with tools like AWS Lambda and Azure Functions from Microsoft, is now generally available, the company announced at its Cloud Next conference in San Francisco today. Google first announced Cloud Functions back in 2016, so this has been a long beta. Overall, it also always seemed…
[ad_1] Google has a exciting surprise for users of its word processing product, Docs: Soon, it will be able to fix grammatically awful clauses like that. The company is launching a new “grammar suggestions” feature in Docs that will catch and suggest corrections for all sorts of language slip-ups, including article errors (“a” versus “an”)…
[ad_1] Doxa is a storied dive watch company and their most popular watch, the Sub, has just gotten a 2018 overhaul. The watches were made famous by writer Clive Cussler whose character, Dirk Pitt, consulted his beefy Doxa on multiple occasions. This new model is made in collaboration with gear manufacturer Aqua Lung and features…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Tuesday praised Alphabet‘s earnings results, saying Google’s parent company was “crushing it” in the second quarter. “What I loved about this quarter is you finally got the rationale of why you like this stock,” said Cramer, whose charitable trust owns shares of Alphabet. “They basically explained that we … make…
[ad_1] Epic Games has hit another Fortnite revenue milestone with Fortnite season 5. Each season brings a new battle pass, skins, and even new toys for you and your friends to play with. Throw in the theme of world colliding and it appears that Epic’s battle royale sensation has earned an average of $2 million…
[ad_1] The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has approved the key ingredient in the vegetarian-friendly Impossible Burger. It’s a big win for Silicon Valley-based Impossible Foods as it expands its distribution. The ingredient, soy leghemoglobin, releases a protein called heme that gives the meat substitute its distinctive blood-like color and taste. Just as the Impossible…
[ad_1] The fields of computer vision and VR are difficult. But a new company, Send Reality, is entering the race. The Y Combinator-backed company is looking to offer full 3D-modeling for virtual walkthroughs of real estate listings. Founder and CEO Andrew Chen said he was the kid back in middle school and high school that…
[ad_1] Mike Segar | Reuters Jack Dorsey, CEO and co-founder of Twitter and founder and CEO of Square, speaks at the Consensus 2018 blockchain technology conference in New York City, May 16, 2018. Fintech company Square is boosting its small-business lending with an eBay partnership announced Tuesday morning. Square Capital, the lending arm of the…
[ad_1] WhatsApp for iPhone has been updated to version 2.18.80 with the ability to let you send messages to your WhatsApp groups directly using Siri. It essentially extends the Siri integration within WhatsApp that first arrived back in 2016 with the ability to send individual WhatsApp messages using your voice. Alongside the Siri support for…
[ad_1] Facebook has set up a subsidiary in China with registered capital of $30 million, a filing on China’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System showed. The filing listed Facebook Hongkong Ltd and no other entities as a shareholder. Facebook’s application for the subsidiary was approved on July 18, according to a filing seen by…
[ad_1] Google is hosting its annual Cloud Next conference in San Francisco this week. With 20,000 developers in attendance, Cloud Next has become the cloud-centric counterpart to Google I/O. A few years ago, when the event only had about 2,000 attendees and Google still hosted it on a rickety pier, Diane Greene had just taken…
[ad_1] Google has had a Chrome extension called ‘Save to Google’ feature for a while now. The ‘Save’ functionality was first launched by Google for its Image Search and then in the Search app on Android. However, according to the latest reports, the search giant has now decided to shut down the feature. While the…
[ad_1] Helen H. Richardson | The Denver Post | Getty Images A Chevy Volt and a GMC Acadia, parked on Little Raven Court, are available for car share through a new app from Maven in Denver. Looking to make money renting out your car or truck? General Motors thinks a lot of people are interested…
[ad_1] The European Union’s antitrust authorities have issued a series of penalties, fining consumer electronics companies Asus, Denon & Marantz, Philips and Pioneer more than €110 million (~$130M) in four separate decisions for imposing fixed or minimum resale prices on their online retailers in breach of EU competition rules. It says the four companies engaged in so…
[ad_1] Rescale, the startup that wants to bring high performance computing to the cloud, announced a $32 million Series B investment today led by Initialized Capital, Keen Venture Partners and SineWave Ventures. They join a list of well-known early investors that included Sam Altman, Jeff Bezos, Richard Branson, Paul Graham, Ron Conway, Chris Dixon, Peter…
[ad_1] Windows 10 is Microsoft’s latest operating system largely for desktops and laptops. Taking a screenshot is one of the most essential features on any platform and Windows is no different. You can easily take screenshots on Windows 10 via some simple shortcuts. These allow you to take a screenshot and save it to a…
[ad_1] Amazon said Tuesday it’s added the option for shoppers to have fresh groceries delivered from Whole Foods in the New York area and three cities in Florida. The service is now available for Prime members via Prime Now in certain parts of New York City, starting with lower Manhattan and Brooklyn, along with parts…
[ad_1] Dutch healthcare technology company Philips and three other companies are expected to be fined by EU antitrust regulators on Tuesday for restricting online sales of their products, two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. The ruling by the European Commission follows a 17-month investigation as part of its crackdown against curbs on…
[ad_1] “Alphabet’s $85 billion annualized Websites business accelerated on an ex-FX basis to 24 percent year over year growth, driven by 44 percent year over year mobile search growth, 32 percent YouTube growth, and 12 percent desktop search growth. This speaks to Alphabet’s innovation, user/advertiser focus, and ability to build and monetize around its seven…
[ad_1] Xiaomi gave Google’s well-intentioned but somewhat-stalled Android One project a major boost last year when it unveiled its first device under the program, Mi A1. That’s now joined by not one but two sequel devices, after the Chinese phone maker unveiled the Mi A2 and Mi A2 Lite at an event in Spain today.…
[ad_1] Bitcoin’s price hovered above the $8,000 mark Tuesday, for the first time in two months. The last time the world’s largest cryptocurrency was trading above $8,000 was May 23, when it traded at an intraday high of $8,023.73. On Tuesday, the virtual currency surged as high as $8,109.67, and is up by just over…
[ad_1] After two years working at a call centre in New Delhi, Jaspreet Singh, 24, is excited about finally joining Uber as a driver partner. Singh had been trying to start working with Uber for almost a year, but he was unable to do so thanks to a rule that required all driver partners to…
[ad_1] Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., sat down with CNBC’s John Harwood to discuss an array of issues, from President Donald Trump to the economy. Here, she talks about the European Union’s fine of Alphabet‘s Google and how the U.S. pursues antitrust enforcement. Q: The European Union just fined Google $5 billion. You like that? A:…
[ad_1] Global PC and printing major HP on Tuesday unveiled a new lineup of its Elite series of notebooks and AIO desktops in India that includes the world’s smallest business convertible and detachable for a secure modern workplace. The HP Elite 1000 devices include a full suite of solutions, including the HP Endpoint Security Controller, HP…
[ad_1] Asus has launched a ‘Back to College’ offer for PCs and laptops in India, to provide college-going students with extended warranty and no-cost EMI options. The extended warranty under the new offer comes at an additional charge starting at Rs. 499. The Taiwanese company is also offering customised ROG T-shirts that will feature the…
[ad_1] EE is shaking up its mobile contracts with a new service it is calling Flex plans. This new concept is aimed at the millions of customers who want the flexibility of a pay as you go deal but on a monthly contract. Taking out a Flex plan allows you to change the amount of data,…
[ad_1] Google, in an effort to move Internet users to a more secure Web, is taking another step with the launch of Chrome 68 for desktops on July 24. Starting the same day, Chrome users who visit unencrypted sites will be given warnings. With the latest version of Google Chrome, all HTTP sites will be…
[ad_1] About two dozen affluent Canadians mainly from Ontario and Alberta are among hundreds of people who are in line to become space tourists in the coming months. They have already reserved a suborbital flight on a Virgin Galactic space plane by putting a deposit on a $250,000 US ticket. But the head of the…
[ad_1] Google Assistant can now make video calls via Google’s own video chat mobile app, Duo. The feature would enable users to make video calls from their phones, contacts and messages apps using the mobile video chat app. “If you use the Google Assistant: You can start a Duo video call by saying or typing,…
[ad_1] Google-owned popular video streaming platform YouTube on Monday announced that it will start testing a new Explore tab on iPhone that will allow users on the platform to discover related content from channels that they have not yet subscribed to. Explore is different from the Recommendations tab in a way that it is expected…
[ad_1] Uber and Lyft last weekend suspended a driver who secretly live-streamed hundreds of passengers on the video platform Twitch, according to a report. In Missouri, where the rides took place, only one party needs to give permission to record, which means the taping was legal. But the recordings raise serious ethical questions about the…
[ad_1] Google announced its Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL smartphones at a special event on October 4 last year and it is expected the firm will have an event at a similar time to announced their successors. Although the Pixel phones were the focus of the event, Google also debuted a host of new…
[ad_1] Xiaomi India’s boss and Global Vice President Manu Kumar Jain on Monday announced that the Chinese phone manufacturer is integrating the ability to file Income Tax Returns (ITR) right from its native Mi Calendar app on its range of smartphones running MIUI. The service is powered by ClearTax, an online portal that helps individuals…
[ad_1] European Union Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager coolly hit Google with a EUR 4.3 billion ($5 billion) fine last week, the biggest penalty in the history of antitrust enforcement. It didn’t have to be that way. A year earlier, when the company – already reeling from a EUR 2.4 billion fine in another EU case – made quiet…
[ad_1] Google parent Alphabet shares lifted Monday on a stronger-than-expected earnings report for the past quarter, as the tech giant’s results eased concerns over huge fines imposed by the European Union for antitrust actions. Profit dipped 9.3 percent to $3.2 billion (roughly Rs. 22,000 crores) in the second quarter after accounting for the EU fines,…
[ad_1] Mistakes in predicting regulations, poor consumer behaviors and a lack of brand loyalty could make bike sharing less profitable for companies, according to a business school professor. Those comments come as three dockless bike-sharing companies — Gbikes, oBike and ShareBikeSg — ceased operations in Singapore just before new rules regarding the parking of vehicles…
[ad_1] Sony fans could be treated to a new smartphone as early as next month with the impending launch of the Xperia XZ3. The Japanese technology firm has a history of unveiling two flagships a year with the IFA technology show often used to reveal its new devices. IFA gets underway on August 31 and…
[ad_1] Alphabet is still very much an advertising company and its CFO wants to make sure Wall Street knows that it’s spending its money accordingly. Though the stock surged after Alphabet beat expectations on its second quarter earnings, its capital expenditures were eye-catching: Capital spending nearly doubled year-over-year to $5.5 billion. Its operating expenses, meanwhile,…
[ad_1] It was revealed at E3 last month that Microsoft was building a cloud gaming system. A report today calls that system Scarlett Cloud and it’s only part of Microsoft next-gen Xbox strategy. And it makes a lot of sense, too. According to Thurrott.com, noted site for all things Microsoft, the next Xbox will come…
[ad_1] The iPhone X removed the iconic home button from the Apple device (Image: Getty) When Apple released the iPhone X it put together a phone with very small bezels, so much so the iconic home button had to be removed to make way for the increased screen size. This meant users had to embrace…
[ad_1] The tech giant announced users of the Google Earth app for iOS will now be able to measure distances on both iPad and iPhone. The feature had previously been available on Android devices in addition to the Chrome browser. In a blog post Nate Schmitz, an iOS engineer working on the Google Earth app,…
[ad_1] Hilton is back in Nova Scotia waters — a return that ocean researchers say could reveal an uncharted great white shark mating site in the North Atlantic. The celebrity shark, who stole the hearts of people in Nova Scotia last year with a charming, mischievous Twitter feed, returned to the area after a winter…
[ad_1] Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images A customer boards an Avis Budget Group Inc. shuttle bus at the Denver International Airport (DEN) in Denver, Colorado, U.S., on Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015. Avis Budget Group is now rewarding Amazon customers for renting its cars. Now, when Amazon customers book an Avis vehicle, they will…
[ad_1] Alphabet‘s capital expenditures in the latest quarter almost doubled, as Google continues to build out data centers for products like its cloud services. In the second quarter, those costs jumped to $5.48 billion from $2.48 billion a year earlier, Alphabet said in its earnings report after the close of trading on Monday. Analysts on…
[ad_1] When Google Cloud brought Diane Greene on board at the end of 2015, one of her goals was to expand the division’s partnership network, an approach she found worked quite well when she was running VMware in the early 2000s. It appears to be working at Google too. This week at Google Next, the…
[ad_1] Google parent company Alphabet just reported its second quarter earnings and the stock popped after-hours on the results. Here are the most important numbers: — Earnings per share (adjusted): $11.75 vs $9.59 expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate — Revenue: $32.66 billion vs $32.17 billion expected by a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate The…
[ad_1] Another, tweeted directly at Chicago-based Tronc, was a clip of Sean Connery in “The Untouchables,” saying “That’s the Chicago way.” The tweets were shared by fellow journalists upset by the layoffs. The Daily News was sold to Tronc last year for $1, with the owner of the Chicago Tribune assuming liabilities and debt. The…
[ad_1] Nest, which Google acquired for $3.2 billion in 2014, had been its own company under Google-parent Alphabet, but rolled back into Google in February. The move was meant to bring more cohesion between Nest’s smart home products, like its home security system and smart thermostat, and Google’s artificial intelligence software, including its smart assistant.…
[ad_1] Jacob Kepler | Bloomberg | Getty Images Daniel Loeb, founder and chief executive officer of Third Point LLC Third Point hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb revealed in an investor letter that his fund has new position in PayPal. The firm added the position in the second quarter, according to an investor letter obtained by CNBC.…
[ad_1] Meet the Travel Backpack 45L. It’s Peak Design’s latest creation and the company just launched a Kickstarter campaign to bring it to life. This product marks the eighth Kickstarter campaign for Peak Design — all of which have been wildly successful. Peak Design turned to Kickstarter in 2014 to launch the first generation of…
[ad_1] Musical.ly has begun redirecting users of its Live.ly app, which it decided to kill off last month, to a competing app called LiveMe. Existing Live.ly users are being pointed to LiveMe through an in-app message, it says. While it’s a fairly common industry practice for companies to direct users to similar apps or services…
[ad_1] Tesla has responded to a report in the Wall Street Journal Sunday that the company asked a supplier last week to return a “meaningful amount of money of its payments since 2016.” Tesla said that it was negotiating with suppliers in an effort to reach a “more sustainable long-term cost basis,” and that it…
[ad_1] Alphabet, Apple and Amazon are all creeping closer to becoming the world’s first $1 trillion company in what appears to be the priciest horse race of all time. Some chart-minded traders think that of the bunch, Alphabet stands the biggest chance of getting there first. Alphabet, Google’s parent company, which is scheduled to report…
[ad_1] Sonos today took the next step in its initial public offering price, setting a range for the shares it intends to sell that will help calibrate the final amount of money – and valuation — that it will have when it begins its trading debut. This isn’t the final, final step in the IPO process…
[ad_1] Tesla‘s future is a hotly debated topic. And even more so after Elon Musk’s recent outbursts on Twitter and headlines that the electric car company is asking suppliers for refunds. “Tesla’s trying to solve an incredibly important goal for our society,” said Ross Gerber, CEO of Gerber Kawasaki, on CNBC in early July. “It’s…
[ad_1] The new sensor boasts 48 effective megapixels which the Japanese manufacturer is labelling the “highest pixel count” in the industry. Sony emphasised the need to bring “greater imaging quality” to smartphone cameras and insisted its new technology rivals “high-performance SLR cameras”. It believes the new complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) IMX586 sensor, capable of delivering an…
[ad_1] Xage (pronounced Zage), a blockchain security startup based in Silicon Valley, announced a $12 million Series A investment today led by March Capital Partners. GE Ventures, City Light Capital and NexStar Partners also participated. The company emerged from stealth in December with a novel idea to secure the myriad of devices in the industrial…
[ad_1] The South Korean tech giant is set to unveil the Galaxy Note 9 phablet at its “Unpacked” event on August 9 in New York City. But it appears Samsung could also debut its Gear S4 wearable at the event, marking the first refresh of the line in two years. A new image emerged of…
[ad_1] Let’s be real — the latest batch of Samsung ads are more about the company’s perception of Apple than its own devices. But hey, that tact has worked for the company in the past, so who can blame ‘em? They do, however, offer at least one key bit of insight into the company’s on-going…
[ad_1] The Samsung Galaxy S9 and S9+ were released back in March and although Express.co.uk said they were “almost perfect”, they did little to drastically change the formula from the S8 and S8+. And with the Galaxy S8 seeing its prices slashed by multiple phone providers, customers appear to be flocking to last year’s flagship…
[ad_1] Eric Piermont | AFP | Getty Images Chief Executive Officer of the IT services company Atos Thierry Breton delivers a speech during the presentation of the Atos designed supercomputer Bull Sequana on April 12, 2016 in Paris. The acquisition of Syntel, a 38-year-old company with 23,000 employees, comes after last year’s unsuccessful attempt by…
[ad_1] Startup founders don’t usually pitch their ideas by admitting that they’re fixing something “boring,” but it seems to work for RevenueCat‘s Jacob Eiting. In fact, Eiting alternately described his startup (which is part of the current class at accelerator Y Combinator) as handling “boring work” and solving a “boring problem.” RevenueCat helps developers manage…
[ad_1] Pinterest has also struggled to become relevant in digital advertising. Reaching $1 billion in revenue will mark a significant milestone, but it’s way below previous estimates. In 2015, TechCrunch reported on leaked financial documents that showed Pinterest was then projecting sales of $2.8 billion by 2018. Advertisers and people familiar with the company say…
[ad_1] Apple Business Chat, Apple’s new platform for allowing companies and brands to communicate with customers over iMessage, is expanding. In addition to Dish becoming the first TV provider to support Business Chat, Apple says it has also added four other brands, Aramak, Four Seasons, Harry & David, and American Express, in addition to five…
[ad_1] Cogito announced a $37 million Series C investment today led by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity. Previous investors Salesforce Ventures and OpenView also chipped in. Mark Midle of Goldman Sachs’ Merchant Banking Division, has joined Cogito’s Board of Directors The company has raised over $64 million since it emerged from the MIT Human Dynamics Lab back…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump is again taking aim at Amazon for “using” the U.S. Postal Service as its “delivery boy,” raising the possibility of bringing antitrust claims against the company. Trump railed against the e-retailer and the newspaper — both owned by billionaire Jeff Bezos — in a series of tweets Monday morning, claiming the…
[ad_1] SessionM announced a $23.8 million Series E investment led by Salesforce Ventures. A bushel of existing investors including Causeway Media Partners, CRV, General Atlantic, Highland Capital and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers also contributed to the round. The company has now raised over $97 million. At its core, SessionM aggregates loyalty data for brands…
[ad_1] Truecaller has updated its iPhone app to introduce money transfer, utility bill payments, and recharges for Indian users only. To recall, the Truecaller Pay feature was first introduced in March last year for Android users only, and now with the new version 9.12 update for iOS, it has arrived for iPhone users as well.…
[ad_1] European finance leaders called for progress on global rules to tax the digital economy at a meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bankers in Argentina on Sunday, putting them at odds with U.S. counterparts. The final communique reaffirmed a commitment to address the impacts of the shift to a digital economy on the…
[ad_1] A UK government backed drone innovation project that’s exploring how unmanned aerial vehicles could benefit cities — including for use-cases such as medical delivery, traffic incident response, fire response and construction and regeneration — has reported early learnings from the first phase of the project. Five city regions are being used as drone test-beds…
[ad_1] A bat has tested positive for rabies in Jasper National Park, according to Alberta Health Services and Parks Canada. AHS said a hiker reported the bat on the Valley of Five Lakes trail, just south of Jasper, last weekend. Parks Canada staff investigated and captured the bat. A number of bats, and occasionally other mammals,…
[ad_1] If you’re just putting together a new gaming PC, chances are that you can’t avoid hardware that’s festooned with RGB LEDs. With little to differentiate between products, it seems motherboards, graphics cards, RAM, and now even SSDs are being blinged out these days. Some people might of course bury these components inside opaque boxes…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Tesla shares are falling on a report the electric car maker has asked some of its suppliers to refund a portion of previous payments made by the company. On Sunday The Wall Street Journal reported Tesla…
[ad_1] The UK government has set out a package of measures it’s hoping will futureproof domestic networks and boost international competitiveness by supporting a nationwide rollout of full fiber broadband and 5G mobile technology. The Future Telecoms Infrastructure Review, published today, follows the announcement of a market review last year as part of the government’s Industrial…
[ad_1] Gmail users have been alerted about a new Google Mail feature which could be leveraged by online crooks to carry out a wave of scams, media reported. The company, in April, unveiled its brand new design which introduced a clean new user interface and a swathe of new features including the ability to snooze…
[ad_1] Another week, another PUBG Mobile update. This time PUBG Mobile publisher Tencent is teasing War Mode. As a part of the PUBG Mobile 0.7.0 update, War Mode will be brought into the game. For the uninitiated, War Mode is the PUBG equivalent of team death match. While regular PUBG matches are of the battle royale variety,…
[ad_1] Google, in 2016, had introduced ‘Neural Machine Translation’ to make its translation tool better than ever before. Last month, Google rolled out an update to the NMT on its Google Translate app that enables translations even when you are offline. But, the algorithm that powers Google Translate has now been found to be rendering…
[ad_1] Virgin Media customers are venting their anger and frustrations today after 10 popular channels from UKTV were blocked by the broadband and TV company. Programmes from Dave, W, Yesterday and Gold will no longer be broadcast on Virgin TV with the block having come into force on Sunday morning. Virgin says that due to the restrictions…
[ad_1] SoftBank Group plans to announce within days that it will start a mobile digital payments service in Japan by the end of 2018 as billionaire founder Masayoshi Son seeks to expand in the sector, people familiar with the matter said. The service, a collaboration with Indian startup Paytm, will make extensive use of artificial…
[ad_1] Photo-messaging app Snapchat is terminating its digital peer-to-peer payment service ‘Snapcash‘ on August 30, ending its four-year-long partnership with US-based mobile payment company Square. “Yes, we’re discontinuing the ‘Snapcash’ feature as of August 30, 2018. Snapcash was our first product created in partnership with another company – Square. We’re thankful for all the Snapchatters…
[ad_1] Apple Singapore is looking into the growing cases of fraudulent credit card transactions made via iTunes, the media reported. iTunes is Apple’s entertainment app and users can buy music and movies via the iTunes Store. But in Singapore, tens of Apple customers have been billed for charges they did not make on their iTunes…
[ad_1] Over 1.9 billion users are logging into Google-owned YouTube each month and on average, users now watch over 180 million hours of YouTube on TV screens every day, YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has said. “Our overall interactions, such as likes, comments and chats, grew by more than 60 per cent year over year. More…
[ad_1] Tech regulation was back in the spotlight last week after European Union regulators fined Google a record 4.34 billion euro (about $5 billion) for breaching the bloc’s antitrust rules. According to EU officials, Google abused the popularity of its Android operating system by making phone manufacturers pre-install Google apps, such as Chrome and Search.…
[ad_1] New research is upending old assumptions about what the ancestors of today’s Inuit learned from Viking settlers. Techniques researchers have developed show that ancient Dorset and Thule people knew how to spin yarn centuries before the Norse were thought to have taught them, changing the way archeologists think about Arctic history. “There’s a lot we…
[ad_1] Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel could extend his lead in the championship today if he can turn pole position into a victory. The German dominated qualifying and his day got even better when Lewis Hamilton, his closest title rival, suffered a hydraulic failure. This means Hamilton lines up 14th on the grid on a tough track…
[ad_1] Kodi add-on fans have been put on alert about plans by the Premier League to keep the pressure on those trying to illegally stream matches. The Premier League have been given a boost in their ongoing battle against those who illegally stream games from England’s top flight of football. And this victory will mean that…
[ad_1] Snapcash ended up as a way to pay adult performers for private content over Snapchat, not just a way to split bills with friends. But Snapchat will abandon the peer-to-peer payment space on August 30th. Code buried in Snapchat’s Android app includes a “Snapcash deprecation message” that displays “Snapcash will no longer be available…
[ad_1] As the sun was rising on another long, gruelling, hot day in Dezhou, China, Ben Wareing tried to stay upbeat and focused on the task ahead: finishing building an entire house, from the ground up, with just 10 days left to go in the Solar Decathlon. And not just any house — a “net zero…
[ad_1] The blockchain is in the middle of a major hype cycle at the moment, and that makes it hard for many people to take it seriously, but if you look at the core digital ledger technology, there is tremendous potential to change the way we think about trust in business. Yet these are still…
[ad_1] Over the course of a weekend we got a glimpse at some of the coming seasons and movies for various sci-fi, superhero, and other types of highly-anticipated fan-favorite franchises from the San Diego Comic-Con this year. Here’s a quick selection of some of the ones shown over the weekend: [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] With Apple expected to reveal its new iPhones in September, there’s not long to wait until we see the next innovations coming to these popular devices. Rumours are already arriving thick and fast with the US technology giant expected to reveal three new phones at its keynote. Although not confirmed, we’re expecting to see…
[ad_1] Apple MacBook Pro 2018 (Image: APPLE) Apple fully refreshed its lineup of laptops back in 2016 with the introduction of the radically new MacBook Pro. This device came packed with upgrades including a stunning new look, updated keyboard and the interactive Touch Bar which transforms as you switch between tasks and software. With a…
[ad_1] People enjoy the vibrant colours and loud explosions of fireworks, but the bangs and fizzes can stress out animals and spark wildfires. That’s why several North American cities, including Banff, Alta., are abandoning traditional firework displays for quieter alternative light shows. Banff ditched its conventional fireworks display for a “quiet fireworks” show this past…
[ad_1] Welcome to another weekly roundup of all the important tech news from across the globe. The Nokia X5 launched in China this week, making it the second phone with notch display by HMD Global. Nokia X5 is a mid-range phone with 5.86-inch display with 19:9 aspect ratio, stock Android 8.1 Oreo, and MediaTek Helio…
[ad_1] Sky Q v Sky HD what’s the difference and which should you buy? (Image: SKY) Sky Q is the latest innovation from the satellite TV broadcaster with the service aimed at improving the way we all watch TV. This major update began arriving in homes in 2016 with it offering a swathe of features…
[ad_1] In just a few week’s time, Samsung will finally lift the lid on its all-new Galaxy Note 9 smartphone. This device looks set to be revealed at the Korean technology firm’s Unpacked keynote in New York on August 9. Although nothing has yet been confirmed about the Note 9 there’s been plenty of leaks,…
[ad_1] The Google Pixel 3 is expected to be announced and released later this year and the tech giant will be seeking to improve upon everything the Pixel 2 and Pixel 2 XL did right in addition to addressing issues Android fans had with the flagship. A recent post on Phone Arena insisted the Pixel…
[ad_1] Lane Turner | Boston Globe | Getty Images A driver with placards for both Lyft and Uber waits for a traffic light outside South Station in Boston after picking up a passenger. A ride-sharing driver in St. Louis who reportedly live streams his passengers has been suspended by Uber for violating its guidelines, the…
[ad_1] Recently, Elon Musk lashed out at a new analysis claiming that nearly a quarter of the more than 400,000 advance reservations for Tesla‘s Model 3 battery-sedan have been canceled. But a closer look at Musk’s comment raises a different reason for concern: The prospect that new orders may not keep up with Tesla’s long-awaited…
[ad_1] Digital health is one of the hottest spaces for investment, with companies raising $1.6 billion in venture capital in the first quarter of 2018 alone. Apple, Alphabet and Amazon are also making moves in the space with their own health-tracking apps and devices. These companies are getting really good at screening populations of people…
[ad_1] Genesis is a young and still-obscure luxury brand, with a complicated history, that’s currently going through a time of tremendous change. The new upscale model from Korean carmaker Hyundai will soon begin rolling out its widely praised 2019 mid-sized G70. The sports sedan, which starts at around $32,000, is competing head-to-head with other entry-level…
[ad_1] The responsibilities of CISOs vary by industry, size of company and how the organization is regulated. Different companies structure cybersecurity in different ways, but there are many common themes. At big companies, CISOs often oversee a team of security professionals that work for the company. Smaller firms may outsource the job to a company…
[ad_1] We all spend way too much time on our phones. Studies have shown that too much screen time is bad for your focus and mental health. CNBC reporter Jillian D'Onfro shows off some of the not so obvious tips she’s used to break her smartphone habit. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Scribit is a drawing robot that can turn your walls into a work of art. The little bot raised over $1.6 million on Kickstarter, crushing the company’s $50,000 goal in just two hours. Scribit uses four erasable markers to draw images up to a 6.5 ft x 6.5 ft on your wall. Images are…
[ad_1] A 3.6-metre shipping container that once sent goods overseas is now an urban farm on the Dartmouth waterfront that’s feeding customers closer to home. Very Local Greens planted itself in a large parking lot across the street from the King’s Wharf development. The industrial location is in stark contrast to what’s inside — a tiny, high-tech farm teeming…
[ad_1] Gmail fans have been put on alert over fears that a new Google Mail feature could be leveraged by online crooks to carry out a wave of scams. In April Google unveiled its brand new Gmail design which introduced a clean new user interface and a swathe of new features. Gmail added the ability…
[ad_1] The Gear S4 has been subject to a slew of rumours in the build up to its launch. Samsung appears set to rebrand the wearable, tying it closer to its Galaxy line of phones after an alleged logo for the device was spotted. The South Korean tech giant has registered a logo for “Galaxy…
[ad_1] The new functionality will allow a “suspicious link” to be detected when it is sent to a user. Mashable insisted a company representative from WhatsApp had confirmed the feature was being tested. They said: “To protect your privacy, these checks take place entirely on your device, and because of end-to-end encryption WhatsApp can’t see…
[ad_1] The Open 2018 enters its third day today, and it’s Zach Johnson and Kevin Kisner that lead the pack. Johnson – who won the competition in 2015 – and Kisner are tied at six-under-par going into the third round. The leaders tee off at 4pm later this afternoon, so there’s plenty of time for things to…
[ad_1] Samsung sent out invitations to its “Unpacked” event in June and the focus appeared to be on the new Note 9. A picture advertising the event featured the Note’s signature S Pen accessory, hinting at the possibility of new functionality. The Galaxy Note 9 is expected to sport a largely unchanged design from the…
[ad_1] Noise from oil and gas pumps can be a real mood-killer for a male sparrow trying to attract a mate, but a team of biologists in southern Alberta has discovered that songbirds are finding ways to cope. Their research involves high fidelity speakers, powerful microphones and many early morning hours spent on a patch…
[ad_1] On Aug. 6, the Parker Solar Probe will launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida for one extremely intense mission: to fly closer to the sun than any spacecraft before. The probe will fly through and study the sun’s atmosphere, where it will face punishing heat and radiation. At its closest, it will come within 6.1…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has been in the news for all the wrong reasons recently. Earlier this month, the government condemned the spreading of fake news on the Facebook-owned messaging app and urged it to take strong action to prevent these occurrences, which have led to incidences of violence in the country. In the most recent development…
[ad_1] It seems Virgin Media is on a drive to push out new features and content to its customers. The broadband and TV firm has already revealed more 4K content is launching and it will be bringing the BT Sport 4K UHD channel to its top TV bundles at no extra cost. Now there’s another…
[ad_1] The Cupertino-based company is heavily rumoured to be planning the release of three new iPhone models later this year. Two of the iPhones will feature OLED displays, the same as in the current iPhone X, while the third expected to include an LCD panel that was present in older iPhone models. Having an all-screen…
[ad_1] Google has been fined £3.8 billion by the European Commission for anti-competitive behaviour. Google’s Android operating system, used freely by many smartphone manufacturers, requires certain Google apps, like Chrome, to come pre-installed on the handsets. This has been deemed as anti-competitive and as such could mean Google no longer requires manufacturers to pre-install its…
[ad_1] The tech giant has given its desktop client a vital feature for anyone working in an office environment. Google Maps’ web version now has a “time to leave” feature that will alert the user to get moving. The maps service will sync with Google Calendar, taking the location of the user on the desktop…
[ad_1] Google are released the new flagship Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 Xl this year, touted as the ‘Pure Android phone’ of 2018. Google is rumoured to launch the new phones in the Autumn of this year, but few details have been announced of what it will feature. A few leaks have dropped online claiming…
[ad_1] The Samsung Galaxy X foldable smartphone appears to have leaked to reveal how the folding display of the handset will work. The Galaxy X should feature a single 7-inch OLED display which folds over lengthways to leave a small slither of screen on show. This small section of screen could work like a notifications…
[ad_1] We’ve all heard it: if you come across a bear, play dead. But is that a myth or fact? An Alberta bear behaviour expert says it can be an effective way to mitigate an encounter with a bear, in some situations — like if the bear is aggressive. “It is not a myth. If you do…
[ad_1] After a three-year investigation, Quebec wildlife officials say they have dismantled a black bear gallbladder-trafficking network. The poaching ring allegedly operated in Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean, Mauricie, Laval and Quebec’s North Shore. More than 100 black bears were slaughtered over three years, wildlife officials said. The bears were allegedly killed for their gallbladders, which are worth a small fortune on the Asian black market for…
[ad_1] Paradigm Hyperloop may have finished second at last year’s international SpaceX competition, making history and gaining international attention, but the team’s application for the 2018 race — taking place in California this weekend — was rejected. “It was very demotivating,” said Jack Chapman, Canadian lead for the Paradigm team. Underneath the shell of the pod Paradigm raced…
[ad_1] A quarter-century after the moon landing, astronaut Buzz Aldrin could easily recall the words that came to mind for him when he first saw the lunar surface up close. “Magnificent desolation,” he told CBC’s Midday on the 25th anniversary of the historic mission that saw humans set foot on the moon for the first time. Buzz Aldrin was…
[ad_1] Deep coral reefs in a “twilight zone” in the oceans differ sharply from those near the surface, dimming hopes that they can be a refuge for marine life fleeing threats such as climate change and pollution, scientists said on Thursday. Worldwide, coral reefs in shallow waters are among ecosystems most threatened by climate change.…
[ad_1] It’s official — you’re living in a new age. It’s called the Meghalayan, and it was officially added this week to the International Geologic Time Scale. The scale divides the history of the Earth into eons, eras, periods, epochs and ages, the way we divide smaller increments of time into years, months, hours, minutes and…
[ad_1] Panasonic said it was unable to determine how much of the cobalt used in batteries it makes for Tesla cars comes from Cuba, a country subject to U.S. sanctions, and that it had suspended relations with a Canadian supplier as a result of its concerns. The Japanese electronics maker, the exclusive supplier of batteries…
[ad_1] Facebook‘s WhatsApp is rolling out a global test measure to rein in messages forwarded by users, the messaging app said, after the spread of rumours led to several killings in India and sparked calls for action from authorities. Violence triggered by incendiary false messages in India, WhatsApp’s biggest market with more than 200 million…
[ad_1] Tomohiro Ohsumi | Getty Images A person uses an Apple Watch Series 3 at the Apple Omotesando store on September 22, 2017 in Tokyo, Japan. The latest round of U.S. tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods could hit the Apple Watch, health trackers, streaming music speakers and other accessories assembled in China, government…
[ad_1] We’re looking for technology-driven start-ups that are experiencing rapid growth due to their innovative products, apps, tools or services. Companies will be scored on a wide-range of quantitative metrics including scalability, sales and user growth, intellectual property, and more. Companies must also meet the following eligibility requirements: Companies must be private and independently owned…
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[ad_1] Analysts are beginning to think that Microsoft is close to being worth $1 trillion, given the company’s latest earnings results. Microsoft might not be the first company to the trillion-dollar mark — Apple on Friday afternoon had a $943.7 billion market cap, more than $100 billion ahead of Microsoft’s $821.4 billion market cap, and…
[ad_1] Musk has been particularly vocal about the potential dangers of artificial intelligence. For example: “Mark my words, AI is far more dangerous than nukes,” Musk said at the South by Southwest tech conference in Austin, Texas, in March. DeepMind is an artificial intelligence company which was founded in London in 2010 and acquired by…
[ad_1] I’ve been working with an ugly but functional lopsided two-monitor setup for years, and while it has served me well, I can’t say the new generation of ultra-wide monitors hasn’t tempted me. But the truth is they just aren’t wide enough. Or rather, they weren’t. Samsung has just blown my mind with a monitor…
[ad_1] Meet Wilson, a new iPhone app that plans to change the way you discover and listen to podcasts. The company describes the app as a podcast magazine. It has the same vibe as Longreads, the curated selection of longform articles. With its minimalistic design and opinionated typography, Wilson looks like no other podcasting app.…
[ad_1] Waymo, the Alphabet self-driving car company that was spun out of Google, is picking up speed. The company’s autonomous vehicles just drove 8 million miles on public roads. What’s more, it took the company just one month to go from 7 million miles to 8 million miles driven. “We’re driving now at the rate…
[ad_1] For Brendan Hickey, purchasing custom features for his character in the online game “Fortnite” was about standing out. He can now do the electro shuffle. Eat popcorn, dribble a basketball or swing a “plunja” pickaxe. Does any of this help the 22-year-old jump to the next level, get more lives or give him an…
[ad_1] If you’re the type of person who spends weekends fixing and repairing things around the house, you know what it’s like when you’re missing a couple screws that are critical to getting a job done. Amazon‘s iPhone app has a feature called “Part Finder,” which TechCruch has just covered, that lets you take a…
[ad_1] Despite a stellar market performance, a lot is on the line for Facebook and its CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, in the upcoming midterm elections, according to Roger McNamee, co-founder of tech-focused private equity firm Elevation Partners. “I think the issue for Facebook and for Mark is that the country is trusting them with the 2018…
[ad_1] The second quarter of 2018 was another record-breaker for mobile app downloads and revenue. According to a new report this week from App Annie, there were over 28.4 billion app downloads worldwide across both iOS and Google Play in the quarter, up 15 percent year-over-year. That number is even more remarkable because it doesn’t…
[ad_1] Three top cybersecurity officials at the FBI are stepping down, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The departures come at a particularly sensitive time for cybersecurity concerns in the U.S. as special counsel Robert Mueller investigates Russian interference in the 2016 election and top intelligence officials warn of continued…
[ad_1] Tesla said they have received nearly a half-million reservations for the new model. The Model 3 also was awarded Design of the Year by Automobile Magazine and designated a “recommended buy” by Consumer Reports. Read more from the St. Louis Business Journal: Rental scooters off St. Louis streets — for now How likely are…
[ad_1] Dish today announced it’s becoming the first TV provider to offer customer support over Apple’s Business Chat. Launched earlier this year, Business Chat allows companies to communicate with their customers over iMessage in order to answer questions, provide customer service, or even enable purchases. In Dish’s case, the TV provider says its customers can…
[ad_1] Battle royale shooter Fortnite is on PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and PC with a Fortnite Android version in the works as well. And it seems that Epic Games’ efforts with the title have seen it rake in $1 billion in micro-transactions alone. According to research firm SuperData (via GamesIndustry.biz) this is what…
[ad_1] Tesla shares will fall dramatically the rest of this year due to its high valuation and rising competition, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm reaffirmed its underweight rating for Tesla shares, saying other automakers may price their electric cars aggressively. Tesla has a “highly differentiated business model, appealing product portfolio, and leading-edge technology, which…
[ad_1] Daniel Kalt appears in a private client meeting room at a branch of UBS, overlooking Lake Zurich. The Swiss bank’s regional chief economist and chief investment officer turns to look at me. I recognize his chiseled features, his slight smile and short hair, turning grey at the sides. But something is not right. Mr.…
[ad_1] The “two-wheeler mode” in Google Maps that first arrived in India last December has been extended to Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, and Vietnam. To be first available for Android users, the motorcycle-specific navigation will help bikers find the most suitable routes in these countries, The Verge reported late…
[ad_1] Joshua Roberts | Reuters Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Jeffrey Bewkes (L) speaks with Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Randall Stephenson before a Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on the proposed deal between AT&T and Time Warner in Washington, U.S., December 7, 2016. A federal appeals court on…
[ad_1] The Data Transfer Project is a new team-up between tech giants to let you move your content, contacts, and more between apps. Founded by Facebook, Google, Twitter, an Microsoft, the DTP today revealed its plans for an open source data portability platform any online service can join. While many companies already let you download…
[ad_1] To help billions of users manage their data and help them transfer that into and out of online services without privacy issues, four tech giants – Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Twitter – on Friday announced to join the open source initiative called Data Transfer Project (DTP). In the early stages at the moment, the…
[ad_1] Ian Whittaker, media equity researcher at Liberum, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box Europe” on Friday that Comcast’s decision to scrap its pursuit of Fox could be interpreted as a “warning shot” to Disney — as well as an admission of the U.S. cable giant’s willingness to accept a “division of the spoils.” “The first thing…
[ad_1] Apple earlier this month unveiled a refresh to its MacBook Pro range of professional notebooks. The refreshed lineup comes with the latest 8th generation Intel Core processors, including Core i5, Core i7, and Core i9 with up to 6 cores. The top-end offering in the range, with Core i9-8950HK, comes with a base clock…
[ad_1] Marty Melville | AFP | Getty Images Visitors stand next to a high altitude WiFi internet hub, a Google Project Loon balloon, on display at the Air Force Museum in Christchurch, New Zealand, on June 16, 2013. Alphabet’s Loon is to bring 4G internet access to parts of Kenya using high-altitude balloons, it was…
[ad_1] The barrage of big tech earnings reports due out next week may overwhelm investors. After all, Alphabet, Facebook and Amazon have a combined market cap of $2.27 trillion, and these stocks could see meaningful drops if they fail to impress Wall Street. The options market, however, seems to be telling shareholders, “not to worry.”…
[ad_1] Tez, Google’s payments app for India that’s built on top of the country’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI), was launched in September last year. In October, the company had announced the app had reached 5 million downloads on Google Play. By early December – a little less than three months after the launch – the…
[ad_1] The Justice Department described several ways it is attempting to work with private-sector companies on several cybercrime problems. Rosenstein said the DOJ expects to increase its work with the private sector, particularly social media providers in identifying what it calls “foreign influence activity.” The report says the FBI will assist social media companies like…
[ad_1] The mobile network Three has partnered with low cost airline EasyJet to offer customers priority benefits. Eligible Three customers will now be able to use the “Hands Free” system to get priority boarding at the airport before their flight. The offering also allows Three users to check-in a piece of hand baggage for free.…
[ad_1] The service has completely changed the way the application looks with the addition of a new sidebar that separates movies and TV shows. Netflix claims the redesign was based on “rigorous research” on what its users wanted from the service. The company’s director of product innovation, Stephen Garcia, said: “At Netflix, we are constantly…
[ad_1] Earlier this month, Apple updated its MacBook Pro lineup, with new 13-inch and 15-inch Touch Bar models, and announced they had “quieter” keyboards, but didn’t reveal whether it had fixed the dust issue that it had acknowledged earlier this year. DIY repair authority iFixit did a teardown soon after, and it revealed how the…
[ad_1] Popular image and video sharing app Instagram in a blog post on Thursday announced the launch of a new feature that would be particularly frustrating for users who like to stay discreet on the platform. In the Instagram Direct section of the app, users will now see a green dot next to profile pictures…
[ad_1] It’s big, cold, blue and 4.3 billion kilometres away. But astronomers using cutting-edge optics technology have taken an image of Neptune that is nearly as sharp as those taken from the orbiting Hubble Space Telescope. The European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (VLT), nestled in the mountains of Chile’s Atacama Desert, was recently outfitted with a new type of…
[ad_1] India’s government is holding up Facebook’s plans for a nationwide launch of its WhatsApp payments service over concerns about how users’ data will be stored and other issues, according to people familiar with the matter. The country’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology, or MeitY, has asked WhatsApp and its partner banks to supply…
[ad_1] Putting maestro Jordan Spieth dropped four shots during the final four holes yesterday. That left him six shots behind Kevin Kisner, who was the early leader at the established golfing tournament. The Open 2018 started on Thursday and will conclude on July 22. Drama unfolded on the first day of action after Jhonattan Vegas…
[ad_1] In a bid to cut down on the spread of false information and spam, WhatsApp recently added labels that indicate when a message has been forwarded. Now the company is sharpening that strategy by imposing limits on how many groups a message can be sent on to. Originally, users could forward messages on to…
[ad_1] Messaging on LinkedIn has been upgraded with a bunch of new features to deliver an enhanced conversational experience. To give more space to compose a longer message, LinkedIn has now started offering the ability to stretch the compose box. There is also a new attachment icon that appears alongside the GIF and camera icons…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Thursday reported quarterly profit of $8.9 billion (roughly Rs. 61,300 crores), boosted in part by its efforts to rival Amazon as a key cloud computing provider for retailers and other businesses. The Redmond, Washington-based company said it had net income of $1.14 (roughly Rs. 78) per share in the fiscal fourth quarter, which…
[ad_1] The South Korean tech firm is set to announce its new flagship during its “Unpacked” event on August 9. Samsung sent out invitations to the grand unveiling last month and provided a tantalising glimpse at the next generation of S Pen. The company also released a teaser video of the Note accessory that is…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Thursday said its revenue and profit climbed in the recently ended quarter, getting results from its bets on cloud computing services and artificial intelligence. The US tech giant reported its net income increased 10 percent to $8.8 billion (roughly Rs. 50,500 crores) on revenue that was up 17 percent to $30.1 billion…
[ad_1] With some major sporting events about to get underway, there’s a cheaper way to view all the action on Sky Sports. Sky’s Now TV service has just revealed a new deal which slashes the price of these popular channels by 40 percent. This means you can get three months of sports coverage for just…
[ad_1] There are a huge amount of email services for people to chose from, but the two most popular are Google’s Gmail and Microsoft Hotmail. Hotmail is used by more than half a billion people worldwide and is incredibly easy to use. You can use your Outlook account on your desktop PC or you can…
[ad_1] For more than two years, a small and stealthy group of engineers within Google has been working on software that they hope will eventually replace Android, the world’s dominant mobile operating system. As the team grows, it will have to overcome some fierce internal debate about how the software will work. The project, known…
[ad_1] China is looking to boost its high-speed transportation development as California-based Hyperloop Transportation Technologies signed a deal with the province of Guizhou to build its first track in the country. HTT and government-owned Tongren Transportation Tourism Investment Group will set up a joint venture that will build a hyperloop track and conduct research into…
[ad_1] WhatsApp said Thursday it is planning to limit message forwarding in India, where two dozen people have been killed this year in violent mobs fueled by rumours spreading on the global messaging platform, and is instituting a new global limit on forwards around the world. The company said in a blog post Thursday evening…
[ad_1] Yesterday Google was hit with the whopping fine by the European Commission. The Brussels regulator insisted the tech giant had used Android illegally to “cement its dominant position” in user searches. It was argued that Google requiring Android phone manufacturers to pre-install its Chrome browser and Search app had allowed it to gain an…
[ad_1] The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is expected to be revealed at the August 9 Unpacked event featuring a brand new S Pen stylus. Now that S Pen and the accompanying Note 9 smartphone appear to have leaked in a new image that could be the clearest look at the phablet yet. The image was…
[ad_1] In a bid to boost its customer satisfaction ratings, Virgin Media is rolling out a new service which could prove hugely popular. The broadband and TV supplier says that it will soon allow customers to track technicians when there’s a problem. This means you’ll get real-time updates of exactly where your Virgin Media repair…
[ad_1] The South Korean technology giant typically announces its smartwatches in August, meaning fans of the product line may not have to wait long to get the latest version on their wrists. Earlier this month an image leaked showing Samsung could be set to rebrand its wearable. The tech firm registered a logo for “Galaxy…
[ad_1] LEGO has revealed a new Aston Martin DB5 car like that driven by James Bond. The brick-built beauty was revealed from a silver briefcase by Moneypenny actress Naomie Harris at a launch event in the LEGO flagship store in Leicester Square, London. The car was revealed at exactly 10:07am, presumably to keep 007 fans…
[ad_1] As the trade war between Washington and Beijing rolls on and investments from the mainland come under greater scrutiny in the U.S. and Europe, Chinese companies are increasingly turning elsewhere. One country poised to gain in investment is Israel. “There’s been a secular uptrend in Chinese investment in Israel for the past eight to…
[ad_1] UPDATE: ‘He just wanted to taste Kiwi’: New Zealand kayaker says B.C. grizzly wanted to eat him A rafting guide recently got a fright when a young grizzly bear tried to chase him down the Elaho River near Squamish, B.C. In the video, which was shot on a Wedge Rafting trip, the bear can be…
[ad_1] Canadian bus operators can now lease electric buses rather than buying them upfront, a choice which investors hope will encourage Canadian cities to adopt battery-powered electric vehicles more quickly. Canadian transit authorities, such as TransLink and B.C. Transit, have been slow to adopt electric buses which can cost up to $1 million and require new infrastructure and…
[ad_1] Glimpsing the past. A rare rock formation near Nipigon is giving scientists a better understanding of what life was like on Earth over a billion years ago. We’ll hear from the Lakehead University professor who was part of this international research project. 7:09 A rare rock formation, located about 100 kilometres east of Thunder Bay,…
[ad_1] Ever fancied being Iron Man? Now you can. A jet suit created by a former commodities trader in the U.K. has gone on sale in a London department store with a price tag of $592,000. Made up of five miniature jet engines mounted on the pilot’s arms and back, and also of electronics and…
[ad_1] The Trump administration wants to change how endangered species are protected by the U.S. government. Administration officials on Thursday proposed new rules they said would advance conservation by simplifying and improving how the landmark Endangered Species Act is used. The changes include potential limits on habitat protections, an end to automatic protections for threatened plants and animals, and streamlining…
[ad_1] Comcast said Thursday it would not pursue its bid to buy assets of Twenty-First Century Fox, choosing to focus on its offer for Britain’s Sky. Shares of Comcast rose 2.6 percent on Thursday, while Fox fell 0.3 percent. The announcement ends one of the biggest battles in the media industry this year, as Comcast…
[ad_1] Insight Venture Partners, a private equity and venture capital firm, raised $6.3 billion for its latest fund, the largest amount raised by the firm for a fund to date, and the firm’s managing partners combined are the largest investors in the fund. “This is the first time that we’re the largest investors in our…
[ad_1] Marketers seem to have finally found a way to get customers to open up their emails and text notifications: emojis. Whether using a smiley face with hearts for eyes or a virtual gift box wrapped up, push notices with emojis are opened 254 percent more often than those without emojis, according to a study…
[ad_1] Microsoft is capping off a rather impressive year without any major missteps in its final report for its performance in its 2018 fiscal year, posting a quarter that seems to have been largely non-offensive to Wall Street. In the past year, Microsoft’s stock has gone up more than 40%. In the past two years,…
[ad_1] Walmart is eyeing a fourth-quarter launch for a new subscription-video service through its Vudu digital-entertainment division, according to a report from Variety. The service would provide Walmart one more tool to bring shoppers and eyeballs to its website as it amps up competition with Amazon. The Seattle giant has its own streaming video network,…
[ad_1] Microsoft will report earnings for the fourth quarter of its 2018 fiscal year, which ended on June 30, after the bell on Thursday. The company will hold a conference call with analysts at 5:30 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s what analysts are expecting: Earnings: $1.08 per share, excluding certain items, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue:…
[ad_1] Although this isn’t a stationery news site (how I should like that!), the latest collection from Moleskine is Mario-related, so technically I can write about it. There’s even a phone case and a rolltop backpack! It’s pretty much exactly what you expect: the usual solid Moleskine notebooks with a Nintendo flourish. They’re all Mario…
[ad_1] CloudHealth, a startup that enables customers to manage a multi-cloud environment, announced today it was adding support for Google Cloud Platform. With today’s addition, CloudHealth now supports AWS, Azure, VMware and Google, giving customers a fairly comprehensive view of their cloud usage. Company co-founder and CTO Joe Kinsella says the company has been seeing…
[ad_1] Amazon failed to secure enough servers to handle the traffic surge on Prime Day, causing it to launch a scaled-down backup front page and temporarily kill off all international traffic, according to internal Amazon documents obtained by CNBC. And that all took place within 15 minutes of the start of Prime Day — one…
[ad_1] India has quickly become ground zero for the smartphone wars. Last year, the country surpassed the U.S. to become the world’s No. 1 smartphone market, and manufacturers are falling over themselves to plant a flag. Samsung and Xiaomi have been the two biggest winners in recent quarters, battling it out for the top spot.…
[ad_1] When you’re a company the size of Facebook with more than two billion users on millions of servers, running thousands of configuration changes every day involving trillions of configuration checks, as you can imagine, configuration is kind of a big deal. As with most things with Facebook, they face scale problems few companies have…
[ad_1] Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer says that he and Bill Gates recommended current CEO Satya Nadella to the board, and is not surprised he’s doing a great job. In a recent interview, Bloomberg’s David Rubinstein asked Ballmer if he was surprised when he was chosen to be the company’s new leader. Ballmer said no.…
[ad_1] Declaring failure on a huge telecommunications acquisition has become old hat for Comcast CEO Brian Roberts. Comcast on Thursday formally withdrew its bid for Fox to focus on buying smaller U.K. media company Sky, as CNBC first reported earlier this week. In 2004, Comcast made an unsolicited $54 billion to acquire Disney, the very…
[ad_1] Auto executives pushed back Thursday on the Trump administration’s proposal to dramatically raise tariffs on auto imports from the EU. Industry executives, testifying at the first of a two-day hearing being held by the U.S. Commerce Department, warned against the tariffs. They said new tariffs would hurt U.S. jobs, raise prices for consumers and…
[ad_1] Elon Musk’s feud against the media has escalated over the past few months. “Essentially the issue for Tesla believers, the investors, was that this was illustrating a leader that was thin-skinned and short-tempered,” Loup Ventures founder Gene Munster told “Squawk Box” on Wednesday. “And that really isn’t the reality of who Elon Musk was.”…
[ad_1] First, Consumer Reports uses secret shoppers to buy all of its televisions at retail price. (It does this for every product it reviews.) “The reason they’re called secret shoppers is because we really don’t want manufacturers to know that we work for Consumer Reports. We don’t want to have a sample that’s souped-up given…
[ad_1] The new MacBook Pro has a thermal issue. YouTuber Dave Lee found out that the top-performing MacBook Pro can’t operate at full speed for a long time because it gets too hot. According to him, a video export in Adobe Premiere Pro is taking longer on a brand new MacBook Pro with an Intel…
[ad_1] In other news bears shit in the woods. In today’s second day Trump news: President ‘The Donald’ has seized, belatedly, on the European Commission’s announcement yesterday that it had found Google guilty of three types of illegal antitrust behavior with its Android OS since 2011 and was fining the company $5 billion; a record-breaking penalty…
[ad_1] Amazon may be in second place, but it has the better odds to cross the finish line first, two market watchers contend. “I’m going with Amazon here. I think Amazon is firing on all cylinders,” Bill Baruch, president of Blue Line Futures, told CNBC’s “Trading Nation” on Wednesday. Amazon’s outperformance in its Web Services…
[ad_1] Shares of eBay fell 9 percent in trading Thursday after the company reported sluggish growth in its marketplace business and lowered its revenue forecast for the the rest of the year. The online marketplace reported second-quarter earnings of 53 cents per share, while revenue came in at $10 billion. While the earnings were 2…
[ad_1] An internal Apple document distributed to Apple Authorized Service Providers and obtained by MacGénération and MacRumors confirms that there’s a membrane under the keyboard to “prevent debris from entering the butterfly mechanism”. This is the first time Apple acknowledges that the third generation butterfly keyboard tries to fix unreliability issues. “The keyboard has a…
[ad_1] On the heels of Google getting served a $5 billion fine by the EU over monopolistic practices related to its Android operating system, the European Commission today resurfaced another ongoing case in the world of large U.S. tech companies. The EC said that it has added to its investigation into Qualcomm and its predatory…
[ad_1] SoftBank Group Corp Chief Executive Masayoshi Son slammed on Thursday the Japanese government’s ride-sharing ban and said the country had fallen behind overseas rivals in areas such as artificial intelligence and fintech. “Ride-sharing is prohibited by law in Japan. I can’t believe there is still such a stupid country,” said Son at an annual…
[ad_1] Steve Mollenkopf, the chief executive of Qualcomm, has been waiting for a phone call with news from China. It has been a long wait. His company, which makes chips that help mobile phones communicate, has been on extended hold while the Chinese authorities review a deal that Qualcomm struck 20 months ago to buy…
[ad_1] Printrbot, a popular Kickstarter-backed 3D printer company, has shut down, leaving only a barebones website and little explanation. The founder, Brook Drumm, wrote that “Low sales led to hard decisions.” “We will be forever grateful to all the people we met and served over the years,” he wrote. “Thank you all.” Printrbot’s machines costs…
[ad_1] VLC media player app has now received the latest version 3.1 on iOS, released by VideoLAN. The update comes months after version 3.0 was launched in February this year, and brings with it an array of new features. These include support for Google’s Chromecast streaming devices, improved audio playback quality, and the ability to…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump said Thursday that the European Union’s antitrust ruling against Google is proof that it is taking “advantage of the U.S.” @realDonaldTrump: I told you so! The European Union just slapped a Five Billion Dollar fine on one of our great companies, Google. They truly have taken advantage of the U.S., but…
[ad_1] MSI on Thursday launched the PS42 professional notebook in India. The new Window 10 running notebook, which is the first in the Prestige-Series, is targeted at professionals. It features a built-in fingerprint sensor and is powered by an eighth-generation Intel Core i7 processor along with Nvidia GeForce discrete graphics. The Taiwanese company has also…
[ad_1] After spending the past seven years in accounts payable at a flooring installation company, Veronica Simmons, age 54 and living in San Diego, is looking for a new administrative position. As right hand to the chief operations officer, there’s no possibility for further promotion. She says she’s solved the company’s major problems and is…
[ad_1] Facebook has introduced a new feature that syncs all your Instagram contacts to your Facebook Messenger. This move is a part of Facebook’s increasing efforts to connect all of its services to Instagram. The company is also testing a new feature in Instagram that will allow public accounts to remove people from their followers…
[ad_1] It was a discovery that was millions of years in the making. The skull and other remains from the marine reptile, a plesiosaur, were found at the Syncrude North Mine site near Fort McMurray. Scott Fisher, a geotechnical instrumentation technician with Neegan Technical Services, discovered the reptile’s skull first in rocks that were in an…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies appointed Ruby Zefo as chief privacy officer and Simon Hania as data protection officer, a company spokeswoman told Reuters on Wednesday. The ride-hailing company has had a rough history when it comes to protecting driver and passenger data, even while it gears up for a public listing next yea Hackers previously stole information…
[ad_1] Bitcoin is showing signs of life after fluctuating between plunging, sliding and going nowhere fast for months on end. After breaking above $7,000 per coin on Tuesday to its highest level since early June, foreign exchange strategist and longtime bitcoin bear Boris Schlossberg of BK Asset Management said this week’s move could point to…
[ad_1] Her tough stance towards US firms has earned her the ire of President Donald Trump, but the EU’s antitrust chief Margrethe Vestager is showing no signs of backing down. The Danish former minister on Wednesday unveiled a record EUR 4.34 billion ($5 billion or roughly Rs. 34,300 crores) fine against Silicon Valley giant Google in…
[ad_1] Tesla shares fell on Thursday after Needham & Co downgraded the stock to sell from hold, citing a possible pick-up in Model 3 cancellations. “Based on our checks, refunds are outpacing deposits as cancellations accelerate,” wrote analyst Rajvindra Gill in the note Thursday. “The reasons are varied: extended wait times, the expiration of the…
[ad_1] During the summer of 2012, Cody Wilson hung around J&J, a car-repair shop run by two “goofy” guys in their late 20s. The Austin warehouse was crowded with engine blocks, car parts and Pelican boxes that never seemed to have been opened, but the 24-year-old came as he pleased, with access to shop machinery.…
[ad_1] Users of the “Front page of the internet” have been asking who broke Reddit today, following issues using the website’s popular app. While it doesn’t look like a worldwide outage, fans are reporting that Reddit is down tonight in many countries. Sites that track when popular apps run into server trouble are reporting an…
[ad_1] Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been “pretty stunning” but what the humanity is going to see soon will be even more profound, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has stressed. Addressing thousands of partners at the ‘Microsoft Inspire’ event here on Wednesday, Nadella said that the potential is for us to be able to…
[ad_1] The Open 2018 begins today with the world’s top golfers battling it out for the famous Claret Jug. This year’s tournament heads to Carnoustie with defending champion Jordan Spieth teeing off at 9.58 alongside Justin Rose. Rory McIlroy will take to the tricky course at 12:53 with the star feeling confident about this year’s…
[ad_1] Fortnite’s Playground LTM or Playground mode as it’s called lets you practice, strategise, and learn the nuances of the game. And while that’s the intention, it’s now more popularly known for the wacky creations made by its players such as giant N64 consoles and Mario Kart race tracks. However it was subject to an extremely…
[ad_1] OnePlus is due to roll out an update for its OnePlus 6 which will enhance the camera. The OnePlus Oxygen OS 5.1.9 update will enhance the camera in a number of ways to make photos far better, says the company. According to an in depth analysis of the beta software, by Trusted Reviews, there…
[ad_1] Ever since Twitter jumped into the mainstream social media sphere, hashtags have become a common part of online conversations with platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Google+ also adopting them. Yet another Google-owned platform, this time YouTube, has now added support for hashtags that will start showing up for users on top of a video’s…
[ad_1] Ideas are a dime a dozen, or so they say; it’s all in the execution. However, there’s a big difference between an idea that’s capable of going the distance and one that, try as you might, is destined to fall flat. So how can you tell if you’re onto a winner? Well, according to…
[ad_1] An Alberta scientist is trying to put bees on a diet. Many bees are often given a syrup as food after their honey is harvested for humans. But Danica Baines, with Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, says right now the busy insects drink the equivalent of Slurpees when they should be snacking on fruit smoothies. “The syrup consists…
[ad_1] India’s leading ride-sharing provider Ola has entered Adelaide in Australia to offer cab service to customers, the company said on Thursday. “We encourage Adelaidians to download our application (app) and experience the Ola way to move,” said Ola Australia Managing Director Simon Smith in a statement here. The online cab aggregator, which entered Australia…
[ad_1] An association aimed to promote Canadian companies involved in the space industry has declared itself insolvent and has ceased operations. Michelle Mendes, executive director and president of the Canadian Space Commerce Association, says on its website that the move comes after significant consideration and exploring all options. The CSCA official stressed that the decision…
[ad_1] Chinese mobile service giant Didi Chuxing and Tokyo-based SoftBank Corp. have set up a joint venture for taxi-hailing in Japan. The companies announced the plan Thursday for a service that will use artificial intelligence and data analysis on a technology platform available for free to all taxi companies in Japan. The service will roll…
[ad_1] This should be a big year for sockeye on Canada’s most important salmon river, but the threat of high water temperatures and several years of low fish survival is putting that forecast at risk. Fisheries and Oceans Canada is forecasting 14 million sockeye will return to the Fraser River in 2018, which is on…
[ad_1] Many of Nvidia’s 10-series GPUs have been around for the better part of two years. While there have been leaked prototypes, hints from OEMs, and even graphics card component makers suggesting that an announcement for Nvidia’s next-generation GPUs is in the offing, is the GeForce GTX 10-series still worth buying right now? We find…
[ad_1] Three bear cubs that were discovered trapped inside a roadside washroom last year have now been returned home to Banff National Park. The black bear cubs were found by a motorist at a roadside facility at the Vermilion Lakes turnout just west of the Banff townsite on April 1, 2017. After an exhaustive search…
[ad_1] The European Union slapped Google with a $5 billion (roughly Rs. 34,400 crores) fine Wednesday, alleging that the tech giant has acted in an uncompetitive manner by pre-loading apps and its services, such as Google search and the Chrome browser, onto Android phones. But as the specifics of the complaint are being pored over,…
[ad_1] Joshua Lott | Getty Images Travelers wait in line at O’Hare International Airport on December 23, 2016. There’s a bigger danger lurking in U.S. airports than mediocre meals: public Wi-Fi networks. The convenience of these easy ways to connect online is often masked by the fact that many are unencrypted, insecure or improperly configured,…
[ad_1] The price of bitcoin could reach up to $40,000 as it becomes more accepted and easier to trade, billionaire investor Marc Lasry told CNBC on Wednesday. “As it gets more into the mainstream, and as more markets end up allowing it to trade where it’s freely tradable, to me that’s more of the bet,”…
[ad_1] Anyone who follows George Takei on Twitter can tell you that Star Trek‘s original Sulu is not a fan of President Donald Trump. But he’s found a new way to express that criticism — not just in tweets, interviews and op-eds, but also in an augmented reality app called House of Cats. The app…
[ad_1] A European Union antitrust judgement against Google on Wednesday invites more competition from software developers including Microsoft Corp, Amazon.com, and Samsung Electronics Co, but still leaves them at an disadvantage, industry executives and analysts told Reuters. The EU found that the Alphabet unit illegally bolstered its dominance in the mobile business since 2011 by forcing…
[ad_1] Amazon said Wednesday that this year’s Prime Day was its “biggest in history” as Prime members purchased more than 100 million products during this year’s event. The Seattle giant did not provide specifics, and added it had more sign-ups for Prime on July 16 than any previous day in the company’s history. Amazon uses…
[ad_1] Duolingo is a popular platform for learning new languages with apps on Android, iOS, as well as Windows, apart from its website. The service has made learning simple and fun by gamification of the entire experience. Having earlier launched English-learning courses for speakers of Hindi and several other Indian languages, Duolingo has now released…
[ad_1] “This is the best possible outcome,” Ariane Cornell, Blue Origin’s head of astronaut strategy and sales, said during the webcast. The company also said it had included items from its employees on board the rocket. The opportunity is a part of Blue Origin’s internal “Fly My Stuff” program, which will send their belongings into…
[ad_1] Obama said the rapid pace of adoption of artificial intelligence technology is going to make it harder to ensure every individual has a good job, and as a result, leaders will have to be creative in ensuring everyone in a society is able to afford to live. The rise of automation is expected to…
[ad_1] Short seller Jim Chanos hit back at Elon Musk on Wednesday, accusing the billionaire entrepreneur of over-promising on Tesla and The Boring Co.’s capabilities. “What bothers me is not so much the personal stuff and the personal attacks. I’m used to that. It’s the willingness to say things that I think he knows are…
[ad_1] Tencent will step up its efforts to expand its payment service WeChat Pay to the U.S., an executive at the Chinese technology giant told CNBC, hinting at more merchants coming on board later this year. WeChat Pay allows users to show stores a barcode on their smartphone via the Tencent-owned WeChat messaging app. The…
[ad_1] Lynne Sladky | AP In this Tuesday, July 17, 2018 photo, a FedEx employee delivers packages in Miami. The riches of Prime Day extended to retailers beyond Amazon. According to Adobe Analytics, retailers with more than $1 billion in revenue saw a 54 percent increase in sales compared with an average Tuesday, a seeming…
[ad_1] Oaktree Capital’s Howard Marks is cautious on several high-flying technology growth stocks. The investor was asked if he was worried about the soaring prices of FANG stocks, referring to the shares of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google-parent Alphabet. “Yes. They are great companies, but ETFs may have accentuated the flow of capital into those…
[ad_1] Former advisor to President Trump Steve Bannon says he owns bitcoin and reiterated that he is working on his own cryptocurrency. “I like bitcoin. I own bitcoin,” Bannon said during a wide-ranging interview at the Delivering Alpha conference in New York, presented by CNBC and Institutional Investor. Bannon has said earlier that he believes…
[ad_1] Video game engagement continues to grow and that could mean big returns for investors interested in the space, Samantha Greenberg, chief investment officer and managing partner at Margate Capital Management, told CNBC. As technology expands so will video content, products, virtual reality, special events and video game tournaments. These are just some of the…
[ad_1] Creatures that live in the depths of the oceans are often extremely fragile, making their collection a difficult affair. A new polyhedral sample-collection mechanism acts like an “underwater Pokéball,” allowing scientists to catch ’em all without destroying their soft, squishy bodies in the process. The ball is technically a dodecahedron that closes softly around…
[ad_1] The Galaxy Note 9 won’t be announced until August. You wouldn’t know it by reading the internet, however. Every nook and cranny of the upcoming phablet has been bared for the world, in a series of leaks over the past several weeks. Sure, not all of them will pan out, but plenty have come…
[ad_1] For investors who are tired of Cramer’s endless iterations on FANG, his well-known acronym for the stocks of Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Google, now Alphabet, the “Mad Money” host offered up some new recommendations. He pointed to his Delivering Alpha interview with Edgar Wachenheim, chairman of Greenhaven Associates, wildly successful under-the-radar investor and, to…
[ad_1] The key to IBM’s robust blockchain business stems from three guarantees the sprawling technology company can make to its clients, Senior Vice President of IBM Global Markets Martin Schroeter said Wednesday. “People love our blockchain,” Shroeter told Jim Cramer, host of CNBC’s “Mad Money,” in an interview. “We have more blockchains running today in…
[ad_1] Cisco shares climbed almost 4 percent in extended trading after MarketWatch reported that Amazon Web Services is not planning to start selling network switches, countering a story last week that said AWS was looking to enter the market. In a statement that Cisco confirmed to CNBC, “Cisco and AWS have a longstanding customer and…
[ad_1] Facebook will begin removing from its platform false information that is intended to incite violence and other physical harm. “Reducing the distribution of misinformation—rather than removing it outright—strikes the right balance between free expression and a safe and authentic community,” a Facebook spokesperson said in a statement to CNBC. “There are certain forms of…
[ad_1] To H. R. Haldeman From: Bill Safire July 18, 1969. IN EVENT OF MOON DISASTER: Fate has ordained that the men who went to the moon to explore in peace will stay on the moon to rest in peace. These brave men, Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, know that there is no hope for…
[ad_1] There might be a quadrillion tons of diamond hiding deep underneath Earth’s surface, according to a new study. But it will be a while until diamonds are every girl’s best friend: the lavish gems are located so deep, no drill in existence can reach them. Located over 100 miles below Earth’s tectonic plates are…
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[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Ginni Rometty, chief executive officer of International Business Machines Corp. IBM will report second-quarter earnings after the bell on Wednesday. The company will hold a press conference with analysts at 5 p.m. Eastern time. Here’s what analysts are expecting: Earnings: $3.04 per share, excluding certain items, according…
[ad_1] Apple just released the third version of the iOS 12 beta as part of the public beta program. It means that everyone can now install a development build of iOS 12, the next major version of the operating system for iPhone and iPad. Don’t forget this is still a beta version. Things will crash,…
[ad_1] Amazon has crushed many iconic American companies, but auto parts retailers like O’Reilly and AutoZone have managed to fend them off. For now. Stores that sell car batteries, mufflers and other parts are facing new pressure since Amazon started selling auto parts online last year. Big retailers like Walmart have also jumped into the…
[ad_1] Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg contradicted himself when explaining how the company thinks about and deals with the spread of misinformation on the platform, highlighting the complicated struggle between Facebook‘s mission of being a platform for people to express themselves and the very real harm done by people intentionally spreading fake news. It also suggests…
[ad_1] Every time you touch your phone, you are likely touching glass made by Corning, which creates some of the toughest glass in the world. Corning has been making glass for smartphones for years, even as far back as the first iPhone in 2007. Just last year, Apple invested $200 million in the company’s R&D…
[ad_1] Al Drago | Bloomberg | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg, chief executive officer and founder of Facebook Inc., speaks during a joint hearing of the Senate Judiciary and Commerce Committees in Washington, D.C., U.S., on Tuesday, April 10, 2018. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is pushing back on President Donald Trump‘s wobbly response to alleged Russian…
[ad_1] Alongside the initial fine, Google is potentially faced with additional penalties. If it doesn’t change the conduct, as required by the EU, within 90 days, the company could face charges of up to 5 percent of the average daily worldwide revenue of Alphabet, Google’s parent company, despite its appeal. Google will get to decide…
[ad_1] In the early morning on Sunday, July 15, Intel broke the Guinness World Record for simultaneously flying the most unmanned aerial vehicles. The company flew 2,018 drones in Folsom, California, for a show that lasted about 5 minutes. It featured imagery that celebrated Intel’s 50th anniversary. The previous record was 1,374 drones, set back…
[ad_1] Netflix will soon be streaming on the airwaves thanks to a partnership with Sirius XM. The company said on Wednesday it will be creating a comedy channel for the satellite radio provider. The radio channel’s focus is going to be stand up excerpts and highlights from its original comedy programming, a spokesperson told CNBC.…
[ad_1] Microsoft is teasing new Xbox hardware and accessories will launch at Gamescom in Germany next month. Details are limited. The word comes from a Microsoft blog post about the event in which it lists the date and time of the August 21 event, which will feature “lots of news, all-new Xbox hardware and accessories,…
[ad_1] Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Samsung’s working on phone with a folding screen. And it’s arriving soonish. You’d be entirely forgiven if you rolled your eyes at that one, or at the very least took the whole thing with a sufficiently massive grain of salt. This particular rumor has been floating…
[ad_1] Okta, the cloud identity management company, announced today it has purchased a startup called ScaleFT to bring the Zero Trust concept to the Okta platform. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. While Zero Trust isn’t exactly new to a cloud identity management company like Okta, acquiring ScaleFT gives them a solid cloud-based Zero…
[ad_1] Google will be fined about EUR 4.3 billion ($5 billion) by the European Union over apps for Android mobile devices, setting a record for antitrust penalties, according to a person familiar with the EU decision. The penalty – the same amount the Netherlands contributes to the EU budget every year – is due to be announced…
[ad_1] EU commissioner for competition Margrethe Vestager said Google has to “stop this behavior” in an interview with CNBC Wednesday, following a record antitrust fine against the company. “The thing that Google has to do now is of course to stop,” Vestager told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street.” “This of course will free up the…
[ad_1] Cyber-security giant Symantec Corp on Wednesday introduced a new solution based on threat isolation technology which blocks advanced email attacks on end-user devices. Named “Email Threat Isolation”, the solution helps protect users against spear phishing, credential theft, account takeover and ransomware attacks, the company said in a statement. The email security solution with integrated…
[ad_1] Google implied Wednesday that it may no longer be able to offer the Android operating system to device manufacturers for free, following a $5 billion antitrust fine from the European Union. “So far, the Android business model has meant that we haven’t had to charge phone makers for our technology,” Google CEO Sundar Punchai…
[ad_1] Online ticketing platform BookMyShow on Wednesday said it has raised $100 million (roughly Rs. 685 crores) in Series D funding round led by private equity firm TPG Growth. The round also saw participation from existing investors, Bigtree Entertainment, which owns BookMyShow, said in a statement. “This fresh infusion of funds will fuel BookMyShow’s growth…
[ad_1] When Satya Nadella made his first public appearance as the new CEO of Microsoft in 2014, he did something very unusual for a leader of the software giant. “He made a pronouncement on day one — the world is about cloud first, mobile first,” Microsoft Chairman John Thompson told a group of investors, entrepreneurs…
[ad_1] HP Z2 Mini and HP Z2 Tower HP on Wednesday unveiled its ‘Z2’ lineup of entry workstations for high-performance jobs at an event in Singapore. The devices will cater to product designers, architects, creative professionals, original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), educators, and financial workers, HP said. “The number one thing we hear from creative professionals…
[ad_1] Netflix just lost $9 billion in market cap. It could have been so much worse. At session lows on Tuesday, the stock was down 14 percent – if it had closed there, it would have been its worst day since August 2016. That bulls rushed in to save Netflix from the session’s worst was…
[ad_1] The EU hit Google on Wednesday with the biggest fine ever against a company for abuse of a dominant market position – surpassing a previous record also held by Google. Here are the five largest antitrust fines in the EU’s history: 1. Google Android (2018)The European Commission fines Google a record EUR 4.34 billion ($5…
[ad_1] There were other winners on Prime Day this year besides Amazon. Target said Wednesday morning that Tuesday proved to be “the highest single day of traffic and sales” on its website so far this year. Although Prime Day was an event created by Amazon to celebrate its 20th anniversary several years ago, the marathon…
[ad_1] Once upon a time, it looked like cloud-based serviced would become the central hub for analyzing all IoT data. But it didn’t quite turn out that way because most IoT solutions simply generate too much data to do this effectively and the round-trip to the data center doesn’t work for applications that have to…
[ad_1] EU regulators hit Google with a record EUR 4.34 billion ($5 billion or roughly Rs. 34,300 crores) antitrust fine on Wednesday for using its Android mobile operating system to squeeze out rivals. The penalty is nearly double the previous record of EUR 2.4 billion (roughly Rs. 19,100 crores) which the US tech company was ordered to…
[ad_1] The copper cable that currently transmits internet data could be cut-off as fibre optic broadband rolls out more widely in the UK. Currently around 20 million households with phone and internet connections rely on the older copper cabling to stay connected. Chancellor Philip Hammond has said that a switch off date for copper cables…
[ad_1] Google has been fined a record breaking €4.34 billion (~$5BN) by European antitrust regulators for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system. Competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager has tweeted to confirm the penalty ahead of a press conference about to take place. Stay tuned for more details as we get them. Fine of…
[ad_1] Facebook-owned Instagram is working on a non-SMS, two-factor authentication system that would work with security apps like Google Authenticator and generate a special login code in case of theft or hacking. “We’re continuing to improve the security of Instagram accounts, including strengthening 2-factor authentication,” TechCrunch quoted an Instagram spokesperson as saying. A prototype version…
[ad_1] Samsung has announced a new type of RAM which it says is an industry first and should make future smartphones faster and more power efficient. While the Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is expected to launch at the August 9 Unpacked event, likely with current generation RAM, the Galaxy S10 could bring this world first…
[ad_1] WhatsApp Mute button in notifications was spotted in testing earlier WhatsApp last week reportedly started testing ‘Mark as Read’ and ‘Mute’ buttons to make it easier for users to take actions on new WhatsApp messages directly from their notifications. Now, the Facebook-backed instant messaging app has rolled out the Mute button for all users…
[ad_1] Samsung is set to unveil its Galaxy Note 9 on August 9 and now a photo of the smartphone has appeared online. The picture shows the Samsung CEO, DJ Koh, sat down using the S Pen on the new Galaxy Note 9. The photo, shared on Twitter, was taken at a Chinese media event.…
[ad_1] EE has announced a new range of portable broadband devices and 4G price plans aimed at bringing fast speeds to those on the move. The mobile operator is launching new 4GEE WiFi and 4GEE WiFi Mini products which can be used to connect up to 20 devices when away from fixed line broadband. The new, CAT…
[ad_1] China’s iQiyi, often likened to US streaming giant Netflix, has snapped up domestic game maker Skymoons in a deal that could be worth nearly CNY 2 billion ($298.59 million) as it looks to broaden its offerings following a US listing. The online video platform, majority-owned by Internet search firm Baidu, said in a statement late on…
[ad_1] Patricia de Melo Moreira | Getty Images People pass by the Google logo at the Web Summit in Lisbon on November 8, 2017 European Union regulators will slap Alphabet-owned Google with a $5 billion antitrust fine for abusing the dominance of its Android mobile operating system, according to reports. The EU first opened its…
[ad_1] A decision in a long running EU antitrust probe of Google’s Android OS is due to land shortly. European Commission officials are trailing a press conference with competition commissioner Margrethe Vestager — to announce an “antitrust decision” at 1pm CET, with a link to watch the event streamed live. Bloomberg is reporting the EU’s…
[ad_1] Netflix on Tuesday announced that its speed testing platform Fast.com is getting new functionality. The company is adding the ability to view upload speeds as well as connection latency on the service that was launched a couple of years ago, back in May 2016. In terms of latency, Fast.com will now measure ping in…
[ad_1] There’s a fresh warning today for anyone who streams illegally via Kodi-style set-top boxes. These devices have grown in popularity in recent years and often come fully-loaded with add-ons that allow users to access a swathe of premium content, such as sports and movies, without paying for a subscription. It’s worth remembering that Kodi…
[ad_1] Alto’s Odyssey was launched a few months ago for iOS users by Snowman, while Android pre-registrations begun in June. Pre-registrations are for all those users who want to be notified as soon as the game arrives on Google Play. Now, the company has announced that the game is launching on Android on July 26.…
[ad_1] Snapchat is down yet again. After the app hit major issues last week with a crash problem, it seems users are having trouble tonight. Independent website Down Detector has received hundreds of reports that Snapchat is down. The outage tracker monitors social mentions around certain topics to detect outages across the world. The issues…
[ad_1] TRAI Chairman RS Sharma has said that apps should collect minimal data just as UIDAI does to give 12-digit Aadhaar numbers to people. Some apps are ridiculously collecting more-than-required data and the customers are unaware of what is being done with it, he said. “For Aadhaar enrolment, we collect just four set of data…
[ad_1] Prior to the summer of 2017, the one thing researchers knew about the depths of the Labrador Sea was that they didn’t know much. “We really knew virtually nothing of what was living in the bottom,” said David Cote, a research scientist with the Department of Fisheries and Oceans (DFO). These deep water corals were found…
[ad_1] Google Assistant is rolling out a new visual overview that will offer proactive suggestions and personalised information for your day. The fresh experience, which is designed to serve information in the form of “visual snapshot” – similar to cards on the dated Google Now, was announced at I/O 2018 back in early May. It…
[ad_1] When asked whether he believed some of the world’s largest tech giants could eventually try to outbid Disney and Comcast, Liberum’s Whittaker said that while FANGs (Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, Google) certainly had the “cash power” to do so, it did not appear to be a strategic priority for them. “In the case of Facebook…
[ad_1] Yahoo Messenger, the pioneering messaging app that changed the way users communicated over the Internet, is now officially dead. To recall, California-based company Yahoo announced last month that it would be killing off Yahoo Messenger. Users can now no longer access chats in-app, and the service will no longer work. While you cannot log…
[ad_1] Its scientific name means giant misshapen phallus, and indeed the corpse flower’s notorious stench is all about sex — and trickery. A corpse flower is currently in bloom at Vancouver’s Bloedel Conservatory, drawing lines hours long for a whiff of a plant that smells like rotten flesh, with notes of old fish and “decayed…
[ad_1] In 2011, Netflix executives began casting for a new show called House of Cards, gambling that high-end original television could be produced and distributed entirely outside traditional Hollywood. Seven years later, that bet has turned into one of the great success stories in the history of entertainment. Netflix last week had more Emmy nominations than…
[ad_1] P.E.I. potato growers say they’re planting more mustard than ever in 2018. They’re finding the bright yellow crop does more than fight wireworm — it also gives them a nice bump in potato yields in fields where mustard was planted first. It almost feels too good to be true.— Troy Webster Hans Wilting runs Linden Lee Farm in Meadowbank, P.E.I., and…
[ad_1] Already this month, Jasper has seen 10 times as much rain as it did in all of July 2017. Yet fears about wildfires are growing in the mountain town, fuelled by the rusty, red colour of the surrounding forests — a visible reminder of the spreading pine beetle infestation and the area’s increasing vulnerability to a…
[ad_1] A team of astronomers looking for a proposed planet past the orbit of Pluto got a surprise of their own when they discovered new moons around Jupiter. Twelve, to be exact. The moons are small, ranging from just one kilometre to three kilometres in width. It now brings Jupiter’s moon count up to 79,…
[ad_1] The statistics in her recently published paper say it all: hundreds of glaciers in Canada’s High Arctic are shrinking and many are likely to disappear completely. But for Adrienne White, seven field seasons along the northern reaches of Ellesmere Island give the numbers real-world immediacy. They all retreated. Nothing is growing.– Adrienne White, University of Ottawa glaciologist…
[ad_1] Chinese ride-hailing app Didi Chuxing has received a $500 million investment from U.S. travel firm Booking Holdings, in a boost for its aggressive plan to enter new markets outside of China. The two firms announced the investment in a joint statement on Tuesday but its details were not disclosed. Didi, which is expected to…
[ad_1] Netflix‘s less-than-stellar second-quarter results may indicate the streaming video giant is hitting a “maturity wall,” B. Riley FBR media analyst Barton Crockett told CNBC on Tuesday. “They had a hiccup last night,” Crockett said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “What I think we have to watch out for is maybe the kind of high-wire…
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — It’s official: President Trump is the single biggest political advertiser on Facebook. Mr. Trump and his political action committee spent $274,000 on ads on the social network since early May, outpacing the second-biggest spender, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, a nonprofit organization that provides reproductive health care. Planned Parenthood spent just…
[ad_1] While genetic testing for medicine is gaining traction, interest in using genetic testing for health and wellness is another quickly growing market. Given the industry’s rapid growth, it was only a matter of time that genetic testing would be paired with counseling and preventative health advice. A growing number of companies are offering just…
[ad_1] Shares of Texas Instruments fell about 2 percent in after-hours trade Tuesday. The stock has climbed more than 10 percent so far this year. Separately, the company reported adjusted second-quarter earnings of $1.37 a share on $4.02 billion in revenue. Texas Instruments is scheduled to post full financial results on July 24. Texas Instruments…
[ad_1] Elon Musk is no stranger to headlines, drawing eyes and laughs with outlandish tweets and good-natured antics, but tech VC Gene Munster of Loup Ventures says Musk’s latest stunt crossed a line. “Your behavior is fueling an unhelpful perception of your leadership – thin-skinned and short-tempered,” Loup Ventures’ Munster wrote in an open letter…
[ad_1] While some app makers have cheered this potential outcome, Gary Reback, the antitrust lawyer known for spearheading the efforts that led to the suit against Microsoft, is less hopeful that much will change. He says that issues highlighted in last years’ ruling on Google’s shopping service haven’t been fixed, in part because the decision…
[ad_1] Netflix 62% Amazon 60% Facebook 20% Apple 15% Alphabet 8% Source: Factset That is an enormous difference in earnings growth, and it is almost perfectly reflected in the stock performance. Netflix is the biggest performer, followed by Amazon and Facebook. Apple and Alphabet have similar performance, up 13 and 14 percent respectively. Viewed from…
[ad_1] When the stock of Netflix rebounded on Tuesday, driving the Nasdaq to a 52-week high, CNBC’s Jim Cramer knew he had to explain Netflix’s rally, especially after the company failed to appease investors with its second-quarter earnings report. “Of course the stock was laid to waste,” the “Mad Money” host said. “The mystery here…
[ad_1] Hackers can steal your phone number by reassigning it to a different SIM card, use it to reset your passwords, steal your Instagram and other accounts, and sell them for Bitcoin. As detailed in a harrowing Motherboard article today, Instagram accounts are especially vulnerable because the app only offers two-factor authentication through SMS that…
[ad_1] Airbnb’s policy and public affairs head Chris Lehane launched into an impassioned diatribe on Tuesday that condemned the “bellhop politics” he said are motivating New York City’s resistance to Airbnb. “Members of city council are nothing more than bellhops for the big hotel corporations. And it’s no surprise this type of bellhop politics has…
[ad_1] On July 9, Amazon put out a press release saying that Prime Day, the giant upcoming shopping extravaganza, “has proven to be a huge growth opportunity for many small and medium-sized businesses.” That same day, an online seller named Diana Schappert got an email from an Amazon employee who goes by Paul. It came…
[ad_1] Uber has made big moves in the transportation space recently, adding bike-sharing and e-scooters to its platform. Uber’s Rachel Holt, who runs these “new modalities” talked to CNBC about Uber’s future strategy in the space. “We see ourselves as being a lot more than just rides. We really want to be a one stop,…
[ad_1] Issues with Google Cloud Platform and Domains hit several major websites and apps on Tuesday. Users reported issues with websites with Google domains, like Breitbart and Drudge Report, as well as apps hosted on the Google Cloud Platform, including Snapchat, Discord and Spotify. @snapchatsupport tweet: Many Snapchatters are having trouble using the app as…
[ad_1] With a Fortnite Android release date on the horizon Epic Games plans to further its investment in Amazon Web Services (AWS) for Fortnite. The game is currently available on PS4, Xbox One, PC, Nintendo Switch, and iOS. According to a prepared statement company also plans to leverage AWS to “build new games” though none have been…
[ad_1] Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix. Netflix is paring some losses Tuesday, down just 5 percent by 12:15 EDT, after initially falling as much as 14 percent on a big miss on subscriber growth. The stock was earlier on pace for its worst day in two…
[ad_1] I have to hand it to 8BitDo. At first I thought they were just opportunistically hawking cheap hunks of plastic in an era of unparalleled nostalgia for retro games, but… well, who am I kidding? That’s exactly what they’re doing. But they’re doing it well. And these new DIY kits are the latest sign…
[ad_1] With the upcoming release of iOS 12, Apple is introducing a new app called Shortcuts that will allow users to build custom voice commands for Siri that can be used to kick off a variety of actions in apps. While some apps will directly prompt users to add a Shortcut to Siri, the new…
[ad_1] Though subscriber rates are slowing, Netflix may have another area of growth: Getting people to spend more time watching its content. “We’re still a small fraction of every society’s overall viewing,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said on a call with investors on Monday. “So I think there’s still room to go there.” Shares of…
[ad_1] Researchers at Purdue University and the University of Virginia are now able to create “tiny, thin-film electronic circuits peelable from a surface,” the first step in creating an unobtrusive Internet-of-Things solution. The peelable stickers can sit flush to an object’s surface and be used as sensors or wireless communications systems. The biggest difference between…
[ad_1] Facebook, Twitter and Alphabet-owned YouTube went before Congress again Tuesday to address claims of conservative bias, and at least one Democratic representative thought it was ridiculous. “So let me just ask some very basic questions so the American public understands what a dumb hearing this entire hearing is,” said Ted Lieu, a Democratic representative…
[ad_1] It took Sonos more than a month, but its new home theater speaker is now available. You can buy it on Sonos’ official website for $399 (or €449 if you live in Europe). It’s also available on Amazon and other retailers. The Beam is an affordable soundbar for your TV. This isn’t the company’s…
[ad_1] Shares of Amazon rebounded Tuesday afternoon after a report said Prime Day sales on the e-tailer’s third-party marketplace were up nearly 90 percent during the first 12 hours of the event from a year ago. That’s according to Feedvisor, an algorithmic pricing and business intelligence platform for online retailers, which monitors purchases made on…
[ad_1] At Google, the company offers a ‘Grab and Go’ program that allows employees to use self-service stations to quickly borrow and return Chromebooks without having to go through a lengthy IT approval process. Now, it’s bringing this same idea to other businesses. Chromebooks have found their place in education and a number of larger…
[ad_1] Netflix‘s weak subscribers numbers debunked the “sky’s the limit” theory surrounding the stock, and now investors are taking profits, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Tuesday. Shares of Netflix were tanking about 8 percent in midmorning trading Tuesday after the streaming giant reported membership growth numbers that came in below analyst forecasts. But so far in…
[ad_1] Apple and a growing network of hospitals and doctors’ offices will now let you import your health history right into your iPhone. We’ll show you how. First, some background. Apple is trying to fix a longstanding problem in health care. Most hospitals and clinics have an electronic health record provider, which includes a “portal”…
[ad_1] Once a seemingly unstoppable retail juggernaut, Walmart’s been scrambling to define its digitally in this Amazon-defined era. This morning, the company announced that it’s struck a five-year deal with Microsoft, Amazon’s chief cloud competitor. These sorts of partnerships are a regular occurrence for AWS — in fact, it announced one with Fortnite maker Epic…
[ad_1] Oil & Gas E&P (XOP): up 13 percent Biotech (IBB): up 10 percent Aerospace/Defense (ITA): up 7 percent Russell 2000 (IWM): up 9 percent Source: CNBC I’m not trying to be Pollyannaish. There is plenty of broad weakness. Financials are down on a flattening yield curve, and industrial and material stocks are down on…
[ad_1] “They could go off scuttling around reaching all different parts of the combustion chamber,” said James Kell, technology specialist at Rolls-Royce. Speaking at the Farnborough International Airshow in England, Kell added that the robots could save engineers a lot of time. “If we did it conventionally it would take us five hours; with these…
[ad_1] Amazon‘s website suffered a massive glitch during the worst time possible: the start of Prime Day, its largest shopping event of the year. And it lasted for hours. As traffic funneled to Amazon.com Monday at 3 p.m. ET, the start of Prime Day, looking for deals, most users with were greeted with images of…
[ad_1] As Amazon looks to increasingly expand its cashier-less grocery stories — called Amazon Go – across different regions, there’s at least one startup hoping to end up everywhere else beyond Amazon’s empire. Standard Cognition aims to help businesses create that kind of checkout experience based on machine vision, using image recognition to figure out…
[ad_1] Netflix opened more than 13 percent lower Tuesday after a big miss on subscriber growth, on pace for the stock’s worst day in nearly four years. But the stock has a history of big rebounds. Shares of Netflix fell by at least 10 percent on 13 occasions in the last decade, according to a…
[ad_1] Let’s be real: you are most certainly never going to be as good as Steve Nash, Chris Paul, James Harden — or really any professional NBA player. But it probably won’t stop you from trying to practice or model your game around your favorite players, and spend hours upon hours figuring out how to get…
[ad_1] Petco is trying to Amazon-proof its business. Time will tell if the strategy really works. The privately held pet-goods retailer has just opened a new service-focused store that aims to give shoppers something they can’t buy online. A pilot location opened this past Friday in San Marcos, California. Called PetCoach, it offers grooming, training,…
[ad_1] Investors’ nerves are getting jangled over what has been the most popular tech trade in the stock market, and are showing increasing signs that they’re getting ready to bail. Market pros responding to the July Bank of America Merrill Lynch Fund Managers Survey labeled the “FAANG + BAT” trade the most-crowded for the sixth…
[ad_1] Dialpad announced a $50 million Series D investment today, giving the company plenty of capital to keep expanding its business communications platform. The round was led by Iconiq Capital with help from existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Amasia, Scale Ventures, Section 32 and Work-Bench. With today’s round, the company has now raised $120 million. As…
[ad_1] Several Wall Street firms are downplaying Netflix’s big subscriber miss, remaining optimistic over the company’s attractive long term prospects. On Monday the company reported its second-quarter financial results. Netflix added 5.15 million memberships during the quarter missing the Wall Street consensus of 6.34 million. Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes Netflix will return to…
[ad_1] Netflix shares were downgraded by Deutsche Bank from “buy” to “hold’ on Tuesday, following the streaming company’s huge second quarter subscriber miss on Monday. “The slowdown in growth is not thesis changing, but does require a re-evaluation of value and consideration of the stock’s year to date appreciation from $200 per share,” Deutsche Bank…
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies will generate as many jobs in the U.K. as they displace over the next 20 years, according to analysis published Tuesday by audit firm PwC. The research states that while AI could displace roughly 7 million jobs in the country, it could also create 7.2 million jobs, resulting…
[ad_1] The European Union reached a deal on Tuesday allowing businesses to seamlessly transfer personal data between the bloc and Japan, deepening economic links as the two sides also agree a free-trade pact. The EU and Japan concluded several years of data talks in Tokyo in the margins of a bilateral summit and the deal…
[ad_1] The broadband and TV price wars continue with Virgin Media launching a new deal aimed at customers wanting the ultimate bundle. This new offer gives those signing a 12-month contract the chance to get over 260 channels, super fast VIVID 350 broadband, inclusive calls to mobiles and landlines plus two TIVO V6 boxes for…
[ad_1] WhatsApp Mute button in notifications was spotted in testing earlier WhatsApp last week reportedly started testing ‘Mark as Read’ and ‘Mute’ buttons to make it easier for users to take actions on new WhatsApp messages directly from their notifications. Now, the Facebook-backed instant messaging app has rolled out the Mute button for all users…
[ad_1] The Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) on Monday released the recommendations on “Privacy, Security and Ownership of Data in the Telecom Sector”, where it has mentioned each user owns his/her personal information/ data collected by/stored with the entities in the digital ecosystem. “The entities, controlling and processing such data, are mere custodians and…
[ad_1] Users have a big decision to make when deciding which email service they want to use: Hotmail, or Gmail. There are a wealth of options for users to take advantage of, but the two most popular free-to-use services are battling for roughly 1.5 billion users worldwide. If you have a Microsoft Hotmail account and…
[ad_1] World Emoji Day 2018, similar to each iteration since 2014, is on Tuesday, July 17. World Emoji Day was founded by Jeremy Burge, the creator of Emojipedia, which is an unofficial Wikipedia for emojis. Ever since instant messaging took over the reins of day-to-day communication, emojis or emoticons have been frequently used by people…
[ad_1] The detailed medical histories and contact information of possibly tens of thousands of home-care patients in Ontario are allegedly being held for ransom by thieves who recently raided the computer systems of a health-care provider. CarePartners, which provides home medical care services on behalf of the Ontario government, announced last month that it had…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Monday announced an update to its Skype desktop client for Linux, macOS, and Windows. Called Skype v8.0, the latest version replaces the previously active Skype v7.0 for desktop, which was also known as Skype classic. The latest version will be the only one that will work after September 1, thus users of…
[ad_1] Retail giant Walmart signed a deal to use Microsoft’s cloud and artificial intelligence technology on Tuesday, deepening a strategic partnership between two of Amazon’s major rivals. The five-year agreement is designed to leverage the full range of Microsoft’s cloud solutions in order to make shopping quicker and easier for customers, Walmart said. The agreement…
[ad_1] WhatsApp last week reportedly started testing ‘Mark as Read’ and ‘Mute’ buttons to make it easier for users to take actions on new WhatsApp messages directly from their notifications. Now, the Facebook-backed instant messaging app has rolled out the Mute button for all users having the latest WhatsApp beta version on their Android devices.…
[ad_1] Samsung’s next smartwatch, the Gear S4, could arrive next month if the latest reports are to be believed. This next generation wearable looks set to be launched at the IFA technology show in Berlin which opens its doors on August 31. This rumoured release date comes courtesy of Korean publication Yonhap News, who are…
[ad_1] Netflix’s subscriber growth fell short of Wall Street expectations on Monday, sending shares of the normally high-flying stock down 14 percent on fears that the company’s rapid expansion is slowing. The streaming video pioneer added 5.2 million customers from April through June, 1 million fewer than forecasts from Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S, as it added new…
[ad_1] Thousands of users are reporting Amazon down today, with the website not loading in the United States. This problem appears to be affecting the Amazon.com website, and not the UK Amazon site. One affected user writes: “I watched items all day and now I missed out, they are 100% claimed when I finally get…
[ad_1] The European Union told Airbnb on Monday to bring its terms and conditions into line with the bloc’s consumer rules or face action by national consumer agencies, after a review of the short-term rental platform found some violations. Some of Airbnb’s terms and the way it presents its prices breach the bloc’s unfair commercial…
[ad_1] WhatsApp appears to be working on new Mute and Mark As Read features for the messaging service. The new extras were spotted in the code of a recent update suggesting they could arrive sooner rather than later. Both Mute and Mark As Read will be available from the Notification Centre on a smartphone. This…
[ad_1] The US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has spent much of the past year investigating Uber for alleged gender inequality, according to a person familiar with the investigation. The federal probe began in August and is exploring alleged unfair pay and other gender-based discrimination at Uber, said the person, who insisted on anonymity to discuss sensitive…
[ad_1] One of the biggest shopping events of the year is finally underway as Amazon’s Prime Day 2018 sale has now started. The deals began at 12pm yesterday and will continue for 36 hours until midnight tonight. Amazon says this is their biggest Prime Day to date with 40 percent more Spotlight deals in the…
[ad_1] The Amazon.in Prime Day Sale 2018 edition has entered its second and final day, with deals across a wide range of categories. The ongoing Amazon India sale will continue till 12am tonight, so there’s not too much time if you want to make some big purchases. Of course, if you miss some deals, you can…
[ad_1] A series of small tremors over the last few weeks have pushed Vancouver Island away from the B.C. mainland, according to a federal scientist. John Cassidy, a seismologist with Natural Resources Canada, said the shift is known as an episodic tremor, and it happens every 14 or 15 months. “Over the past few weeks…
[ad_1] Google’s latest European Union woes could mean opportunity knocks for app developers stymied by contracts that pre-install the US giant’s own services on Android phones and tablets, according to analysts and companies. The Alphabet unit is expected to face an antitrust fine over Android in the coming days that could top last year’s record EUR 2.4…
[ad_1] Over the years since, the site, which is known as a platform for internet memes, has amassed more than 100 million global fans across Facebook and Instagram, generating income through banner advertisements. “We believed that, hey, maybe if we can work full-time on 9GAG then it will have a better growth. That’s the moment…
[ad_1] The World Health Organization added “gaming disorder” last month to its 11th International Classification of Diseases, but for most professional video gamers and esports players, it’s no big concern. In a statement in January, the WHO defined gaming disorder as a pattern of behaviour “characterized by impaired control over gaming, increasing priority given to gaming over other activities…
[ad_1] It was by far the most bizarre thing Leisa Boudreau had ever seen on a P.E.I. beach. On Friday, she and several others found hundreds of dead squid scattered across MacCallum’s Point beach. “I was rather shocked by it,” Boudreau said. She walked up and down the beach, which is near Bedeque and Summerside, with friends and a group of people from…
[ad_1] Venture capitalist Peter Thiel is placing a new bet in the crypto space. The early Facebook investor was a part of Cayman Islands start-up Block.one’s most recent funding round announced Monday. The company recently raised a record $4 billion to fund its blockchain platform eos.ios through a process known as an initial coin offering,…
[ad_1] Glow sticks have long been a staple at the Ness Creek Music Festival, but organizers are asking people to get their glow on in different ways this year. While there is no outright ban, the festival is “strongly encouraging” people away from using glow sticks after the festival’s waste audit found that glow sticks…
[ad_1] Sarnia, Ont. is known for being an oil town, full of refineries and chemical factories — but signs of a greener future are appearing. In Sarnia-Lambton’s petrochemical valley, you can see the chimneys and smell the fumes and flames. It’s a sector that employs more than 4,500 people in the region. But some say that over…
[ad_1] Several Indigenous elders were flown by helicopter into the backcountry of Banff National Park Monday for a blessing ceremony as officials prepared to let recently reintroduced bison roam free. The trip organized by Parks Canada was part of the overall plan to release the bison into a larger area of the park. The animals…
[ad_1] John van Hasselt | Corbis | Getty Images Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky says that “enduring companies must not only do what’s good for shareholders but also what’s good for society.” The European Union told Airbnb on Monday to bring its terms and conditions into line with the bloc’s consumer rules or face action by…
[ad_1] Netflix shares got a rare Wall Street downgrade from Buckingham Research Group on the day the online television and firm streaming provider is set to report second-quarter earnings. Buckingham downgraded the stock to underperform from neutral and lowered its price target to $301 from $333. The new target implies a 16 percent drop from…
[ad_1] Gates’ $100 billion fortune in 1999 would be worth about $149 billion in today’s dollars. So today, Bezos officially passed the inflation-adjusted Gates high. Bezos’ fortune has more than doubled over the past two years as Amazon’s stock has soared. Earlier Monday, Amazon shares hit an intraday all-time high of $1,841.95, and the company’s…
[ad_1] Prime Day was projected to break records again this year, surpassing even the “tens of millions” of Prime members who shopped the discounts last year. Wall Street expected higher sales and a higher share price for Amazon as a result. Amazon’s e-commerce sales in the U.S. are meanwhile expected to reach a staggering $258.2…
[ad_1] Amazon is having a bad day. After reeling from technical glitches that prevented many shoppers from accessing bargains on Prime Day, the company’s biggest shopping day, the company announced another outage that makes it harder for Amazon Web Services customers to control their usage. The outage is unusual, and is not a positive sign…
[ad_1] The core theory of Netflix‘s wild run to a $175 billion valuation hasn’t been debunked with one quarter of slower growth than forecast. But the Q2 miss might make some investors reconsider why they’re betting on Netflix in the first place. The basic hypothesis for bulls is that Netflix is on its way massive…
[ad_1] Netflix didn’t add as many subscribers as expected by a bunch of people on Wall Street who, on a quarterly basis, govern whether or not it’ll be more valuable than Comcast — and that is probably a bad thing, as it’s one of the primary indicators of its future potential for said finance folk. While…
[ad_1] Russian President Vladimir Putin said in a press conference Monday he may give U.S. officials access to the 12 alleged Russian intelligence agents and computer criminals named in a Department of Justice indictment Friday. Speaking through a translator, President Putin said the 12 accused men could be questioned by Russian officials, and he would…
[ad_1] The start-up envisions the technology will completely change the way we use our devices. “Your phone, a tablet, the computer that’s built into a kiosk at the airport. All of those things are potential areas in which CTRL-labs can completely change the means by which you interact with those experiences,” Reardon said. The team…
[ad_1] Netflix is slated to report second quarter earnings after the market closes on Monday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Estimated earnings per share (EPS): 79 cents per a Thompson Reuters consensus estimate. Estimated revenue: $3.94 billion Estimated subscriber additions: 5.11 million subscribers internationally and 1.23 million subscribers domestically, per FactSet and Street Account If…
[ad_1] The biggest feature that’s included with Amazon Prime is its free, two-day shipping, which the company says is offered on hundreds of millions of items, along with same-day delivery on some items. But that’s not the only way to get stuff shipped to you to for free. If you don’t mind waiting a bit…
[ad_1] Apple’s App Store continues to outpace Google Play on revenue. In the first half of the year, the App Store generated nearly double the revenue of Google Play on half the downloads, according to a new report from Sensor Tower out today. In terms of dollars and cents, that’s $22.6 billion in worldwide gross…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, Nvidia Goldman Sachs is worried about rising commodity prices and higher wages, but the firm believes there is still an investment strategy that can outperform. The firm recommended companies with high profit margins and return on assets. That’s because despite the one-time boost…
[ad_1] Investors on Monday cheered the lifting of a U.S. supplier ban on China’s ZTE, pushing its shares up 17 percent, though analysts cautioned the telecommunications equipment maker still faced many challenges as it works to revive its business. The U.S. Commerce Department on Friday lifted a crippling ban on American firms selling parts to…
[ad_1] Years ago, in the heyday of home video, I played a boardgames that used VHS tapes and electronic parts to help spur the action along. From Candy Land VCR to Captain Power, game makers were doing the best they could with a new technology. Now, thanks to Alexa, they can try something even cooler…
[ad_1] In honor of World Emoji Day (yes, that’s a thing), Apple is previewing some of its upcoming emoji. Later this year, Apple’s emoji set will feature people with a variety of hairstyles and colors, including curly hair, red hair and white hair. What you’re about to see are simply Apple’s take on emoji that…
[ad_1] Netflix is scheduled to report earnings after the bell on Monday, but as much as the stock has surged this year, technician Craig Johnson of Piper Jaffray is warning investors against the streaming giant ahead of the event. “There’s a 9 percent implied volatility move coming into the quarter here,” he said Friday on…
[ad_1] Not far from Tel Aviv a drone flies low over a gritty landscape of warehouses and broken pavement. It slowly approaches its home – a refrigerator-sized box inside a mesh fence, and hovers, preparing to dock. It descends like some giant bug, whining all the way, and disappears into its base where it will…
[ad_1] Some of the salespeople got new managers. And many customers wound up with better coverage from salespeople who were more familiar with individual industries, Althoff said. Microsoft focused especially on six: education, financial services, government, health, manufacturing and retail. While some local teams have focus on governments in years past, splitting up to go…
[ad_1] Need to resize a video for IGTV? Add subtitles for Twitter? Throw in sound effects for YouTube? Or collage it with other clips for the Instagram feed? Kapwing lets you do all that and more for free from a mobile browser or website. This scrappy new startup is building the vertical video era’s creative…
[ad_1] Last round before the IPO. That’s how Fastly frames its new $40 million Series F round. It means that the company has raised $219 million over the past few years. The funding round was led by Deutsche Telekom Capital Partners with participation from Sozo Ventures, Swisscom Ventures, and existing investors. Fastly operates a content…
[ad_1] Luke Sharrett | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker loads an aluminum coil onto a loading dock at the Arconic manufacturing facility in Alcoa, Tennessee. Metals manufacturer Arconic shares spiked on Monday after a report released from The Wall Street Journal said the company was drawing interest from private equity firms. Shares were up…
[ad_1] The Russians allegedly took a multi-pronged approach to the Democrats’ congressional and presidential campaigns, as well as the elections systems in several U.S. states. According to the indictment, a software vendor was the conduit to one attack against the voting registration system in Florida. When the DNC realized they’d been hacked, they called in…
[ad_1] The lack of new GPUs from Nvidia coupled with a slowdown in Bitcoin mining is hurting Nvidia’s partners. According to the latest earnings report from Gigabyte – a Taiwanese motherboard and graphics card manufacturer has seen a slump in earnings thanks to weaker than expected GPU demand. According to recent estimates, Gigabyte’s GPU earnings…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Reed Hastings, chief executive officer of Netflix It may be a bumpy road for Netflix as the streaming giant prepares to report its latest quarterly earnings. Netflix is scheduled to report its Q2 earnings after the bell on Monday. It is expected to post earnings per…
[ad_1] When reviewing hardware, it’s important to integrate it into your life as much as possible. If you can, swap it in for your existing devices for a few days or a week, to really get an idea of what it’s like to use it day to day. There are certain nuances you can only…
[ad_1] It’s the moment we’ve all been waiting for. Today, the longest ever Amazon Prime Day begins. From Monday, July 16 through Tuesday, July 17, deals will be widespread across the site. But while deal days are an opportunity for consumers to snag items at low prices, they can also be a trigger for over-shopping.…
[ad_1] The decline in Cisco Systems shares last week is a good buying opportunity, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm reiterated its buy rating for Cisco Systems shares, downplaying the competitive threat from Amazon in the switch business. The company’s stock declined 4.1 percent on Friday after a report by The Information…
[ad_1] Roku is getting into the speaker business with today’s announcement of Roku TV Wireless Speakers. Mark Ely, the company’s vice president of product management, said Roku is trying to address a growing consumer problem — the fact that as TVs get thinner, you end up buying “this beautiful TV, but it sounds bad.” To…
[ad_1] Uber is aiming to perfect the art of the pick-up with three features it says minimize cancellations. Guaranteed pickup windows boost confidence that you’ll make your flight, and give you a credit of up to $10 if your scheduled ride is late. Pre-written messages let drivers and riders let each other know they’ll “Be…
[ad_1] The price of bitcoin surged Monday after a report said that BlackRock has set up a working group to explore ways of taking advantage of the cryptocurrency market. The world’s most valuable virtual currency by market value jumped more than 4 percent to around $6,612, according to industry website CoinDesk, which tracks prices from…
[ad_1] Truecaller on Monday introduced a new call recording feature for its Android users globally. The company says the feature will help users in reporting fraudulent calls and harassment. This is another step towards upgrading Premium offerings aimed at making communication safe and efficient by helping users report harassment related or fraudulent calls, Truecaller said…
[ad_1] We all expect privacy, especially when it comes to our phones. But how do we feel about upholding the privacy of criminals and terrorists? And what should we do if the information needed to catch or prosecute a criminal – or potentially save lives – is locked away in someone’s encrypted phone? One problem…
[ad_1] Lenovo Data Center Group on Monday appointed Ashish Taneja as Channel Head, India, with immediate effect. Based in New Delhi, Taneja will report to Vivek Sharma, Managing Director, Lenovo DCG India. Working closely with partners, distributors and system integrators, he will be responsible for driving the company’s channel strategy and partner ecosystem growth across…
[ad_1] A British diver involved in the mission to save 12 Thai boys and their soccer coach is considering legal action against Elon Musk after the Tesla boss labeled him “pedo guy.” Spelunker Vernon Unsworth had called a submarine crafted by a team of Musk’s technicians a “PR stunt.” Billionaire Musk had suggested the vessel…
[ad_1] The Amazon.in Prime Day Sale 2018 edition is live now, with deals across a wide range of categories. The ongoing Amazon India sale will continue till 12am on July 18, and include over 2,000 launches, as per the e-commerce giant. Among electronics, there will be major discounts on smartphones, tablets, laptops, TVs, audio products, etc, and…
[ad_1] GETTY Amazon Prime Day begins today and lasts for 36 hours Black Friday is the day for most retailers which signifies the start of the Christmas Shopping season. Shops offer deals and see a massive increase in sales throughout this day, which falls the day after Thanksgiving. Amazon have introduced an event to rival…
[ad_1] Amazon workers in Spain went on strike Monday to protest working conditions at the e-commerce giant’s warehouses, just as its massive Prime Day sales kick off. A group called Amazon En Lucha organized the walk out at the company’s fulfillment center just outside the Spanish capital of Madrid. The strike will last until July…
[ad_1] Google has showcased its upcoming design for the Chrome browser. In the last few months, the tech giant has been releasing several small updates to the browser in the run-up to the launch of possibly its biggest redesign ever. Now, Google is now rolling out a brand new design for Chrome in the latest…
[ad_1] Amazon’s yearly Prime Day sale is about to get underway with millions of products expected to be dropped in price. The online retail giant is boasting that this will be the biggest Prime Day sale to date with 40 percent more Spotlight deals in the UK than in 2017. This year, Prime members will…
[ad_1] Amazon’s big Prime Day sale will get underway later today with the online retailer slashing prices across millions of products. The deals start at 12pm today with the offers then continuing for another 36 hours. One of the most interesting price cuts comes for anyone who’s been looking to invest in a smart speaker Amazon has…
[ad_1] Amazon Prime Day 2018, the second edition of the exclusive sale for Prime members, is now live. The 36-hour extravaganza will run from 12 noon on July 16 until 12am on July 18. The Indian edition of the Amazon sale, much like last year, aligns with Prime Day sale in other countries. As per…