[ad_1] Google launched a new page that makes it easier for users to stop it from tracking everything you do online. (It knows a lot of what you do. Check out our guide that shows how to download everything Google knows about you for some insight.) The changes are part of Google’s effort to meet…
[ad_1] Maley sees a similar lasting rise in shares of Salesforce.com. “That stock made a nice double bottom even further back, back at the end of 2016, so it’s been making a series of higher lows and higher highs for an even longer period of time [than Intel],” said Maley. “It’s also made a nice…
[ad_1] Crypto could just make or break Nvidia. The chipmaker’s stock fell more than 2 percent Friday despite an earnings beat posted Thursday. The drop was in part thanks to a statement by CEO Jensen Huang on the company’s earnings call that despite making almost $300 million from crypto-related sales, he expects the number to…
[ad_1] Facebook shares may have recovered from the Cambridge Analytica data scandal, but NYU Stern professor of marketing Scott Galloway is still pushing for the company to be regulated. “Just as big tobacco was never able to make the connection between tobacco and cancer, and the NRA can’t make the connection between gun sales and…
[ad_1] Virgin Group founder Sir Richard Branson is joining a private equity fund in London, Metric Capital Partners, as an investing partner. Branson was already and active tech investor who backed Ring, the smart doorbell company that Amazon recently acquired in a deal valued around $1 billion, and the lab-grown meat startup Memphis Meats. CRV…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer didn’t rename his dog Everest to Nvidia for nothing — he did it because the company is a “remarkable” leader in the world of computing chips, he said on Friday. “Nvidia’s a rescue dog, and I feel compelled today to rescue Nvidia, the company, from the narrative that I most feared:…
[ad_1] With the stock market locking in the largest weekly gain since March, CNBC’s Jim Cramer wondered if newfound optimism around trade and U.S.-China relations could continue. “To some degree, I think that’s wishful thinking,” the “Mad Money” host admitted on Friday. “But, hey, wishful thinking worked when it came to the unlikely progress between…
[ad_1] HubSpot is expanding beyond sales and marketing with the official launch of its Service Hub for managing customer service. The product was first announced last fall, but now it’s moved out of beta testing. HubSpot President and COO JD Sherman said this was a logical next step for the company. He argued that the Internet…
[ad_1] Apple “is an unbelievable company,” Buffett told CNBC on May 3. “If you look at Apple, I think it earns almost twice as much as the second most profitable company in the United States.” The smartphone maker generated a $48.35 billion in profit during its fiscal 2017 and made $13.8 billion in net income…
[ad_1] The people said that the team at Verily is still exploring potential uses for its watch. All would involve frequent monitoring of wearers. The most likely use, which has been discussed internally, would be to use it to track key blood markers for people that are enrolled in clinical trials. Another more speculative use…
[ad_1] Researchers have been seeking cures for a deadly fungus that has decimated bat populations across North America. Now it has been confirmed in this province. (Wildlife Conservation Society Canada/Canadian Press) The deadly white-nose syndrome that has decimated bat population across North America has been confirmed in Newfoundland and Labrador. Three little brown myotis (bats) in western…
[ad_1] An enhanced version of SpaceX's Falcon 9 called Block 5 launched a Bangladesh telecommunications satellite into space on Friday. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Today brings historic firsts for both SpaceX and Bangladesh: the former is sending up the final, highly updated revision of its Falcon 9 rocket for the first time, and the latter is launching its first satellite. It’s a preview of the democratized space economy to come this century. Update: The Falcon 9 first stage,…
[ad_1] As Silicon Valley technology executives have amassed enormous fortunes in recent years, one relatively obscure group — the Silicon Valley Community Foundation — has emerged as the local charity of choice. Facebook’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, has donated stock worth more than $1.8 billion to the foundation. Reed Hastings, the founder and chief executive…
[ad_1] “It’s really designed like a commercial airliner, relative to, say, a general aviation aircraft. Getting all those details right is massively difficult.” “If aircraft were not reusable and you needed a new one for every flight, then each ticket would cost millions of dollars, at least. One way. And you’d need two for a…
[ad_1] It turns out failing to wear your seat belt is a common drag on Uber rider ratings — it even hurt the rating of now-CEO Dara Khosrowshahi for a while. While Khosrowshahi was interviewing for the top job at the scandal ridden ride-sharing company, he told The Washington Post, his rider rating was stuck…
[ad_1] Tesla Model 3 owners will soon be able to add some perks to their cars now found only on Tesla’s higher-end vehicles. The electric car maker will begin taking orders for all-wheel drive and “performance” versions of the Model 3 by the end of next week, said CEO Elon Musk in a tweet on…
[ad_1] While their prolific posts or outlandish inappropriate behavior is what gets many child influencers famous, labor laws aren’t usually enforced for social stars. Child performer regulations are dealt with on a state-by-state basis, and only 33 states have laws in place with varying stipulations. For example, in California, children are not allowed to work…
[ad_1] “I wouldn’t trade the years I spent in Chicago doing improv comedy and being extremely poor for anything, because those those skills turned out to be extraordinarily helpful later in life when I’m leading a company and people ask you on the spot questions,” says Costolo. “First of all, when you’re an improviser, the…
[ad_1] Google Duplex, the Mountain View giant’s upcoming futuristic AI-based voice calling technology for Google Assistant, was showcased at the company’s annual developer conference – Google I/O 2018 – earlier this week. But, ever since the announcement, Duplex has created a stir in the tech industry around ethics and disclosures. Having come close to beating…
[ad_1] Oath CEO Tim Armstrong is reportedly one of the candidates being considered to replace Martin Sorrell at advertising conglomerate WPP, according to a report by the Financial Times. A spokesperson for WPP said in an email that “no appointment has been made” and that the company “will not be making any comment on the…
[ad_1] Google’s YouTube is the first streaming app that will actually tell users to stop watching. The company at its Google I/O conference this week introduced a series of new controls for YouTube that will allow users to set limits on their viewing, and then receive reminders telling them to “take a break.” The feature…
[ad_1] The Trump administration will not stand in the way of the development of artificial intelligence in the United States, a top official said on Thursday, while acknowledging that the burgeoning technology will displace some jobs. At a White House summit that included companies like Alphabet’s Google, Facebook and Amazon.com, technology policy advisor Michael Kratsios said…
[ad_1] There’s a likely reason AT&T paid Donald Trump‘s lawyer Michael Cohen $600,000: it wanted its deal for Time Warner to pass regulatory approval. In hindsight, AT&T didn’t spend its money well. Not only is Cohen under federal investigation for his business practices, but the Trump administration’s Department of Justice sued to block the $85…
[ad_1] The most talked-about, futuristic product from Google’s developer show isn’t even finished yet – and Google hasn’t agreed how to do it. At its I/O conference on Tuesday, Google previewed Duplex, an experimental service that lets its voice-based digital assistant book appointments on its own. It was part of a slate of features, such…
[ad_1] Facebook is “very serious” about launching its own cryptocurrency, according to a report from Cheddar. It’s not the first time the idea of a Facebook coin has been floated, but the plans take on some greater meaning in light of Facebook’s recently reshuffled executive structure and newly formed blockchain group. Blockchain, the decentralized record-keeping…
[ad_1] Snap screwed it all up jumbling messages and Stories, banishing creators to Discover, and wrecking auto-advance. Prideful of his gut instincts, Snap CEO Evan Spiegel refused to listen to the awful user reviews and declining usage. Now a YouGov study shows a 73% drop in user sentiment towards Snapchat, the app’s user count shrank…
[ad_1] Xiaomi on Friday announced that its range of smart home products will now get Google Assistant support, allowing users to control these products using Google Home smart speakers or the Google Assistant app on smartphones and tablets. Apart from that, its initial selection of gadgets including Mi Bedside Lamp, Mi LED Smart Bulb, and…
[ad_1] Shortly after AT&T apologized for the “big mistake” it made in hiring President Donald Trump‘s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, the telecommunications giant released a document articulating its relationship with the president’s fixer. The memo, which was obtained by CNBC, says AT&T hired Cohen, who is known for his close ties to Trump, as a…
[ad_1] Spotify has removed R. Kelly’s music from all of its curated playlists, days after The Washington Post published a feature detailing how many in the music industry turned a blind eye to allegations of sexual abuse of young women against the hit-making R&B singer. His songs will no longer appear on any “Spotify owned…
[ad_1] Symantec shed a third of their value Friday, on pace for the stock’s worst day in 17 years. Shares fell more than 30 percent Friday to a low of $18.85 — levels not seen since June 2016. The cybersecurity company said Thursday it launched an internal audit, according a press release issued Thursday. “The…
[ad_1] The three-axis tourbillon is one of the most complex watch complications in the world. Originally based on a design by watchmaker Abraham-Louis Breguet, this type of tourbillon – literally “whirlwind” – rotates the balance wheel of a watch in order to ensure that gravity doesn’t adversely affect any part of the watch. It’s a…
[ad_1] Paytm has partnered Andhra Pradesh State Road Transport Corporation (APSRTC) to offer online bus reservation for passengers. The facility would be available on its platform for APSRTC’s 3,276 services on 1,250 routes, enabling passengers to seamlessly book their travel tickets, a Paytm release said. “We are glad to partner with APSRTC and make their…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images en-Hsun Huang, president and chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp., speaks during an event at the 2018 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S., on Sunday, Jan. 7, 2018. Analysts are optimistic over Nvidia’s growth opportunities even as a key end market falters. The…
[ad_1] As the European Union (EU) prepares to introduce the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on May 25 to harmonise data privacy laws, Google has updated the company’s Privacy Policy to comply with it across all of the services the tech giant provides in the region. The company laid out a new Privacy Policy in…
[ad_1] Chinese smartphone maker Coolpad Group said its unit has sued three group firms of Xiaomi, which last week filed for a Hong Kong IPO that could be worth up to $10 billion, for patent infringement. Coolpad said in a statement late on Thursday its subsidiary, Yulong Computer Telecommunication Scientific (Shenzhen) filed a lawsuit against…
[ad_1] After drawing criticism from users worldwide about its controversial redesign, audio-video sharing platform Snapchat is rolling out another app redesign, starting with the “majority” of iOS users. In the new design, snaps and chats are aligned chronologically and Stories from friends have been moved back to the right-hand side of the camera screen. Snapchat…
[ad_1] Speaking to CNBC, she said that the initial reaction by religious institutions “can often be negative, but technology soon becomes ubiquitous and part of the mainstream.” Faith leaders are increasingly concerned about morality and the ethics behind creating human-like machines. Social media’s addictive nature and the use of sexbots are just two examples of…
[ad_1] While Amazon, Apple, and Google are busy making their voice assistants smarter, a group of researchers claims that the present iterations of the companies’ voice assistants are vulnerable. The researchers said they were able to send malicious commands to Amazon’s Alexa, Apple’s Siri, and Google Assistant that were hidden in recorded music or an…
[ad_1] Network gear maker Cisco Systems is pulling all online ads from YouTube due to fears of the ads appearing on sensitive content on the platform, Cisco’s chief marketing officer, Karen Walker, said in a blog on Wednesday. The blog, which seemed to have been removed from Cisco’s website on Thursday, said the company would…
[ad_1] Playing a crucial role in future research and development (R&D) of a revolutionary aluminium smelting technology, Apple has committed investment in a joint venture that meets the iPhone-maker’s take on environment-friendly technology innovations. The joint venture could change global manufacturing. Aluminium is a key material in many of Apple’s most popular products and for…
[ad_1] Huawei has released a bitcoin wallet on its app store for the first time, allowing Chinese consumers to hold virtual currencies even as Beijing steps up regulation on the nascent industry. The Shenzhen-based Chinese smartphone maker has teamed up with BTC.com, an online platform for cryptocurrency investors, miners and developers, to add BTC.com’s crypto…
[ad_1] YouTube has reportedly started rolling out support for high dynamic range (HDR) video content for iPhone X. HDR videos provide a broader range of colours and also supports quality video playback on a variety of screen sizes. YouTube has platforms like “The HDR Channel” that provide HDR videos for iOS. For iOS users, YouTube videos…
[ad_1] The U.S. government needs to do more to support start-ups to secure its future as a technological innovator, former Cisco CEO John Chambers said Thursday. “We’re the only country in the world that not only does not have a digitization program, but we don’t have a start-up program,” Chambers said on CNBC’s “Squawk on…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is already set to receive several new features like group video calling and third-party stickers soon, and now leaks indicate another separate set of features may arrive in the near future. Separately, a new feature has made its way to the stable Android release (v2.18.142) – previously seen in the Android beta. This…
[ad_1] Chief Financial Officer Colette Kress said that the company expects cryptocurrency-related revenue to fall 65 percent to about $100 million in the next quarter. Retail prices for Nvidia’s gaming chips surged earlier this year as miners snapped up chips, a development Nvidia addressed by releasing mining-specific chips. “While supply was tight earlier in the…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: YouTube/ Cobra Kai YouTube on Thursday announced it had green lighted a second season of Cobra Kai, a sequel of sorts to 1980s classic film franchise The Karate Kid – just a week after the first episode debuted on the video-sharing platform. Tapping into a wave of nostalgia, the series premiere episode – released…
[ad_1] Spotify says it doesn’t censor content because of an artist’s behavior. But the service wants programs to “reflect” its values. It says when an artist does something harmful or hateful, it may affect the ways it works with the artist. Kelly has long been the target of sexual misconduct allegations, which he has denied.…
[ad_1] Network gear maker Cisco Systems is pulling all online ads from YouTube due to fears of the ads appearing on sensitive content on the platform, Cisco’s chief marketing officer, Karen Walker, said in a blog on Wednesday. The blog on Thursday seemed to have been removed from Cisco’s website. The company did not respond to…
[ad_1] Apple has teamed up with aluminum producers Alcoa and Rio Tinto on a joint venture aimed at smelting aluminum without emitting greenhouse gases. The tech company said Thursday that “revolutionary” new technology created by the project replaces the use of carbon, which is normally used in the smelting process, with an advanced conductive material.…
[ad_1] Microsoft, at its annual developer conference Build 2018 this week, announced that it would soon be rolling out a new feature called ‘Your Phone‘ that would help users better sync their smartphones to a Windows 10 PC. This will include a seamless experience that involves information such as text messages, photos, and notifications. Now,…
[ad_1] The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is the second federal agency to begin looking into the fatal crash involving a Tesla Model S in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, this week. “The U.S. DOT’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration is gathering information on the tragic crash in Fort Lauderdale, FL to understand all of the facts,”…
[ad_1] File sharing and storage company Dropbox beat Wall Street expectations for quarterly results and topped estimates for paying subscribers in its first financial report as a publicly traded company. However, the company’s shares, which had gained 10 percent this week ahead of the earnings, slipped 4 percent in extended trading on Thursday. The San Francisco-based…
[ad_1] While automakers are fixated on developing the next generation of electric cars, one British firm has other ideas. Riversimple is hoping that its hydrogen-powered two-seater car, which has a futuristic design crossed with retro traits, might be able to offer a viable alternative to electric vehicles. The Wales-based company has created a car called…
[ad_1] Landmark US “net neutrality” rules will expire on June 11, and new regulations handing providers broad new power over how consumers can access the Internet will take effect, the Federal Communications Commission said on Thursday in setting the date. The FCC in December repealed the Obama-era open-Internet rules set in 2015, which bars providers from…
[ad_1] For critically ill diabetes patients, making sure their blood sugar levels are correct is crucial. If they drop then glucose needs to be administered, but if they rise too high then insulin is required. Currently, this is done by nurses in hospitals, but one start-up has created an “artificial pancreas” that can automate the…
[ad_1] Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker that’s looking to raise as much as $10 billion in a Hong Kong IPO, is continuing to grow its presence in the American market after it announced plans to bring its smart home products to the U.S.. The company is best known for its well-priced and quality smartphones, but…
[ad_1] Many people think of Glassdoor as the website where you can go to check out a potential employer or find out what a company might pay. But the job reviews and salary intelligence site is also the second-biggest job listing site in the country – and just announced it’s being acquired in a $1.2…
[ad_1] Dropbox stock fluctuated and then gradually fell after it reported better-than-expected first quarter results in its first earnings report as a public company on Thursday. Earnings: Excluding certain items, 8 cents per share vs. 5 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue: $316.3 million vs. $309.2 million as expected…
[ad_1] Too many cryptocurrency clients and fewer cloud computing orders than expected underwhelmed Nvidia Corp investors on Thursday, although the graphics chip maker said a supply shortage that hit its core video game audience had eased. The US company best known for chips that enhance video game graphics has diversified into an array of businesses including artificial…
[ad_1] Venture capital investor Tim Draper defended Theranos CEO Elizabeth Holmes on Thursday, despite the total collapse of the formerly heralded start-up. “I feel we have taken down another great icon,” Draper said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” The founder and managing director of Draper Fisher Jurvetson, who was an early investor in Theranos, called the…
[ad_1] Apple is working with financial giant Goldman Sachs on a credit card that would carry the iPhone maker’s digital wallet logo, according to a report Thursday in the Wall Street Journal. The move comes as Apple puts increasing focus on revenue from online services and content, and as Goldman Sachs seeks to make more…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks onstage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Google’s former design ethicist Tristan Harris developed a presentation five years ago that warned people inside Google of five human psychology vulnerabilities that tech products were too often exploiting. The…
[ad_1] Instagram | Elon Musk The new “Block 5” variation of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket, rolling out to launchpad 39A at Kennedy Space Center, Florida. Being able to launch, land and launch again with minimal refurbishment between flights has been a central focus for SpaceX. The company has become quite successful at landing the largest…
[ad_1] Boston Dynamics, a Softbank-owned robotics firm, released new videos on Thursday showing off some new robot tricks. The company’s Atlas bipedal robot can now run like Forrest Gump and even jump over a log in its way. Last year we saw Atlas do a backflip. The infamous door-opening robot, SpotMini, is getting even creepier.…
[ad_1] One month ago, the market looked to CNBC’s Jim Cramer like it was riddled with fear and volatility. But three recent earnings reports changed the whole landscape. “It all started with three days in tech,” the “Mad Money” host said on Thursday. “Facebook, Amazon and Apple reported and everything began to turn around.” Before…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors Some Panasonic executives are expressing hesitation about new investments with Tesla in battery manufacturing, according to a report out Thursday in the Nikkei Asian Review. Tesla and Panasonic were expected to set up a new factory…
[ad_1] That’s because the tech giant has dual-class shares. Facebook’s Class B shares are controlled by Zuckerberg and a small group of insiders and have 10 votes per share. Class A shares only have one vote per share. The end result is that Zuckerberg and those insiders control almost 70 percent of the voting shares…
[ad_1] Google’s parent company Alphabet is in talks to invest in Indian e-commerce company Flipkart alongside Walmart, according to two people familiar with the deal. Walmart announced on Tuesday it would take a 77 percent stake in the company for $16 billion. Of that $16 billion, $2 billion was “new equity funding” intended to spur…
[ad_1] Whoever thought we would leave telemarketing behind in this brave new smartphone world of ours lacked imagination. Robocalls are a menace growing in volume and even a massive $120 million fine leveled against a prominent source of them by the FCC likely won’t stem the flood. The fine was announced today during the FCC’s…
[ad_1] Symantec plunged 20 percent in extended trading Thursday after the security software company said its board is investigating concerns raised by an ex-employee and that the matter has been relayed to the SEC. “The Audit Committee of the Board of Directors has commenced an internal investigation in connection with concerns raised by a former…
[ad_1] Economist Nouriel Roubini, best known for predicting the financial crisis, piled on his recent criticism of cryptocurrencies Thursday, saying they create “chaos” and confusion in the payments world. “It’s totally inefficient. It’s never going to work,” Roubini said Thursday at the Fluidity Summit in Brooklyn. “You are going to the world of the Flintstones…
[ad_1] Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Drew Houston, chief executive officer and co-founder of Dropbox Inc., left, speaks as Arash Ferdowsi, co-founder of Dropbox Inc., listens during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) at the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York, U.S., on Friday, March 23, 2018. The online backup and data storage…
[ad_1] Google Pay got a big upgrade at Google I/O this week. At a breakout session, Google announced a series of changes to its payments platform, recently rebranded from Android Pay, including support for peer-to-peer payments in the main Google Pay app; online payments support in all browsers; the ability to see all payments in…
[ad_1] Other key members include Missy Krasner, who joined Amazon last year after leading industry initiatives at Box and Google, and Larry Ockene, a 10-year veteran engineer at Amazon. Yvonne Chou, who has worked at Amazon for eight years across Prime, fashion and retail, is one of the three managers under Jiang. Within the Alexa…
[ad_1] Dropbox made its debut as a public company earlier this year and today passed through its first milestone of reporting its results to public investors, and it more or less beat expectations set for Wall Street on the top and bottom line. The company reported more revenue and beat expectations for earnings that Wall…
[ad_1] Tech investor Tim Draper called Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg a “total hero” Thursday and said the government is “trying to beat [Facebook] down.” “I think it’s a huge mistake because Zuckerberg should be a model, an icon, somebody that we should all be looking up to and aspiring to be,” Draper told…
[ad_1] “Cobra Kai” producers Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg told CNBC on Thursday they have been “stunned” by the success of their sequel to “The Karate Kid.” The series, which premiered last week on YouTube Red, picks up 34 years after the original movie ends. It brings back the rivalry between Daniel LaRusso, played by…
[ad_1] The California-based chipmaker is expected to post solid earnings and sales growth for its April-ended quarter, partially fueled by corporate tax cuts passed in December. Profit should pop 84.5 percent in its fiscal first quarter from a year earlier and a total 34.5 percent for its fiscal 2019 ending January from fiscal 2018, according…
[ad_1] If you live in a city, you’re probably deciding between a handful of major broadband or wireless carriers — maybe something like Comcast or AT&T. But there’s a good chance that there are a bunch of local carriers that are looking to get off the ground, and Benjamin Huang wants to help make sure…
[ad_1] The growth of bitcoin “mining” activity could send the cryptocurrency’s price as high as $64,000, investment research firm Fundstrat said Thursday. Bitcoin is created through an energy-intensive process known as mining, in which computers receive the cryptocurrency as reward for solving complex mathematical equations. Processing power to guess the solution is known as “hash…
[ad_1] Apple and Goldman Sachs are planning a new credit card to be introduced as early as next year, The Wall Street Journal reported, citing people with knowledge of the process. The move comes as investment bank Goldman continues to make a push into consumer banking activities such as deposit-taking and personal loans. It will…
[ad_1] Recent Iranian attacks against their neighboring countries of Saudi Arabia, Israel, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Turkey may have served a dual purpose. In addition to intelligence gathering, Iranian cyberwarfare leaders may view those attacks as training for attacks against the larger targets presented by the United States and its allies. Of course,…
[ad_1] Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on May 1, 2018 in San Jose, California. House Democrats on Thursday released a complete archive of the 3,500 ads that Russia purchased on Facebook. I’m going to show you if you might have liked one of those posts, or followed…
[ad_1] Abbie has enjoyed a brilliant start to her new job as a junior fund manager at AllianceBernstein, a $500bn investment group in New York. In her first three months she has handled thousands of bond trades worth nearly $19bn, never complaining, messing up or even taking a break. That’s because she is an algorithm.…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer praised Nvidia‘s billionaire CEO Jensen Huang ahead of the computer chipmaker’s quarterly earnings after Thursday’s closing bell on Wall Street. The “Mad Money” host characterized the Taiwanese-American entrepreneur, who co-founded the Silicon Valley company in 1993, as a “visionary” and possibly the “[Albert] Einstein of our era.” Even Huang’s biggest competitors…
[ad_1] Facebook said in a blog post following the release, “we were too slow to spot this type of information operations interference.” The company outlined several changes it has already made to its ad policies. The ads were released by Democrats on the highly polarized House Intelligence Committee. The committee’s Republican majority, led by Rep.…
[ad_1] Makula Dunbar Contributor Editor’s note: This post was done in partnership with Wirecutter. When readers choose to buy Wirecutter’s independently chosen editorial picks, it may earn affiliate commissions that support its work. It should be easy to give a gift. But it can be hard trying to choose what gift to give. That’s especially…
[ad_1] Robinhood started off as a dead-simple stock trading application that had no transaction fees — but since it’s continued to grow, and especially as it starts to dive into cryptocurrenty, investors are getting pretty excited about its prospects and are pouring a ton of new funding into it. And it’s that tantalizing prospect of creating…
[ad_1] The Federal Communications Commission said in a notice Thursday that 2015 landmark U.S. open internet rules will cease around June 10. The FCC in December repealed the Obama era “net neutrality” rules, which will allow internet providers to block or slow websites as long as they disclose the practice. The FCC said the new…
[ad_1] Researcher Amanda D. Hanford at Pennsylvania State University has created a real cloaking device that can route sound waves around an object, making it invisible to some sensing techniques. From the report: Hanford and her team set out to engineer a metamaterial that can allow the sound waves to bend around the object as…
[ad_1] ScopeAR, a graduate of the Y Combinator Summer 2015 class, came to the augmented reality game very early, launching in 2011 when there was very little hardware and most people didn’t understand the technology. But it has managed to hang around long enough for the market and the hardware to finally catch with the…
[ad_1] Amazon.com on Wednesday said it has set up model “smart” homes across the United States for shoppers to experience what it’s like for voice aide Alexa to dim the lights, turn on the TV or order more laundry detergent. The rollout underscores how Amazon aims to make Alexa and the company’s growing list of services,…
[ad_1] Roku is set to open roughly 6 percent higher the day after an earnings beat revealed strong ad revenue. Shares were trading above $38 premarket Thursday, on pace for the streaming company’s highest open in nearly two months. The company lost less money in the first quarter than Wall Street expected, and posted higher…
[ad_1] Chinese technology major Lenovo on Thursday launched a new V-series laptop in India for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) and startups. Called the Lenovo V330, its price starts from Rs. 48,000. The Lenovo V330 laptop comes with entrepreneur-friendly flexibility features like an ultrabay drive that can house either an optical drive or an additional…
[ad_1] Apple has scrapped plans for an 850 million euro ($1 billion) data center in Ireland. The tech giant said Thursday that it would not be going ahead with the project as its planning application had been faced with delays. Ireland’s High Court approved that the company could go ahead with its data center in…
[ad_1] Top Google executives, led by CEO Sundar Pichai, took the stage at the company’s annual developer conference to reveal new features for its products and services. Some that we found pretty interesting (not to mention useful) were the new Smart Compose feature in Gmail and the integration of Assistant in Maps. But the feature…
[ad_1] Car crash sites in Nova Scotia have become a setting for people trying to make a name for themselves on social media by posting photos and videos of wreckage recorded on cell phones as they drive by. That distracted driving has caused people to rear end other cars, drive off the road or narrowly miss first responders, says Cpl. Dal…
[ad_1] HP EliteBook 700 G5 Series HP has unveiled the EliteBook 700 G5 series and ProBook 645 G4 with AMD Ryzen Pro processors. The new notebook models are designed for business and enterprise customers who look for an enhanced productivity experience. The company has also provided an option to have Thunderbolt Dock G2 and support…
[ad_1] There’s just one week to go until the new OnePlus 6 gets its grand unveiling. Fans of the popular Chinese smartphone brand will get to see what’s coming next at a major event in London on May 16 and it’s looking pretty exciting. This device is expected to be packed with flagship features including…
[ad_1] Uber is expanding further into Spain by launching a multi-city ride-hailing service across the Costa del Sol beach resort hotspot before the busy summer season. Thursday’s announcement comes about two months after the US company re-launched in Barcelona with a fully-licensed service after it was forced to shut down in the face of taxi driver…
[ad_1] Samsung looks set to unveil its new Galaxy Note 9 in the coming months with rumours suggesting a big unveiling will take place in late July or early August. This is the usual time for Samsung to unveil its flagship phablet with a launch often taking place around the yearly IFA technology show. With…
[ad_1] A day after Google announced the addition of six new voices to its artificial intelligence (AI)-powered Assistant, users in the US can now change the voices of their assistants, a media report said. Google at its annual developer conference Google I/O on Tuesday announced that people would soon have a choice of choosing from…
[ad_1] Sky has slashed the price of a brand new LG Ultra HD 4K TV for customers who sign up to Sky Q and Sky Multiscreen as part of the full Sky Q package. Taking advantage of the deal will help you save an astonishing £350 on the 4K ready TV. Sky is also helping…
[ad_1] Apple has confirmed plans to use drones or aerial vehicles to help gather extensive information and enhance its much-lambasted Apple Maps service. This development comes right after the US Transportation Department on Wednesday announced the approval of drone licensing for 10 corporations in the North American country, including Apple. Other winners of the contract…
[ad_1] It’s several minutes before noon on a Thursday afternoon at Huawei’s headquarters. Located in Shenzhen, the emerging tech city in the Guandong providence of China, the campus covers a massive area filled with trees, mid-sized buildings and lakes. In what could easily be confused for a large university campus, the setting quickly goes from…
[ad_1] Microsoft Build 2018, the tech giant’s annual developer conference, was held on May 7-9 and brought to the public several new developments on Microsoft’s core products. A lot of those announcements were around the world’s most popular operating system – Windows, specifically Windows 10. After announcing updates recently in Fall Creators Update and April…
[ad_1] A UK Kodi seller has been fined by the government for a sum total of £1, over two years after his initial arrest. Brian ‘Tomo’ Thompson was arrested in 2015 for selling “fully loaded Kodi boxes” which used illegally streamed content. Kodi is a platform that allows you to watch video streams from the…
[ad_1] The crackdown on watching content without permission continues with more people fined for showing Sky Sports illegally. Legal action was taken against a number of licensees who had all been broadcasting live sport without the the correct commercial license. James Barnes Bar and Jagtar Singh Nijar of O’Kane’s in Glasgow, Linelly Limited and Linda…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies on Wednesday re-opened a contest to select the first international city to launch its proposed flying taxi project, following apparent delays in getting the service off the ground in Dubai, a previously proposed market. UberAIR, as the service will be known, aims to launch demonstrator flights starting in 2020 and begin paid,…
[ad_1] The Edmonton man who created an app that transcribes the sound of an instrument into sheet music hopes it reduces geographic barriers for composers. Greg Burlet was an undergraduate student at the University of Alberta when his bandmate moved to Vancouver. They wanted to write rock songs together, so they tried emailing audio files…
[ad_1] A new study says hot climate conditions actually reduces the survival rate of tropical birds. The findings, released Wednesday, are the first to examine the influence of climate on the lifespan of male and female rufous-and-white wrens. Dan Mennill, professor in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Windsor, and a team of scientists and students have been spending the…
[ad_1] But treatment challenges remain. The human skull is good at deflecting and absorbing energy, which is a problem for focused ultrasound, which relies on using an energy beam to hit millimeter-size brain targets, like the thalamus, a tiny part of the brain that controls some involuntary movements. And while the FDA has approved Insightec’s…
[ad_1] The new Google digital assistant converses so naturally it may seem like a real person. The unveiling of the natural-sounding robo-assistant by the tech giant this week wowed some observers, but left others fretting over the ethics of how the human-seeming software might be used. Google chief Sundar Pichai played a recording of the…
[ad_1] Consumers need to re-evaluate their relationships with internet companies that provide free services, former Facebook executive Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Wednesday. “We really have to understand what relationships we have with these companies, particularly when the things we get from them are free,” he said in a “Squawk Box” interview, in the wake…
[ad_1] Mozilla recently announced that it would be shifting from a completely ad-free model to a one that involves pushing sponsored links to users in an attempt to garner revenue from its ultra-popular browser – Firefox. Starting Wednesday, May 9, with the release of Firefox 60, the browser is now showing occasional sponsored stories in…
[ad_1] Walmart shares slid Wednesday as investors learned a $16 billion deal to buy a majority stake in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart would hurt profits. The U.S. retail giant confirmed it will buy an initial stake of roughly 77 percent in Flipkart, while the remainder of the business will be held by its existing investors,…
[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 wants to show you how much you can rely on its Alexa voice assistant to control everything in your home, from thermostats to TVs. The company announced…
[ad_1] Paul Hanna | Reuters People at ZTE’s booth during Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, February 27, 2017. ZTE‘s main business operations have ceased due to a ban imposed by the U.S. government, but the Chinese firm is trying to have the ban modified or reversed, it said in exchange filings late on Wednesday.…
[ad_1] Match sank as much as 6 percent following the earnings call, after trading nearly 6 percent up premarket. IAC reports earnings later Wednesday. But Match executives are confident the entrance won’t affect their business. Match-owned Tinder connects singles online through a mutual opt-in system. Until last year, the only option for signing onto Tinder…
[ad_1] Marvel’s “Black Panther” helped drive growth in Disney’s studio entertainment business that saw 21 percent year-over-year revenue growth. Iger told analysts late Tuesday Disney “delivered nine of the top 10 biggest domestic box office openings of all time; all of them released within the last six years.” Cramer, host of “Mad Money,” was impressed…
[ad_1] On Tuesday, jobs and salary website Glassdoor announced the company will be acquired by Japanese human resources company Recruit Holdings for $1.2 billion in cash. That impressive windfall has been more than a decade in the making, but it all started with a fairly simple, if controversial, idea. Co-founder Robert Hohman began his career…
[ad_1] As energy stocks rose on Wednesday after President Donald Trump exited the Iran nuclear deal, CNBC’s Jim Cramer wanted to explain the simultaneous rally in the technology sector. The “Mad Money” host said it all started with a research note released by Morgan Stanley. The analysts wrote that near-term conditions for semiconductors and the…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer was taken aback when shares of Disney and Walmart got slammed after the companies announced new investments. Shares of Disney closed down nearly 2 percent on Wednesday after the entertainment giant revealed that it was spending heavily to boost ESPN Plus’ online offerings. Walmart’s stock also lost more than 3 percent…
[ad_1] Apple has envisioned its smartwatches as health devices since the product’s conception in 2012, according to a new interview with Apple’s top designer in Hodinkee Magazine. Jony Ive told Hodinkee, which covers the luxury watch industry, that health was “absolutely” an “early and significant focus” of the watch. The goal, he said, was “developing…
[ad_1] Virtual reality is already pretty realistic, but tactile experience is currently limited to handheld sensations or simple vibrations. Disney is trying to create a more immersive VR experience with Force Jacket. The prototype is made from a converted life jacket that’s been retrofitted with 26 airbags. Using an air compressor, vacuum pump and a…
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[ad_1] The pilot program is aimed at producing data to assist the Federal Aviation Administration in establishing rules and regulations to safely integrate drones at scale. The FAA still must decide questions before the pilot projects begin including whether drone deliveries should follow city streets or cross backyards. The 10 pilot drone test projects selected…
[ad_1] “These are serious problems in all of our major cities: homelessness, education, there are are a number of them. And they require hard thinking and innovative solutions. But I think cities are so better off working with the business community towards joint solutions, rather than trying to tax them.” While Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos…
[ad_1] Getty Images Joey Levin, chief executive officer of IAC (InterActiveCorp), attends the first day of the annual Allen & Company Sun Valley Conference, July 11, 2017 in Sun Valley, Idaho. Following a revenue beat on Wednesday, IAC CEO Joey Levin penned a letter assuring shareholders that the Match Group parent company was well-positioned to…
[ad_1] Matt McIlwain, a partner at Seattle-based Madrona Ventures, said the growth in backlog revenue is partly driven by aggressive discounts. AWS offers Reserved Instances, a one to three-year prepaid option on computing resources that comes with hefty price cuts. Its enterprise discount program for larger customers has also been gaining traction of late. Additionally,…
[ad_1] British-based Vodafone has struck a deal to buy some European assets of U.S. cable company Liberty Global for $21.8 billion in a move Liberty Global’s CEO, Mike Fries, said will benefit both investors and mobile users. “It’s a total win for consumers,” Fries, who is also vice chairman of the company, told CNBC’s “Power…
[ad_1] The rollout will begin in the coming weeks for those customers who live within range of 47 Sears Auto Centers in eight metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. The service will eventually go live at Sears’ more than 400 Auto Centers across the U.S., to…
[ad_1] Google announced today it was going to acquire Israeli cloud migration startup, Velostrata. The companies did not share the purchase price. Velostrata helps companies migrate from on-premises datacenters to the cloud, a common requirement today as companies try to shift more workloads to the cloud. It’s not always a simple matter though to transfer…
[ad_1] Google at I/O 2018 unveiled Android P Beta (aka Android P Developer Preview 2). The build is now available for Google Pixel devices, as well as devices from manufacturers that have implemented Project Treble. These include the Essential PH-1, Nokia 7 Plus, OnePlus 6, Oppo R15 Pro, Sony Xperia XZ2, Vivo X21, Vivo X21…
[ad_1] Shares of Roku popped Wednesday, ahead of the company’s first-quarter financial report after the bell. The stock price was up 9.2 percent to $36.16 a share in midday trading. Analysts polled by Thomson Reuters expect Roku to have a loss of 15 cents per share in the first quarter on revenue of $127.6 million.…
[ad_1] Soon you can play PC games on your smartphone or tablet via the Steam Link app for iOS and Android. Valve announced Steam Link for mobile devices along with Steam Video, an app that lets you watch movies and shows available on Steam on your Android or iOS device. The Steam Link app release…
[ad_1] Two teenagers were killed and a third was injured when a Tesla Model S crashed and caught fire in Florida, according to NBC Miami. All three occupants in the vehicle involved in the crash Tuesday night in Fort Lauderdale were 18-year-old males, the report said. “Our thoughts are with the families and friends affected…
[ad_1] Slack Technologies on Tuesday announced it has added another 1 million paid users as the company begins to face increased competition in the workplace collaboration software market. The San Francisco-based company, which competes directly with Microsoft Corp, said it now has more than 70,000 paying organisations, more than 8 million daily active users and 3…
[ad_1] But Amazon is in so many other businesses — retail sales, movies, grocery stores, smart home devices and so on — that competitors in those areas may be wary of paying a big tech bill to Amazon. Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella pointed out as much to CNBC earlier this week. “Amazon and Google both…
[ad_1] When the political consulting firm Cambridge Analytica announced last week it would be closing its doors and filing for bankruptcy in the wake of the Facebook data scandal, speculation mounted that it would be revived under the guise of two new companies set up in London. Not so, said Nigel Oakes, the founder of…
[ad_1] Brendan McDermid | Reuters Jeff Lawson, (C) Founder, CEO, & Chairman of Communications software provider Twilio Inc., takes a selfie photo during his company’s IPO on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York City, U.S., June 23, 2016. Shares of software vendors New Relic and Twilio surged on Wednesday…
[ad_1] An artist’s rendering of the Uber flying taxi concept in this handout image. Uber Technologies said on Tuesday it signed an agreement with US space agency NASA to explore concepts and technologies needed for passenger and cargo air transportation within an urban area. This is Uber’s second agreement with the space agency. As part of the…
[ad_1] “Good afternoon Mr Smith, and congratulations on reaching 500,000 air miles. Lunch will be served an hour after take off — we’re preparing your filet mignon just the way you like it. I’d like to apologise for the slight delay to your flight to Miami last week, and let you know we’re scheduled to…
[ad_1] “Whether for AR or robots, anytime you have software interacting with the world, it needs a 3D model of the globe. We think that map will look a lot more like the decentralized internet than a version of Apple Maps or Google Maps.” That’s the idea behind new startup Fantasmo, according to co-founder Jameson Detweiler. Coming out of…
[ad_1] In August last year, Google unveiled ARCore, a system to make augmented reality apps for mobile devices using the Android operating system. Then in March, having gone out of preview at MWC 2018, Google announced the rollout of several gaming, shopping, home, and creativity apps based on the tech giant’s ARCore 1.0 augmented reality…
[ad_1] Google‘s next version of Android has new tools that will help users fight their smartphone addiction. During its developer conference on Tuesday, Google discussed new functions in the next version of Android (code-named Android P) that will help users become more aware of which apps they use most and to improve their “digital wellbeing.”…
[ad_1] Google is bringing Morse code input support to Gboard, giving those with different communication abilities another option when it comes to text input. At I/O 2018, the search giant highlighted the new development and revealed the partnership with developer Tania Finlayson who prior to the development, used Morse code to communicate with a device…
[ad_1] Kai Pfaffenbach | Reuters A booth of Micron Technology at an industrial fair in Frankfurt, Germany. Micron shares will thrive this year due to strong demand from several technology markets, according to one Wall Street firm. Morgan Stanley reiterated its overweight rating for Micron shares, citing its sales growth from the cloud computing business.…
[ad_1] Apple is pretty serious about the future of its iPhone X. The company has announced that starting July 2018, all iOS app updates must be compatible with the notch-based iPhone X. The Cupertino firm announced this on its developer page, calling on the app makers to ensure their apps are updated and built with…
[ad_1] As the cryptocurrency market matures, bitcoin could be pushed out by competitors the same way the video cassette tape format Betamax lost out to rival VHS as home entertainment technology evolved during the 1980s, according to one tech investor. “Bitcoin could turn out to be Betamax,” North Island Chairman Glenn Hutchins told CNBC’s “Squawk…
[ad_1] Microsoft, at Build 2018 keynote, announced the arrival of tabs to everything with another expansion of its Sets feature for Windows 10, which has yet to be released in a public build. The Timeline feature – which made it to the Windows 10 April 2018 Update – has also received an expansion. Sets will…
[ad_1] I really like the new gestures. It took some getting used to on the iPhone X but after six months I find it much more seamless to use than Apple’s other iPhones with a home button. Android users who rely on the current layout might also need to adjust, but it works really well…
[ad_1] It’s been a month since Huawei unveiled its latest flagship device. I’ve played with this phone for a few weeks and it’s one of the most interesting Android phones currently available. The P20 Pro is a solid successor to the P10 and a good alternative to other flagship phones, such as the iPhone X…
[ad_1] When it comes to making requests inside a company for new equipment or to learn about HR policies, it can be a frustrating experience for both sides of the equation. HR and IT are probably tired of answering the same questions. Employees are tired of calling a help desk for routine inquiries and waiting…
[ad_1] Thin and light laptops that also offer good processing power have in the past, been quite expensive. However, this scenario is slowly changing with a new breed of laptops in 2018. Intel’s new 8th Gen Core CPUs are partly responsible for this change, as for the first time, low-voltage mobile parts aren’t restricted to…
[ad_1] Rather than voting for 21st Century rules to protect the internet, we’ll be taking a show vote on whether to look backwards and re-apply rules meant for the old Ma’ Bell phone system to the modern internet. This is a mistake, and only delays concrete protections for a free and open internet. The misguided…
[ad_1] StubHub is best known as a destination for buying and selling event tickets. The company operates in 48 countries and sells a ticket every 1.3 seconds. But the company wants to go beyond that and provide its users with a far more comprehensive set of services around entertainment. To do that, it’s working on…
[ad_1] A week after WhatsApp co-founder and CEO Jan Koum resigned, reportedly over “data privacy” concerns and weakening encryption, a Facebook executive has touted the instant messaging app’s “end-to-end encryption” feature saying it helps people communicate securely and safely. “End-to-end encryption is a powerful tool for security and safety and by end-to-end encrypting sensitive information,…
[ad_1] Google put the spotlight on its artificial intelligence smarts at its annual developers conference Tuesday, announcing new consumer features aimed at simplifying your life. Many of the updates have a practical bent, designed to ease tasks such as composing emails, making lists, navigating city streets and lessening the digital distractions that have increasingly addled…
[ad_1] In the wake of the data privacy scandal the tech industry has been part of since the Facebook–Cambridge Analytica controversy came through, Apple is said to be cracking down on app developers that are in violation of its data collection guidelines. As per a new report, Apple is taking down apps that share location…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Tim Cook, chief executive officer of Apple Inc., waves after speaking during an event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino, California, U.S., on Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017. Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya told CNBC on Wednesday he sees Apple as a massive generator of…
[ad_1] Google Lens was unveiled at I/O last year as an image recognition tool that could provide contextual suggestions for objects that you scan with the camera. For instance, scanning a restaurant can show things like the menu, pricing, reservations, and timings. It is Google’s experimental, camera-powered search engine that combines search, artificial intelligence, augmented…
[ad_1] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is wrong about bitcoin, tech venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya argued on Wednesday. “Not everybody is right all the time,” the former Facebook executive told CNBC’s “Squawk Box,” adding that knowledge about technology is not in the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO’s “circle of competence.” Buffett bashed bitcoin Monday in an…
[ad_1] It’s not a bird, nor a plane. But Uber’s new prototype vehicle unveiled Tuesday shows off its vision of the future of transportation – a “flying taxi” that aims to alleviate urban congestion. A model of Uber’s electric vertical take-off and landing vehicle concept (eVTOL) – a cross between a helicopter and a drone…
[ad_1] Walmart has agreed to a deal to buy a majority stake in Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart for $16 billion. The U.S. retail giant said Wednesday that it would acquire an initial stake of roughly 77 percent in Flipkart. The remainder of the business will be held by existing investors, including Flipkart’s co-founder Binny Bansal,…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies said on Tuesday it would work with the US Army to advance research on a novel, quiet aircraft rotor technology that could be used in future flying cars, or military aircraft. The alliance highlights stepped-up efforts by Uber and other companies to transform flying cars from a science fiction concept to real hardware for…
[ad_1] Walmart has reached an agreement to take control of Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son said on Wednesday. The deal was reached Tuesday night, Japan time, Son said at a news conference following the release of SoftBank’s earnings report. Son did not disclose further details of the deal. Confirmation of the transaction…
[ad_1] With a view to help the visually challenged, Google is developing a new Android app called Lookout, the company announced on the sidelines of Google I/O 2018. The app, which is heading to the US later this year, will give visually challenged auditory cues as they encounter objects, text, and people around them. In…
[ad_1] Mobile devices across Canada will be buzzing a little more than usual this week as emergency management officials test a new national public alert system. Test signals are to be sent to millions of mobile users in Quebec around mid-morning today and across Ontario in mid-afternoon. Cellphones, tablets and other devices will receive the…
[ad_1] Microsoft has finally updated its simple yet useful Notepad app for Windows with a feature that was missing for more than three decades – specifically after Windows 1.0 debuted along with Notepad back in 1985. This new change is none other than the extended line endings support that helps you correctly view text files…
[ad_1] Years of federal bureaucratic delay may cost the North millions of dollars in investment in an emerging high-tech industry. A Norwegian company has been waiting since 2016 for Ottawa to grant an operating licence for a satellite ground receiving station in Inuvik, N.W.T. The delay has limited services the company can provide to increasingly…
[ad_1] When Xiaomi Corp.’s founders were eating millet congee at an office in Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighbourhood in 2010, they decided to create a smartphone brand selling handsets at “honest” prices. Eight years later, Lei Jun and the seven other Xiaomi co-founders have created a company that wants to challenge the global industry dominance of Apple…
[ad_1] Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re exploring why our communities are at a turning point and exploring ways to recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. If you’re feeling guilty about all the coffee pods or squeeze pouches you’re tossing in the trash, here’s some…
[ad_1] After being spotted in beta last week, Google has now made Linux apps arrival in Chrome OS official. At the ongoing Google I/O 2018 conference, the tech giant announced that native Linux support is coming to Chromebooks, and the first to get a preview of the new tool will be the Pixelbook. This move…
[ad_1] Sonic the Hedgehog, the iconic Sega game character, is set to soon make his comeback in a big way. The blue hedgehog, who derived his name from the speed abilities he possesses, will be starring in a Sonic-focused movie — a partnership between Paramount Pictures and Sega — that is slated for release between…
[ad_1] Yahoo has just entered the densely competitive market of messaging apps by releasing its own new group chat app named Squirrel. The app – currently still in testing – is now listed on Google Play and the App Store, and is invite-only for now. If you wish to start using the app, you need…
[ad_1] Siemens raised its full year profit guidance on Wednesday, citing a strong first half helped by a 900 million euro ($1.07 billion) gain from transferring its stake in IT services company Atos SE to its pension fund. The German engineering group said it now expected full year earnings per share in the range of…
[ad_1] Considering how large apps tend to slow down many a Android phone, Google at I/O 2018 on Tuesday announced a new publishing format called Android App Bundle that is aimed at helping developers optimise the size of their apps depending on devices. The new format doesn’t replace the standard APK file format but instead…
[ad_1] Protecting and conserving the natural environment is Parks Canada’s main job, the federal environment minister concludes in her response to a massive public consultation on the future of Canada’s national parks. “I did feel there needed to be a reset button,” Catherine McKenna said Monday about her response to the Let’s Talk Parks consultation,…
[ad_1] Google put the spotlight on its artificial intelligence smarts at its annual developers conference Tuesday, announcing new consumer features aimed at simplifying your life. Many of the updates have a practical bent, designed to ease tasks such as composing emails, making lists, navigating city streets, and lessening the digital distractions that have increasingly addled…
[ad_1] Less than a fifth of the Canadian harp seal quota was harvested last year, due largely to an ongoing global slump in demand and restrictions on sales in European markets. (Paul Darrow/Reuters) The equation seems simple: seals eat fish, fish are declining, kill the seals, fish recover. But experts warn that many factors need…
[ad_1] Facebook Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg on Tuesday ordered one of the biggest management shakeups in the history of the social network, giving more responsibility to his chief product officer and launching a blockchain division. The shakeup appeared to consolidate power at the sprawling internet company, although it included no firings or outside hires and did…
[ad_1] A strain of virus that has contributed to “mass-mortality events” in fish, frogs and salamanders has been confirmed in a Canadian reptile for the first time. Ranavirus causes lesions to open on the face and neck and swelling of internal organs. This strain generally leads to organ failure and death within four weeks, according to Morgan Piczak, a…
[ad_1] Payments processor Square said Tuesday it is launching Square for Restaurants, a software platform for restaurant operations designed to bring more small businesses into the Square ecosystem. The software — which Square calls its most sophisticated software yet — ties together in one place all of a restaurant’s operations, from booking tables to managing…
[ad_1] Google is kicking off its annual, three-day developers’ conference in Mountain View, California today with a keynote speech by CEO Sundar Pichai. The I/O event gives Google a chance to show off its artificial intelligence chops, give updates on upcoming products like the latest version of its Android operating system and woo developers into…
[ad_1] Japanese HR services provider Recruit Holdings said on Wednesday it has agreed to buy popular California-based job site operator Glassdoor for $1.2 billion to tap into its database of company reviews and salary data. Privately held Glassdoor, founded in 2007, last raised funds in 2016, valuing the company at $1 billion. It counts billionaire…
[ad_1] Google will unroll six new voices for its Google Assistant, including that of entertainer John Legend. The voices will be both male and female, and will be made more natural with a technology called Wavenet, which Google’s DeepMind artificial intelligence team announced 18 months ago. “Wavenet models underlying raw audio to create a more…
[ad_1] Instagram is unveiling new features for businesses that want to use their profiles to message with customers and even facilitate transactions. Even if you’re not a business on Instagram, you might still notice the addition of action buttons, which will allow you to make a reservation, buy a ticket, start an order or make…
[ad_1] The Walt Disney Company on Tuesday said that the success of Marvel’s “Black Panther” helped drive 21 percent year-over-year revenue growth for its studio entertainment business. Disney’s studios saw $2.45 billion in revenue for the quarter. That figure bested Wall Street expectations for $2.19 billion in revenue, according to a StreetAccount consensus estimate. In…
[ad_1] Social media stars have always been treated like nobodies instead of VIPs on Snapchat. Despite pioneering the Stories and creative tools they love, the lack of support saw many drift to YouTube’s ad dollars and Instagram’s bigger audience. Now Snap CEO Evan Spiegel is finally stepping up to win back their favor and their…
[ad_1] “They did no legal or lobbying work for us, and the contract ended in December 2017,” AT&T said. The company did not say how much it had paid Cohen, who was the president’s personal lawyer at the time. AT&T is in the midst of pursuing an $85 billion acquisition of Time Warner. The U.S.…
[ad_1] As the war for creating customized AI hardware heats up, Google announced at Google I/O 2018 that is rolling out out its third generation of silicon, the Tensor Processor Unit 3.0. Google CEO Sundar Pichai said the new TPU is eight times more powerful than last year per pod, with up to 100 petaflops…
[ad_1] Google is placing a lot of importance on engaging with governments across the world, even amid tensions around artificial intelligence, privacy and fake news, according to one of the company’s top engineers. “It’s important to engage with governments around the world in how they’re thinking about AI — to help inform them,” Jeff Dean,…
[ad_1] Facebook was a mess. The independence it dangled to close acquisition deals with Instagram and WhatsApp turned the company into a tangle of overlapping products. Every app had its own messaging and Stories options. Economies of scale were squandered. Top innovators led mature products already bursting at the seams with features while new opportunities…
[ad_1] Oil prices may have slid from their near-$70 highs after the United States withdrew from the Iran nuclear deal, but CNBC’s Jim Cramer found an under-the-radar beneficiary of higher crude costs. General Electric, the ailing industrial giant, could see its Baker Hughes oil business get a boost from crude at $69, the “Mad Money”…
[ad_1] Google wants to bundle its voice assistant into every device and app. And it’s true that it makes sense to integrate Google Assistant in Google Maps. It’ll be available on iOS and Android this summer. At Google I/O, director of Google Assistant Lilian Rincon showed a demo of Google Maps with Google Assistant. Let’s…
[ad_1] Microsoft and Amazon.com may be competing with each other in the cloud-computing market, but in the realm of voice-controlled personal assistants, Cortana and Alexa are forging a friendship. On Monday, the two companies showed the fruits of a collaboration announced last August to let Amazon’s Alexa and Microsoft’s Cortana talk to each other. In…
[ad_1] A new generation of gamers is flocking to “Fortnite,” the battle royale-style online shooter title quickly becoming the most popular video game on the internet. With its vibrant, cartoonish visuals and slick controls, the free-to-play game is surging in revenue and popularity — and enabling younger gamers to gain prominence. One of them is…
[ad_1] Google managed to elicit an audible gasp from the crowd at I/O today when it showed off a new augmented feature for Maps. It was a clear standout during a keynote that contained plenty of iterative updates to existing software, and proved a key glimpse into what it will take to move AR from…
[ad_1] Google at I/O 2018 unveiled Android P Beta (aka Android P Developer Preview 2). The build is now available for Google Pixel devices, as well as devices from manufacturers that have implemented Project Treble. These include the Essential PH-1, Nokia 7 Plus, OnePlus 6, Oppo R15 Pro, Sony Xperia XZ2, Vivo X21, Vivo X21…
[ad_1] THOMAS NEHREN NEVER knew what to expect when he was on the road in his hometown of Salt Lake City. Whether it was speed traps, accidents or road construction, he too often found himself on the wrong street at the wrong time, when a different way to work might have kept him away from…
[ad_1] No surprise here, Android P was the highlight of today’s Google I/O keynote. The new version of the company’s mobile operating system still doesn’t have a name (at least not as of this writing), but the company’s already highlighted a number of key new features, including, notable, Adaptive Battery. Aimed at taking on basically…
[ad_1] Google News is getting refreshed with new features, the company announced at the I/O 2018 developers conference. At the event, Google announced the all-new Google News leverages artificial intelligence to organise news. Google said that “more great journalism [is] being produced than ever before,” and to make it easier to make sense of it…
[ad_1] Stephen Lam | Reuters Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks onstage during the annual Google I/O developers conference in Mountain View, California, May 8, 2018. Google put its prowess in artificial intelligence, as well as its commitment to wielding it responsibly, front and center during the keynote of its I/O developers conference on Tuesday. A…
[ad_1] Google today said it is rolling out Lighthouse 3.0, an update to its tools that help developers optimize their websites and audit their performance. The new update is centered around more precise and actionable metrics, such as page load time and the components of the site that might be slowing it down. Google has…
[ad_1] Intel Capital, the investment arm of the computer processor giant, is today announcing $72 million in funding for the 12 newest startups to enter its portfolio, bringing the total invested so far this year to $115 million. Announced at the company’s global summit currently underway in southern California, investments in this latest tranche cover…
[ad_1] Google, at its annual developers conference – I/O 2018 – announced a new initiative called Digital Wellbeing that will be available across all platforms. CEO Sundar Pichai, at the event, said that Google wants to help users with their ‘digital wellbeing’ by understanding their habits and helping curb device addiction. It is creating tools…
[ad_1] Walt Disney CEO Bob Iger told CNBC on Tuesday that he remains “confident” the deal with Twenty-First Century Fox will move forward. Disney’s $52 billion bid for Fox was announced in December. On Monday, sources told CNBC that Comcast is planning a $60 billion all-cash bid to acquire Fox’s assets if the U.S. government…
[ad_1] Google today announced at its I/O developer conference a new suite tools for its new Android P operating system that will help users better manage their screen time, including a more robust do not disturb mode and ways to track your app usage. The biggest change is introducing a dashboard to Android P that…
[ad_1] Google Maps is getting several new updates at the company’s Google I/O 2018 annual developer conference. With the new features, Maps is expected to become more helpful and personal as the service will now offer more customised suggestions and recommendations for users based on the location. These features include a redesigned Explore tab, a…
[ad_1] Facebook “instituted its biggest executive shakeup in its 15-year history this week,” Recode reported on Tuesday, a reorganization that will include a new blockchain effort and aims to address privacy concerns. The experimental blockchain group will be led by David Marcus, the executive most recently in charge of Facebook’s Messenger group. Marcus sits on…
[ad_1] Google I/O is nowhere near done. While the mainstream keynote just ended, the company is about to unveil the next big things when it comes to APIs, SDKs, frameworks and more. The developer keynote starts at 12:45 PM Pacific Time (3:45 PM on the East Cost, 8:45 PM in London, 9:45 PM in Paris) and…
[ad_1] Google Assistant is now available on 500 million devices globally, Scott Huffman, Vice President of Google Assistant revealed at the Google I/O 2018 keynote. He added that daily usage of the service has tripled in India since the beginning of 2018. Assistant will support 30 languages and be available in 80 countries this year.…
[ad_1] Google is completely revamping its news product to make it more robust, featuring YouTube videos and tweets, and well as traditional articles. In the app’s new iteration, Google tries to balance artificial intelligence-fueled personalization with features that encourage people not to get stuck in “filter bubbles” that reinforce their preconceived opinions or ideas. “We…
[ad_1] Google unveiled some of the new features in the next version of Android at its developer conference. One feature looked particularly familiar. Android P will get new navigation gestures to switch between apps. And it works just like the iPhone X. “As part of Android P, we’re introducing a new system navigation that we’ve…
[ad_1] At the Google I/O 2018, company CEO Sundar Pichai has unveiled a host of new features. He touted some impressive Google Photos features that leverage the company’s AI prowess. One of the key announcements is the arrival of Suggested Actions on Google Photos. Currently, Photos is one of the most accessible use cases of…
[ad_1] Google on Tuesday announced that it has developed a third generation of its special chips for artificial intelligence. The new Tensor Processing Units (TPUs) will help Google improve applications that use artificial intelligence to do things like recognize words people are saying in audio recordings, spot objects in photos and videos, and pick up…
[ad_1] In a move seemingly designed specifically to frustrate law enforcement, Apple is adding a security feature to iOS that totally disables data being sent over USB if the device isn’t unlocked for a period of 7 days. This spoils many methods for exploiting that connection to coax information out of the device without the…
[ad_1] There was plenty of talk about Android P at today’s big I/O kickoff — but when can you actually download the thing? Right now, as a matter of fact, if you’ve got one of a handful of compatible handsets. You can find the upgrade here, if you dare. The list includes the Pixel, naturally,…
[ad_1] Smart Compose is Google’s latest addition to its popular mailing client – Gmail – announced on Tuesday at Google I/O 2018. With the new feature, Gmail makes use of AI (artificial intelligence) and machine learning to offer phrase and word suggestions as you compose a new email. The suggestions will appear automatically once you…
[ad_1] Denis Balibouse | Reuters Sundar Pichai, CEO, Google The Google Assistant is getting so “smart” that it’s soon going to be able to place calls for you. On Tuesday, at the Google I/O event, CEO Sundar Pichai demoed one experience where this sort of smart technology will be helpful. If you need to make…
[ad_1] Google is adding morse code input to its mobile keyboard. It’ll be available as a beta on iOS and Android later today. The company announced that new feature at Google I/O after showing a video of Tania Finlayson. Finlayson has been having a hard time communicating with other people due to her condition. She…
[ad_1] Microsoft has spent the past few years coming up with ways to use artificial intelligence internally. Now it will let customers take advantage of some of these tools while aiming to lure business from Amazon and Google. The company will let customers use a chip system it built to process AI queries cheaper and…
[ad_1] Google is amping up its use of artificial intelligence in email with a new Gmail feature called Smart Compose that tries to finish certain sentences for you. The tool is an extension of Google’s existing Smart Replies, which makes three suggestions it for users to their start emails. Gmail recently rolled that feature out…
[ad_1] Uber Technologies on Monday said it has retained a former top US transportation official to advise it on safety after a fatal self-driving crash in March, but it declined to comment on a technology website’s report that a software flaw was responsible for the accident. The Information reported on Monday that Uber has determined the likely…
[ad_1] Andrew Harrer | Bloomberg | Getty Images Gary Cohn, director of the U.S. National Economic Council, speaks during a discussion at the Institute of International Finance (IIF) policy summit in Washington, D.C. Former Goldman Sachs president Gary Cohn said Tuesday he thinks the world will have a global cryptocurrency that is not bitcoin. “I’m…
[ad_1] Increasingly we are going to be having bots conducting business on a company’s behalf. As that happens, it is going to require a trust mechanism to ensure that bot-to-bot communication is legitimate. BotChain, a new startup out of Boston wants to be the blockchain for registering bots. The new blockchain, which is built on…
[ad_1] Microsoft is hosting Build 2018, its annual developer conference, and, a key announcement made at the event is the change in its Microsoft Store policy to now allow developers 95 percent of the revenue from their apps – specifically, non-gaming apps. The Microsoft Store in Windows has been struggling to gain developers’ support for…
[ad_1] “It’s good to have data in terms of what we’re selling and where we’re selling. Then we can match that to the individuals in each store,” Colicchio said. Salido has raised $16 million in total funding to date and also touts chefs like Colicchio and Stephen Starr, as well as Uber’s former top New…
[ad_1] Microsoft and Red Hat are deepening their existing alliance around cloud computing. The two companies will now offer a managed version of OpenShift, Red Hat’s container application platform, on Microsoft Azure. This service will be jointly developed and managed by Microsoft and Red Hat and will be integrated into the overall Azure experience. Red…
[ad_1] Snapchat has agreed to join an EU-sponsored group of US Internet giants to combat hate speech and online extremism, EU officials said on Monday. Snapchat, a multi-media messaging app, joins Instagram and the Google+ social network as well as founding participants YouTube, Microsoft, Twitter, and Facebook in a “code of conduct” to look at…
[ad_1] Instagram is unveiling new features to help enterprises run their businesses on the platform. “We’re taking steps to turn Instagram from not just a place of business discovery but really a place where business can get done,” Instagram director of product Vishal Shah told CNBC. The tools, which include messaging options and booking integrations,…
[ad_1] WhatsApp, the world’s most popular messaging app, is a popular haven for spam and malware. Now, there’s a new bug that is being forwarded via WhatsApp messages and can crash not just the app but also your Android phone. It reportedly contains a code which when tapped overloads WhatsApp and even the OS, resulting…
[ad_1] Source: Town Hall Ventures From left to right, David Miskhin (director), Lauren Robb (senior associate), David Whelan (general partner), Andy Slavitt (general partner), Natalie Davis (director) and Trevor Price (general partner) Former Medicare chief Andy Slavitt has added two partners to his new venture capital firm, which aims to find profits in serving the…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Twiter/Jane Manchung Wong Instagram is said to be looking to jazz up Stories a bit more with music stickers. The new feature was found in the app’s code, indicating that the ability to add music to your Stories is not that far. This feature looks to give Instagram an edge over Musical.ly,…
[ad_1] Microsoft will attempt to buy Netflix in an effort to crack into the streaming business, veteran media analyst Porter Bibb predicted on Tuesday. Bibb, a tech and media analyst with more than 40 years experience on Wall Street, did not offer a timeline for when he thought Microsoft could go after Netflix’s assets. But,…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Twitter/ Jane Manchun Wong After Stories, Camera Effects, and more such features, Facebook is now said to be cloning yet another Snapchat idea. The social media giant is working on upping its emoji game with avatars, like the popular Bitmoji. Facebook Avatars will let users build a personalised and illustrated version of…
[ad_1] Drew Angerer | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, co-founder and CEO of Twitter Twitter is building a feature into its app that will allow users to send secret messages to one another, according to data spotted by TechCrunch inside the company’s Android application. Here’s why this matters: It shows that Twitter is taking privacy seriously…
[ad_1] Generations ago, the internet spoke of an old saying that involved a man exhibiting excitement about hearing of a person’s love of an object, so he did favor, and put that something inside of something else. That’s what Netgear did here. Netgear heard people like the internet so much that the company put an…
[ad_1] A year after introducing the ability to send or request money on Android app, Gmail is finally extending its pay friends feature to its iOS users. The Send Money via attachment option is now available on iOS, and is powered by Google Pay. As part of the Gmail for iOS version 5.0.180422, iOS users…
[ad_1] The robot revolution is here, at least for your morning caffeine fix. Cafe X Technologies is a new, $25,000 automated barista designed by the award-winning team behind Dr. Dre’s Beats headphones and speakers: the Ammunition Group. The Jetsons-style coffeemaker can sling 120 cups of joe per hour at specs that satisfy finicky roasters (and…
[ad_1] Alexa, the artificial intelligence (AI) powered voice-based virtual assistant that was initially exclusive to the Amazon Echo family before being released on other devices including Android and iOS smartphones, is now getting deeper into Android. It can now be set as the default assistant on your Android device. This is something similar to what…
[ad_1] Uber has unveiled its “flying car” concept aircraft at its second annual Uber Elevate Summit, which showcases prototypes for its fleet of airborne taxis. The flying cars, which the company hopes to introduce to riders in two to five years, will conduct vertical takeoffs and landings from skyports, air stations on rooftops or the…
[ad_1] Traditionally, Google announces the winners of the annual Google Play Awards during I/O, but this year it made the list public a day before. The 2018 Google Play Award winners have been announced, and Indian e-commerce site Flipkart has been awarded as the Standout Build for Billions Experience award. Flipkart wins the first position,…
[ad_1] Nintendo is launching a paid online service for its popular Switch console in September. The Japanese gaming company unveiled details of the new membership service Monday. It includes access to a library of 20 games from Nintendo’s classic NES console, as well as cloud backup for game saves. An annual subscription to the paid…
[ad_1] Microsoft Build 2018, the annual developer conference from the tech giant, is underway, and, one of the crucial announcements to arrive from the event is the addition of payments to the prime email service Outlook. With the growing addition of payments feature in almost all the apps or Web services we use, it appears…
[ad_1] Alibaba has bought Pakistani e-commerce firm Daraz, as the Chinese tech giant looks to increase its presence in South Asia. Financial details of the transaction, which was announced on Tuesday, were undisclosed. Daraz, founded in 2012, is backed by European tech incubator Rocket Internet. It operates in Bangladesh, Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Nepal as…
[ad_1] How did you find Microsoft Build yesterday? We don’t really have time for your answer because Google I/O is already here! Google is kicking off its annual developer conference today. As usual, there will be a consumer keynote with major new products in the morning, and a developer-centric keynote in the afternoon. The conference…
[ad_1] Fortnite developer Epic Games has announced that the Fortnite Avengers Infinity War event is now live. Dubbed as the Fortnite Infinity Gauntlet Limited Time Mashup mode, it is now playable on PC, iOS, PS4, and Xbox One. The Fortnite Avengers Infinity Gauntlet Limited Time Mashup mode download size is 210MB on iOS and 1.283GB on…
[ad_1] A new countrywide emergency public alert system for mobile devices set to debut in Quebec on Monday failed to reach residents, while Ontario also had its problems, said a spokesperson for the CRTC. The tests are being conducted after the CRTC ordered wireless providers to implement the system to warn of imminent safety concerns such as tornadoes, floods, Amber Alerts or terror threats. CRTC spokesperson…
[ad_1] After introducing the iBall CompBook Premio v2.0 (Review) in February, the domestic tech brand has now launched the Merit G9 CompBook in India. The laptop is powered by an Intel Celeron N3350 processor, runs Windows 10, and offers six hours of battery like. The iBall CompBook Merit G9 is cheaper than the Premio v2.0,…
[ad_1] Polar bears and other iconic animals could be extinct by the end of the century if ocean temperatures continue to rise at the current rate, marine biologists warned Monday. Warming temperatures caused by climate-changing emissions may result in a catastrophic loss of marine wildlife and drastic changes to ocean food webs by 2100, scientists…
[ad_1] Oracle Corp. will unveil its blockchain software starting this month, joining the growing list of companies offering products that use the digital-ledger technology behind bitcoin. The Redwood City, California-based company will introduce a platform-as-a-service blockchain product this month and decentralised ledger-based applications next month, Thomas Kurian, president of product development, said Monday at Oracle…
[ad_1] When most people think of Hawaii, they envision swaying palm trees, sandy beaches and turquoise surf. But people are now being made aware of just how that tropical paradise was created. The Big Island of Hawaii is being rocked by an eruption from the massive Kilauea volcano — one of the world’s most active and…
[ad_1] Microsoft is launching a $25 million (roughly Rs. 168 crores) initiative to use artificial intelligence to build better technology for people with disabilities. CEO Satya Nadella announced the new “AI for Accessibility” effort as he kicked off Microsoft’s annual conference for software developers. The Build conference in Seattle is meant to foster enthusiasm for the…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett is optimistic the U.S. and China will avoid a serious trade conflict. “The world will not do something stupid over time in trade,” the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday. “I don’t think we will have trade wars … of significance. … It’s counter to the interests…
[ad_1] Microsoft at its Build 2018 developer conference on Monday showcased an AI-based device prototype that eases the process of setting up meetings. The hardware includes a 360-degree camera and an array of microphones that jointly help to identify attendees, transcribe voice notes, and translate words from one language to another in a real time.…
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[ad_1] Google I/O 2018 is all set to kick off at the Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View, California on Tuesday. Before that happens, the search giant had a few updates to deliver to the select members of the press about its Next Billion Users (NBU) initiative. This program was put together to create products and…
[ad_1] As Ricketts scrambled out of the tub to show the threat to her husband, nearly identical messages reached Lori Volkman, a deputy prosecutor based in Oregon who had won fame as a blogger after her husband deployed to the Middle East; Ashley Broadway-Mack, based in the Washington, D.C., area and head of an association…
[ad_1] Google on Tuesday plans to wade into the debate over whether technology – and the time spent on devices – is harmful to people’s health, criticism that it has dodged more than Apple and Facebook. At its annual developer conference, scheduled to kick off in its hometown of Mountain View, California, on Tuesday, Google…
[ad_1] Berkshire Hathaway Vice Chairman Charlie Munger went after bitcoin again on Monday, doubling down on remarks he made about the digital currency over the weekend. “Bitcoin is worthless, artificial gold,” Munger told CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “Now that is not something I think the world needs.” “The fact that it’s clever computer science doesn’t mean…
[ad_1] Microsoft has announced at its Build 2018 conference that the popular Timeline feature is coming to Android and iOS soon. The feature syncs your Microsoft Edge browsing and activity on other apps on supported devices for you to pick up where you left off on multiple devices. For Android, it will be integrated into…
[ad_1] Swedish payment start-up iZettle announced it will go public this year. The financial technology firm said Tuesday that it plans to raise 2 billion Swedish krona ($226 million) through an initial public offering on the Nasdaq in Stockholm. The company provides mobile card readers and other digital payment products to small businesses. [ad_2] Source…
[ad_1] Alphabet’s Google on Monday launched a spinoff of its Android operating system for home appliances and other machines, following mixed results with Android offshoots for cars, smartwatches and televisions. ‘Android Things’, which arrives as Google opens its annual conference for developers, could bring its Google Assistant virtual helper to refrigerators and robots and familiar…
[ad_1] Apple hit a record high Monday, surpassing $185 for the first time, as Warren Buffett doubled down on his praise for the company. Shares closed at $185.16 after trading as high as $187.67 during the day. Apple’s previous all-time intraday high came on Friday when the stock hit $184.25. Buffett last week revealed his…
[ad_1] NITI Aayog on Monday joined hands with Google to foster growth in India’s nascent artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning ecosystem by working together on several initiatives in the two areas. Under the aegis of the programme, Google will train and incubate Indian AI startups in an accelerator programme. These startups will be mentored…
[ad_1] Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said Monday the trend towards autonomous driving cars will hurt the auto insurance industry. “Net it will be bad for the auto insurance industry over time if autonomous cars become a big part of the fleet,” Buffett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “It’s very hard to tell…
[ad_1] The Microsoft chief pegged Amazon as his most direct competitor in the increasingly important cloud space — with Google a close third. The tech giants have all been ramping up investment in cloud computing in recent years, as the so-called internet of things and ever-growing pool of connected devices demands greater computing power and…
[ad_1] This is a trend that stretches far beyond the island of Manhattan — beauty and personal care product sales in Asia jumped 6.4 per cent to $149bn last year, according to Euromonitor. The US market was valued at $86bn and western Europe, where more health and beauty shops opened in 2016 than any other…
[ad_1] Drive.ai, a California-based computer software company, will launch an autonomous car ride-hailing service in Texas. The pilot program begins in July, amid increased scrutiny over the safety of driverless cars. But Sameep Tandon, the company’s co-founder and CEO, said the fleet of cars has been tested and they are safe. He said the vehicles’…
[ad_1] Nintendo has finally revealed the details of its paid online service after months of speculation by fans. The pricing is pretty much as expected ($20 per year), but the additions of online save game backups and NES games with added online multiplayer sweeten the deal. We first heard the pricing last June, including the…
[ad_1] Comcast is planning a $60 billion all-cash bid to top Walt Disney on its deal to acquire most of Twenty-First Century Fox’s assets, if the U.S. government approves AT&T‘s acquisition of Time Warner, according to people familiar with the matter. The bid would top Disney’s offer of $52 billion. Comcast also plans to acquire…
[ad_1] When CNBC’s Jim Cramer thinks the stock market misjudged an earnings report — like he says it did with Spotify’s first report as a public company — he feels obliged to step in and clear things up. “Whenever the market makes a particularly egregious error, I like to go back and set the record…
[ad_1] Hidden inside the code of Facebook’s Android app is an unreleased feature called Facebook Avatars that lets people build personalized, illustrated versions of themselves for use as stickers in Messenger and comments. It will let users customize their avatar to depict their skin color, hair style and facial features. Facebook Avatars is essentially Facebook’s…
[ad_1] In cities all over the U.S., electric vehicles have been popping up from companies like LimeBike, Spin, Bird and Uber’s Jump Bikes. These start-ups have raised hundreds of millions of dollars to solve what some call the last mile transportation problem — the symbolic distance between public transit and the final destination. While consumers…
[ad_1] As shares of Estee Lauder Companies slid on Monday amid widespread weakness in the consumer packaged goods stocks, Cramer came out in defense of the decades-old beauty giant. “The truth is Estee Lauder’s miles ahead of its peers and the stock deserves to be a lot higher,” Cramer said. “Bizarrely, this stock’s been getting…
[ad_1] The rise of digital peer-to-peer payment services in the banking world is paving the way to a new, cashless reality, Bank of America’s Head of Digital Banking, Michelle Moore, told CNBC. “We would like to get cash out of the system,” Moore said in an interview with “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer. “It needs…
[ad_1] Buried inside Twitter’s Android app is a “Secret conversation” option that if launched would allow users to send encrypted direct messages. The feature could make Twitter a better a home for sensitive communications that often end up on encrypted messaging apps like Signal, Telegram, or WhatsApp. The encyrpted DMs option was first spotted inside…
[ad_1] As Berkshire Hathaway wraps up its event-filled annual shareholder meeting, CNBC’s Jim Cramer reflected on some of the weekend’s most interesting revelations. Warren Buffett, the CEO of Berkshire and a widely renowned investor, admitted on Saturday that he “made the wrong decisions on Google and Amazon,” having considered both stocks with his longtime partner,…
[ad_1] While Microsoft is highlighting the many ways Cortana can be used in the office, the company has yet to introduce a workplace-specific service, even though it could potentially be a way to pick up AI revenue from customers with tens of thousands of employees. It’s yet another way that Amazon is out in front…
[ad_1] You can now use Amazon‘s Alexa instead of Google Assistant by default on your Android phone. The new option was noticed by a user on Reddit over the weekend. That means you can hold the home button and pull up Alexa. This is particularly compelling if you own an Amazon Echo at home, where…
[ad_1] Lucas Jackson | Reuters Snap co-founders Evan Spiegel (R) and Bobby Murphy walk to ring the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange, March 2, 2017. Snap chief financial officer Drew Vollero is stepping down on May 15, to be replaced by Amazon’s Tim Stone, a key transition for a company that has…
[ad_1] Apple‘s vote of confidence from investing icon Warren Buffett is just one sign that the company has entered a new era, Gene Munster told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” on Monday. Two things are changing in the “Apple story,” according to Munster, formerly a well-known Apple analyst on Wall Street and now a venture…
[ad_1] Silicon Valley self-driving startup Drive.ai said on Monday it will launch a pilot program for an autonomous ride-hailing service in July in Frisco, Texas, with safety drivers present. The initial pilot will run for six months and will be the first public deployments on Texas city streets, the company said. Drive.ai, one of the…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, chief executive officer of Nvidia Corp. Nvidia shares will thrive this year as the chipmaker should generate earnings per share above expectations, according to Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm reiterated its buy and ‘top sector pick’ ratings for Nvidia, citing the company’s…
[ad_1] Instagram is preparing to let you add music to your Stories, judging by code found inside its Android app. “Music stickers” could let you search for and add a song to your posts, thanks to licensing deals with the major record labels recently struck by Facebook. Music stickers would make Instagram Stories much more…
[ad_1] When Jeff Bezos wants to call his team’s attention to a customer complaint, the Amazon founder and CEO forwards the email directly to his executives, with a note that consists of a single character: “?” “That question mark is just a shorthand for, ‘Can you look into this? Why is this happening? What’s going…
[ad_1] At Kaptivo, a company that’s bringing high-tech image recognition, motion capture and natural language processing technologies to the lowly whiteboard, executives are hoping that the second time is the charm. The Cambridge, U.K. and San Mateo, Calif.-based company began life as a company called Light Blue Optics, and had raised $50 million in financing…
[ad_1] China’s government has made technological independence from the United States one of its highest priorities. And now, it appears to be putting its money where its messaging has been. According to the Wall Street Journal, China is close to finalizing a $47 billion investment fund that would finance semiconductor research and chip startup development.…
[ad_1] The next 30 years will be defined by China and U.S. relations, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said ahead of the company’s annual Build conference. “I think the next 10 years, next 20 years, next 30 years, whatever your time horizon, is going to be defined by these two countries — China and the United…
[ad_1] At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on artificial intelligence and edge computing. To a large degree, that means bringing many of the existing Azure services to machines that sit at the edge, no matter whether that’s a large industrial machine in a warehouse or a remote…
[ad_1] As the cloud battle heats up, Microsoft is taking a unique approach to silicon that it says can help developers more quickly perform artificial intelligence computing tasks. An initiative called Project Brainwave lets developers in Microsoft’s data centers use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), which can be customized even after they’ve been plugged into servers.…
[ad_1] Microsoft may have retreated from the smartphone operating system wars but that doesn’t mean it has given up on trying to get a foothold on other platforms. Today, at its Build developer conference, the company announced three new services that bring its overall cross-platform strategy into focus. On Android, the company’s Trojan Horse has…
[ad_1] At the Microsoft Build developer conference today, Microsoft and Chinese drone manufacturer DJI announced a new partnership that aims to bring more of Microsoft’s machine learning smarts to commercial drones. Given Microsoft’s current focus on bringing intelligence to the edge, this is almost a logical partnership, given that drones are essentially semi-autonomous edge computing devices.…
[ad_1] Google Maps has added a new feature that lets them swap the vehicle icons while they use the driving navigation feature to reach their destination. This is quite similar to the Mario Day (MAR10) Easter egg that Google Maps had, allowing the users to switch from the blue navigation arrow to Mario and his…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jon Fortt sat down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella in advance of the company’s annual Build conference. The tech company reported higher than expected third-quarter earnings last month with strong guidance for the upcoming fiscal year. Microsoft plans to continue driving revenue growth through its cloud services. Its Intelligent Cloud segment contains the…
[ad_1] The whole-home wireless craze peaked and waned last year with the rise of Orbi, Eero, Google WiFi, and Linksys’ Velop. These routers use mesh technology to blanket your home in soft, velvety Wi-Fi, ensuring that everything from the front camera/lamp to the Wi-Fi-connected grill in the back yard are connected to the Internet. I’ve…
[ad_1] Epic Games has announced a limited time Fortnite event involving Avengers: Infinity War. The news comes from the official Fortnite Twitter account that tweeted a picture of Avengers: Infinity War villain Thanos along with the words “The battle beings tomorrow…”. The Infinity Gauntlet Limited Time Mashup mode for Battle Royale will feel just like a standard slugfest —…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett is bullish on Apple, thanks to the behavior he’s seen from consumers — even though he doesn’t yet have the “courage” to try an iPhone X for himself. The Berkshire Hathaway CEO and chairman told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” on Monday that he was sent an iPhone X but he hasn’t used it.…
[ad_1] Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates backed Warren Buffett‘s decision to up his stake in Apple, saying it is the most well-positioned tech company when it comes to profits. “Apple’s an amazing company, and the multiple’s not gigantic,” Gates told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Monday from Omaha, where Berkshire Hathaway held a weekend of events…
[ad_1] To date, child location trackers have failed to live up to consumer expectations. They’ve arrived as oversized, bulky watches too large for little wrists, and some have even been designed so insecurely, that it would be safer to not use them at all. A new kid tracker from Jiobit, launching today, wants to address…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett faced an infamous internet question on Monday: Would you rather battle one horse-sized duck or 100 duck-sized horses? “I will go out and buy a bunch of ducks that meet the test and horses that meet the test and go have a real life illustration,” Buffett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” The…
[ad_1] Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, came out of Google several years ago and has gained traction amazingly fast. With each step in its growth, it has created opportunities for companies to develop businesses on top of the open source project. The beauty of open source is that when it works, you build…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is set to get many new features like group video calling and third-party stickers in the near future, but for now leaks indicate a separate set of features in the offing very soon. Fresh leaks hint that work on the WhatsApp iOS Business app has finally begun. The recently launched business-oriented service for…
[ad_1] Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said Monday he would bet against bitcoin if he could. “As an asset class, you’re not producing anything and so you shouldn’t expect it to go up. It’s kind of a pure ‘greater fool theory’ type of investment,” Gates said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “I agree I would short it…
[ad_1] Treating issues with mental health can be a daunting and very sensitive task for anyone that is suffering from any kind of mental illness — but the problem for many is that a lot of patients just don’t know where to start, according to David Ebersman. That’s where Lyra Health hopes to help. The service…
[ad_1] Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference this week and the company is kicking off the event with its inaugural keynote this morning. You can watch the live stream right here. The keynote is scheduled to start at 8:30 am on the West Coast, 11:30 am on the East Coast, 4:30 pm in…
[ad_1] Billionaire investor Charlie Munger told CNBC on Monday that he wished Berkshire Hathaway bought even more Apple stock. “I think we’ve been a little too restrained,” Munger said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” from Omaha, where Berkshire Hathaway held a weekend of events around Saturday’s annual meeting. Warren Buffett and his longtime investing partner and…
[ad_1] Berkshire Hathaway Chairman and CEO Warren Buffett said he likes Apple stock so much he would love to own all of it. “I clearly like Apple. We buy them to hold,” Buffett said on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” Monday, following Berkshire’s annual shareholder meeting. “We bought about 5 percent of the company. I’d love to…
[ad_1] Mesosphere, a company that created an operating system of sorts for the modern datacenter, announced today that it has raised $125 million for their Series D round. Today’s investment brings total funding since it formed in 2013 to almost $250 million. The round was led by T. Rowe Price Associates and Koch Disruptive Technologies…
[ad_1] Ola on Monday launched ‘My Ride. My Cause.’ initiative on its platform to crowdsource funds and support social causes by leveraging its customers across India. The initiative has been rolled out with a partnership with Tata Trusts’ Alamelu Charitable Foundation (ACF). As part of this, Ola customers will have the option to contribute a…
[ad_1] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday that Wells Fargo‘s was slow to stop bad behavior in its company but it’s an overall good business. “They made one mistake,” Buffett said in a “Squawk Box” interview. “Incentives work. And they came up with improper incentives and they worked. And, so, they [incentivized] bad…
[ad_1] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett told CNBC on Monday that if someone invested $10,000 in an index fund back in 1942, it would be worth $51 million today. “The best single thing you’ve could have done on March 11, 1942 — when I bought my first stock — was buy an index fund,” Buffett told…
[ad_1] A bug is being forwarded via messages which when tapped, could send not just the WhatsApp Android app crashing but possibly even the entire Android device as well, according to media reports. “As with any message bomb, it involves sending and receiving a specially crafted message with hidden symbols in between spaces. Tapping on…
[ad_1] After Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg detailed all the new features coming to WhatsApp in the F8 keynote address last week, the social chatting app has now released an update for iOS users. WhatsApp iOS update 2.18.51 apparently brings the ability to watch Instagram and Facebook videos in-app. This means that now, along with YouTube…
[ad_1] Apple’s first-generation iMac computer has turned 20. It was on May 6, 1998, that the Cupertino-based company introduced its first-ever all-in-one desktop, paving way for advanced computing technologies as we know today. The first iMac was unveiled by the late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. It featured a 15-inch CRT screen, and a meagre 4GB…
[ad_1] Google Lens, the tech giant’s advanced image recognition tool, is now available on Google Assistant on the OnePlus 3, OnePlus 3T, OnePlus 5, and OnePlus 5T for all units with the preferred device language set to English. This development comes a few weeks after the feature was rolled out on the Assistant app on…
[ad_1] IRCTC, the Indian Railways subsidiary that handles the catering, tourism, and online ticketing operations, has rolled out an e-wallet service that lets users to book tickets, including Tatkal tickets via IRCTC Rail Connect app. As part of its efforts towards facilitating faster ticket booking, the e-wallet service has been launched as a payments system…
[ad_1] Opinion –OnePlus 6 will be unveiled at an exclusive London launch event on May 16th. The ticketed event, which sold out in hours, comes after months of cryptic tweets from OnePlus executives, teaser trailers, and leaks from the supply chain. Based on everything we’ve heard ahead of the launch, OnePlus 6 sounds like a…
[ad_1] Joshua Roberts Randal Quarles, vice chairman of supervision at the Federal Reserve, at the NABE Economic Policy Conference in Washington, D.C., U.S. on Feb. 26, 2018. Federal Reserve vice chair for supervision Randal Quarles said the central bank is in the early stages of studying how the expanding use of machine learning in the…
[ad_1] Start with an Expedition MAX XLT 4×4, assuming you need the space. Add $5,605 for package 202A, which brings leather, blind spot monitoring, upgraded infotainment, heated and cooled seats, dual zone climate control, a power-folding third row, remote start and other quality-of-life upgrades. $715 buys you the driver assistance package, which brings lane keeping,…
[ad_1] Taiwanese-American billionaire Jensen Huang’s company is at the forefront of technological solutions for artificial intelligence, video gaming and autonomous cars. But the co-founder and CEO of Silicon Valley-based Nvidia, a maker of powerful computer chips, credits his parents for putting him on the road to success. “I’m the product of my parents’ dreams and…
[ad_1] Chelsea and Liverpool are competing for a place in the top four of the Premier League table. Chelsea currently find themselves outside of the top four, but could go within three points of Liverpool with a win at Stamford Bridge. The Blues also have a game in hand on their top four rivals, although…
[ad_1] Last week at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, we saw an open source community coming together, full of vim and vigor and radiating positive energy as it recognized its growing clout in the enterprise world. This project, which came out of Google just a few years ago, has gained acceptance and popularity astonishingly rapidly…
[ad_1] Your first line of defense is to sign up for the FTC’s Do Not Call Registry. It’s illegal for telemarketers to call you if you’re on it, though plenty still do. Sign up for the FTC’s Scam Alerts. This will help you know about current robocalls and scams that have been reported to the…
[ad_1] Capture as much light information as you can The sensors on smartphone cameras have limited dynamic range, or ability to capture information from the brightest part of a photo to the darkest. To ensure you’re capturing as much light information as possible, set your exposure (by tapping on your screen) to the brightest part,…
[ad_1] Currys PC World has got a big sale going on right now with discounts available for shoppers looking for a May Bank Holiday bargain. Prices of top tech such as the Apple iPad and the Samsung Galaxy S8 have been cut and 4K TVs are also on offer. Free delivery is available on all…
[ad_1] Manchester City could break the Premier League points record with a victory against Huddersfield Town later today. A win for City would take them to 96 points, which is one better than Chelsea’s 95 point tally in the 2004/2005 season. A defeat for Huddersfield Town, meanwhile, would leave the Terriers in big trouble. Huddersfield…
[ad_1] WhatsApp fans look set to see a controversial change coming to the Android and iOS chat app. WhatsApp is the world’s most popular chat app, with over 1.5billion users each month. The messaging app is owned by Facebook, and was purchased back in 2014 for $1.5 billion. Unlike the social network’s other apps, Facebook…
[ad_1] MotoGP 2018 continues today with the latest instalment of an explosive season so far about to take place at Jerez. Last time out Marc Marquez came back from his disastrous race in the Argentine GP to win at the Circuit of the Americas. The result meant the Repsol Honda star and defending champion managed…
[ad_1] It all started with a Big Bang. But then what? Renowned theoretical astrophysicist Stephen Hawking had been trying to answer that and other questions about the universe right up until his death. But in his final paper, submitted just eight days before he died on March 14, at age 76, Hawking and co-author Thomas Hertog proposed that the universe is…
[ad_1] It’s almost time for Google’s annual I/O 2018 developer conference which means lots of new hardware and software launches to look forward to. The Google I/O event is held over days but generally reveals all the juicy bits at the opening keynote speech. This year Google is expected to touch on the new Android…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett says he made mistakes by not investing in two dominant technology companies, Alphabet and Amazon. Alphabet is the parent company of search engine Google. “I made the wrong decisions on Google and Amazon,” he said at the Berkshire Hathaway 2018 annual shareholder meeting on Saturday. “We’ve looked at it. I made the…
[ad_1] Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on May 1, 2018 in San Jose, California. Facebook is launching a dating feature inside its core app for users who are single — and it looks like the service will feature at least one main difference from its rivals: Connecting…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett fully supports Apple’s plan to buy back more of its own shares. On Tuesday, the smartphone maker announced a new $100 billion stock buyback program. “From our standpoint we would love to see Apple go down in price,” he said at the Berkshire Hathaway 2018 annual shareholder meeting on Saturday. “We very…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett is still not a fan of investing in bitcoin. The Oracle of Omaha reiterated his negative view on the cryptocurrency, according to CNBC’s Becky Quick. Tweet Link Bitcoin is “probably rat poison squared,” he said. Buffett is presiding at the Berkshire Hathaway 2018 annual shareholder meeting on Saturday. Charlie Munger, Berkshire’s vice…
[ad_1] Google Chrome has been badly hit by the recent release of Microsoft’s Windows 10 April 2018 update. The first big Windows 10 update of 2018 launched earlier this week on April 30, bringing with it a number of new features. The patch includes the long-delayed Timeline feature as well as offline website and push…
[ad_1] Haye Bellew 2 is one of the biggest boxing fights of the year, with David Haye once again facing off against Tony Bellew. The fight from the O2 is being shown live on Sky Sports Box Office, but fans tempted to illegally stream the match are being warned of the consequences. Watching copyrighted content…
[ad_1] They were educated, skilled and physically fit for space flight, but because of their gender NASA shut down their dream. The women are known as the Mercury 13, and their story is being told in a new documentary now available on Netflix. I wish we had gone into space, but it was the feeling at…
[ad_1] The survival of an ant-sized bee may seem unimportant, but when its sole habitat is on Sable Island, researchers take notice. The Sable Island sweat bee was listed as a threatened species in 2017 by the Nova Scotia Department of Natural Resources. Since then, researchers have studied the insect in the hopes of saving it. Zoe Lucas, president of…
[ad_1] Somewhat overlooked in Facebook’s announcement this week that it will launch a new dating service was CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s repeated commitment to have 20,000 people screening the platform for unwelcome content by the end of this year. The content Facebook says it wants to screen out ranges from fake news to violent livestreams. But, those…
[ad_1] Buffett said he doesn’t want much underwriting exposure to cybersecurity threats for Berkshire’s insurance businesses. He noted the company has a “pretty good idea” on how to properly assess the probabilities for earthquakes in California and hurricanes in Florida, but not with computer hacking threats. The investor expressed skepticism that any insurance company can…
[ad_1] Competing against Reliance Jio, Bharti Airtel has now updated its My Airtel app for Android and iOS devices with My Coupons. This new feature takes on My Vouchers that are available through Jio’s My Jio app. Interestingly, the Gurugram-based telco has also partnered with Paytm to let users make payments on the My Airtel…
[ad_1] For example, the base model Ford F-150, which has a V6 engine, gets about 19 miles per gallon in the city and 25 mpg on the highway. Transmissions have more gears, which means the engine does not have to work as hard to transition from one gear to another — in much the same…
[ad_1] Mozilla has released a new Firefox version (v60) for Android devices that brings the new Quantum CSS engine, also called Stylo. The CSS engine originally arrived on desktops through Firefox 57 late last year. Its existence on mobile devices is touted to enable faster page rendering that can be experienced by downloading the Firefox…
[ad_1] To perform the procedure on Jiang, Dr. Chad Roghair, a sports medicine practitioner, used an ultrasound to locate a bone in his hip. He then applied a local anesthetic to the small of Jiang’s back to numb the pain, before using a series of small drills and large needles to extract a combination of…
[ad_1] MobiKwik and Ola announced a partnership. This deal will enable MobiKwik users to book Ola cabs and autos across 110 cities in India from within the MobiKwik app. With this partnership, MobiKwik users will have access to Ola’s multi-modal commuting offerings, from pocket-friendly options such as Ola Auto, Micro, and Mini to premium categories…
[ad_1] 4,000 babies die in their sleep every year in the U.S. and nearly 70% of those babies die in bed with their parents or while they are in an unsafe location, said Dr. Karp, CEO of Happiest Baby. “What we see is that 80% of the parents keep the baby in the Snoo and…
[ad_1] The Microsoft antitrust trial, which will have its 20th anniversary this fall, began with the legal equivalent of shock and awe. To the surprise of everyone in the courtroom, the government’s trial lawyer, David Boies, decided to use video clips of Bill Gates’s deposition as part of his opening statement. A Justice Department lawyer…
[ad_1] The “median” salary is right in the middle of a company’s total pay scale, excluding the CEO in this case. Amazon and Tesla employ warehouse and factory workers, so their median salaries are lower than those of companies that primarily offer white-collar jobs. As part of their calculations, companies could annualize pay for people…
[ad_1] Gboard – the Google Keyboard app has received an update on the Android beta channel that brings the Make a GIF option that launched for iOS back in January this year. The Make a GIF feature lets users capture 3-second long videos, complete with a few preset filters you can to add on top.…
[ad_1] Now, an entry on the Chinese certification website TENAA may have given away all of the juicy details on the OnePlus 6. The listing states that the new OnePlus phone will have a 6.28 inch AMOLED screen, FHD+ resolution and an even smaller notch than on the Apple iPhone X. The TENAA record shows…
[ad_1] Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticised the ban imposed on popular messaging app Telegram by the conservative-run judiciary, saying the move was “the opposite of democracy”. Iran blocked Telegram – widely used by Iranians, the state media, politicians and companies – earlier this week to protect national security, state television said, weeks after a…
[ad_1] NASA has launched a spacecraft to land on Mars and explore the mysterious insides of the red planet. The Mars InSight lander rocketed away Saturday from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, the first interplanetary mission ever to depart from the U.S. West Coast. It will take more than six months for the spacecraft…
[ad_1] [The stream is slated to start at 6:30 a.m. ET. Please refresh the page if you do not see a player above at that time.] United Launch Alliance is set to launch NASA’s InSight lander on Saturday, lifting off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. ULA – the rocket-building joint venture of Boeing…
[ad_1] Brendan McDermid | Reuters Waymo unveils a self-driving Chrysler Pacifica minivan in Detroit, Michigan, U.S. on January 8, 2017. Police in a Phoenix suburb are investigating a collision involving a self-driving vehicle owned by Waymo. Chandler Police say the incident happened Friday afternoon when a Honda sedan swerved to avoid hitting another car. The…
[ad_1] Stoke City will face off against Crystal Palace at the bet365 Stadium this afternoon. The Potters are caught up in the relegation battle and need to win today to stand a chance of staying in the Premier League next season. Today’s game against Palace is Stoke’s last home game of the season before they…
[ad_1] SKY SOUNDBOX REVIEW PROS • Amazing sound • Good value if you are Sky customer • Simple setup CONS • Design won’t suit everyone • Expensive if you don’t have Sky • No Dolby Atmos Sky users have just got a bunch of exciting new features landing in their living rooms. The satellite TV firm is rolling out all…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is trialling a feature allowing Android users to save voice messages on the platform. Previously, if a phone call or battery loss disrupted the recording of a voice clip on an Android phone the message would be lost when you were forced to navigate away from the app. Now, users who use the…
[ad_1] There’s a new Galaxy in town and this one arrives without that huge flagship price. Samsung’s latest Galaxy A8 has just gone on sale in the UK and offers some very decent specs for under £500. For your money you’ll be treated to a nice 5.6-inch Full HD Super AMOLED Infinity display, 16-megapixel camera…
[ad_1] If you have a digital home assistant, the chances are good your children are using it too. And sometimes, those interactions might not be exactly “kid friendly.” It’s not unlikely that a tot might cue up a playlist full of explicit lyrics, unknowingly rack up bills through your online shopping cart, or get sidetracked…
[ad_1] The Windows Texture application – digital magazine service that Apple purchased in March, in an attempt to get in on an uncluttered media provider niche, is being killed by the iPhone maker. “Texture is an all-access pass to the world’s best magazines. To keep things working smoothly, older versions of the app sometimes need…
[ad_1] The Windows 10 April update has arrived and already the Insider Preview is showing off new tools to play with, including – at last – a dedicated screenshot solution. Until now taking a screenshot in Windows 10 was a challenge that required Screen Sketch, from behind the Windows Ink Menu. The update means that…
[ad_1] The OnePlus 6 is just weeks away from the official May 16th release and despite many leaks already, another has appeared, this time with a Marvel’s Avengers theme. The OnePlus 6 is expected to arrive in a special edition form that is part of a team-up between OnePlus and Disney’s Marvel to give the…
[ad_1] Scott Hladun wishes his brother had it easier when he was growing up. Matthew Hladun has autism spectrum disorder, which made it difficult for him to communicate his emotions and often led to him acting out in school. “He had so much trouble when he was younger and now he lives on his own and has…
[ad_1] To see the storm that online video game Fortnite has unleashed on the world, just visit Jett Sacher in Brooklyn. The 13-year-old spends an hour or two every day on the game with his friends and is not afraid to spend his pocket money on it – bit by bit. “So I bought one…
[ad_1] The Opposition Conservatives are pressuring the Trudeau government to divulge how much the federal carbon tax will cost Canadian households — but Finance Minister Bill Morneau says they’ll have to wait until September to find out. The Liberals’ controversial carbon pricing policy has been under regular attack by the Tories, who are hoping it…
[ad_1] Google on Friday said that people looking to place US election ads on its platform will need to show identification, and make clear who is paying. Policy changes being rolled out come as online ad ‘duopoly’ Google and Facebook strive to avoid being used to spread misleading or divisive ads aimed at voters. “Our…
[ad_1] Sidewalk Labs — which has proposed the construction of an ambitious, technology-driven neighbourhood on Toronto’s eastern waterfront — held its second public roundtable on Thursday night. It was an opportunity, in part, to address concerns about data and privacy. But the company, which is owned by Google’s parent company Alphabet and bills itself as…
[ad_1] Melting ice caused by climate change has given ships more access to Arctic waters, which researchers say could have serious consequences for the survival of bowhead and beluga whales. Lauren McWhinnie is the lead author on a study that says there is a window of opportunity to address the harmful effects of increased shipping on the…
[ad_1] Simon Dawson | Bloomberg | Getty Images Willie Walsh, CEO of the International Airlines Group British Airways’ parent company IAG has offered a big hint that Boeing is in pole position to win a new order for wide-body aircraft. The share price of IAG has risen more than 4 percent in European trade Friday…
[ad_1] There’s trouble brewing in tech land, and TradingAnalysis.com founder Todd Gordon is looking to short one flagship FANG name in particular. On a chart of the Nasdaq 100-tracking ETF (QQQ), Gordon noted that the chart is being held up by strong support well above its 200-day moving average. But when you look beneath the…
[ad_1] Alibaba reported better than expected topline results on Friday, driven by strong sales in its commerce and cloud computing units, even as margins were squeezed by a flurry of investments. The company’s March-quarter revenue grew 61 percent to 61.9 billion yuan ($9.73 billion) from a year earlier, beating analyst estimates of a 53 percent…
[ad_1] Billionaire Warren Buffett‘s Berkshire Hathaway has ended a difficult chapter in its investment in IBM while ramping up its stake in Apple. CNBC’s Becky Quick, in an interview from Omaha that aired Friday, asked him if Berkshire owns any IBM shares. He said, “No.” “I think we have zero,” he said. “The answer is…
[ad_1] Former Facebook director Don Graham defended CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Friday from criticism following the social network’s recent data-leak scandal. “I’ve known Mark since he was 20,” said the former Washington Post chief who met Zuckerberg in 2005 and was on the board of Facebook for six years until 2015. “Mark is a good,…
[ad_1] Bloomberg | Getty Images The object detection and tracking technology developed by SenseTime is displayed on a screen at the Artificial Intelligence Exhibition & Conference in Tokyo, Japan, on Wednesday, April 4, 2018. SenseTime raised the most money ever for an AI start-up in April in a deal led by Alibaba. As U.S. and…
[ad_1] Silicon Valley companies have faced heightened scrutiny in recent months amid reports of widespread data mishandling on Facebook. “In the offline world when we think about privacy, it’s easy to know what to do — you speak in hushed tones or you close your shades or you close your door,” Decker said. “But online,…
[ad_1] Inequalities in unemployment levels are long-term and systemic, Marc Morial, president and CEO of the National Urban League, told CNBC. “There’s still implicit and explicit bias in the labor market,” Morial said on “Power Lunch” Friday. Earlier that day, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics released the April jobs report, showing an unemployment rate…
[ad_1] The cryptocurrency market is on the fritz with correction threats looming, but that might not be so bad for cybersecurity leaders like Kevin Mandia, the CEO of FireEye. “From a cybersecurity standpoint, an anonymous currency has not been a great thing,” Mandia told CNBC in a Friday interview with “Mad Money” host Jim Cramer.…
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[ad_1] Axon Enterprise may be the smallest competitor in its space — developing evidence-capture technology for law enforcement — but based on its deal flow, it might be the most refined. The company recently won contracts with the New York Police Department, the Miami-Dade Police Department and the Phoenix Police Department via its acquisition of…
[ad_1] The World Surf League, which is majority-owned by billionaire Dirk Ziff, bought Slater’s company two years ago for an undisclosed sum. Now the WSL wants to roll out these wave pools globally, from Brazil to Japan. The company is already building a similar wave pool in Florida, which is expected to open by the…
[ad_1] Billionaire Warren Buffett‘s big bet on Apple is a telling sign for investors, closely followed trader Art Cashin told CNBC. That’s because the legendary investor stayed away from tech companies for a long time, saying he doesn’t buy anything he can’t understand, Cashin said. “For him to double down on Apple, that’s more of…
[ad_1] Many suspected Trump would usher in an era of large-scale consolidation. But the DOJ’s decision to block AT&T’s Time Warner acquisition didn’t jibe with that narrative. Those two companies don’t directly compete, but the DOJ sued because it felt AT&T’s control of Time Warner would lead to higher prices for bundles of TV channels.…
[ad_1] Just how important are the parks to Disney? We know that the parks division is going to surpass media networks in a couple of years as generating the most profits for the company. We also know that about 140 million people attend all eight Disney parks annually. These parks also charge top dollar for…
[ad_1] Researchers at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel are building a tic-tac-toe game to help patients with their rehabilitation exercises. The game is played on a grid of boxes and includes “embodied” and non-embodied play. Embodied play means a robotic arm will grab and place a marker – in this case a small…
[ad_1] A cryptocurrency project backed by billionaire Stanley Druckenmiller and Federal Reserve chair runner-up Kevin Warsh is looking to rid the market of one massive problem: volatility. Bitcoin has a fixed supply, so, when demand for it rises, bitcoin’s price goes up, and the opposite is true when demand drops. The cryptocurrency project, called Basis,…
[ad_1] The surging popularity of Epic Games’ “Fortnite” is not significantly hurting Activision Blizzard’s gaming business. The game publisher reported better than expected first-quarter earnings on Thursday and slightly raised its financial guidance for fiscal 2018. Its stock rose 4.6 percent Friday. Epic Games introduced the free-to-play “battle royale” mode for “Fortnite” on computers and…
[ad_1] Google Assistant is gaining some new capabilities thanks to a deal with Fandango which should make ordering movie tickets a quick and easy process. Simply tell Google Assistant that you want to buy some movie tickets and you’ll see what’s playing nearby, you can dial in the specificity to find out just what’s playing…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway will make about $700 million a year from its Apple holdings just by collecting dividends. The Oracle of Omaha revealed to CNBC that Berkshire bought an astounding 75 million shares of Apple during the first quarter. That adds to the 165.3 million shares Berkshire already owned at the end of…
[ad_1] Beijing is set to announce a new fund of about 300 billion yuan ($47.4 billion) for the development of China’s semiconductor industry, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday, citing sources familiar with the matter. The government-backed China Integrated Circuit Investment Fund is heading up the new investment vehicle, the report said. The fund was…
[ad_1] Apple CEO Tim Cook said Friday that he’s “thrilled” to have legendary investor Warren Buffett and Berkshire Hathaway as a major investor in the company. Buffett revealed late Thursday Berkshire Hathaway bought 75 million shares of Apple during the first quarter — pushing the stock to an all-time high Friday morning. “On a personal…
[ad_1] YouTube wants to assure companies it can provide brand-safe environments for their ads — and it’s willing to spend to prove it. The company spared no expense at Brandcast, its annual event for advertisers. This year, the spectacle was held at Radio City Music Hall in New York on Thursday. Around 4,200 people attended…
[ad_1] Governments across different countries have been asked by a number of industry players, including trade groups and consumer groups, to develop regulations that define what ‘safe’ and ‘secure’ means for a driverless vehicle. The AV START Act would be a good place to begin with the ultimate goal being to have a globally harmonized…
[ad_1] The leading U.S. marketplace for cryptocurrencies has been quietly preparing for a monster increase in trading volume. In a response to New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s ongoing inquiry into exchanges, the private company disclosed some key company data. Coinbase said it has doubled the size of its full-time engineering staff and has overhauled…
[ad_1] The Chinese government is reportedly going to bat for ZTE over a seven-year ban that would have broad ranging consequences for the phone maker. According to a new report from Reuters, the subject was broached during a meeting with between senior Chinese and U.S. officials in Beijing this week. The ban imposed by the…
[ad_1] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett sees the value of Apple differently than most Wall Street analysts, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Friday. “Analysts after analysts said if you look at the mosaic of [iPhone] orders, it’s got to be a bad quarter,” said Cramer, whose charitable trust owns shares of Apple. “[Buffett] obviously does not think…
[ad_1] Snapchat’s redesign isn’t working. In November, parent company Snap embarked on a dramatic reorganisation of its mobile photo-sharing app to combat sluggish growth. But once the update reached all of Snapchat’s users in the first quarter, user additions and sales slowed even further amid a public revolt over the new design. Revenue gains in the…
[ad_1] Buffett likes companies with long-term strategies. “Nobody buys a farm based on whether it’s going to rain next year,” he said on CNBC’s Squawk Box. “They think it’s a good investment over 10 or 20 years.” That’s why he doesn’t worry about quarterly iPhone sales, even if Apple misses, because he’s more interested in…
[ad_1] YouTube now has 1.8 billion viewers per month, counting only the users who watch the video service by logging in. The company CEO Susan Wojcicki revealed the milestone at the YouTube Brandcast to advertisers, and also noted some of the year’s key successes. At 150 million hours of YouTube per day on TVs, people…
[ad_1] Warren Buffett appears to be keeping Apple stock above water after Friday’s open. The Dow dropped 100 points at the open; tech giants Amazon, Alphabet, Netflix and Facebook all started trading in the red — but Apple is up more than 2 percent. Buffett is in Omaha for the annual meeting of Berkshire Hathaway…
[ad_1] Google Chrome started blocking audio and video that automatically played on certain wesbites, with the launch of the Google Chrome 66 for desktops. Now, the company has modified the policy it uses to block unwanted autoplays, trying to improve the experience users have on sites they want to autoplay media. Chrome for desktop will…
[ad_1] “I think some of those collaborations have been good for both brands, because it elevates some of these long-term heritage brands to a new level of technological synergy that can help them get younger customers,” said Roseanne Morrison, fashion director at The Doneger Group. Apple also took a more straightforward approach at capturing the…
[ad_1] Apple’s results confirmed that, while the days of double-digit smartphone industry growth are over, Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook has a plan to withstand the slowdown. The shares gained after the company reported iPhone sales in line with analysts’ expectations, gave a bullish revenue forecast and highlighted a surging services business. A new $100…
[ad_1] Truck drivers earn well above the national average salary, making it a career that ensures the ability to feed a family and pay the bills. For young people just starting out, it could mean easy entrée into the skilled workforce. However, limits on younger commercial drivers are creating unforeseen bumps in the road the…
[ad_1] Indian startup Smartron isn’t frequently in the news, and is perhaps best known for its srt.phone (Review), endorsed by Sachin Tendulkar, which launched almost exactly a year ago. Not many might remember that the company’s first product was the t.book (Review), a Windows-based 2-in-1 tablet. Smartron also started out promoting itself as an IoT…
[ad_1] A puppy that was stolen by a driver delivering Amazon parcels in England has been reunited with its owner. Businessman Richard Guttfield, 51, said his black miniature schnauzer Wilma had gone missing after a driver dropped off a package of dog food. Guttfield said it was only after he emailed Amazon’s CEO and founder…
[ad_1] Tesla chief executive Elon Musk took to Twitter early Friday to defend his peculiar behavior on an earnings conference call that caused shares of the electric car maker to lose more than 5 percent. “The ‘dry’ questions were not asked by investors, but rather by two sell-side analysts who were trying to justify their…
[ad_1] A refresh of the two-year old Smartron t.book is finally here. The Smartron tbook flex is a hybrid computing device priced starting at Rs. 42,990. The 2-in-1 notebook has a detachable keyboard letting you use the Smartron tbook flex as a tablet as well. The notebook will be sold on Flipkart exclusively starting from…
[ad_1] The board of Indian e-commerce giant Flipkart has approved a deal to sell a roughly 75 percent stake in the company to a group led by Walmart for $15 billion, according to a report. Japan’s SoftBank will sell its entire 20-plus percent stake in Flipkart, Bloomberg reported Friday, citing unnamed sources, and Google’s parent…
[ad_1] The Google Assistant can now connect with more than 5,000 devices for your home – up from 1,500 this January, Google has announced. Google Assistant is now powered with over one million Actions to connect with home devices. “That includes cameras, dishwashers, doorbells, dryers, lights, plugs, thermostats, security systems, switches, vacuums, washers, fans, locks, sensors,…
[ad_1] Billionaire investor Warren Buffett said long-term investors of Apple‘s stock shouldn’t obsess with near-term iPhone sales. “The idea that you’re going to spend loads of time trying to guess how many iPhone X … are going to be sold in a 3 month period totally misses the point,” the Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO…
[ad_1] Slack continues to dominate the team-chat aka workstream collaboration (WSC) space and it’s the most recognised tool of its ilk today, but Flock from India has been plugging away at it for some time now. While Slack rolled out paid plans pretty quickly, Flock remained free as a way to get people on board,…
[ad_1] Ever since Google created Kubernetes as an open source container orchestration tool, it has seen it blossom in ways it might never have imagined. As the project gains in popularity, we are seeing many adjunct programs develop. Today, Google announced the release of version 0.1 of the Kubeflow open source tool, which is designed…
[ad_1] One of the most significant sources of greenhouse gas emissions is the food we eat, and a new study by the University of Reading in the U.K. examined the entire food industry from farm to fork for ways to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Almost two-thirds of the food-associated greenhouse gas waste occurs on the…
[ad_1] Just a week ahead of Google I/O 2018, the Chrome OS Canary channel has been updated to support a new exciting feature. A new settings option for Linux apps has appeared hinting that the native support for Linux apps on Chrome OS may be announced next week at the annual developers’ conference. The Linux…
[ad_1] The chair of the parliamentary committee investigating the Facebook privacy scandal is calling on companies at the centre of the controversy to preserve vital data, following news that Cambridge Analytica is filing for bankruptcy. Conservative MP Bob Zimmer said Thursday that he’s sent requests to Cambridge Analytica, SCL and Aggregate IQ demanding that they…
[ad_1] After adding the ability to make payments in Messenger and WhatsApp, Facebook has now been spotted testing a payments feature in Instagram – something the company has now confirmed. The new feature is reported to let users make purchases directly using the Instagram mobile app. It comes a long time after Instagram rival Snapchat…
[ad_1] Unlike many of their Western counterparts, Japanese workers aren’t afraid of robots stealing their jobs, a top-ranking official from the country said Friday. Japan’s labor force do not mind robots in factories because they’re seen as a source of help, Japanese Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Taro Aso said in a panel…
[ad_1] With the aim to expand its reach in India, Uber has started a new pilot programme that will bring traditional, kaali peeli (black and yellow) taxi drivers on board. The programme called UberTaxi is initially in a testing phase in Mumbai, precisely in South Mumbai. The latest development emerges days after the launch of…
[ad_1] Mars is the only planet in our solar system that’s home to a family of robots. And on Saturday, May 5, one more will be on its way to join its brethren. NASA’s Mars InSight is a one-of-a-kind mission, and its uniqueness begins at the launch pad: it will be the first planetary mission to…
[ad_1] Microsoft has now released a fresh preview build of Windows 10 bringing new features along with it. This includes a new way of taking and editing screenshots within Windows 10, and a more fluent overall design. These updates arrive with the Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 17661 (RS5) to Windows Insiders members in the…
[ad_1] “For the second quarter running, the iPhone X remains the world’s most popular smartphone model overall, due to a blend of good design, sophisticated camera, extensive apps, and widespread retail presence for the device,” Juha Winter, senior analyst at Strategy Analytics, said in a press release. The report from the analyst firm appears to…
[ad_1] Netflix CEO Reed Hastings said Thursday the streaming giant had made errors regarding its spat with the Cannes film festival over the platform’s dramatic withdrawal of its films this year. “Sometimes we make mistakes. We got into a bigger situation with Cannes than we meant to,” said Hastings, in Lille, northern France, for the…
[ad_1] This isn’t your average teacher’s assistant. Nao is a little robot which held its own news conference in Montreal on Thursday to outline its accomplishments, particularly in dealing with students with autism spectrum disorder or those with learning difficulties. The humanoid robot, which has visited elementary and secondary schools in Quebec this year, is…
[ad_1] The Indian government will continue with its enquiry into the Cambridge Analytica data leak issue, irrespective of the British firm announcing closure of business, senior IT Ministry officials said on Thursday. The UK-based data analytics and political consulting firm has been under fire in various countries for allegedly harvesting data from almost 87 million…
[ad_1] As Asian governments invest in automation, many are concerned about a spillover effect on jobs and education. It’s imperative for the region to protect workers, instruct societies about disruptive technologies and harness private sector funds in the process, experts said at a CNBC-hosted debate during the Asian Development Bank’s annual gathering in Manila on…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jen-Hsun Huang, CEO, Nvidia Barclays upgraded Nvidia to overweight on Thursday, citing swelling demand for semiconductors over the next several years and conceding to investors that it was behind the times on the company. “We obviously are late to the party after two substantial years of…
[ad_1] Extensive use of wind and solar energy requires large-scale energy storage to handle their intermittency. The dramatic drop in energy storage costs, from $3000/kWh to $170/kWh in about 20 years, has made increased storage capacity possible, mainly through the development of the Lithium-ion battery. For the same reason your new smartphone can hold a…
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[ad_1] More than ever, Facebook is under pressure to prove that its algorithms are being deployed responsibly. On Wednesday, at its F8 developer conference, the company revealed that it has formed a special team and developed discrete software to ensure that its artificial intelligence systems make decisions as ethically as possible, without biases. Facebook, like…
[ad_1] Wall Street may have had doubts about Apple before the company reported its most recent quarterly earnings, but one of the tech company’s biggest shareholders — Warren Buffett — didn’t. In the first quarter, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway bought an astounding 75 million shares of Apple. That adds to the 165.3 million shares Berkshire already…
[ad_1] One of Getaway’s most talked about and photographed features is its big window design, with the bed placed right next to the window. The concept is to sleep in nature: One can go to bed gazing up at the night sky and then wake up with the sun. This emphasis on being close to…
[ad_1] Short-seller Chris Brown is not a believer in Energous’ technology. Energous “is a worthless equity,” he said at the Kase Learning: The Art, Pain and Opportunity of Short Selling conference in New York. “Energous is a fraud, one which is burning a lot of cash and will run out of money. … We expect…
[ad_1] First, it is important to have some perspective on the risk itself — most of the attacks that hurt ordinary people, companies and organizations are motivated by crime, not geopolitics. Therefore, supporting a trusted and safe internet goes a long way toward alleviating the worst and most common risks. Additionally, the same governance and…
[ad_1] The story, which Mitra is sharing publicly for the first time, reflects Google’s never-ending battle against scams, a fight that requires engineers and their increasingly sophisticated machine learning tools. It also illustrates the risks that consumers face as Google aggressively tries to win back product searches from Amazon and stay relevant in the future…
[ad_1] A new report by the New York City Comptroller directly links the explosion of Airbnb rentals to rising rents in the Big Apple. The report charges Airbnb with costing renters $616 million in additional rent in 2016 alone, and disproportionately burdening neighborhoods with higher concentrations of Airbnb rentals. “For years, New Yorkers have felt…
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[ad_1] An Activision spokesperson said Dow Jones released the information early. The news wire confirmed to CNBC it did “inadvertently” break an embargo on the figures, one of which was from a prior year. “We want to start the call talking about an extraordinary error by WSJ today, causing volatility,” Amrita Ahuja, senior vice president…
[ad_1] Emmanuel Dunand | Getty Images Kevin Systrom, co‑founder of Instagram You can now store payment information and buy products directly inside the Instagram app, the company confirmed to CNBC Thursday. The payment feature appears under Settings in the app, with an option to add debit or credit card information, track previous payments and set…
[ad_1] A week before F8, Facebook announced a number of changes that led developers to make the decision to stay home from the event, the New York Times reported. The company said developers will no longer have programmatic access to certain user data. It also disabled certain things users could do through third-party apps, such…
[ad_1] For example, CFRA analyst Efraim Levy told CNBC he thinks Tesla may have to raise money again before the end of the first quarter of 2019, either through selling equity or debt. “I would expect it to be equity rather than debt, because it is cheaper and you don’t have to pay it back,”…
[ad_1] Twitter said on Thursday that it found a bug in how it stores passwords, which meant they weren’t scrambled to protect them from attack. Twitter said it typically usually hashes passwords so that they’re stored as a random mix of numbers and letters. It discovered password logs where the passwords hadn’t been hashed, however.…
[ad_1] Short-seller Mark Spiegel believes Tesla will suffer from new competition in the electric car market. The noted skeptic of the electric car maker reiterated his bearish stance on the company saying his speech “almost seems redundant” after Musk’s bizarre conference call performance last night. “Tesla is still a zero,” he said at the Kase…
[ad_1] “We want to meet customers on their terms,” CEO Brad Dickerson said on an earnings call Thursday. Of course, as more meal kits arrive at grocery stores, these companies will have to differentiate their product from competitors. Grocers like Albertsons and Kroger have already acquired smaller meal-kit services to bring into their stores and…
[ad_1] “This is like the obvious thing that’s going to happen,” the Tesla CEO says. For all this to come to fruition, cars need to have “full autonomy, level four or five, whatever you want to call it,” says Musk on the call. A level four vehicle is “capable of performing all driving functions under…
[ad_1] The technology sector is an area of risk in the stock market despite it drawing strong interest on Wall Street, an RBC Capital Markets investment strategist told CNBC on Thursday. “And I do think you’ve got to see some other major sectors take over the leadership,” said Lori Calvasina, head of U.S. equity strategy…
[ad_1] There are some things that bother me with the iPhone X. Wireless charging is still really slow even with chargers that are designed to juice the battery up faster. This is an industry-wide problem, and I’m glad that there’s still the option to charge wirelessly if I want to. I originally found that the…
[ad_1] NASA’s latest mission to Mars, Insight, is set to launch early Saturday morning in pursuit of a number of historic firsts in space travel and planetology. The lander’s instruments will probe the surface of the planet and monitor its seismic activity with unprecedented precision, while a pair of diminutive cubesats riding shotgun will test…
[ad_1] Bernstein analyst Toni Sacconaghi was one of the analysts Elon Musk cut off on a Tesla earnings call Wednesday night. Musk interrupted a question Sacconaghi was asking, calling it a “boring bonehead question,” then the CEO interrupted another analyst in much the same way and turned the conversation over to shareholder Gali Russell, who…
[ad_1] Shares of cloud security company Zscaler plunged 10 percent on Thursday, following the sudden departure of Chief Operating Officer William Welch less than two months after the company’s IPO. Zscaler said late Wednesday that William Welch has resigned as COO and will remain with the company through May 14. In the statement, CEO Jay…
[ad_1] Another startup wants to make on-demand car washing work, where others have failed. Washé, a Boca Raton-based service for on-demand washes, has raised $3.5 million in seed funding to continue to grow its business, which involves a mobile app consumers use to connect with Washé’s network of around 1,000 licensed and insured car washing…
[ad_1] Spotify is on pace for its worst day since going public last month — dropping more than 10 percent the day after its first earnings report. Shares opened at $154.12 after closing Wednesday at $170. The music streaming service reported better-than-expected earnings but seemed to lose investors on lighter guidance. Spotify went public last…
[ad_1] It was a better-than-expected quarter for Tesla, but CEO Elon Musk’s behavior is making him look unhinged, says one analyst. Consumer Edge analyst Jamie Albertine, who is bullish on Tesla and has a price target of $385, said the company’s financial results were in line with his expectations, but Musk’s behavior on Wednesday’s conference…
[ad_1] It’s extremely hard for new smartphone brands to establish partnerships with US carriers —including AT&T, Verizon, Sprint and T-Mobile. It’s why Lenovo acquired Motorola Mobility from Google in 2014. In that deal, Lenovo specifically called out Motorola’s “great carrier partnerships” and “strong presence in the US” as two reasons for the acquisition. Other phone…
[ad_1] As a hater of all sports I am particularly excited about the imminent replacement of humans with robots in soccer. If this exciting match, the Standard Platform League (SPL) final of the German Open featuring the Nao-Team HTWK vs. Nao Devils, is any indication the future is going to be great. The robots are…
[ad_1] As companies turn increasingly to containerization, it creates challenges in terms of monitoring each individual container and the impact on the underlying application. This is particularly difficult because of the ephemeral nature of containers, which can exist for a very short time. Datadog introduced a container map product today that could help by bringing…
[ad_1] Every CEO would love to go off on analysts like Tesla co-founder and CEO Elon Musk did during his unusual post-earnings call, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Thursday. Musk cut off questioners on a Wednesday afternoon call, and at one point dismissed one question from a key analyst as “boring.” The “Mad Money” host…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg wants to find you a soul mate. “There are 200 million people on Facebook who list themselves as single, so clearly there’s something to do here,” the Facebook chief executive noted in his F8 keynote Tuesday. The crowd laughed. But once Zuckerberg explained more about Facebook’s plan to launch a dating app,…
[ad_1] Tesla opened 7 percent down Thursday, a day after an earnings beat and bizarre call with analysts. Shares started trading at $278.79 after closing Wednesday just above $301. The company posted a narrower-than-expected loss and continued to burn through cash — but investors seem to weather all of that just fine. The stock ticked…
[ad_1] Windows 10 April 2018 Update, the latest one for users on Microsoft’s Windows 10 operating system, just dropped earlier this week for 700 million users and a lot of them have already installed it on their systems. But, it seems, issues have arisen for many. These issues, from what reports suggest, comprise mostly of…
[ad_1] “Tesla’s Q1 earnings call was a unique experience, to say the least. For those who missed it – halfway through the call, CEO Elon Musk abruptly declared that our questions were ‘boring’ and ‘not cool,’ and pivoted to a 20-minute back-and-forth with a retail investor from YouTube. Beneath the bizarre theatrics, however, we see…
[ad_1] As SoundHound looks to leverage its ten-plus years of experience and data to create a voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform, it’s raising another big $100 million round of funding to try to make its Houndify platform a third neutral option compared to Alexa and Google Assistant. While Amazon works…
[ad_1] After making deep investments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology, Facebook has announced the next version of its open-source AI framework for developers. Called “PyTorch 1.0”, the framework provides everyone in the AI research community with a fast, seamless path for building a broad range of AI projects. “The technology in PyTorch 1.0 is already…
[ad_1] Zola, an online wedding planning startup, announced on Thursday that it’s raised $100 million in a new funding round. The series D financing was led by existing investor Comcast Ventures, with NBCUniversal and Goldman Sachs Investment Partners joining as new backers. Zola, which gears its platform to millennials, said total investments now stand at…
[ad_1] Chinese and American officials will be trying to defuse tensions pushing the world’s two largest economies toward trade war in meetings beginning Thursday where analysts say chances for a breakthrough seem slim given the two sides’ desperate rivalry in strategic technologies. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin and other US officials including Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross and…
[ad_1] Karim Sahib | AFP | Getty Images United Arab Emirates’ Air Force Aerobatic Team performs with an Emirates Airline Airbus A380 at the Dubai Airshow on November 18, 2013, in Dubai. “Females represent 48 percent of our total workforces, out of which 96 percent are UAE nationals,” Abdulla said. “Early on we understood the…
[ad_1] Xiaomi started life in 2010 selling smartphones. Its unique selling point was high-quality devices with top of the range specs, but at lower prices than competitors. It has grown to be the fourth-biggest smartphone player globally. Xiaomi rose rapidly to become, at one point, the biggest smartphone player in China. The company struggled in…
[ad_1] Wearable device maker Fitbit forecast current-quarter revenue below Wall Street estimates on Wednesday as the company expects further sales declines for its fitness tracking devices. The company’s core wearable fitness trackers business has fallen sharply as it faces bigger names with deeper pockets, such as Apple and Samsung, that are relatively new entries in…
[ad_1] Perennial smartphone struggler HTC has revealed its newest smartphone — the U12/U12+ — will launch on May 23. The big spoiler from the company is that the phone will include… components. That isn’t exactly an informative teaser, but we do actually have a flavor for what HTC will bring to market. Serial leaker Evan…
[ad_1] Facebook is training its AI by using the hashtags you add on your Instagram photos. At the F8 developer conference, Facebook revealed how it is using Instagram images and hashtags to train its object recognition models. The social media giant said it used hundreds of graphics processors to organise 3.5 billion images and 17,000…
[ad_1] Insects and goats may seem like an odd pairing, but Ducks Unlimited is banking on the duo to tackle the spread of an invasive plant at a wetlands near High River, Alta. The organization hopes the tag team can stop leafy spurge — a noxious weed that can poison livestock and cut down crop yields.…
[ad_1] Besides helping users reach fitness goals, Apple Watch continues to be successful in saving lives as well. In two separate incidents in April, the Apple Watch reportedly came to the rescue in emergency situations. In the first case, a New York resident William Monzidelis’ life was saved partly because of a notification from the…
[ad_1] The federal government is willing to accept the privacy and security risks of storing data in the internet cloud as an alternative to its own aging computers that are “at risk of breaking down,” says an internal policy paper. The federal paper on “data sovereignty,” obtained through the Access to Information Act, fleshes out…
[ad_1] UIDAI on Thursday said it follows a “stringent enrolment and updation process” for issuance of Aadhaar cards, and has blacklisted over 50,000 operators for various violations, amid reports of a breach in its enrolment software. The Unique Identification Authority of India (UIDAI) said its enrolment software comes with necessary safeguards and checks to protect…
[ad_1] If you’ve ever been unable to find a bathroom in a moment of need, you know the gotta-go feeling. That’s nothing compared to the wood frog, which doesn’t urinate all winter. In Alaska, wood frogs go eight months without peeing. And scientists have now figured out how they do it, or more accurately, how…
[ad_1] Michael Sayman, better known as the wunderkind who left Facebook at the age of 21 to join Alphabet-owned Google, is reportedly working on a new social-gaming startup – as part of Google’s Area 120 initiative to create miniature startups within the tech giant. Dubbed Arcade, this startup will debut in summer 2018 and its…
[ad_1] With that cash machine, Apple has gone on a massive stock buyback run, while also raising its dividend. In the first three months of this year, Apple spent $23.5 billion on share repurchases. Since 2012, Apple has spent $200 billion on buying back its shares. It has returned an additional $75 billion to shareholders…
[ad_1] To make Google Assistant better, the company has announced a new investment programme for early-stage startups to build an enhanced digital assistant ecosystem. The new initiative will include investment capital from Google to provide additional financial resources for the development, hiring and management of these startups. The startups will get advice from Google engineers,…
[ad_1] Going into earnings season investors were excited about the strong economy and benefits from tax cuts. Many predicted good stock performance would broaden out to all sectors from solid profit growth. But investors are still huddling in the same high-growth technology names like FANG stocks with the S&P 500 roughly flat so far this…
[ad_1] Months after it emerged as a unified payments platform – replacing Android Pay and Google Wallet, Google Pay is now rolling out on the Web for desktops and iOS devices. Google has also added the functionality to sync card details, letting users continue to make payments via Google Pay after moving from an Android…
[ad_1] Buyout firm Apollo Global Management has approached Xerox Corp. to express interest in a possible acquisition, casting new uncertainty over the latter’s sale to Japan’s Fujifilm Holdings, people familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. Apollo’s interest in Xerox has been reinforced by the appointment this week of John Visentin as the company’s new…
[ad_1] WhatsApp users also spend roughly 2 billion minutes a day on voice or video calls WhatsApp got a mention in Facebook’s F8 developer conference, where CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed the instant messaging service’s Status feature is used by 450 million people worldwide. This is more than double the daily active users Snapchat has. To…
[ad_1] The recent dip in sales of Apple iPhones should not worry investors, said Walter Piecyk, managing director at BTIG, a financial services firm in New York City. “At some point you’re going to upgrade this product, because it’s the most important product in your life,” Piecyk told CNBC on Wednesday. In fact, Piecyk predicted…
[ad_1] Some of the numbers weren’t a big surprise, given the company’s financial forecast in March, when the company said it expects to hit as many as 96 million subscribers this year. Spotify maintained its outlook for the year on Wednesday, saying it plans to lose up to 330 million euros this year (about $397…
[ad_1] Of all the countries in the world to go completely cashless, Sweden could be the first. It’s already considered to be the most cashless society in the world. More Swedes have access to a payment card than to cash, according to data from the country’s central bank, the Riksbank. And the overwhelming majority of…
[ad_1] Smartphone and connected device maker Xiaomi filed for a Hong Kong initial public offering on Thursday, in what is expected to be the largest listing by a Chinese tech company in almost four years. The listing could value the company at up to $100 billion (roughly Rs. 6.66 lakh crores) and would be the…
[ad_1] Tesla posted a narrower-than-expected loss on Wednesday as the electric car maker spent heavily to make gains in Model 3 production in April. While Tesla continued to burn through cash at a much more rapid pace than the previous quarter to hit its production goals, its burn rate was slower than analysts had expected.…
[ad_1] Top music streaming platform Spotify said Wednesday that it narrowed its losses in the first quarter, but it disappointed investors by keeping its full-year guidance steady. Filing earnings for the first time in the wake of its listing a month ago on the New York Stock Exchange, the Swedish company said that it lost…
[ad_1] Amazon is offering its discounted credit card fees to retailers that adopt Amazon Pay, the company’s online payments service, according to Bloomberg. The report on Wednesday, citing people with knowledge of the matter, said Amazon has offered the discounts to a number of smaller sellers with higher credit card fees than Amazon, which is…
[ad_1] Sprint announced on Wednesday that its Board of Directors appointed CFO Michel Combes to the role of CEO. Acting CEO Marcelo Claure will fill the role of executive chairman at Sprint, as well as new roles at SoftBank, in preparation for the proposed Sprint-T-Mobile merger. Claure and Combes are expected to assume their new…
[ad_1] China, home to the second largest number of World Heritage Sites, is getting some hi-tech help from drones to bolster conservation efforts at the crumbling Jiankou section of its Great Wall. Already used in logistics, transport and agriculture, the deployment of the remote-controlled flying machines in heritage conservation marks a further use of the…
[ad_1] In April, Teslareportedthat it had missed its first-quarter production and delivery targets for the Model 3. The company produced 2,020 Model 3s in the final week of the first quarter, short of its goal of producing 2,500 Model 3 sedans weekly by the end of March. To increase its Model 3 production rate, Tesla…
[ad_1] Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi on Thursday filed for an initial public offering in Hong Kong but did not disclose the amount it’s looking to raise or its projected valuation. Reports have suggested it could become the largest listing by a Chinese tech company in nearly four years. In its disclosure to Hong Kong Exchanges,…
[ad_1] Then came Facebook’s first-quarter earnings report, which beat analyst expectations and showed steady user engagement despite the media uproar. “[It] made us realize that whatever the media might say about Facebook, the users and advertisers still love it,” Cramer said. “I think to most people, especially young people, the scandal was a non-story,” he…
[ad_1] The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) said Wednesday that a prior investigation into Tesla’s semi-autonomous “Autopilot” self-driving system did not assess the “effectiveness” of the technology. In 2017, NHTSA closed a probe into a May 2016 fatal crash involving a driver using the system and cited data from the automaker that crash…
[ad_1] Apple’s service stream revenue has never been quite as important as it became in the second quarter of 2018, CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued on Wednesday. “[It] simply didn’t have enough critical mass to make a difference until, well, now,” the “Mad Money” host said one day after Apple’s earnings report. “With last night’s blowout…
[ad_1] One month ago, Facebook seemed to be on the brink of demise, with CEO Mark Zuckerberg testifying before Congress about a data-harvesting scandal that affected millions of users. “Facebook seemed like it was running amok and was about to be leveled by the government,” CNBC’s Jim Cramer, the host of “Mad Money,” recalled on…
[ad_1] Daniel Acker | Getty Images Elon Musk, chairman and chief executive officer of Tesla Motors, center, participates in the opening bell ceremony at the Nasdaq Marketsite with his twin boys Griffin, green shirt at center, and Xavier, right in blue shirt, and his fiancee (at the time) Talulah Riley, second from right, in New…
[ad_1] Diego Donamaria | Getty Images Elon Musk speaks onstage at Elon Musk Answers Your Questions! during SXSW at ACL Live on March 11, 2018 in Austin, Texas. Shares in Tesla took a nosedive in after-hours trading today as Elon Musk cut off analysts during a first-quarter earnings call, dismissing a question from Bernstein senior…
[ad_1] Weeks after his death, famed physicist Stephen Hawking has delivered his last thoughts about the nature of the cosmos. And he says it may be simpler than often believed. Well, simpler if you understand theoretical physics, anyway. It remains incomprehensible for the rest of us — and even some scientists. A paper that outlines…
[ad_1] Louis Ascui | Fairfax Media | Getty Images Jack Dorsey, CEO of Square Payments processing company Square said it sold a total of $34.1 million in bitcoin in the first quarter. However, the company spent $33.9 million to buy bitcoin to allow people to trade it through its Cash mobile payments app. As a…
[ad_1] It’s a time of optimism and transition at Nintendo, where brisk sales of the Switch have bolstered its bottom line and new leadership signals a fresh approach to the market. Shuntaro Furukawa, the new president, told the Nikkei that one of his plans is to pursue mobile gaming with more vigor, aiming to build…
[ad_1] The payments company said it will continue to reinvest in its business, focusing on revenue growth over profit expansion. “Given the significant market opportunity ahead of us, we will continue to reinvest in our business to drive future growth,” it said in a statement. Gross payment volume grew 31 percent to $17.8 billion for…
[ad_1] In Spotify’s first ever earnings report, the streaming music came up short, pulling in $1.36 billion revenue in Q1 2018. That’s compared to Wall Street’s estimates of $1.4 billion in revenue and an adjusted EPS loss of $0.34. Spotify hit 170 million monthly active users, up 6.9 percent from 159 million in Q4 2017…
[ad_1] Zynga announced a new share structure on Wednesday that voluntarily reduces the voting power of chairman and co-founder Mark Pincus. The gaming company, which makes titles like “Farmville,” said on Wednesday that it was moving from a multi-class structure to a single class, reducing Pincus’ control to about 10 percent, down from about 70…
[ad_1] A considerable amount of discussion has taken place since President Trump took an aggressive stance confronting Amazon as being “too huge.” But a more important question is how we as a society feel about the impact of the entire online tsunami. The rapidly increasing trend to purchase items online has left in its wake…
[ad_1] A top enforcement official with the Securities and Exchange Commission says many so-called “initial coin offerings” (ICOs) launching new cryptocurrencies are, in fact, securities offerings in disguise. And that could be putting investors at risk. “They’re raising a lot of money, but they’re not complying with the rules that are in place to protect…
[ad_1] We’re at the cusp of the visual communication era. Stories creation and consumption is up 842 percent since early 2016, according to consulting firm Block Party. Nearly a billion accounts across Snapchat, Instagram, WhatsApp, Facebook, and Messenger now create and watch these vertical, ephemeral slideshows. And yesterday, Facebook chief product officer Chris Cox showed…
[ad_1] Facebook has announced a way to plug popular business tools into the social network’s office collaboration service, called Workplace, in an effort to catch up with features in competitors such as Slack. Facebook has long courted business customers but is mostly identified with its consumer brands, including its social network, Messenger and WhatsApp. Workplace…
[ad_1] The new Snap Spectacles (they have the same name as last year’s model) aren’t as bulky as the originals, which means they don’t feel as cumbersome sitting on my nose. I also like that Snap added new colors — which are a bit more fun with reflective shades — and support for prescription lenses.…
[ad_1] Facebook wants you to look and move like you in VR, even if you’ve got a headset strapped to your face in the real world. That’s why its building a new technology that uses a photo to map someone’s face into VR, and then sensors to detect facial expressions and movements to animate that…
[ad_1] Like an old flame wrecking a first date, Facebook burst in on the matchmaking scene on Tuesday and sent investors in rival apps on a panicked rush for the door. Shares of Match Group Inc and its parent IAC plunged, wiping some $5 billion (roughly Rs. 33,400 crores) off their combined market values, after Facebook Chief Executive…
[ad_1] Henry Nicholls | Reuters Alexander Nix, CEO of Cambridge Analytica, center, arrives at the offices of Cambridge Analytica in central London, Britain, March 20, 2018. Cambridge Analytica is shutting down, according to the Wall Street Journal. The political research firm with ties to the Donald Trump campaign has been caught in a whirlwind of…
[ad_1] Facebook’s Messenger app launched an augmented reality feature on Tuesday to allow people to see products they are shopping for as if they already have them, such as a car parked in a driveway, in a move aimed at drawing in potential advertisers. Although smartphone messaging apps are not known for displaying ads, Facebook…
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[ad_1] WhatsApp stickers are coming soon, Facebook said in a blog post It’s the first day of Facebook F8 developers’ conference and, as expected, the world’s biggest social network has made a bunch of announcements. Apart from some big Facebook features like Clear History and the upcoming Dating profiles within the Facebook app, CEO and…
[ad_1] “I was working at a financial firm in New York City with a bunch of very smart people, and I had a brilliant boss that I much admired,” recalled Bezos in a commencement speech he gave at his alma mater, Princeton, in 2010. “I went to my boss and told him I wanted to…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Facebook/ The Next Web At its F8 2018 keynote address, Facebook announced many new features for WhatsApp, Instagram, and even Messenger. The company revealed that Messenger will be getting a dark mode, a new cleaner layout, and fresh chat features like real-time translation. Facebook will also integrate AR camera effects in Messenger…
[ad_1] To kick off the program, Google announced investments in four companies: GoMoment, a hotel concierge tool that lets guests ask about check-out times, bar happy hours or room service (currently used by several Las Vegas hotels) Edwin, an artificial-intelligence powered English tutor to prepare people for foreign language tests. BotSociety, a platform to help…
[ad_1] Facebook on day 1 of its annual F8 developer conference on Tuesday announced an expansion of its blood donation initiative launched back in October last year, with the new creation of a new Blood Donation hub that will make it easier to find opportunities to donate blood nearby. Users in Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan…
[ad_1] New cars sold in the U.S. must now have backup cameras to help drivers avoid accidents. A federal regulation took full effect Wednesday requiring the rearview cameras and video displays on new models. Safety advocates say the cameras will help prevent accidents in which pedestrians — often children — are run over because a…
[ad_1] Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, does a great job of managing a single cluster, but Upbound, a new Seattle-based startup wants to extend this ability to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environment. It’s a growing requirement as companies deploy ever-larger numbers of clusters and choose a multi-vendor approach to cloud infrastructure…
[ad_1] At Day 1 of the F8 Developer conference on Tuesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced a list of new features that are specifically arriving on Instagram. The Menlo Park, California-headquartered company is leveraging its expertise in Augmented Reality (AR) to offer interactive camera experiences on Instagram. Facebook has also brought a native video chat…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer was unimpressed by the performance of Snap‘s leaders on the company’s post-earnings (er, post-loss) call with analysts on Tuesday night. “I thought this was a ‘Saturday Night Live’ parody of a conference call,” Cramer said Wednesday morning. “I just didn’t think it had anything like a real conference call.” Cramer said…
[ad_1] As the adverse impact of its 2017 redesign can clearly be seen from the latest earnings report, Snapchat is now taking a reversal step and will be moving Stories from friends back to the right side of the app where media content from third-party publishers and celebrities already exists. The latest move comes at…
[ad_1] Ireland’s High Court has refused a request by Facebook to delay referral to Europe’s top court of a landmark privacy case that could strike down legal instruments used by U.S. tech companies to transfer EU users’ data to the United States. The case is the latest to question whether methods used by technology firms…
[ad_1] LG has done a really terrible job keeping the G7 ThinQ under wraps. But clearly the company doesn’t mind. Building up the hype cycle is clearly more important to the handset maker than any kind of big reveal. In addition to leaked images from nearly every angle, the company has already issued several official…
[ad_1] Xiaomi has launched Mi Video and Mi Music in India, a free video and music streaming app respectively that leverage its content partnerships. The company says the new Mi Music app is available from today, while the revamped Mi Video app will be available from next week. Both apps are not exactly new, but…
[ad_1] Several analysts and banks have suggested in recent weeks that demand for Apple’s most high-end iPhone, the iPhone X, has been waning. Apple proved them wrong in its earnings report on Tuesday evening. Several companies, including Consumer Intelligence Research Partners and Mirabaud Securities said recently — in different terms — that demand for Apple’s…
[ad_1] Facebook has finally started to sell Oculus Go, its cordless VR headset. Priced at $200 (roughly Rs. 13,300), the Oculus Go is quite cheap and the social media giant is planning to target a more mainstream audience than virtual reality devices from rival companies. The company’s executives shared several other updates at Tuesday’s F8…
[ad_1] Wall Street rarely likes to talk about its mistakes, but Apple analysts are now admitting in notes to clients that they repeatedly messed up their analysis and forecasts for the smartphone maker. Apple reported fiscal second quarter earnings above expectations Tuesday, despite a slight miss in its iPhone unit sales number versus estimates. Investors…
[ad_1] At the annual F8 keynote, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shed light on WhatsApp’s upcoming features and mentioned how the WhatsApp Status feature has grown exponentially since its launch last year. He announced that WhatsApp Status now has 450 million daily active users, much higher than what rival Snapchat enjoys. Zuckerberg revealed that WhatsApp Status,…
[ad_1] Yahoo’s parent company has dropped a controversial new term of service that would have required its Canadian users to share data from their friends and contacts, including phone numbers, with the U.S.-based multinational group. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner confirmed Tuesday that the company known as Oath, which owns Yahoo, Tumblr, AOL, Huffington…
[ad_1] Social media giant Twitter on Tuesday announced the launch of its new Progressive Web App (PWA) on the Microsoft Store for mobile and desktop platforms. This update to Twitter for Windows brings a ton of recent features such as extended character limit, Explore section, and the ability to bookmark tweets. The app has been…
[ad_1] “Apple reported revenue in-line and EPS ahead of the Street (1.5% above estimates), with June quarter revenue guidance surprisingly above consensus. For the March quarter, iPhone was essentially in-line, as Apple shipped a total of 52.2M units vs. consensus at 52.5M. iPhone ASP was $728, almost exactly in-line with our estimate of $730, but…
[ad_1] Asus on Wednesday announced the launch of the VivoBook X507 in India. The new VivoBook model will come in several variants with Intel Celeron, Intel Pentium, up to 6th generation Intel Core i3 processor options. All the variants are exclusively available for purchase through Paytm Mall, the company announced at the launch event held…
[ad_1] Cryptocurrencies will experience a “heavy correction” of 90 percent leading to a “mass market wipe out,” a technology investment bank predicted in a report seen by CNBC on Wednesday. GP Bullhound’s “Token Frenzy: The Fuel of the Blockchain” report laid out the current state of cryptocurrencies, blockchain technology, initial coin offerings (ICO) and what…
[ad_1] More than 100 Uber drivers have been accused of sexual assault or abuse, CNN has found. The cable news network – after digging into police reports, federal records and local court databases in 20 cities – says 103 Uber drivers have been charged, accused or named in civil suits over the past four years…
[ad_1] Millions of cellphones, tablets and other portable devices will sound off across the country next week to test Canada’s new public emergency alert system. The country’s broadcast and telecom regulator says the tests will be carried out next Monday in Ontario and Quebec and on Wednesday in the rest of the country. The full…
[ad_1] Snap fell short of Wall Street forecasts for revenue and regular users on Tuesday after a redesign of its Snapchat messaging app turned off some long-time fans and advertisers, sending its shares tumbling 16 percent. Revenue growth will likely slow substantially in the second quarter, the company said, showing it still faces an uphill battle…
[ad_1] David Ryder | Getty Images Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com founder and CEO Amazon has made a formal offer to buy a majority stake in Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart, CNBC affiliate CNBC TV-18 reported Wednesday, citing sources. The U.S. e-commerce giant has offered to purchase a 60 percent stake in Flipkart. As part of the proposal,…
[ad_1] The CEO of Xerox, a major photocopy maker, will resign according to a statement issued following a US judge’s temporarily block of the American company’s planned takeover by Japan’s Fujifilm. The agreement ends a battle launched by Darwin Deason and Carl Icahn, who together control 15.2 percent of Xerox shares and objected to the…
[ad_1] A big increase in Apple’s dividend and share buyback is expected to be revealed on Tuesday during the company’s earnings call. Unless Apple radically changes their business with a revolutionary (not evolutionary) new product or does a meaningful acquisition with all that cash, the odds are high that Apple’s stock does worse than the…
[ad_1] Softbank Group subsidiary ARM Holdings will cede control of its Chinese operations to a new joint venture involving itself and Chinese partners, Nikkei reported, citing people familiar with the matter. The joint venture started operations in April and plans an initial public offering on one of the country’s stock exchanges, the Nikkei reported. The new…
[ad_1] Former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer said Tuesday he sold all his shares of Twitter, but not because he thinks the company will fail. “I don’t hold any of my Twitter shares anymore — except to the extent they are represented in index funds,” Ballmer said on CNBC’s “Halftime Report.” Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft from…
[ad_1] Uber’s licence in the southern English coastal city of Brighton will not be renewed, the local council said on Tuesday, adding the taxi app is not “fit and proper” and citing concerns over a data breach and the use of drivers from outside the area. The Silicon Valley firm is also battling a decision…
[ad_1] “For a century or more, it’s been compounding at a few percent a year, our energy usage as a civilization,” says Bezos. “Now if you take baseline energy usage globally across the whole world and compound it at just a few percent a year for just a few hundred years, you have to cover…
[ad_1] Instagram is getting a new feature that’s straight out of Facebook’s past. The photo-sharing app, owned by Facebook, will let people post information from apps directly to their Instagram Stories, which last for 24 hours. For example, while listening to a song on Spotify, someone would be able to tell their Instagram friends what…
[ad_1] Getty Images Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks during the F8 Facebook Developers conference on May 1, 2018 in San Jose, California. Facebook is mulling a plan to sell its upcoming smart speakers internationally before launching them in the U.S., as American users and politicians have increased their focus on Facebook and user privacy, according…
[ad_1] Facebook Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg spent Tuesday morning essentially explaining to an audience of app makers why it’s been so hard to work with his social network lately. Even as the relationship has become more fraught, there are still two bright spots: virtual reality and messaging. A crisis that unfolded in recent weeks…
[ad_1] Epic Games introduced the free-to-play “battle royale” mode for “Fortnite” on computers and gaming consoles in September. This mode allows up to 100 online players to violently battle each other to the death until only one player survives. The company revealed in January that the game has been played by more than 45 million…
[ad_1] Facebook on Tuesday gave its popular Messenger app the ability to translate missives in real time, deploying artificial intelligence to enable text conversations between people using different languages. Messenger has become a tool for businesses to connect with customers, and the ability to converse with customers in a variety of languages could help bump…
[ad_1] Apple faced a crucial test on Wall Street on Tuesday, as it reported financial results for the quarter ending in March. Reports of weak phone component orders and the fading benefits of tax reform cast a shadow over the company’s future. But Apple has often faced low expectations and managed to surpass them —…
[ad_1] Alongside posting an as high as 16 percent year-on-year growth in its overall revenue in the fiscal second quarter, Apple has set a new first-half record in India. CEO Tim Cook revealed the new achievement during Apple’s earnings call for the second quarter of 2018. Cook also assured that the company is in plans…
[ad_1] While Apple’s iPhone shares were slightly softer than expected, the company managed to make more money than forecast with its services business, and offered Wall Street a generous $100 billion capital return program. The after-hours stock rally showed Wall Street’s relief, after a gloom-and-doom outlook going into the earnings report. Apple has often faced…
[ad_1] WhatsApp stickers are coming soon, Facebook said in a blog post It’s the first day of Facebook F8 developers’ conference and, as expected, the world’s biggest social network has made a bunch of announcements. Apart from some big Facebook features like Clear History and the upcoming Dating profiles within the Facebook app, CEO and…
[ad_1] Daniel Acker | Bloomberg | Getty Images An employee assists a customer who purchased four Apple Inc. iPhone X smartphones during the sales launch at a store in Chicago. Apple sold 52.2 million iPhones in the quarter ended March 2018, up slightly from 51 million in the year-ago quarter. That follows a year-over-year dip…
[ad_1] Apple reported revenue and profit that beat analysts’ estimates and projected continued sales momentum, calming concern about demand for the iPhone, its most-important product. The Cupertino, California-based company also unveiled a new plan to return more money to shareholders and said services sales jumped 31 percent. Apple shares rose more than 4 percent in…
[ad_1] Apple’s gargantuan net income has piled up over the years, resulting in a cash reserve of $267.2 billion as of the March quarter. But until recently, the overseas portion of that money was subject to relatively high tax rates. Nonetheless, Apple has steadily increased its dividends since its 2014 stock split. Apple said Tuesday…
[ad_1] Day 1 of Facebook’s F8 conference was packed with announcements and updates. Here are 10 big takeaways from Mark Zuckerberg’s keynote on Day 1. You can find full coverage and analysis of F8 here. 1. FaceDate Facebook is launching a dating feature where you can volunteer to make a profile that’s only visible to…
[ad_1] Apple said Tuesday it has returned $275 billion in total capital to shareholders since 2012. The company has also said it plans to invest in content, emerging markets and U.S. job creation. Apple announced in January it planned to contribute $350 billion to the U.S. economy over the next 5 years, including $38 billion…
[ad_1] But what really helped tame investors’ fears was the company’s announcement of a massive $100 billion stock buyback. “There’s going to be a shift over the next few quarters and couple years where investors are less interested on what the iPhone numbers [are] in any given quarter,” said Munster, who spent more than two…
[ad_1] Facebook says the conversations will be text only as a “safety measure,” and dating chats will remain separate from Facebook messaging and WhatsApp. “It mirrors the way people actually date, which is usually at events and institutions that they’re connected to,” said Chris Cox, Facebook’s chief product officer, during his keynote. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] In the midst of an effort to transform from a stodgy hardware business to more of a software company, Cisco has just lost one of its top executives spurring the transition. Cisco said on Tuesday said that Rowan Trollope, senior vice president and head of the emerging Internet of Things division, is leaving to…
[ad_1] The grocer announced several weeks ago it would end its loyalty program on May 2, with new benefits to come soon. Whole Foods rewards program was roughly a year old and considered a weak program by industry insiders. As a perk, it offered 10 percent off shoppers’ first purchase as a new rewards member,…
[ad_1] But Tim Cook wasn’t buying the bearish view of China. “I don’t buy the view that the market’s saturated,” Cook said. “I think the smartphone market is sort of the best market for a consumer product company in the history of the world.” China is one of Apple’s most important and competitive markets, and…
[ad_1] Gone are the days of triple play’s phone, internet and TV packages. Today, it’s all about quadruple play, and T-Mobile COO Mike Sievert said the proposed merger with Sprint will help the combined company get there. “So T-Mobile is in the position as a new T-Mobile to be able to offer a quad play,…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Josh Lipton and Jim Cramer spoke to Apple CEO Tim Cook about March quarter earnings, where Cook tried to dispel negative sentiment about iPhone sales. In particular, he dismissed the idea that a longer upgrade cycle would hurt Apple: “The important thing from my point of view is the iPhone active install base…
[ad_1] A couple years ago I was eagerly expectant of an app that would identify anything you pointed it at. Turns out the problem was much harder than anyone expected — but that didn’t stop high school senior Michael Royzen from trying. His app, SmartLens, attempts to solve the problem of seeing something and wanting…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer gets to the bottom of the market action and explains how stocks are becoming victim to high expectations. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Apple’s second-quarter earnings beat on Tuesday illustrated just how differently this company’s stock behaves compared with the rest of the market, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said. “The bane of this market is not tariffs or interest rates or inflation; no, the real killer is great expectations,” the “Mad Money” host said on Tuesday. “Apple is…
[ad_1] Cisco just announced an agreement to acquire Accompany, which uses artificial intelligence to build databases of people and relationships at companies. Founder and CEO Amy Chang has compared the product to a digital chief of staff or personal assistant, giving executives the context they need before conversations and meetings. Cisco plans to incorporate Accompany…
[ad_1] Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes told CNBC on Tuesday he doesn’t think the social media giant has done enough to protect its users’ personal data. The issue over privacy came to the forefront after the research firm Cambridge Analytica was recently accused of improperly accessing the personal user data of as many as 87 million…
[ad_1] Snapchat’s redesign was a disaster. It cratered ad views and revenue and led Snapchat’s user count to actually shrink in March. That’s why CEO Evan Spiegel just announced a big reversal of the redesign’s worst part. “We learned that combining watching Stories and communicating with friends into the same place made it harder to…
[ad_1] Apple is closing in on its goal to double software and services revenue by 2020, posting a 31 percent jump for the segment in the March quarter. Apple reported quarterly earnings on Tuesday, including results from its services division, a catch-all category which includes the App Store, Apple Care, Apple Pay, iTunes, cloud services…
[ad_1] Earlier Tuesday, Barclays analysts predicted WhatsApp would likely use more ads now that Koum has departed. Facebook bought WhatsApp for $19 billion back in 2014. “We’ve been told by many of our checks over the last few years that ‘once Jan leaves, that’s when the ads show up,’” the analysts said in a note.…
[ad_1] Snap investors are eager to find out if Snapchat’s controversial redesigns have helped or hindered business. The company is expected to report its latest quarterly earnings Tuesday after the bell. Estimated loss per share: 17 cents, adjusted, according to Thomson Reuters consensus estimate Estimated revenue: $244.5 million, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate…
[ad_1] Snapchat neglected the international market in its early years, and now WhatsApp has snatched that growth opportunity. WhatsApp’s clone of Snapchat Stories, WhatsApp Status, now has 450 million daily active users. That’s compared to just 187 million daily users on all of Snapchat. This update from today’s F8 conference comes after Facebook said WhatsApp Status…
[ad_1] Workplace, the more secure, closed enterprise version of Facebook that competes against the likes of Slack, Microsoft Teams and Hipchat as a platform for employees to communicate and work on things together, says that it today has tens of thousands of organisations using its platform. Now to pick up more, and to bring more…
[ad_1] When Apple gaps higher immediately after its earnings report in the after hours, the next day it typically gives back some of that gain, declining by an average of nearly 1 percent between the opening and closing bells. Birinyi Associates studied Apple’s post-earnings behavior since 2009. It found Apple stock has gapped up, or…
[ad_1] It goes without saying that getting dressed is one of the most critical steps in our daily routine. But long practice has made it second nature, and people suffering from dementia may lose that familiarity, making dressing a difficult and frustrating process. This smart dresser from NYU is meant to help them through the…
[ad_1] It’s the first day of Facebook F8 developers’ conference and, as expected, the world’s biggest social network has made a bunch of announcements. Apart from some big Facebook features like Clear History and the upcoming Dating profiles within the Facebook app, CEO and co-founder Mark Zuckerberg also announced a bunch of new features for…
[ad_1] Facebook’s new virtual reality headset, Oculus Go, will ship on Tuesday for $199 — a more affordable alternative to the company’s high-end devices. Mark Zuckerberg announced the launch when he delivered the keynote address at Facebook‘s annual F8 developer conference Tuesday. He said it has 1,000 apps and has the highest quality lenses that…
[ad_1] Facebook is recruiting help to make its Stories more interesting than Snapchat’s. Starting with Spotify, SoundCloud, and GoPro, third-party apps can now let their users share to Facebook Stories and Instagram Stories. Rather than screenshotting, users will be able to hit a button to share a photo or video of a playlist, song, or…
[ad_1] Move over Match.com. Facebook is launching a dating feature. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said to laughs at Facebook’s F8 developer conference Tuesday that the new tool is “not just for hookups” but to build “meaningful, long-term relationships.” That is, if you want. The feature will be opt-in, meaning you have to choose to use it.…
[ad_1] Facebook is launching a dating feature, CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced during the keynote address at Facebook‘s annual F8 developer conference Tuesday. “This is going to be for building real, long-term relationships — not just hook-ups,” Zuckerberg said. The opt-in feature will match users specifically with people they aren’t already friends with. Facebook users can…
[ad_1] Iran’s judiciary has banned the popular Telegram instant messaging app to protect national security, Iranian state television said on Monday. Iran had been considering the ban since January when protests over economic grievances erupted in more than 80 cities and later turned into demonstrations against the clerical and security elite of the Islamic Republic.…
[ad_1] So far, Agility Robotics has sold three Cassie robots (University of Michigan is a customer, for example) and has sales for another three in progress. The goal is to sell another six Cassie robots, “so optimistically 12 customers total for the entire production run of Cassie,” Shelton tells CNBC Make It. Each Cassie costs…
[ad_1] Global wearable brand Fitbit has announced to use Google’s new Cloud Healthcare API to help the company integrate further into the healthcare system, such as by connecting user data with electronic medical records (EMR). Combining Fitbit data with EMRs can provide patients and clinicians a more comprehensive view of the patient profile, leading to…
[ad_1] The past several weeks have made clear that people want more information about how Facebook works and the controls they have over their information. And today at F8 we’re sharing some of the first steps we’re taking to better protect people’s privacy. We’re starting with a feature that addresses feedback we’ve heard consistently from…
[ad_1] Lego – or LEGO – is expensive and kids – my kids in particular – want a lot of it. Our basement looks like the returns department of a major toy store, covered from corner to corner with toys and, most notably, and endless minefield of little building blocks. And we enjoy building models…
[ad_1] Hustle 20X’d its annual revenue run rate in 15 months by denying clients that contradict its political views. It’s a curious, controversial, yet successful strategy for the startup whose app lets activists and marketers text thousands of potential supporters or customers one at a time. Compared to generic email blasts and robocalls, Hustle gets…
[ad_1] Streaming services are growing at an unprecedented rate across the world. The fact that music charts like USA’s Billboard Top 100 and UK’s Official Top 40 have started acknowledging a song’s performance across streaming services show how important a medium streaming has become for music consumption. Indian are also fast catching onto this craze.…
[ad_1] Kevin Lin, co-founder of Amazon-owned video game streaming platform Twitch, told CNBC on Tuesday that Jeff Bezos plays games “here and there” but he wouldn’t call him a gamer. “Is Bezos a gamer? I guess if you count flying spaceships into space, maybe that’s a game,” said Lin, who sold Twitch to Amazon for…
[ad_1] Microsoft announced a series of new features for Outlook across desktop, mobile and web to take a bit of the focus off of Gmail’s massive redesign. Some of the features highlight Outlook’s usefulness in the workplace – like new meeting room suggestion capabilities and RSVP tracking. But others, particularly on mobile, are more innovative…
[ad_1] Google and US-based NBC Universal have reportedly come together to enable “Virtual Reality (VR)” experiences on YouTube-based shows from the latter and its affiliates. This union will include a collaboration of the two companies on 10 multi-episode projects, first being a backstage tour of the dog rescue reality show Vanderpump Rules, followed by the…
[ad_1] Amazon is now under scrutiny from both sides of the U.S. political aisle, as Democrat Bernie Sanders echoed President Donald Trump’s criticism of the e-commerce giant in a tweet this week. “You know what Amazon paid in federal income taxes last year? Zero,” the U.S. Senator from Vermont said in a tweet Monday evening.…
[ad_1] Facebook wants to prove it can earn businesses money, not just build their social media audience. This morning, just before its big F8 conference, a “Facebook Analytics” app for iOS and Android appeared in the app stores. It touts the ability to “stay on top of your growth, engagement, and conversion efforts on the…
[ad_1] Charlie Kindel, an Amazon executive who played a crucial role in Amazon Alexa’s takeover of people’s homes, is calling it quits after five strong years at the Seattle, Washington-based tech giant. Citing the sheer pace of his work, Kindel states that he is “goofing off” and might come back to Amazon in the future.…
[ad_1] Chip Somodevilla | Getty Images Mark Zuckerberg testifies before the House Energy and Commerce Committee in the Rayburn House Office Building on Capitol Hill April 11, 2018. UK officials said Tuesday they will summon Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to testify before Parliament the next time he’s in British territory if he does not volunteer…
[ad_1] ZeroCater may have made its name in bringing restaurant food to offices for lunch (or other meals), but it has now raised a new fresh round of funding for the next perk it hopes to bring to companies: snacks. While ZeroCater continues to expand from city to city with new restaurants as it tries…
[ad_1] Iran’s telecoms minister said Tuesday it was “impossible to block citizen’s access to information”, a day after the conservative-dominated judiciary banned the hugely popular Telegram messaging app. Mohammad Javad Azari Jahromi’s comments on Twitter highlighted differences of opinion between the government of reformist President Hassan Rouhani and ultra-conservatives who control the judiciary and security…
[ad_1] Bitcoin fell below $9,000 Tuesday, the first trading day of May. The cryptocurrency traded 3.9 percent lower around $8,880 as of 8:49 a.m. ET, according to CoinDesk’s bitcoin price index. The decline followed a gain of about 33.5 percent for April. There was no immediately apparent reason for bitcoin’s drop, which began overnight. Bitcoin…
[ad_1] OfferUp, the mobile marketplace for buying and selling locally, is expanding its sights beyond your neighborhood. Today, the company is announcing an expansion of its service that will now allow sellers to ship their items nationwide to interested buyers, potentially netting them a larger audience than if trying to sell only within their local…
[ad_1] While Mozilla lately criticised Facebook for abusing user data to serve ads on the social network, the same company is now set to serve sponsored content through its Firefox browser. This sponsored content will debut with Firefox 60, which is scheduled for general release on May 9, and will go live for users in…
[ad_1] Getty Images Chief executive officer and chairman of The Walt Disney Company Bob Iger and Mickey Mouse look on before ringing the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE), November 27, 2017 in New York City. Disney is making big moves in food. At its annual NewFront on Tuesday — a presentation…
[ad_1] It’s tough being part of IT Ops these days. Your company could be operating across public and private clouds, and in many cases, an internal datacenter too. Meanwhile your developers are generating more code ever faster. ScienceLogic wants to help with it latest release, ScienceLogic SL1. As company CEO Dave Link sees, we are seeing…
[ad_1] Apple is reportedly planning a cheaper MacBook Air and it may launch later this year. Rumours about a more affordable 13-inch MacBook Air have been surfacing for quite some time now. Apple was expected to release a new MacBook Air with a lower price tag during the second quarter of 2018, possibly at the…
[ad_1] Apple will generate significant profits and sales growth over the next three years, according to one Wall Street firm. D.A. Davidson initiated coverage for Apple shares with a buy rating, citing the company’s leadership position in the smartphone market. “With an eye for design, strong share in the premium (high margin) markets for smartphones…
[ad_1] Following an announcement last month, software manufacturer Opera’s popular VPN app has permanently shut down with effect from April 30, 2018. The app was previously available on both Google Play for Android and App Store for iOS. It’s not all bad news for premium Opera VPN subscribers as they have been provided with the…
[ad_1] Roku will be one of the big beneficiaries from the secular shift to internet video content, according to one Wall Street firm. KeyBanc Capital Markets initiated coverage for Roku shares with an overweight rating, predicting the company will generate strong sales growth over the next two years. “We recommend buying ROKU. We see it…
[ad_1] China’s Alibaba-owned UCWeb has released UC Share – file transfer app for mobile users. The app, which is initially available for Android devices, leverages an in-house technology that is touted to take as little as 0.2 seconds to transfer an image, one second to transfer a song, and up to 22 seconds to transfer…
[ad_1] Several years ago, Sprint’s largest shareholder, SoftBank, quietly approached two of the nation’s top regulators with a question: If Sprint were to merge with T-Mobile, would the government approve it? The answer was an emphatic no. “The idea of eliminating a pesky rival may have made sense for Sprint, but not for the American…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Monday announced the rollout of new features for Office 365, the company’s suite of applications available for mobile and desktop platforms. These new functional features include ink analysis and ink gestures on Microsoft PowerPoint and Word. There have been certain AI improvements for Word on Mac, new features for Outlook on iOS,…
[ad_1] Bill Gates’ meeting with Donald Trump included a surprising offer: a job for the Microsoft co-founder in the White House. The revelation came in an interview Gates did with life science website Stat. During Gates’ 40-minute conversation with the president, the two discussed the vacant White House science advisor role, which has been empty…
[ad_1] Apple has long been rumoured to be working on a feature to merge iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps, allowing developers to create a single app that works on all three platforms. A secret project, codenamed “Marzipan,” was earlier reported by Bloomberg’s Mark Gurman to be a part of Apple’s software roadmap and the plan…
[ad_1] Akamai Technologies trounced Wall Street’s estimates for first-quarter revenue and profit on Monday as its aggressive push to cloud security paid off and traditional business of speeding up content delivery on web stabilized. Shares of the company rose 4.3 percent to $74.75 in extended trading. The company’s revenue rose 11.4 percent to $668.7 million,…
[ad_1] When trying to figure out what to do after an extensive career at Google, Motorola, and Flipkart, Punit Soni decided to spend a lot of time sitting in doctors’ offices to figure out what to do next. It was there that Soni said he figured out one of the most annoying pain points for…
[ad_1] CoreOS, the Linux distribution and container management startup Red Hat acquired for $250 million earlier this year, today announced the Operator Framework, a new open source toolkit for managing Kubernetes clusters. CoreOS first talked about operators in 2016. The general idea here is to encode the best practices for deploying and managing container-based applications as…
[ad_1] WhatsApp has introduced a new Group Settings feature, which contains the ability to select which group participants will be able to edit group info – all participants, or group admins. The new WhatsApp feature is currently available for Android beta users only, but according to a report, it will be rolling out to all users…
[ad_1] Sky has started to roll-out a dramatic reshuffle to its television channels to both Sky+ HD and Sky Q viewers. The UK broadcaster has swapped a number of popular channel numbers, as well as launch a handful of brand new sections in the TV Guide menu. The changes will see Documentaries promoted in the…
[ad_1] When the original Microsoft Surface (Review) and Surface Pro were launched over five years ago, the entire world took notice. Both devices drew attention not only for their style, but also because their existence meant that Microsoft was willing to compete with its own partners in the consumer market. At the time, Microsoft said that…
[ad_1] The Galaxy S7 might be a few years old but Samsung hasn’t forgotten about its 2016 flagship. Owners of the device look set to get Android Oreo in the coming weeks with a post on Samsung’s Members page suggesting a launch is expected in the first half of 2018. It’s thought the S7 upgrade…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Monday began rolling out the Windows 10 April 2018 Update (version 1803) to eligible Windows 10 PCs and tablets. Users can expect the update to be made available across the globe over the course of the next few weeks. This essentially means that the feature update will not be available on all…
[ad_1] Microsoft has started to push-out its Windows 10 April Update. The long-awaited software update had to be delayed after a show-stopping glitch was unearthed by beta testers earlier this month. The issue is now resolved, with Microsoft pulling the trigger on its staggered roll-out of the new software. But despite reassurances from the Redmond-based…
[ad_1] Facebook-owned WhatsApp has introduced a new Group Settings feature, which contains the ability to select which group participants will be able to edit group info – all participants, or group admins. The feature is currently available for Android beta users, but according to a report, it is in the process of rolling out for…
[ad_1] Thousands rallied in Moscow on Monday in support of Internet freedom after Russian authorities tried to block access to the popular messaging app Telegram in the latest onslaught against dissent under Vladimir Putin. In an unusually strong turnout, around 10,000 people including top opposition leader Alexei Navalny turned up in the centre of the…
[ad_1] Qualcomm has broadened its use of a lower-cost licencing model for the next generation of mobile data networks, a move that could help in contentious talks with two customers including iPhone maker Apple, the wireless tech company’s patent licencing chief said on Monday. The patent business traditionally has supplied much of Qualcomm’s profit but has…
[ad_1] Microsoft has finally launched its Windows 10 April Update to customers across the globe. The Redmond-based company staggers the roll-out of its operating system updates – this avoids putting too much strain on its servers. However, that means not everyone gets the update on release date. In the past, Windows 10 users have faced…
[ad_1] WhatsApp CEO Jan Koum is breaking ties with his company’s parent, Facebook, amid a privacy scandal that has dogged the social network for weeks. Koum confirmed his departure from WhatsApp Monday on his Facebook page. The Washington Post reported that Koum also plans to resign from Facebook’s board of directors. Facebook wouldn’t comment on…
[ad_1] The latest Windows 10 April update from Microsoft is causing a lot of hype and with good reason. There are lots of great new features that could have Apple worried. Many of the updates for Windows 10 are focused on making the operating system a far better working environment. From helping you focus more…
[ad_1] The billionaire chief executive of WhatsApp, Jan Koum, is planning to leave the company after clashing with its parent, Facebook, over the popular messaging service’s strategy and Facebook’s attempts to use its personal data and weaken its encryption, according to people familiar with internal discussions. Koum, who sold WhatsApp to Facebook for more than…
[ad_1] Advertising giant WPP posted better-than-expected earnings for its first quarter, as it looks to an uncertain future in the wake of its CEO Martin Sorrell stepping down. Net sales were down 0.1 percent like-for like, it said Monday, but this beat estimates of a 1 percent drop. WPP’s Executive Chairman Roberto Quarta said in…
[ad_1] Sprint could lose about a third of its value if its blockbuster merger deal with T-Mobile falls through, one analyst told CNBC on Monday. “It would seem to us if this deal doesn’t get approved, you’re likely to see Sprint shares fall to something like $4 or so,” said Craig Moffett, founding partner at…
[ad_1] The two carriers announced Sunday that Sprint has agreed to be bought by T-Mobile in an all-stock deal worth $26.5 billion, with the combined company valued at $146 billion. The new entity will take the T-Mobile name, and it will be run by current CEO Legere. Claure will serve on the board. Analysts on…
[ad_1] Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Daniel Ek, chief executive officer and co-founder of Spotify AB. Spotify shares will thrive because the music streaming company will generate strong user growth over the next five years, according to J.P. Morgan Chase. The bank initiated coverage of Spotify shares with an overweight rating, saying its…
[ad_1] Qualcomm has broadened its use of a lower-cost licensing model for the next generation of mobile data networks, a move that could help in contentious talks with two customers including iPhone maker Apple, the wireless tech company’s patent licensing chief said on Monday. The patent business traditionally has supplied much of Qualcomm’s profit but…
[ad_1] Multiple Wall Street firms have made bullish calls for the capital return program in recent weeks. Morgan Stanley analysts expect Apple, which has the biggest overseas bank account of any S&P 500 company, to increase the capital return program by $150 billion. “This would imply Apple repurchases $210bn in shares and pays $52bn in…
[ad_1] A competitor could be removed from the market if T-Mobile’s plans to buy Sprint are approved, said Jennifer Fritzsche, managing director at Wells Fargo Securities. “This [merger] is a hundred percent a horizontal one,” the analyst said on “Power Lunch” Monday. The two telecommunications companies announced their plans to merge on Sunday in a…
[ad_1] When CNBC’s Jim Cramer heard from a caller on Monday about recent declines in the stock of United Rentals, he knew he had to calm her fears about the seemingly unforgiving market. “The world has turned, our market has turned on anything industrial believing that there is going to be a dramatic slowdown because…
[ad_1] “I was a little bit dejected but I laughed,” he said. “I thought, I just don’t know how else we’re gonna solve this problem.” He didn’t give up. Instead, he strated asking friends to give the hashtag a try. In October of 2007, one of his friends was tweeting about a San Diego wildfire.…
[ad_1] Twitter will bring original shows from NBCUniversal, Disney and Viacom among others to its platform, including a version of “SportsCenter” from Disney-owned ESPN. The company announced more than 30 new partnerships at its NewFront presentation in New York on Monday night, an annual presentation of video content for advertisers. “We’re not guessing: We’re listening,”…
[ad_1] “It is time for me to move on . . . I’m taking some time off to do things I enjoy outside of technology, such as collecting rare air-cooled Porsches, working on my cars and playing ultimate frisbee” WhatsApp co-founder, CEO, and Facebook board member Jan Koum wrote today. The announcement followed shortly after The Washington…
[ad_1] The threat of a trade war between the U.S. and China comes just as China’s shifting economy could provide an opportunity for U.S. exports, according to Alibaba Executive Vice Chairman Joseph Tsai. “The trade war comes at a very ironic time,” Tsai said on CNBC’s “Closing Bell.” “There are now 300 million Chinese consumers…
[ad_1] The co-founder of WhatsApp — the messaging app that Facebook bought in 2014 — is leaving the company. Jan Koum said in a Facebook post on Monday that it was time to “move on.” It’s been almost a decade since Brian and I started WhatsApp, and it’s been an amazing journey with some of…
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images John Legere, chief executive officer and president of T-Mobile US Inc., left, listens as Marcelo Claure, chief executive officer of Sprint Corp., speaks during an interview on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York, U.S., on Monday, April 30, 2018. Shares of…
[ad_1] The Straight Path deal was one of the factors that pushed the companies to jump-start 2017 negotiations. Those negotiations ended up failing, but several things have happened in the past few months to bring SoftBank’s Masayoshi Son back to the table. First, the two companies’ stock prices settled, making the valuation of both companies…
[ad_1] Chinese authorities revealed over the weekend that they have the capability of retrieving deleted messages from the almost universally used WeChat app. The admission doesn’t come as a surprise to many, but it’s rare for this type of questionable data collection tactic to be acknowledged publicly. As noted by the South China Morning Post,…
[ad_1] Shares of Square fell Monday after noted short-seller Andrew Left’s Citron Research said excitement over the payments processor’s bitcoin trading product was overdone. The stock briefly lost 3.8 percent to $45.76 a share before recovering some of its losses. Square is a “collection of yawn businesses,” Citron said in a tweet Monday afternoon. “WallSt.…
[ad_1] Disney will be creating new live shows specifically for Twitter. The two companies announced on Monday they had entered an agreement to create content and offer advertising opportunities specifically on Twitter. More details about the shows will be announced at planned Twitter and ESPN advertiser presentations this week in New York. Other programming from…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos is worth $131 billion, according to Forbes, and the Amazon founder and CEO is clear about the primary way he plans to spend that much money: getting to space. “The only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel. That…
[ad_1] SAN FRANCISCO — Last year, representatives of 25 countries met in Tokyo to work on setting international standards for the blockchain, the technology that was introduced by the virtual currency Bitcoin and has ignited intense interest in corporate and government circles. Some of the technologists at the meeting of the International Standards Organization were…
[ad_1] It may be obvious that a bong manufacturing business that caters directly to the trade should also be ineligible for government financing, but consider a garden supply company that sells bagged dirt, hydroponic equipment, potting supplies, fertilizer, or grow lights primarily to garden and home centers, but received even one purchase order from a…
[ad_1] Fitbit stock briefly soared almost 10 percent on Monday after the company announced a healthcare collaboration with Alphabet‘s Google. The stock has since given up about half that gain. The global wearables company announced on Monday that it plans to use Google’s Cloud Healthcare API to help the company integrate further into the healthcare…
[ad_1] The biggest loser in the $26.5 billion merger between Sprint and T-Mobile may be fans of Twitter smacktalk. T-Mobile CEO John Legere and Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure have long traded shots on Twitter and in public statements. Legere, in particular, has issued some expletive-laden tweets about the company he’s now going to be running.…
[ad_1] Regulators at the Securities and Exchange Commission are still worried about the cryptocurrency fundraising craze known as initial coin offerings. But the agency is not looking to ban them and remains open to a legal avenue for crypto investments, according to one commissioner. “Investors are having a hard time telling the difference between investments…
[ad_1] Chico’s FAS, the parent company of Chico’s, White House Black Market and Soma, announced Monday it plans to sell Chico’s merchandise on Amazon. Chico’s shares had jumped more than 4 percent in the premarket, but then retreated and were down 1 percent in the regular trading session. The company said shoppers in mid-May will…
[ad_1] Chinese smartphone maker Huawei Technologies is working on its own proprietary mobile operating system (OS) since 2012 after a US investigation into the company, the media reported. The company, which is also the world’s biggest telecommunications equipment manufacturer, would ditch Google’s Android platform amid reports that it is under investigation by the US for…
[ad_1] “There is an undeclared Cold War underway now in the IT sector,” Rudd said. Increased scrutiny from the U.S. on Chinese firms could exacerbate the tension, according to Jonathan Fenby, chairman of the China team at independent research group TS Lombard. “U.S. moves designed to curb China’s technological development are likely to act as…
[ad_1] When it comes to moving assets out of Jersey and into the United States, the switch should be painless, said Mitchell Goldberg, president of ClientFirst Strategy, a Melville, New York-based wealth management firm. It will likely just transfer assets from one account to another, similar to how anyone might switch bank accounts. It’s too…
[ad_1] Ty Wright | Bloomberg | Getty Images Donald Trump views a photo of himself on the cover of The New York Times during an RNC goodbye reception at the Westin Hotel in Cleveland, on Friday, July 22, 2016. The higher level of news flow during the Trump administration is benefiting the New York Times…
[ad_1] Joshua Roberts | Reuters Chief Executive Officer of AT&T Randall Stephenson (L) and Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Time Warner Jeffrey Bewkes listen to testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee Antitrust Subcommittee hearing on the proposed deal between AT&T and Time Warner in Washington, U.S., December 7, 2016. Lawyers for the U.S. Justice…
[ad_1] WASHINGTON — T-Mobile’s proposed merger with Sprint would create a new national wireless giant capable of taking on Verizon and AT&T. The combined company, which would be called T-Mobile, would cover about 100 million customers. But how, exactly, will all those customers fare if regulators sign off on the deal? And what about the…
[ad_1] The local police force in Hertfordshire, a county to the north-west of London, said that Patel admitted to officers that he knew his actions were “silly” but that the Tesla was capable of something “amazing”..The offender added that he was just the “unlucky one who got caught.” A Tesla engineer who contributed to the…
[ad_1] Sky will roll-out a drastic change that is set to affect a huge slew of television channels. The UK broadcasters plans to reshuffle almost every channel in the TV Guide. The changes will be available to subscribers tomorrow, and will affect Sky subscribers running both Sky+ HD and Sky Q hardware. Sky’s reshuffle is…
[ad_1] If you use Windows 10 there’s some big new features coming your way. Microsoft is releasing its April 2018 update today which is aimed at making the popular software easier to use and with far less interruptions. New features such as Focus Assists are bundled with the update which will block all notifications while…
[ad_1] Microsoft has rolled out a preview of Office 2019 to commercial customers, with features that are usually seen in the company’s Office 365 subscription. Microsoft is making test versions of several Office apps available for x86-based Windows systems in the Office 2019 preview programme. Office 2019, which Microsoft calls its ‘perpetual’ Office release, will…
[ad_1] Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re exploring why our communities are at a turning point and exploring ways to recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. There are lots of ways to motivate everyone — including people who don’t care about the environment — to reduce their waste,…
[ad_1] Continuing its aggressive move into news, Twitter has now rolled out a new feature to highlight different takes on news shared by your network on your Home timeline, grouping tweets that are sharing the same news link. The news grouping feature, which appears at the top of your timeline as a new card, has…
[ad_1] Pathao, a ride-hailing app in Bangladesh, plans to launch its own mobile wallet next year to reduce consumer reliance on cash payments. “Payments is a big challenge. Bangladesh is a cash-based economy and most of the transactions happen over cash,” Pathao’s CEO and co-founder, Hussain Elius, told CNBC’s “Street Signs” last week. “However, we…
[ad_1] Fujifilm Holdings Corp’s merger with US firm Xerox Corp was temporarily blocked on Friday following a court ruling, handing its activist investors a win after they sued to stop the deal. The ruling reopened nominations to Xerox’s board on Friday after investor Darwin Deason filed a lawsuit against the company last month opposing the deal…
[ad_1] The competition between hyperloop developers in the Middle East is heating up, with the two main operators — Hyperloop Transportation Technologies (HTT) and Virgin Hyperloop One — sniping over the use of the name “hyperloop” and territorial ambitions. The chairman of HTT told CNBC that his company “owns” the brand name ‘”hyperloop” — the…
[ad_1] SoftBank Group CEO Masayoshi Son has made a name for himself as the ultimate dealmaker, raising almost $100 billion for investments with his Vision Fund. Yet after four years of haggling, he has scored his biggest deal by simply letting go. The agreement on Sunday to combine SoftBank’s Sprint Corp with Deutsche Telekom’s T-Mobile…
[ad_1] Technology has evolved in the last few years to give viewers a lot of convenient ways to watch internet video on a television screen. Dedicated digital media players like Roku devices and Apple TVs have been around for years, and it’s possible to stream digital video from most video game consoles. More recently, people…
[ad_1] Blue Origin has launched its New Shepard rocket Sunday from its facility near Van Horn, Texas in the company’s first flight of 2018. The vehicle — named after the first American in space, Alan Shepard — launches vertically from the West Texas facility. Founder Jeff Bezos, who invests $1 billion each year into Blue…
[ad_1] PayPal this past week refreshed a years-old patent for an augmented reality shopping experience that would layer virtual information over physical products. With tech giants like Apple reportedly planning similar products, PayPal could be putting this idea to use in payment-enabled glasses sooner rather than later. The software as imagined could overlay product information…
[ad_1] But that’s starting to change. Venture dollars are shifting away from health and wellness products that serve urban professionals to a new crop of start-ups that are focused on low-income populations and seniors through government insurance programs like Medicare and Medicaid. That’s because the Centers for Medicaid and Medicare Services has, over the past…
[ad_1] Start with a TRD Off-Road model. Double cab is a must if you want your friends to ride along and opt for the short bed unless you’re hauling big loads. The automatic transmission makes more sense in an off-road-focused truck, too. The total so far is $36,115. Add $3,505 for the “Premium Package with…
[ad_1] Sprint and T-Mobile, after years of going back and forth as to whether they are going to tie up two of the largest telecom providers in the U.S., have announced that the two companies have entered a merger agreement this morning. The merger will be an all-stock transaction, and will now be subject to…
[ad_1] Patrick T. Fallon | Bloomberg | Getty Images John Legere, chief executive officer of T-Mobile US Sprint and T-Mobile have sealed a blockbuster merger agreement, producing a telecom behemoth that values the combined company at $146 billion, the two carriers announced on Sunday. The all-stock deal values Sprint at 0.10256 per T-Mobile share, or…
[ad_1] First envisioned by Tesla founder Elon Musk in 2013, hyperloop transport promises to be faster than air travel but at a fraction of the cost. The concept is designed to propel pods through a large tube underground at speeds of 750 mph using magnets. Its developers hope to implement the technology around the globe.…
[ad_1] The market for electric scooters is booming, with names like LimeBike, Spin, Bird among the few companies appealing to consumers in big cities who are looking for quick, convenient and environmentally-friendly transportation. For companies, there’s big demand to be had from both consumers and investors, especially as public transportation woes snare urban consumers. LimeBike…
[ad_1] A veteran investor is lifting his call for investors to lighten up on tech stock exposure. Paul Meeks, who’s known for running the world’s largest technology fund during the Dotcom boom, said recently the relative fundamentals of the group is now about “as good as I’ve seen.” “I like these stocks,” the Sloy, Dahl…
[ad_1] International port operator DP World and Virgin Hyperloop One are collaborating to launch ultra-fast hyperloop for cargo, in what they hope will revolutionize both the speed and cost of commerce. The project, DP World Cargospeed, will be powered with Virgin Hyperloop One’s technology to “enable ultra-fast, on-demand deliveries of high-priority goods and can revolutionize…
[ad_1] He founded OPG with his wife in 2014, right as Twitch was exploding, and right around the time Amazon purchased the gaming site for close to $1 billion. OPG manages streamers and takes a cut of their revenue. “You wouldn’t expect someone like Tom Cruise to walk into a meeting room and negotiate his…
[ad_1] West Ham United host Manchester City in the first of today’s Premier League matches. And while Manchester City may have already won the league, Pep Guardiola’s side will be looking to break the Premier League points record set by Chelsea. With four games to go, Manchester City are only five points away from equalling…
[ad_1] Sky customers are set to see some big changes landing in their living rooms in the coming weeks and month. The satellite TV firm announced last week that it was launching Spotify on its Sky Q service with users now able to play music directly from their TV. Sky confirmed that customers will be…
[ad_1] If you own a OnePlus 5T and are hoping to trade-up to the upcoming OnePlus 6, you should really sell your old handset before May 16th. Exclusive research conducted by musicMagpie for Express.co.uk has revealed OnePlus smartphones will typically lose 80 per cent of their trade-in value in the six months following the launch…
[ad_1] Windows 10 users are getting some big new features tomorrow as Microsoft unleashes its Windows 10 April 2018 Update on the world. This latest upgrade is part of the US technology firm’s promise to release two big updates every year. This new software will bring all the usual security patches and fixes but there’s…
[ad_1] GETTY Best broadband UK deals 2018 Broadband in a home is almost as important a service as TV or, for some, even electricity. Getting the best and fastest internet speeds can often mean spending a lot – but it doesn’t have to be the case. Picking a broadband provider isn’t just about price though.…
[ad_1] A leading organization representing Canadian gun owners is up in arms about a renewed effort by the federal government to get the lead out of ammunition. “The only purpose of this is to set up more anti-gun obstacles,” Tony Bernardo, head of the Canadian Shooting Sports Association, said in an interview. “That’s what it’s designed…
[ad_1] A popular Kodi add-on service looks certain to face legal action after an appeal was rejected by a US court in Texas. TVAddons and ZemTV have been accused of copyright infringement by US broadcaster Dish Network. The two services had claimed that, because they aren’t based in America, the case should be dissolved. The…
[ad_1] After weeks of rumours and much speculation, Google has finally released its Gmail update. This huge upgrade not only brings a less cluttered look to the popular email service but also a swathe of new and very useful features. Google is trying hard to help its users cope with the barrage of daily emails…
[ad_1] Amazon wants its talkative smart assistant to be able to remember. Alexa will be able to recall information you’ve previously directed her to remember, as well as have more natural conversations no longer require every command to begin with “Alexa”. The new developments were announced by head of the Alexa Brain group, Ruhi Sarikaya,…
[ad_1] I want to live in the Gemini’s universe. It’s one where the promise of on-demand hardware has been fulfilled. Where crowfunding, rapid prototyping, scalable manufacturing all of those good things have improved our lives by giving us the devices we both want and need. It’s the utopian dream of 2011, fully realized. In the…
[ad_1] Jim Urquhart | Reuters The Man dominates the playa during the Burning Man 2015 “Carnival of Mirrors” arts and music festival in the Black Rock Desert of Nevada, August 31, 2015. The co-founder of the “Burning Man” festival has died. He was 70. Burning Man Project CEO Marian Goodell says Larry Harvey died Saturday…
[ad_1] Jeff Bezos believes his space company, Blue Origin — rather than Amazon or the Washington Post — is representative of his “most important work,” and imperative for humanity’s long-term survival, the mogul said in an interview published on Business Insider. In a wide-ranging sitdown on the eve of a new rocket launch, Bezos said…
[ad_1] There is nothing meritocratic about sales. A startup may have the best product, the best vision, and the most compelling presentation, only to discover that their sales team is talking to the wrong decision-maker or not making the right kind of small talk. Unfortunately, that critical information — that network intelligence — isn’t written…
[ad_1] WhatsApp added the ability to transfer money within its chat app last year. The feature is currently limited to India, one of the biggest markets for the Facebook-owned messaging app. Until now, the functionality has allowed WhatsApp to wirelessly transfer money within the chat window via a QR code or Unified Payments Interface (UPI)…
[ad_1] Google has taken the wraps off a dramatic redesign for Gmail. The shake-up, which will be rolling-out slowly to the service’s 1.2 billion users, introduces a clean new user interface and swathe of new features. Google has added the ability to send self-destructing emails in a new Confidential Mode, as well as auto-generated smart…
[ad_1] OnePlus’ ticketed OnePlus 6 launch event has sold-out in a matter of hours. Some 1,000 OnePlus fans were offered the chance to watch the launch at a ticketed event, dubbed The Speed You Need, in London next month. OnePlus 6 will be unveiled at the event, which will be held on May 16th. Tickets…
[ad_1] You can download your own archive and discover what Instagram still knows about you. Here’s how: Navigate to Instagram.com and select your profile. Click the gear next to your name and select “Privacy and Security.” Scroll down to “Data Download” and click “Request Download.” Then enter the email you’d like to receive the download…
[ad_1] Amazon is looking to increase the price of its annual Prime membership scheme. Fortunately, those who are signed-up to the annual subscription plan in the UK shouldn’t be affected by the price rise. However, the Seattle-based company is looking to increase the annual plan in the United States by about 20 per cent. The…
[ad_1] It’s been a busy few months for Samsung with the Korean company already launching its Galaxy S9 flagships. Now there’s another device that’s just arrived in the UK with Samsung finally unveiling its all-new Galaxy A8. This latest smartphone is now on sale in the UK and offers users some very decent features such…
[ad_1] Swansea City will take on Chelsea at The Liberty Stadium this afternoon. The Welsh side will be sweating the fitness of defenders Federico Fernandez and Kyle Bartley. The defenders face scans on knee injuries. If both Fernandez and Bartley are ruled out, the Swans could be forced into a change of formation. As it…
[ad_1] If you search the web for rare Apple prototypes, you’ll likely come across the name Hap Plain. Plain is a private collector in California, with what he describes as the world’s largest collection of rare Apple prototypes by a private collector. Over the last decade, he’s amassed a collection of more than 250 unreleased…
[ad_1] Sometimes Taylor and his hacking group took things even further, by participating in what is known as swatting — prank-calling the police to report an urgent or violent crime, to get them to arrive at a location, usually someone’s home. “People that were in my group would do swatting attacks on them [people whose…
[ad_1] “I think I took 3 tenths off my 40-yard dash,” said Boston College Wide Receiver Charlie Callinan, who went through a three-month training program at New Jersey-based Parabolic Fitness. The company has trained many draft picks like Mike Burton and Trevor Siemian. “In 2018, if you’re not preparing for your Pro Day or Combine,…
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[ad_1] Facebook has looked into the possibility of charging users a subscription fee to access the social network, it has revealed. The California-based company currently uses advertising to monetise the social network, which has 2.2 billion monthly active users around the world. However, the amount of data Facebook gathers on its users to target its…
[ad_1] The iPhone 8 has just received a new look with Apple recently unveiling its stunning (PRODUCT)RED edition. Both the 8 and 8 Plus are available in this striking design and, if you’re thinking of upgrading your current iPhone, here’s five reasons to go RED. IT LOOKS STUNNING Apple is no stranger to launching its…
[ad_1] SAMSUNG • ONEPLUS Samsung Galaxy S9 v OnePlus 6 The OnePlus 6 release date is getting ever closer with it expected to bring top specs for a very affordable price. Usually OnePlus cuts a corner somewhere to make that saving but this year could be different with a phone that’s expected to be packed full…
[ad_1] The last thing Brittany Roque expected to learn as she applied for a job with the Brandon Police Service in southern Manitoba was that the force had received intimate images of the young police cadet. Roque is now suing a woman she alleges distributed the photos in what is one of the first “revenge…
[ad_1] Federal bureaucrats scrambled to take delivery of a massive order of smartphones by March 31 of this year in an apparent eruption of ‘March Madness’ – the practice of shovelling unspent departmental funds out the door before the end of a fiscal year. On Feb. 20, Shared Services Canada sent an urgent order to…
[ad_1] The van attack that killed 10 people in north Toronto has some observers asking if there’s a high-tech way to prevent similar assaults. But experts say technology won’t be enough to stop people from using vehicles as weapons. “Technology is not alone the answer to these issues,” said Jez Littlewood, an assistant professor of international affairs at Carleton University, after a driver…
[ad_1] Facebook is adding a Sleep Mode to its Messenger Kids service to let parents limit when their kids can use it. It’s the latest concession that tech companies are making as critics question whether they should be targeting kids at all. Among their chief concerns: The effects on kids are not yet known, and companies…
[ad_1] The only real comparison for what happened in B.C. on Aug. 12, 2017, would be a volcanic eruption. On that day, in the midst of the province’s record-breaking wildfire season, the heat from four fires triggered huge thunderstorms that sent smoke soaring into the stratosphere, eventually spreading through the entire Northern Hemisphere. It was…
[ad_1] Instagram, the world’s most popular image-sharing social network, is reportedly planning to add several new functional features to its interface as it looks to up the ante against Snapchat. These new features might include a new video call feature, Stories reactions – similar to the ones on Facebook, a new Slow-Mo mode for Stories,…
[ad_1] Another caribou herd in British Columbia is on the edge of dying out and conservation groups are calling for more protections for the animals. The South Purcell herd, which ranges north of Kimberley, is down to four animals. Biologists flew over the herd last week and counted just three bulls and a cow. “We…
[ad_1] Paytm has launched a new payment mode, Tap Card, that it is promoting as India’s first “truly offline payments solution.” It is a card that uses NFC to transfer money on company-authorised Point of Sale (PoS) terminals, and is aimed at non-Internet users. The Paytm Tap Card uses enables safe and convenient digital payments with…
[ad_1] Environment and Climate Change Minister Catherine McKenna has written an open letter to B.C.’s environment minister proposing the creation of a joint scientific panel to study oil spills and response measures. “Such a panel would build on our science investments and results, take stock of work on the fate, behaviour and effects of various oil…
[ad_1] Koinex, a digital assets exchange, commenced crypto-to-crypto trading at zero cost on its web and mobile platforms with the launch of 15 pairs of tokens which will be available for trading right from the start. “Our platform is built with the agility and technical brilliance to adapt to any market requirement. We were deliberating…
[ad_1] Love them or hate them, emojis are becoming an everyday method of communication for millions of people. Users now have the option to choose different skin tones for many of their favourite digital gestures. But should people always stick to the colour that most closely resembles their own? The idea of cultural appropriation or…
[ad_1] Most of us have at least one scar. Some people think they are unsightly, while others believe they each tell a story. For scientists at the University of Toronto, scars are a mystery to be solved. A new study in Nature Physics examines how fruit fly embryos heal and avoid scars altogether. It turns…
[ad_1] In an effort to give more control to parents, Facebook has launched a Sleep Mode in its Messenger Kids that will allow parents to set predetermined “off times” for the app on a child’s device. When the app is in Sleep Mode, kids cannot send or receive messages or video calls, play with the…
[ad_1] A new article in the journal Science urges researchers to connect with local Indigenous communities when designing studies on genetic material from ancient human remains. The science of paleogenomics — studying the DNA of ancient life — has grown in leaps and bounds over the past few decades but researchers are still grappling with some of the ethical dilemmas…
[ad_1] Microsoft on Friday announced a new update for Windows 10 aimed at providing users more time to create, play, and work. This update will be available for download on April 30 and will roll out to Windows 10 PCs worldwide on May 8. It was previously called the Windows 10 Spring Creators Update. The April…
[ad_1] According to figures from Statistics Canada, 94 per cent of those surveyed between the ages of 15 and 34 own a smartphone. Figures like that that make it difficult to imagine a massive reversal in smartphone usage, but that could be what’s happening with flip phones or “dumbphones” gaining popularity. Sara Martin uses her…
[ad_1] Macquarie was so impressed with Amazon’s “blowout” earnings, the global investment bank raised its 12-month price forecast to the highest on Wall Street and a value that would imply a record milestone for a publicly traded company. “We believe that even without margin expansion in core retail, the other businesses can drive significant profit…
[ad_1] Terry raised his price target for Amazon shares to $2,000 from $1,825, representing 32 percent upside from Thursday’s close. Several analysts expressed optimism over the company’s Amazon Prime price hike. The company announced on Thursday it plans to increase the price of its annual Prime membership to $119 from $99 starting on May 11.…
[ad_1] Blue Origin is aiming to launch its New Shepard rocket on Sunday, founder Jeff Bezos said in a tweet. Bezos, who founded the company and invests $1 billion each year into Blue Origin from selling Amazon stock, said the Sunday launch window will open at 9:30 a.m. ET. He added that “livestream info” will…
[ad_1] Intel stock gave up its gains Friday after rising above $55 a share in the wake of the tech company’s strong earnings report. Intel beat on both the top and bottom lines when it reported first-quarter earnings Thursday, despite admitting it “bit off a little too much” amid 10-nanometer chip delays. “As long as…
[ad_1] “Amazon continues to demonstrate impressive execution on key growth initiatives, as demonstrated by accelerating revenue across AWS, Advertising, and 3P services, which fueled the significant profitability beat. With the price of annual US Prime membership set to increase to $119 (first increase in four years), we believe Amazon’s selection/convenience competitive advantage will only increase,…
[ad_1] Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Sergey Brin, born in Russia, is the president of Alphabet and co-founder of Google Alphabet just published its annual Founders’ Letter and this year, cofounder Sergey Brin uses it to outline the ways the company’s using artificial intelligence, while highlighting both the benefits and risks of this “technology renaissance.”…
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[ad_1] Discount airline travel sites create their own bots to scan the internet for cheap tickets and then show those deals on an easy to navigate platform, Kahn said. Even Google employs a similar method to crawl the internet and help it index sites for its search engine, Douglas pointed out. If bots were shut…
[ad_1] DocuSign CEO Dan Springer was all smiles at the Nasdaq on Friday, following the company’s public debut. And he had a lot to be happy about. After pricing the IPO at a better-than-expected $29, the company raised $629 million. Then DocuSign finished its first day of trading at $39.73, up 37% in its debut. Springer, who…
[ad_1] If a trade war breaks out, companies like Apple and Walmart will be caught in the crossfire, but Apple has the most to lose, CNBC’s Jim Cramer argued on Friday. “You can’t crack down on China without hurting large swaths of the American economy,” the “Mad Money” host said. “Why? because China’s our biggest…
[ad_1] Shares of Sprint whipsawed in after-hours trading after CNBC reported that T-Mobile is closing in on a deal with the telecom company for $26 billion. The deal would value Sprint shares near its market price of $6.50, sources told CNBC. The terms of the deal would allow Deutsche Telekom, which currently owns nearly two-thirds…
[ad_1] The charming robot at the heart of Disney’s Big Hero 6, Baymax, isn’t exactly realistic, but its puffy bod is an (admittedly aspirational) example of the growing field of soft robotics. And now Disney itself has produced a soft robot arm that seems like it could be a prototype from the movie. Created by…
[ad_1] It’s hard launching a phone company — something Essential was pretty candid about from the start. Andy Rubin’s latest endeavor got off to something of a slow start, according to outside accounts, but today the well-funded hardware startup is getting ready to add a whole bunch of new markets to its online store. On…
[ad_1] T-Mobile is closing in on a deal to merge with Sprint that will value Sprint near its current market price of $6.50 per share, according to people familiar with the matter. The $26 billion deal could be announced as soon as Sunday, said the people, who asked not to be named because the negotiations…
[ad_1] It looks like a potential merger deal between T-Mobile and Sprint, two of the major telecom companies in the U.S., is getting closer and now has set valuation terms, according to a report by Bloomberg. The deal could be announced as soon as Sunday, according to a report by CNBC. The proposed tie-up of…
[ad_1] Microsoft recently instituted organizational changes to better capitalize on its cloud business, pushing more resources to Scott Guthrie, who has overseen the rise of the company’s Azure unit. Research firm Canalys published findings that were similar to Synergy’s on Friday, showing that while AWS has stayed above 30 percent market share, Microsoft made a…
[ad_1] Parviz joined Amazon from Google’s secret research and development group, Google X, in 2014 and now leads a top-secret team that has variously been called “Amazon X,” “Grand Challenges” and “1492.” The projects and mission of that team are under wraps, but CNBC reported that many of the hires have a background in health…
[ad_1] Ann Johansson | Corbis | Getty Images Jeffrey Ubben, CEO of ValueAct Capital Partners ValueAct CEO Jeffrey Ubben expects Strayer Education to thrive because of its technology capabilities. Strayer “delivers good student outcomes … Strayer has been taking their tuition down to make it more affordable. That’s the big problem in education, affordability,” he…
[ad_1] Apple’s reportedly interested in making smart glasses — and a new report from CNET on Friday sheds more light on what the plan could entail. Bloomberg reported last year that Apple was working on an augmented reality headset for shipping as early as 2020, which would have its own display, a new chip and…
[ad_1] Both Alphabet and Amazon reported their first quarter earnings this week and both beat expectations on top and bottom line growth. However, Alphabet’s stock dipped on its results while Amazon’s soared. Investors’ outlook on each company’s future growth was one factor in that difference. Both companies have outlined future bets beyond their core businesses…
[ad_1] Tesla could use a broadband network provided by SpaceX to securely manage the massive amount of data needed to manage autonomous cars, says one analyst. Autonomous cars produce and consume extremely large amounts of data, said Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas in a note sent Friday. He estimates self-driving vehicles can produce 40 terabytes…
[ad_1] Enterprise tech IPOs continue to roar in 2018. Today, not one but two enterprise tech companies, DocuSign and Smartsheet, saw their share prices pop as they made their debuts on to the public markets. As of 12:53 New York time, DocuSign is trading higher at $39.39, up 36 percent from its IPO price and…
[ad_1] Tomohiro Ohsumi | Bloomberg | Getty Images A worker assembles a Subaru branded vehicle on the production line of Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd.’s Gunma Yajima Plant in Ota, Gunma, Japan. Subaru executives said Friday that some employees had manipulated fuel economy data on some Japanese-made vehicles, according to a report the company released Friday.…
[ad_1] Microsoft shares will thrive this year because of strong growth in its Azure cloud computing business, according to J.P. Morgan. The firm raised its rating for the company’s shares to overweight from neutral, predicting Microsoft will report profits above expectations this year. On Thursday, the software company reported a better than expected earnings result…
[ad_1] DocuSign shares zoomed more than 30 percent higher on Friday in the stock’s first trading day on the Nasdaq. Shares opened at $38 apiece, well above the $29 Thursday night pricing. The company, which makes software for digitally signing documents, raised $629.3 million in its initial public offering after pricing shares at $29. The…
[ad_1] Business-focused software company Smartsheet debuted at $18.40 per share Friday, more than 20 percent above the price of shares it sold in its initial public offering. The stock is trading on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker symbol “SMAR.” The company is part of a batch of enterprise software companies going public…
[ad_1] If you’ve ever painted a room you know that getting every nook and cranny is pretty difficult and Tim Allen help you if you have hardwood or carpet. The tarp alone costs more than the paint. Now, thanks to MIST, your robot can manage the entire job, slapping paint up like a robotic Jackson…
[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer on Friday threw down the gauntlet on Amazon, saying the e-commerce and cloud computing giant’s latest fiscal quarter is the best he’s ever seen and a “new order.” Cramer said he didn’t and won’t qualify that statement. “This was the best quarter I’ve ever seen of a company,” he said on…
[ad_1] The maker of Shadowverse and Granblue Fantasy is teaming up with Nintendo for a new mobile RPG. Called Dragalia Lost, the Japanese-style action RPG will be a free-to-play game though likely loaded with Loot Box-style mechanics that will result in a financial windfall for Nintendo and developer Cygames. The trailer doesn’t reveal many details…
[ad_1] With the Windows 10 April 2018 Update, Microsoft is launching a number of new features for its desktop operating system today. Most of those apply to all users, but in addition to all the regular feature updates, the company also today announced a couple of new features and tools specifically designed for its business…
[ad_1] Microsoft opened nearly 4 percent up Friday, the day after a first quarter earnings beat. The tech giant reported a 16 percent bump in revenue for the quarter, led by revenue growth in its Intelligent Cloud segment. Shares initially fell falling the report, but recovered on positive outlook for future quarters. The stock opened…
[ad_1] This week, Google announced a new security feature for Google account users who work on Chrome for browsing the Internet. The new sign-in feature asks users to verify that the account they are using is their own account. The search giant says that this is designed to prevent anyone from quietly signing into a…
[ad_1] Health experts remain skeptical that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, despite his lofty ambitions, can successfully take on the complex and challenging health-care market, which is notoriously difficult for newcomers. Almost three-quarters of respondents (73 percent) said the Amazon partnership will “face substantial challenges and take lots of time.” Bob Kocher, a partner at Venrock…
[ad_1] WhatsApp is allowing users to download the data it collects, in compliance with new EU data privacy rules coming into force next month. In wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook has rolled out the new feature, ahead of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) law that…
[ad_1] AP In 1997 Steve Jobs, Apple’s acting chief executive, announced that the company–buoyed by cost-cutting and strong demand for its new computers–surprised Wall Street by once again showing profitability. With Jobs’ return to Apple, the company became profitable again and sparked a new era in personal computing and devices. In this CNBC interview, Jobs…
[ad_1] With brightly coloured screens, feeds that scroll on endlessly and videos that autoplay, digital devices and apps are designed to keep us hooked. Now, some of the people responsible for creating those very apps and devices are raising concerns over their addictiveness, asking if the tools they’ve created could be a little too engaging. Beyond…
[ad_1] The U.S. government may start scrutinizing informal partnerships between American and Chinese companies in the field of artificial intelligence, threatening practices that have long been considered garden variety development work for technology companies, sources familiar with the discussions said. So far, U.S. government reviews for national security and other concerns have been limited to…
[ad_1] Research by Chinese geologists suggests that the mountain above North Korea’s main nuclear test site has likely collapsed, rendering it unsafe for further testing and requiring that it be monitored for any leaking radiation. The findings by the scientists at the University of Science and Technology of China may shed new light on North…
[ad_1] Rap mogul Jay-Z is among investors backing a US technology startup helping to free defendants who cannot afford bail, amid moves to reform a system that critics say criminalises poverty, especially people of colour. After receiving $3 million (roughly Rs. 20 crores) in funding, a “decarceration” phone app called Promise, aims to secure the release of…
[ad_1] You are what you eat, even if you’re a dinosaur. University of Alberta scientists are learning more about the lives of the ancient creatures by studying their teeth to see how they used them — and what on. “If we’re to fully understand how these animals were living, we need to understand what they…
[ad_1] Facebook told British lawmakers on Thursday that it never read the terms and conditions for an app that ultimately allowed Cambridge Analytica to access 87 million users’ names, “likes” and other personal information. The admission from Mike Schroepfer, the chief technology officer for the social media giant, concerns a quiz app made by researcher…
[ad_1] Japanese engineers have unveiled a robot that transforms into a car that can actually carry people on board, in what they said was the first-ever such accomplishment in the history of robots. The 3.7-metre (12.1-feet)-tall two-seater robot “J-deite RIDE” can transform into a sports car in a process that takes about a minute. It can…
[ad_1] The multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) genre in India is reasonably popular. We’ve seen Dota 2 broadcast on television, and participation for the game in local e-sports tournaments has been healthy too. And while most of action in MOBAs is restricted to the PC, this seems to be changing. Tencent Games has launched Arena…
[ad_1] Cloud software developer Ceridian spiked more than 40 percent in its opening day of trading Thursday. Shares closed nearly 42 percent up at $31.21, after pricing at $22. The jump pushes the company’s valuation past $4 billion. Ceridian listed its $462 million offering on the New York Stock Exchange and Toronto Stock Exchange under…
[ad_1] Online streaming services including Netflix and Amazon Prime Video could be required by countries to help fund European films and TV shows under a preliminary deal struck by EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday. The new law extends the European Union’s broadcasting rules to online video services and includes a quota of at…
[ad_1] Chip stocks soared Thursday on the heels of positive earnings from Qualcomm and Advanced Micro. Some traders expect the rally to get even hotter when blue-chip behemoth Intel reports Thursday after the bell. Intel is set to report first-quarter earnings after the bell on Thursday, and the options market is implying a 5 percent…
[ad_1] Japanese video game maker Nintendo said on Friday it has teamed up with Tokyo-based online games developer Cygames, aiming to step up the mobile gaming business and reduce reliance on volatile console sales. The Kyoto-based company will buy a 5 percent stake in unlisted Cygames, known for its blockbuster Granblue Fantasy game, for an…
[ad_1] Chinese internet search giant Baidu Inc blew past earnings estimates on Thursday, sending its U.S.-listed shares sharply higher in after-hours trading as investors cheered strong growth in its advertising business. The firm, which has had to bounce back from a bruising medical advertising scandal in 2016, said it was now taking extra measures to…
[ad_1] Amazon.com agreed to pay the National Football League about $65 million (roughly Rs. 434 crores) per year to stream two more seasons of Thursday night games on its Prime Video service, a person familiar with the matter told Reuters. The price tag, about 30 percent more than Amazon paid for the rights last season, underscores…
[ad_1] EU lawmakers and member states on Thursday struck a preliminary deal that will allow countries to force online streaming services including Netflix and Amazon‘s video service to help fund European films and TV shows. The new law extends the European Union’s broadcasting rules to online video services and includes a quota of 30 percent…
[ad_1] Snapchat on Thursday began selling a new version of its eyewear with built-in cameras after the first version failed to catch on with users of the youth-oriented social network. The new product, Spectacles 2.0 “are now more comfortable to wear with a smaller profile, and they’re water resistant – so you can bring them to…
[ad_1] The company’s biggest business segment, More Personal Computing — which includes Windows, devices, gaming and search ads — produced $9.92 billion in revenue, up 13 percent year over year. The segment came in above the FactSet consensus estimate of $9.25 billion, according to StreetAccount. The Productivity and Business Processes segment, which includes Office, LinkedIn…
[ad_1] DocuSign priced its IPO Thursday evening at $29 per share, netting the company $629 million. It was a better price than the e-signature company had been expecting. The initially proposed price range was $24 to $26 and then that was raised to $26 to $28. The price gives the company a valuation of $4.4…
[ad_1] Apple has finally released the iTunes app on the Microsoft Store, formerly the Windows Store app store. Microsoft, at its Build conference held last year, had announced plans to add iTunes to the Microsoft Store. While some Windows users were highly anticipating the debut of iTunes, Apple in December 2017 said that iTunes will…
[ad_1] Chinese smartphone makers have gained global prominence, helped by companies like Huawei and Xiaomi, challenging incumbents Samsung and Apple in key markets. Now, a Huawei sub-brand called Honor has set its sights on increasing its international presence in the next few years. The brand wants to split its smartphone sales 50-50 between China and…
[ad_1] Microsoft Corp on Thursday topped Wall Street forecasts for quarterly profit as the technology company signed up more businesses to its Azure cloud computing services and Office 365 productivity suite. Much of Microsoft’s recent growth has been fuelled by its cloud computing business as more enterprises seek to cut data storage costs by adopting cloud-based…
[ad_1] “The city faces challenges around liveability,” Julian Vella, Asia Pacific regional head of consultancy KPMG’s Global Infrastructure Advisory Practice, said in a report published in late January. “Many of its younger people express frustration at the lack of opportunities,” he said. “Furthermore, many of its neighbors — both in mainland China and elsewhere across…
[ad_1] Amazon’s cloud business exceeded analyst estimates, with revenue climbing 49 percent in the first quarter. Amazon Web Services reported sales on Thursday of $5.44 billion, compared to the $5.26 billion average estimate of analysts surveyed by FactSet. AWS contributed about 11 percent of Amazon’s total revenue for the period, up from 8.5 percent in…
[ad_1] U.S. wireless carriers T-Mobile and Sprint have made progress in negotiating merger terms and are aiming to successfully complete deal talks as early as next week, people familiar with the matter said on Thursday. T-Mobile majority-owner Deutsche Telekom and Japan’s SoftBank, which controls Sprint, are considering an agreement that would dictate how they exercise…
[ad_1] Buried on page 46 of Facebook’s quarterly report, deep in the risk factors section, is an ominous warning to investors: Cambridge Analytica is probably not alone. “We anticipate that we will discover and announce additional incidents of misuse of user data or other undesirable activity by third parties,” Facebook said in the filing published…
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[ad_1] CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Thursday that Advanced Micro Devices is a good long-term buy. The “Mad Money” host credited the company’s CEO, Lisa Su, for its revival. “I think it’s fair to say that Su saved AMD from the garbage heap and brought it back to life by fixing the balance sheet and…
[ad_1] Despite a first quarter earnings beat that sent shares flying, Intel executives faced an intense line of questioning on a call with investors following the report. The main concern on all of their minds: 10-nanometer chip delays. “We think we’ve bit off a little too much in this case,” Swan said on the call.…
[ad_1] Bluetooth and smart speakers are a dime a dozen these days, and many of them aren’t bad — so what it often comes down to is style. Native Union has my number with its latest device, which accentuates the classic bookcase speaker look with a tech-heavy back end and brass volume knob. It’s a…
[ad_1] There’s a famous quote from Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos which appears all over the internet. It apparently stems from a 2001 earnings call, and was popularized by journalist Brad Stone’s book on Amazon, “The Everything Store.” Bezos said, “There are two kinds of retailers: those folks who work to figure how to charge more,…
[ad_1] While Amazon’s ad business is still tiny compared to Google and Facebook, which collectively account for more than half of the digital advertising market, it’s on track to become the third largest ad player in the U.S. by 2020, according to eMarketer. “So far, it’s been conservative in its ad load,” Monica Peart, eMarketer’s…
[ad_1] Richard Lautens | Toronto Star | Getty Images Amazon fulfillment center in Brampton, Ontario. Amazon is increasingly going global, and it’s taking sellers along for the ride. In its first-quarter earnings report on Thursday, Amazon said that global sellers accounted for 25 percent of third-party sales on the site last year. That’s growth of…
[ad_1] It’s not just trade and tariffs that are moving the market. CNBC’s Jim Cramer said Thursday’s market rally was led by big technology companies. “It’s what can launch a real rally,” the host of “Mad Money” said Thursday. “There’s no doubt about it: [Thursday’s rally] was led by FANG,” he said. “Facebook gave you…
[ad_1] The Washington Post | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has not dared to crack the South Korean market, where Coupang is the fastest-growing and best financed e-commerce site of all time. Amazon is increasing the price of its Prime membership from $99 to $119 starting on May 11. The company just announced the…
[ad_1] Amazon and the National Football League have once again reached a deal to allow Prime members to stream Thursday Night Football games for the next two seasons. This is the second year Amazon has won a contract with the NFL, reportedly paying $50 million to stream the ten Thursday night games last season, beating…
[ad_1] Square announced an agreement on Thursday to buy website-building company Weebly for $365 million. The cash-and-stock deal will allow small business customers to use both Weebly and Square to easily build websites and online stores, the companies said. Weebly is a website-building service, similar to Squarespace or WordPress, and was backed by Sequoia, Tencent…
[ad_1] “I definitely think it has the possibility of pushing us over the tipping point,” said Felicia Griffin, executive director of United for a New Economy, a Colorado nonprofit that has opposed the Amazon project. Some potential locations would be less severely affected. Atlanta and Chicago, big cities that have made it relatively easy to…
[ad_1] Teradyne, a prosaic-sounding but flush company that provides automated testing equipment for industrial applications, has acquired the Danish robotics company MiR for an eye-popping $148 million, with $124 million on the table after meeting performance goals. MiR, which despite the lowercase “i” stands for Mobile Industrial Robots, does what you might guess. Founded in…
[ad_1] The excitement around 5G is palpable at the Brooklyn 5G Summit this week, and for good reason. Once the province of academic engineers, there is increasingly a consensus emerging among technology leaders that millimeter-wave technology is ready for prime time. Yet, there remain large barriers to a successful rollout, particularly at the local government…
[ad_1] The Washington Post | Getty Images Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has not dared to crack the South Korean market, where Coupang is the fastest-growing and best financed e-commerce site of all time. Amazon is scheduled to report its first-quarter earnings results on Thursday after the bell. Here are the most important numbers: Revenue: $49.78…
[ad_1] GoPro founder Nick Woodman was the highest paid chief executive in the US in 2014, after receiving a bundle of stock worth $285 million when the action-camera maker he founded went public. This year, he will receive no more than $1, after GoPro’s board slashed his salary and stripped him of his bonuses. GoPro’s…
[ad_1] Ben Fritz covers Hollywood and recently wrote “The Big Picture: The Fight for the Future of Movies.” In it, he questions what the future of Hollywood will look like facing the pressures from Amazon, Netflix and Apple. I spoke to him recently about how Hollywood is reshaping itself to compete against Netflix, which studios…
[ad_1] The ride-hailing service Uber is suspending operations in Vienna after an Austrian court issued a temporary injunction against it on Wednesday. The case is one in a series of battles that taxi operators have waged across Europe against the US company that they accuse of undermining their businesses. “We respect the court’s decision and are…
[ad_1] So is it really the end of cars in North America? From the way Detroit’s major executives are talking, it would seem so. Ford said on Wednesday it will only offer two new cars in North America over the coming years — its iconic Mustang, and the Focus Active, a rugged-looking hatchback that has…
[ad_1] Amazon has undoubtedly made our lives a little easier by letting Alexa hear what we need – whether it’s the latest news headlines or weather updates, or some random jokes – and respond accordingly. But the ability to listen to our words could become dangerous if it works in an always-on mode. This is…
[ad_1] Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf said China-U.S. tensions are stalling big deals, but that could change in time to finalize an NXP tie-up. “This is not a great environment for big deals to get done at this time,” Mollenkopf told CNBC’s “Squawk on the Street” Thursday. “But in 90 days, it can be very, very…
[ad_1] As Dropbox looks to woo larger and larger businesses with its strategy of building simpler collaboration tools than what’s on the market, it’s making some moves in its online document tool Paper to further reduce that friction today. Dropbox said it was rolling out a new tool for Dropbox Paper that allows users to…
[ad_1] YouTube is overhauling its kid-focused video app to give parents the option of letting humans, not computer algorithms, select what shows their children can watch. The updates that begin rolling out Thursday are a response to complaints that the YouTube Kids app has repeatedly failed to filter out disturbing content. Google-owned YouTube launched the…
[ad_1] It appears all-is-forgotten on Wall Street concerning Facebook‘s data leak scandal that caused the stock to lose billions of dollars in market value, CNBC’s Jim Cramer said on Thursday. In addition to reporting late Wednesday quarterly earnings and revenue that blew expectations, the company announced an additional $9 billion stock buyback. “When you get…
[ad_1] Samsung’s latest earnings report is a succinct lesson in hoping for the best and preparing for the worst. The actual news here is pretty positive, as the company reports a record operating profit, courtesy of high demand for its components and flagship handsets. But a statement tied to the news mentions “slow demand” no…
[ad_1] Chetan Bhagat, one of the most successful English language authors in India, has broken ties with his erstwhile publisher Rupa, and moved to Amazon Publishing. It’s a major shakeup in the world of publishing of course, but if you’ve been keeping an eye on what’s happening with the e-commerce giant, then you know it’s…
[ad_1] Amazon‘s Alexa voice assistant will soon have a memory of its own. Amazon’s director of applied science and Alexa Machine Learning Ruhi Sarikaya discussed in a blog post several new features coming to Alexa, including smarter skills, contextual conversations and even memory. Sarikaya said that Alexa’s memory will be basic at first: You might…
[ad_1] Image and video sharing platform Snapchat announced the launch of ‘Snappables’, a new range of Lenses for sharing experiences and playing augmented reality (AR) games. Separately, Snapchat is reportedly set to start testing non-skippable advertisements from next month, while it has also been spotted testing a new Stories interface. “Today, we’re introducing Snappables –…
[ad_1] Apple’s third-quarter financial results will significantly disappoint Wall Street expectations due to weak iPhone sales, according to a Bernstein analyst. The firm predicts the smartphone maker will forecast revenue in the range of $47 billion to $49 billion for its June quarter versus the analyst average of $51.9 billion when it reports financial results…
[ad_1] The headphone jack could still have a future in an iPhone. These leaked pics show an iPhone SE 2 with a glass back and headphone jack. Like the current iPhone SE, the design seems to be a take on the classic iPhone 5. I dig it. The leak also states the upcoming device sports…
[ad_1] In an effort to mentor emerging start-ups, Google India hosted a four-day boot camp for the first 10 Indian startups as part of its ‘Solve for India’ programme. Launched last year as an India-only pilot for mentorship by Google Developers’ “Launchpad” team, ‘Solve for India’ focuses on bringing the best of Google expertise to…
[ad_1] Apple CEO Tim Cook was in Washington D.C. on Wednesday, in a meeting the president said would cover trade, presumably including trade with China. But the first topic on the agenda was tax cuts, according to Larry Kudlow, director of the National Economic Council. “He loves the tax cut and tax reform,” Kudlow said…
[ad_1] While the ONE Smart Keyboard Pro doesn’t have a sweet demo tune nor can it play barking dog Jingle Bells without some help, it can teach you or your kids how to play piano. The elegant keyboard has 88 weighted keys that simulate a true mechanical piano and connects to your phone so you…
[ad_1] Google Arts & Culture has partnered with the Ministry of Tourism to unveil a 360-degree virtual reality video for the global ‘Incredible India’ tourism campaign. As part of the partnership, Google Arts & Culture will provide users with an immersive 360-degree view (seen below) of India’s heritage, festivity, spirituality and adventure. The video showcases…
[ad_1] “We’re very happy with how the quarter went and how the year started. For us it’s about our long term strategy paying off,” Su said. “We saw a nice ramp across our product lines across our PC, gaming and data center product lines.” “Gaming is a great market, there are lots and lots of…
[ad_1] The J-deite RIDE transformers from a vehicle to a robot just like the Megazord from Voltron. Specific information about the creation is a bit sketchy but the YouTube channel states it’s an electric vehicle and show the driver and passenger staying in their seat as it changes forms. It can even walk. The whole…
[ad_1] As a result of the overwhelming response, Zomato Gold is now set to become invite-only, the company has announced. Zomato says it is opening the Zomato Gold programme for public purchase one last time on Friday, April 27. After this date, it will be available as an invite-only membership club. To offer complimentary meals…
[ad_1] Fabrice Coffrini | AFP | Getty Images Sheryl Sandberg, Chief Operating Officer of Facebook Facebook for weeks has had to defend its business model to lawmakers, investors and users — insisting that selling targeted ads based on sometimes sensitive user information is the only way to keep the site free and globally accessible. That…
[ad_1] Photos, not just video. No yellow ring alerting people to the camera. Underwater-capable. Classier colors with lighter lenses. Prescription options. Faster syncing. And a much slimmer frame and charging case. Snapchat fixed the biggest pain points of its Spectacles camera sunglasses with V2, which launch today for $150. The company only sold 220,000 pairs…
[ad_1] Uber on Thursday plans to announce changes to how it rewards cyber researchers who report flaws in its software, a company executive told Reuters, as part of the ride-hailing firm’s response to concerns raised about the way it handled a data breach in 2016. Among the changes to Uber Technologies‘s so-called bug bounty program…
[ad_1] Brendan McDermid | Reuters A woman wears Snapchat’s Spectacles on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange during the company’s initial public offering in New York, March 2, 2017. Snapchat is launching an updated version of Spectacles, its glasses with an embedded camera, and says its first version of the smart glasses sold…
[ad_1] Online search engine Google is the most trusted Internet brand in India, followed by Facebook, a report said on Wednesday. “With 1.2 trillion searches per year, it (Google) has become the first port of call for all things on the Internet,” the TRA Brand Trust Report 2018 said. It further said: “Facebook, ranked second…
[ad_1] The electric car company had its first profitable quarter in 2013. That wouldn’t happen again until 2016. Meanwhile, he continued to add new projects to his plate. Toward the end of 2015, he co-founded a research group called OpenAI, which was meant to research and promote artificial intelligence projects to benefit all of mankind.…
[ad_1] Analysts have long-warned of a growth crunch in China’s smartphone space, and it’s looking like that’s very much the case right now. China’s smartphone growth has been the feel-good story for domestic OEMs who have clocked impressive figures as the billion-plus population has rushed online via mobile devices. However, the market reached saturation point…
[ad_1] Over 3 million people are actively using WhatsApp Business app, says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. He said this during the social media giant’s Q1 2018 earnings call, Venture Beat reported late on Wednesday. WhatsApp Business, a standalone app separate from the other version of WhatsApp used by 1.5 billion people, was launched in January…
[ad_1] Facebook did not read the terms and services of the app that improperly shared user data with Cambridge Analytica, the company’s chief technology officer said Thursday. “We require that people have a terms and conditions and we have an automated check there at the time — this was in 2014, maybe earlier,” Mike Schroepfer…
[ad_1] Every time I talk to someone about the viability of blockchain, I get challenged to show a real project beyond the obvious bitcoin use case. IBM has been working to build large enterprise projects blockchain and today they offered an irrefutable example that they have dubbed TrustChain, a blockchain that proves the provenance of jewelry…
[ad_1] Lenovo has just unveiled a whole new line of ThinkPad business laptops in India, upgrading its offerings with 8th Gen Intel Core processors and other improvements. The range extends from the entry-level affordable L-series, to the mainstream T-series, the compact X-series, and the flagship thin-and-light X1 Carbon. Lenovo has injected a bit of flair…
[ad_1] The main event on the earnings calendar right now is Amazon‘s report, due out after the bell on Thursday. I’m watching several key components of its report. The revelation that the company now has 100 million Amazon Prime members globally was a huge boost for the stock last week, but traders will now want…
[ad_1] The US Justice Department has joined two other agencies probing Huawei Technologies for possible violations of sanctions banning sales to Iran, according to two people familiar with the matter. Agents from the FBI, which is overseen by the Justice Department, have been looking into transactions by the Shenzhen, China-based mobile and telecommunications giant, the people…
[ad_1] WaveOptics’ designs along with EV’s machines will develop lenses called “waveguides.” The machines could be put in a company’s existing factories with a lead time of about 4 months. To date, the smart glasses market has been fraught with clunky, expensive products and fierce competition. Snap CEO Evan Spiegel told Wired this week that…
[ad_1] Qualcomm’s earnings call on Wednesday showed just how far the company is willing to go to preserve one of its core business practices of taking a cut of the selling price of phones. The San Diego-based chipmaker posted quarterly profit and revenue that topped Wall Street forecasts, suggesting that a slowdown in the global…
[ad_1] Salwan Georges | The Washington Post | Getty Images Tesla’s new Model 3 at the Tesla store in Washington, D.C. Tesla said on Thursday Jim Keller, the head of its low-voltage hardware, Autopilot software and infotainment, is leaving the automaker to focus on microprocessor engineering with another company. Pete Bannon, who has been with…
[ad_1] Dell has announced a slew of updates to its professional PC lineup. It has unveiled new versions of the Dell Latitude, OptiPlex, Dell Precision, and P-Series workstations. Dell says its updated commercial lineup features advances in smart design, productivity, and sustainability apart from being the “world’s most secure and manageable commercial PCs”. The Dell…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics posted record first-quarter profits on Thursday, but warned about a slowdown in its display panel segment. That could be bad news for Apple’s iPhone X. “Generating overall earnings growth across the company will be a challenge due to weakness in the display panel segment and a decline in profitability in the mobile…
[ad_1] Federal prosecutors in Brazil asked a court on Wednesday to force Microsoft to change its default installation process for Windows 10, which they said violated several local laws by collecting user data without their “express consent.” Microsoft has faced criticism in the European Union and elsewhere about the installation settings of Windows 10 and users’…
[ad_1] Japan’s Nintendo Co Ltd said on Thursday it expects operating profit to rise 26.7 percent in the year through March to a nine-year high, as its Switch games console maintains sales momentum in its second year. Nintendo estimated profit to reach 225 billion yen ($2.06 billion) from 177.56 billion yen a year prior. If…
[ad_1] US chipmaker Qualcomm’s quarterly profit and revenue topped Wall Street forecasts, suggesting that a slowdown in the global smartphone business might be less severe than feared after a string of weak forecasts from suppliers. The results announced in Qualcomm’s smartphone chip business contrasted to those from major mobile phone components makers in Asia, including TSMC and SK…
[ad_1] China’s smartphone sales saw a record decline in the first quarter of 2018, according to a new report by independent analyst company Canalys. According to the report published Thursday, smartphone shipments in China saw a 21 percent decline annually to 91 million units, with eight of the top 10 vendors experiencing a fall in…
[ad_1] President Donald Trump and two top aides talked about trade issues with Apple chief Tim Cook on Wednesday as the White House prepares to try to avert a trade war with China, a manufacturing hub for the iPhone maker. Cook, who has urged calm during the recent flare in US trade tensions with China, held private…
[ad_1] Twitter fell more than 5 percent Wednesday morning after an earnings beat that initially sent shares as high as 13 percent in premarket trading. The social media company beat on both the top and bottom lines in the first quarter, and shares opened 2.9 percent up at $31.35 after trading as high as $34…
[ad_1] Uber will no longer take minority stakes in rival ride-hailing companies globally, a top executive at the company told CNBC on Wednesday, potentially signaling an end to its retreat from markets outside of the United States. The company recently sold its Southeast Asia business to Singapore-based rival Grab in exchange for a 27.5 percent…
[ad_1] Gmail on Wednesday received its first major redesign after five long years. Apart from the design overhaul, Google has added a ton of functionalities to both the Web as well as its mobile interface. Email shortcuts, reply ‘nudges’, smart reply, native offline mode, are only some of the features that Google has included in…
[ad_1] Fintech firm Revolut raised $250 million bringing its valuation to $1.7 billion, the company said Thursday. The London-based firm provides a debit card that allows people to spend money in 150 currencies with no fees at a real-time exchange rate. It has since expanded services to offer a current account, cryptocurrency trading and insurance.…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics said weakness in the global smartphone market would slow earnings growth, as it reported record quarterly profit on Thursday thanks to strong demand for semiconductors used in servers. The world’s biggest maker of memory chips, smartphones and television sets also flagged softer demand for smartphone OLED panels as a challenge for the…
[ad_1] Talk of an imminent Tesla move into the Chinese electric vehicle market has grown with Beijing’s removal of foreign ownership caps, but the American company’s arrival will be welcomed, according to the president of a Chinese electric vehicle start-up. “Tesla reminds me of Apple. It educated the high-end market for China, but it also…
[ad_1] When Jim Hackett took over as chief executive of Ford Motor, he was charged with revitalizing a company suffering from slumping profits, rising costs and an uncertain outlook. In the 11 months since then, Mr. Hackett has shuffled Ford’s executive ranks and outlined plans to introduce new sport-utility vehicles and electric cars. Other steps…
[ad_1] I dug through my archive of data and found that Apple mostly keeps tabs on my interactions with the App Store and iTunes. It has a list of every single app, song, book, music video and in-app purchase I’ve made on my Apple devices dating all the way back to 2010. There’s also a…
[ad_1] YouTube is finally giving parents that use its “Kids” app more control over the videos their little ones can stream. After several months of content controversy, the Google-owned video platform has announced new features that allow parents to create a white-listed, non-algorithmic version of its Kids app. Starting this week, parents will be able…
[ad_1] “Apple weakness is the likely culprit for the soft 2Q guide,” analyst Weston Twigg wrote in a note to clients Tuesday. “The key point of debate was whether the soft demand for Apple phones was already incorporated into the full-year SoC test outlook provided last quarter; it doesn’t appear that it was.” In similar…
[ad_1] Content is still king. That’s the message from media executives at the 2018 APOS summit, in Bali, but it’s not platforms such as Netflix or YouTube that have everyone talking this year. It was the telecommunications companies like Singapore’s Singtel, the Philippines’ Globe Telecom and Australia’s Optus. In some ways, it seemed those firms…
[ad_1] Oceanic researchers are turning to autonomous sea drones to help them forecast extreme weather and understand the world’s changing weather patterns. The 23-foot-long drones are made by Bay Area start-up Saildrone. Each Saildrone can be outfitted with a number of different sensors that it uses to gather and transmit real-time measurements on metrics including…
[ad_1] Artificial intelligence and the application of it across nearly every aspect of our lives is shaping up to be one of the major step changes of our modern society. Today, a startup that wants to help other companies capitalise on AI’s advances is announcing funding and emerging from stealth mode. Allegro.AI, which has built…
[ad_1] It’s still early, but Wednesday’s report showed that advertisers weren’t too deterred by the latest negative press about Facebook: Ad revenue jumped 50 percent from the year-ago period. The average revenue per user hit $5.53, better than the $5.35 expected by analysts surveyed by StreetAccount. Facebook’s financial results for the quarter that ended March…
[ad_1] AT&T reported first-quarter results that missed estimates, sending its shares down nearly 4 percent in extended trading on Wednesday, as the biggest pay-TV provider in the U.S. lost subscribers to its satellite and U-verse services. Here are the results: — Earnings: 85 cents per share, vs 87 cents per share expected — Revenue: $38.04…
[ad_1] Facebook’s daily active users in North America rose slightly last quarter to 185 million, a sign that the company’s News Feed algorithm tweaks and data privacy issues may not have deterred consumers. The company posted its latest quarterly earnings on Wednesday after the bell. Its new DAU figures are up from 184 million in…
[ad_1] Alexa can do just about everything if you ask it the right question in the right way. Today, it’s gaining a new skill, letting you move through artwork on the Meural Canvas digital artwork frame. The company’s $595 device lets you browse artwork from new and emerging artists as well as publicly available classics. One…
[ad_1] Jim Cramer tells investors that market swings could be a chance to reevaluate their portfolios, but not buy more. [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] The FDA has its eye on Juul Labs, the e-cigarette company that has captured nearly half of the $2 billion e-cig market. Yesterday, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb announced a new initiative called the Youth Tobacco Prevention Plan. While the agency is focused on making sure kids don’t have easy…
[ad_1] By contrast, Alphabet’s cash during that stretch has increased 37 percent to $102.9 billion, while Apple’s has jumped 32 percent to $285.1 billion. Facebook shares climbed in extended trading on Wednesday after earnings and revenue sailed past analysts’ estimates. The company is proving that even with the Cambridge Analytica scandal and concerns over user…
[ad_1] A Facebook notification on Gary Bernhardt’s phone woke him up one night last November with incredible news: a message from Mark Zuckerberg himself, saying that he had won $750,000 in the Facebook lottery. “I got all excited. Wouldn’t you?” said Mr. Bernhardt, 67, a retired forklift driver and Army veteran in Ham Lake, Minn.…
[ad_1] Amongst massive criticism over data privacy, Facebook showed the resiliency of its advertising machine by beating Wall Street’s $11.41 billion revenue estimate in its Q1 2018 earnings report by raking in $11.97 billion in revenue with $1.69 EPS compared to the $1.35 estimate. Facebook added 48 million daily active users to hit 1.449 billion,…
[ad_1] AMD shares jumped 9 percent on Wednesday after the chipmaker reported better-than-expected first quarter results. Earnings: 11 cents per share, excluding certain items, vs. 9 cents per share as expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. Revenue: $1.65 billion vs. $1.57 billion as expected by analysts, according to Thomson Reuters. AMD also provided a…
[ad_1] Qualcomm reported quarterly earnings that beat analysts’ expectations on Wednesday. Shares of the semiconductor company gained close to 2 percent after the announcement. Here’s how the company did compared with what Wall Street expected: Earnings: 80 cents per share vs. 70 cents per share forecast by Thomson Reuters Qualcomm has been under pressure in…
[ad_1] Dolo is the kindness of strangers as an app. Where’s the prettiest place in the park? What’s the best thing on the menu? How do I skip the line? Dolo lets you leave helpful suggestions for anyone nearby. The new social app launches out of beta today to augment the world with serendipitous tips…
[ad_1] Earnings: 41 cents per share, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $37.2 billion, according to Thomson Reuters Ford has not been able to control costs as well as its larger rival, General Motors, and has struggled to deliver comparable profit growth. The company’s international operations are floundering as well. Last year, Ford lost money in…
[ad_1] As tighter privacy regulations loom in Europe, American tech companies are trying to curry favor with lawmakers in the U.S. But Twitter stands to benefit from stricter privacy regulations by making it “distinct from the competitive landscape,” according to former Twitter CEO Dick Costolo. “For years, marketers and others have thought that Twitter is…
[ad_1] Google announced a number of updates to its cloud-based database services today. For the most part, we’re not talking about any groundbreaking new products here, but all of these updates address specific pain points that enterprises suffer when they move to the cloud. As Google Director of Product Management Dominic Preuss told me ahead…
[ad_1] LendingClub plunged more than 15 percent on Wednesday after the Federal Trade Commission alleged that the online lender “deceived customers” on its fee structure. LendingClub sold users on loans with “no hidden fees,” but actually collected “hundreds or even thousands of dollars in hidden up-front fees from the loans,” the agency said in a…
[ad_1] If your company lets you expense the nicest hotel when you travel, why wouldn’t you? But what if you got to split the savings with your employer by selecting a less expensive hotel? A New York-based startup called Rocketrip believes most employees will opt to save companies money if they are incentivized to do so. It’s…
[ad_1] A company spokesperson told Recode, “We are always listening to our community and will continue to test updates that we hope will give Snapchatters the best possible experience on our platform.” Some celebrities have been critical of the redesign, which separated friend content from other types of snaps. Kylie Jenner said in February she…
[ad_1] Gfycat is already a pretty popular host for lots of content like short clips from shows and movies, but there’s also a pretty substantial store of content centered around gaming — which is why the company is starting to put some extra focus on it. Gfycat, which is centered around creator tools to make…
[ad_1] Michael Nagle | Bloomberg | Getty Images A person holds up a pair of Snapchat Spectacles by Snap Inc. on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) during the company’s initial public offering (IPO) in New York, March 2, 2017. Snap will unveil a new version of its Spectacles smart glasses later…
[ad_1] Facebook is working to stop bad content from showing up on the website, but the company’s head of global policy said it helps if users provide context to anything that might be considered offensive. “That’s why we say if you’re using, for instance, an ethnic slur to say ‘we shouldn’t be using this word’…
[ad_1] Dropbox is a critically important tool for more than 500 million people. The company launched back in 2007 and founder and CEO Drew Houston has spent the last decade growing Dropbox to the behemoth it is today. During that time, Houston has made some tough decisions. A few years ago, Houston decided to move…
[ad_1] A lot of companies like to claim their offices are personalized to their staff, but at Ansarada they’ve taken the idea one step further: You’ll need your fingerprint at the ready to get through the door. Biometric ID passes are just one of several high-tech features built into the Australian data firm’s Sydney headquarters…
[ad_1] Snapchat wants to let you play its augmented reality Lenses, not just play dress-up. Today it launched Snappables — AR games that use your touch, motion, and facial expressions to compete for high scores in literal head-to-head multiplayer matchups. Snappables live alongside Snapchat’s other lenses and are rolling out globally this week. New games…
[ad_1] Opera on Tuesday announced two new products – a new mobile browser called Opera Touch and an updated Opera browser for desktops. Opera says the Touch browser has been designed from the ground up and it can connect with the updated Opera PC browser without setting up a password or login. The highlight of…
[ad_1] The Alexa virtual assistant is becoming a defacto servant, a go-to intimate service to do small things (“Alexa – set the timer for 10 minutes”) to bigger things (“Alexa – text Mark and tell him I don’t approve the designs and set up a calendar meeting for us in two hours”). We are depending…
[ad_1] Amazon on Wednesday announced the launch of its latest Echo Dot Kids Edition, an Alexa-based smart speaker that has been created with kids in mind. Echo Dot Kids Edition, which comes with a “kid-friendly” case is capable of playing “age-appropriate” music, answering questions, telling stories, and managing other minor-focused features. Priced at $79.99 (roughly…
[ad_1] While current satellites are able to share visuals of Earth, they take “many minutes, hours and even days” to deliver images, according to the EarthNow website. “With EarthNow’s constellation of satellites, you will see events unfold as they happen,” says Hannigan. Images will be available to users in as little as one second, says…
[ad_1] Photo Credit: Lucan/ Twitter Microsoft is reportedly planning a new edition of Windows 10, apparently called ‘Windows 10 Lean’. It is 2GB smaller in size compared to a regular edition of Windows 10 such as the Windows 10 Pro. The Lean edition is said to have been designed for devices with less storage and…
[ad_1] Once the space matures, Nasdaq is open to becoming a platform for trading cryptocurrencies like bitcoin, according to the company’s CEO. “Certainly Nasdaq would consider becoming a crypto exchange over time,” Nasdaq CEO Adena Friedman told CNBC’s Squawk Box Wednesday. “If we do look at it and say ‘it’s time, people are ready for…
[ad_1] Samsung Electronics on Wednesday launched the 970 Pro and Evo third generation industry-leading consumer solid state drive (SSD) line-up in the Indian market. The new generation of SSDs is aimed at tech enthusiasts, professionals, gamers, videographers, VFX designers. The 970 Evo will come in 250GB, 500GB, 1TB and 2TB capacities, and 970 Pro will…
[ad_1] What’s more, with known reputation scores and collective action, it is unlikely that a “favorite of the boss” will get the accolades in front of a client when everyone else knows that he did nothing of value. Lastly, people in need of assistance will have the opportunity to select from a known pool of…
[ad_1] Gmail, on Wednesday, got a much-awaited design refresh after five long years. However, design is not the only thing new in the “new” Gmail; a ton of functionality has been added to both the web as as well mobile interface. These include several AI-based features including Smart Reply, email snoozing, and nudging recepients to…
[ad_1] The recent decline in Alphabet shares is a great buying opportunity, according to one Wall Street firm. Stifel raised its rating for Alphabet shares to buy from hold, citing its new growth opportunities including cloud computing. Alphabet shares declined 4.8 percent Tuesday, a day after it reported its first-quarter earnings results. Analysts lowered profit…
[ad_1] If you believe blockchains will proliferate in the coming years, it stands to reason that you will need some sort of mechanism to move information between them, a network of blockchains with bridges and processes for sharing information between entities. That is exactly what The Aion Network is providing with a new blockchain network…
[ad_1] Amazon’s smart voice assistant, Alexa, is also being tweaked for children. It’s a clear effort by Amazon to get kids using its voice assistant instead of the Google Assistant or Apple‘s Siri. It’s similar to the Alexa you’re used to, but replies differently and delivers child-friendly content. If you ask a regular Echo how…
[ad_1] Indian ride-hailing firm Jugnoo plans to enter the Singapore market next month, its chief executive said on Wednesday, joining other companies eyeing the city-state as Uber Technologies prepares to leave. Uber’s app will continue to operate in Singapore until May 7, although the US company has shut down in the rest of Southeast Asia after…
[ad_1] Twitter shares were up as high as 13 percent before paring gains after the company reported revenue and earnings that beat expectations Wednesday. Here are the first-quarter earnings and revenue: Earnings per share: 16 cents vs. 12 cents, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate Revenue: $655 million vs. $608 million, according to a…
[ad_1] Xiaomi, the Chinese smartphone maker tipped for a public listing this year, has made a unique pledge: if it makes too much money, it’ll give a chunk of its profits back to its customers. Yes, that’s right. The company said today it will forever limit the net profit margins after tax for smartphones, smart…
[ad_1] Google on Wednesday announced the launch of a new standalone Tasks app that will include a redesigned interface for the Web, along with new mobile apps. While the app is already live on Play Store (Android 4.1 and up), there is no update on an iOS app. The new Tasks app can be used…
[ad_1] The country’s supreme leader has himself offered his support by closing down his account on Telegram and telling followers to sign up to the Iranian-produced service. Iranians currently prefer to use the Telegram app, but authorities have reportedly blamed its use for anti-establishment protests in the country. Telegram was banned recently in Russia after…
[ad_1] Google Play Music is reportedly set to be replaced by YouTube Remix, a service that is rumoured to launch later this year. As per a report, YouTube Remix will replace Google Play Music as the company’s default music player. Additionally, it is said that users on the latter will be forced to switch to…
[ad_1] David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images Brian Roberts, chairman and chief executive officer of Comcast Corp. Comcast is slated to report first-quarter earnings before the bell on Wednesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects: Earnings per share: 59 cents, according to Thomson Reuters Revenue: $22.744 billion, according to Thomson Reuters Net increase of…
[ad_1] Five months after a Radio-Canada/CBC investigation revealed that the country’s major mobile networks are vulnerable to hacking and fraud, documents obtained through Access to Information show that the agency responsible for the security of the federal government’s networks withheld some information from the public at the time. Using only the cellphone number of MP Matthew Dubé…
[ad_1] Kimberly White | Bloomberg | Getty Images Kevin Martin, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, and now interim head of U.S. public policy for Facebook. Facebook is shuffling around its senior leadership in the wake of increased regulatory scrutiny following the Cambridge Analytica data scandal. Erin Egan, the social network’s chief privacy officer,…
[ad_1] Opera today announced a new mobile browser, Opera Touch, that shows that there’s still plenty of room for a competitor in the mobile browsing world. Opera Touch takes some ideas from the company’s experimental Opera Neon desktop browser and packages it into a highly usable package for Android, with an iOS version coming soon.…
[ad_1] Ahmed Mansoor has been threatened, spied on, and beaten — all payback, the human rights activist believes, for his outspoken criticism of the United Arab Emirates’ numerous human rights violations, and its soaring crackdowns on dissent. His activism ended with his arrest — but started, he has said, with the censorship of his popular…
[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. Apple CEO Tim Cook will meet President Donald Trump Wednesday, according to an official schedule released by the…
[ad_1] Gmail is also getting smarter, particularly in its companion mobile apps. Instead of getting a notification every time a new email hits your inbox, you can now tell your Gmail app to ping you only for the most important 3 percent of your incoming messages. (Google decides what it thinks those most important emails…
[ad_1] Spotify on Tuesday announced a major expansion of its free service, hoping that a more option-rich platform will boost its ambitions to make music streaming even bigger worldwide. Weeks after its successful listing on the New York Stock Exchange, the leading streaming company said it saw wide possibilities to grow and identified its free,…
[ad_1] What makes the Type 001A significant is the fact that “it’s a part of Beijing’s efforts to build a coherent carrier battle group,” said Collin Koh Swee Lean, a research fellow specializing in maritime security at Singapore’s Nanyang Technological University. The country’s goal is for the Type 001A and Liaoning to sail with accompanying…
[ad_1] Apple has released iOS 11.3.1 that doesn’t bring any fresh features but addresses an issue that was making the touch functionality of some iPhone 8 devices unresponsive if they use an aftermarket display panel. The issue surfaced with the iOS 11.3 update that was released last month. The new iOS update is available for…
[ad_1] Global markets have been jittery over the last 24 hours, after the U.S. 10-year Treasury yield topped 3 percent on Tuesday — the first time it has done in more than four years. Investors around the world have been fixated on the 10-year note, with concerns looming that hitting the 3 percent barrier could…
[ad_1] Microsoft Corp is not auditing how its partner KPMG cracks down on illegal use of Microsoft software in India, the companies said in a joint statement on Tuesday. The denial comes after a prior claim made by an executive of the US technology giant following a client complaint in March. Microsoft runs a global “software…
[ad_1] If Tesla moves its production facilities to China, it could help the entire electric vehicle (EV) market there grow bigger, according to the founder of a Chinese EV start-up. “I think Tesla, a very good brand in the electric vehicle market, coming into China actually helps the whole electric vehicle market become bigger and…
[ad_1] WhatsApp, the popular messaging service owned by Facebook, is raising its minimum age from 13 to 16 in Europe to help it comply with new data privacy rules coming into force next month. WhatsApp will ask European users to confirm they are at least 16 years old when they are prompted to agree new…
[ad_1] Paul Ratje | The Washington Post | Getty Images A bitcoin mine near Kongyuxiang, Sichuan, China on August 12, 2016. Police in the north China city of Tianjin confiscated 600 computers used to mine bitcoin cryptocurrency after the local power grid operator reported abnormal electricity usage, Xinhua reported Wednesday. “Eight high-power fans were also…
[ad_1] Source: Waymo Jaguar’s I-Pace SUV, modified with self-driving technology, will be used in Waymo’s ride-hailing fleet. “If we work together, also with the right cybersecurity system, then autonomous can be the future technology,” he added, noting that drivers are responsible for around 90 percent of road accidents globally. Besides autonomous cars, more electric vehicles…
[ad_1] IPhone’s falling sales will hurt a key Apple supplier, according to a Wall Street firm. Mizuho Securities lowered its rating to neutral from buy for Skyworks Solutions shares, predicting the chipmaker will face pricing pressure later this year. The supplier manufactures radio frequency semiconductors, which enable the ability of smartphones to communicate with wireless…
[ad_1] With the Chinese government recently announcing plans to allow full foreign ownership in its car industry starting with “new energy vehicles” at the end of 2018, one Chinese electric automaker is welcoming the increased competition. Speaking with CNBC’s Nancy Hungerford, Lihong Qin, co-founder and president of Chinese automobile start-up Nio said: “We welcome big…
[ad_1] U.S. government regulation of social media platforms could end up hurting small businesses and the U.S. economy, “Shark Tank” investor Kevin O’Leary warned on Tuesday. “All of these businesses that are sitting at $5 million to $10 million in sales can’t live or acquire customers without social media platforms,” the chairman of O’Shares Investments…
[ad_1] Alphabet shed nearly 5 percent Tuesday after reporting first quarter earnings Monday, as Wall Street analysts warned of a less profitable near-term for the tech giant. Shares closed at $1022.64 after hitting an intraday low of $1012.86. Google tripled its capital expenditures in the first quarter, highlighting investment in facilities and data centers. Analysts…
[ad_1] Google has so far avoided deep scrutiny over data privacy, and the technology giant has Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg to thank for that, according to Scott Galloway, NYU Stern professor of marketing. “The best thing that happened to Google was this incredibly tone-deaf 33-year-old CEO named Mark Zuckerberg,” Galloway said on CNBC’s “Squawk Alley.”…
[ad_1] On the eve of Twitter next quarterly report, investors are waiting to see if the company will report its second profitable quarter in a row. Here are the consensus estimates for the company’s first-quarter earnings report on Wednesday: Estimated earnings per share: 12 cents, according to a Thomson Reuters consensus estimate Estimated revenue: $606.9…
[ad_1] Apple is also facing an antitrust probe in Europe, with EU officials announcing Monday they’ve launched an investigation into Apple’s proposed acquisition of music recognition app Shazam. In midafternoon trading Tuesday, Apple was at $162.57 a share, down 1.6 percent. At its lowest point Tuesday, Apple was trading nearly 4 percent down in 2018…
[ad_1] It’s going down, and this time he’s not yelling “timber.” On Tuesday three-time Grammy award-winning artist and serial entrepreneur Armando “Pitbull” Perez announced the launch of his latest venture, an international blockchain coding competition aimed at disrupting the current state of the music industry. Smackathon, a name derived from the popular computer programming event…
[ad_1] Bitcoin rose to its highest level in more than a month as the broader U.S. financial markets sold off Tuesday. The digital currency was trading near $9,436 as of 4:21 p.m. ET, and has jumped nearly 20 percent in the past week, according to data from Coindesk. Bitcoin is coming off of its worst…
[ad_1] As the vacation rental sector heats up — with Airbnb making even more moves to expand its portfolio of services to include multiple tiers of rentals — there’s going to be more and more of a need for people who manage a large number of properties. Guesty is one service that aims to do…
[ad_1] As a part of Sweden’s plan to have a fossil fuel-free transportation system by 2030, the government just completed part of a road near Stockholm that charges electric vehicles as they drive on it. The project — called eRoadArlanda — uses technology similar to overhead cables that charge electric buses and trolleys, but instead…
[ad_1] It was a rough day for growth technology investors. So-called FANG stocks lost $86.6 billion in stock value Tuesday. FANG stocks are a basket of high-growth technology stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet (formerly known as Google) that have led the bull run of the last 9 years. Facebook, Amazon, Netflix and Alphabet…
[ad_1] Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos said on Tuesday that it was right that big companies are scrutinized and said his firm would respond to any new regulations by finding new ways to please its customers. Bezos was speaking in Berlin, where he was receiving an award from German media company Axel Springer. He was responding…
[ad_1] Something strange is happening in the stock market as big stocks are reversing sharply lower after opening higher Tuesday. Thirty stocks in the S&P 500 dropped more than 5 percent from their opening prices with many of the names concentrated in the industrial and technology sectors. The industrial stocks’ decline is likely due to…
[ad_1] Mark Zuckerberg has faced his critics online and in Washington, but on Wednesday, Wall Street gets its chance to grill the Facebook CEO. Usually there’s little to complain about for the company that has come to dominate the digital ad industry, making billions in quarterly sales. In that regard, nothing much has changed: The…
[ad_1] The Nintendo Labo is for kids so we took Nintendo’s latest product to its target audience. Our resident toy testers Kasper, Milla, and Guthrie went hands-on with this cool STEM system. They cut, folded, and played for almost an hour and finally gave their rousing review including near perfect scores from each of the…
[ad_1] The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday gave its stamp of approval to a government review process prized by high technology companies as an easy and cheap way to combat “patent trolls” and others that bring patent infringement lawsuits. The justices ruled 7-2 that a type of in-house patent review at the U.S. Patent and…
[ad_1] Facebook is making good on Mark Zuckerberg’s promise to prioritize user safety and data privacy over its developer platform. Today Facebook and Instagram announced a slew of API shut downs and changes designed to stop developers from being able to pull you or your friends data without express permission, drag in public content, or…
[ad_1] Mixpanel co-founder and CEO Suhail Doshi is being replaced at the helm by ex-Twitter executive Amir Movafaghi [ad_2] Source link
[ad_1] Sanmina shares skyrocketed more than 20 percent on Tuesday after the company reported better-than-expected profit and sales for the last quarter and said this quarter’s earnings could top Wall Street expectations as well. The company is a contract electronics manufacturer specializing in communications networks and semiconductors, among other areas. After Tuesday’s jump, its market…
[ad_1] Two weeks ago TechCrunch called on Instagram to build an equivalent to Facebook’s “Download Your Information feature so if you wanted to leave for another photo sharing network, you could. The next day it announced this tool would be coming and now TechCrunch has spotted it rolling out to users. Instagram’s “Data Download” feature…
[ad_1] Over the past few years, the old language of “customer support” has been supplanted by the new language of “customer success.” In the old model, companies would essentially disappear following the conclusion of a sale, merely handling customer problems when they arose. Now, companies are actively reaching out to customers, engaging them with education…
[ad_1] Victor J. Blue | Bloomberg | Getty Images Analysts work in front of monitors displaying Altaba Inc. signage at the Market Intelligence Desk (MID) inside the Nasdaq MarketSite in New York. U.S. regulators fined Altaba, the company formerly known as Yahoo, $35 million on Tuesday to settle charges that kept its massive 2014 cybersecurity…
[ad_1] Etleap is a play on words for a common set of data practices: extract, transform and load. The startup is trying to place these activities in a modern context, automating what they can and in general speeding up what has been a tedious and highly technical practice. Today, they announced a $1.5 million seed…
[ad_1] This could be the year cryptocurrency trading gains momentum within financial firms, including hedge funds and trading desks at Wall Street’s biggest banks, according to a new survey. One in five firms are considering trading digital currency in the next three to 12 months, according to a Thomson Reuters survey published Tuesday. Of those…
[ad_1] Disappointing guidance from key iPhone suppliers is raising worries about Apple shares and could signal the death of the technology-driven stock rally. Apple’s stock is cumulatively down 7.1 percent in the three trading sessions through Monday, wiping out $63.9 billion of shareholder value. The decline was sparked by Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing’s weaker-than-expected guidance Thursday…
[ad_1] A new – and theoretical – system for blockchain -based data storage could ensure that hackers will not be able to crack cryptocurrencies once we all enter the quantum era. The idea, proposed by researchers at the Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, would secure our crypto futures for decades to coming using…
[ad_1] Akio Kon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Daniel Ek, chief executive officer and co-founder of Spotify AB Spotify is launching a new free service that lets users pick and choose songs off of selected playlists. The company announced the update to its free service on Tuesday at an event in New York City. New…
[ad_1] While Google is expected to showcase a new Material Design version at its I/O developer conference later this year, the latest Canary build of Chrome browser gives a glimpse of what’s cooking up behind the scenes. The new developer build brings rounded UI elements that can be observed from the revamped address bar and…
[ad_1] Amazon will begin delivering packages to Volvo and GM cars, even when drivers aren’t around. The service will be free for Amazon Prime members with an active GM OnStar or Volvo On Call account and is available in 37 U.S. cities and surrounding areas. The companies have plans to expand the service to more…
[ad_1] Home-grown operating system Indus OS on Tuesday announced a partnership with Chinese smartphone maker Gionee where the users will experience Indus OS’ flagship features on majority of new Gionee smartphones. To begin with, the first two Gionee smartphones with Indus OS’ flagship features are expected to hit the Indian market in April-May. The move…
[ad_1] Facebook bans all threats and calls to violence and says it works with its team to determine the difference between “casual statements” and “content that constitutes a credible threat to public or personal safety.” Facebook blocks (and is working to continue to block): Terrorist activity Organized hate Mass or serial murder Human trafficking Organized…
[ad_1] Microsoft has given roughly a month’s warning to Windows Phone users before retiring its collaboration apps on the platform. Skype for Business, Microsoft Teams, and Yammer apps will cease to exist on Microsoft Store on May 20 this year. The slow and extended death of Microsoft’s Windows Phone is not surprising as the company…
[ad_1] Britain’s TSB bank, owned by Spain’s Banco Sabadell, took down its mobile app and online services on Tuesday in an attempt to fix technical problems which have locked customers out of their accounts. The bank said about 402 customers on Sunday were able to see data that they would not usually see online, often…
[ad_1] Every year your faithful friends at TechCrunch spend an entire week looking at bags. Why? Because bags – often ignored but full of our important electronics – are the outward representations of our techie styles and we put far too little thought into where we keep our most prized possessions. To that end we…
[ad_1] DoorDash is about to make a huge move into grocery delivery, but instead of going all out as a delivery service on its own, it’s instead going to be working behind the scenes to power delivery networks for larger companies — with Walmart as its first big partner. While Instacart looks to control the…
[ad_1] Google has more information on users than Facebook, notes one venture capitalist. “If you think Facebook knows a lot about you, try Google,” Kevin Landis, CEO and chief investment officer of Firsthand Capital Management, told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Monday. “They know every search you’ve ever made and everywhere your Android phone has ever…
[ad_1] Amazon will now deliver packages directly to your car. CNBC first reported the new delivery system was under development in October. The free in-car delivery is available to Prime members in select cities and only through supported vehicles, the e-commerce giant said Tuesday. You can check your eligibility here. Prime members register their car…
[ad_1] Facebook data obtained by Cambridge Analytica was probably not used for Donald Trump’s presidential election campaign, according to the academic at the heart of the data scandal surrounding the social network. Aleksandr Kogan, a researcher at Cambridge University, made the claim to U.K. lawmakers at a committee on fake news and data protection on…
[ad_1] There’s another fightback against illegal streaming and, for once, this one doesn’t involve the hugely popular Kodi TV player. This latest action against pirated content is targeting another service called SET TV. Unlike most other streams and players, SET TV actually charges a monthly subscription which then offers users access to over 500 live…
[ad_1] For a couple of years now, there’s been a lot of buzz around chatbots. Earlier, the go-to term used to be conversational commerce, although today most companies you talk to will happily talk about artificial intelligence and machine learning as the power behind these chatbots. For companies that are looking to integrate the technology…
[ad_1] Verizon is set to report first quarter earnings before the bell Tuesday. Here’s what Wall Street expects from the telecom giant: — Earnings: $1.10 per share, according to Thomson Reuters — Revenue: $31.25 billion, according to Thomson Reuters — Net increase of 165,000 retail postpaid wireless connections, according to StreetAccount Analysts forecast something of…
[ad_1] Bitcoin surged to its highest level in over a month Tuesday, continuing its post-Tax Day rebound. The cryptocurrency traded at a high of $9,293.66 on Tuesday morning, according to CoinDesk data, which tracks the price of bitcoin across a number of exchanges. It was the highest price for bitcoin since March 14. Bitcoin had…
[ad_1] Facebook Messenger fans look set to be treated to a new feature and it is sure to be one that’s hugely popular. A leaked screenshot, which was posted by The Next Web, reveals that the option to delete a message in conversations could be coming soon. Facebook Messenger users can currently delete what they’ve…
[ad_1] Google has rolled out a new feature that makes it easier for users to listen to podcasts on Android smartphones. The search giant never really had a great solution for podcasts as Android users had to look for other apps to manage their subscriptions. It does not have a dedicated podcast management app outside…
[ad_1] Lilium, a German electric flying car start-up, has hired a well-known designer to help bring its science-fiction concept to reality. Frank Stephenson was behind the designs of cars including the new Mini Cooper, Ferrari F430, and McLaren P1. He is now heading up design at Lilium, which is creating an on-demand air taxi service…
[ad_1] Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jean Liu, president of Didi Chuxing Chinese ride-hailing giant Didi Chuxing is holding talks about an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report. Didi Chuxing was last valued at more than $50 billion in December, after raising $4 billion from investors including Japanese conglomerate SoftBank. It…
[ad_1] Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Jean Liu, president of Didi Kuaidi Co Chinese ride-hailing company Didi Chuxing is in talks for a multibillion-dollar initial public offering that could take place as early as this year, The Wall Street Journal reported on Tuesday, citing people familiar with the matter. The company is hoping…
[ad_1] Data analytics platform Tableau today announced the launch of both a new data preparation product and a new subscription pricing plan. Currently, Tableau offers desktop plans for users who want to analyze their data locally, a server plan for businesses that want to deploy the service on-premises or on a cloud platform, and a…
[ad_1] Timothy Caulfield says he had “zero privacy concerns” when he spit in a test tube and mailed it off to 23andMe, a DNA genetic testing and analysis company, for a book he was writing in 2012. But in the wake of the recent Facebook and Cambridge Analytica data scandal, the university professor is reconsidering…
[ad_1] Popular battle royale shooter Fortnite will be launched in China by Tencent. Users in the country can download the Fortnite client and sign up with their QQ account with an account transfer process in place for those who already have played the international version of the game and want to carry over their progress to…
[ad_1] Higher U.S. bond yields could cause investors to herd into technology stocks, according to one fund manager. While the traditional thinking is that higher yields make bonds more attractive and could see rotation from equities into fixed income, Ben Rogoff, a fund manager at Polar Capital, said that more money could go into technology…
[ad_1] Chinese ride-hailing firm Didi Chuxing on Monday began offering its service in the Mexican city of Toluca, the company said, setting up a potentially costly battle with rival Uber Technologies in a key Latin American market. The Mexican launch marks the first time Didi has brought its own app-based ride service outside of Asia, a…
[ad_1] Asus has announced that it has started pre-orders for the Lyra Trio mesh Wi-Fi system that was unveiled at CES 2018 in Las Vegas back in January. The new mesh Wi-Fi system comes as a successor to the original Asus Lyra that debuted last year, and has a price tag of $299.99 (approximately Rs.…
[ad_1] European regulators said Monday that they’re deepening their probe into Apple’s acquisition of the music recognition app Shazam over concerns that the deal could limit people’s streaming music choices and unfairly weaken companies such as Spotify. Shazam, which is based Great Britain, lets people use their smartphone microphones to identify songs playing over loudspeakers,…
[ad_1] Alibaba is “fighting actively” against fakes, but that isn’t something Amazon is doing well, according to Swatch Group CEO Nick Hayek. Commenting on whether Amazon is delivering added value for consumers, Hayek conceded that “in a way, yes, they deliver a product.” But Chinese companies like Alibaba are doing better, he told CNBC’s Geoff…
[ad_1] Hooch, the subscription startup that allows members to claim one free drink per day from hundreds of different bars and restaurants, is adding a new membership level called Hooch Black. Signing up for Hooch Black will cost you significantly more than the regular subscription — instead of $9.99 per month, it’s $295 per year.…
[ad_1] Shu said his experience on the ground allows him to “know what riders want better than anyone else,” — namely flexibility — and he continues to work with governments to find a balance in the “trade-off” between flexibility, pay and benefits. But he certainly doesn’t expect a celebrity reception when he drops off an…
[ad_1] Some industry players such as Chinese-funded smart electric car startup Byton think everyday cars, used for commuting and errands, will be much simplified if they are electrified and enabled by autonomous drive technology. That’s because cars today are all “over spec’ed,” Byton’s co-founder and CEO Carsten Breitfeld said in an interview. Most have seats…
[ad_1] Samsung is already getting set to release a new Galaxy S9 with enhanced features. The Samsung Galaxy S9 may have only been out for a few months but the new model is allegedly on its way to set the bar even higher. Specifically, above Apple’s iPhone X. The new S9, aka SM-G8850, should come…
[ad_1] There’s already a plethora of rumours swirling around the web that the OnePlus 6 is arriving in the next few months. But fans now know this phone is officially on its way with Amazon just confirming, on its website, that the OnePlus 6 is “Coming soon”. Amazon.in has even published a landing page where…
[ad_1] Westworld season 2 has begun, with episode 1 ‘Journey Into Night’ airing in the US on Sunday – with UK viewers getting to watch it today. Westworld is returning to our screens after a break of a year and a half, with HBO needing extra time to work on the hit show’s second season.…
[ad_1] CEO Sundar Pichai tried to quell investor fears over how Google‘s advertising business will be affected by Europe’s upcoming privacy legislation during the company’s Q1 earnings call. The gist of his comments: Google is hyper-prepared and it will have little effect on its cash-cow search advertising business. The General Data Protection Regulation, which is…
[ad_1] The Nintendo Switch may soon be a haven for hackers, but not the kind that want your data — the kind that want to run SNES emulators and Linux on their handheld gaming consoles. A flaw in an Nvidia chip used by the Switch, detailed today, lets power users inject code into the system…
[ad_1] Google Chat will take on the likes of Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp plus Apple’s iMessage. The difference is that Google is working with networks to effectively replace SMS on Android. Text messaging, or SMS, has been left behind while modern messaging services take over. Now, features from WhatsApp and iMessage, like sending HD videos,…
[ad_1] Windows 10 is due an update this month and now it appears Microsoft has confirmed it will be called April update. A recent Edge browser upgrade, to build 17134, has revealed here that the new Windows 10 refresh will be called April update, as you can also see in the below image. That previously…
[ad_1] Security experts have warned that around four million smartphone apps could be leaking sensitive user data such as e-mail addresses and phone numbers. Kaspersky Lab discovered the issue in a number of popular dating apps which transmitted unencrypted user data over the HTTP protocol. This was instead of the more secure HTTPS method of…
[ad_1] Technology investor Chamath Palihapitiya is very bullish on tech companies that can capitalize on the rise of artificial intelligence, such as Google and Box — but they must keep personal information safe or regulators will have to come in and do it for them, he told CNBC’s “Closing Bell” on Monday. Palihapitiya, a former…
[ad_1] Bill Gurley believes ride sharing will hurt Hertz’s rental car business. “I think Hertz will face a difficult future,” he said at The Sohn Investment Conference in New York Monday. “Ride sharing is a huge substitute and it appears we have a systemic … massive oversupply of used cars.” Gurley noted the disruption from…
[ad_1] Adam Galica | CNBC Dara Khosrowshahi, CEO of Uber speaking at the 2018 WEF in Davos, Switzerland on Jan. 23rd, 2018. Alphabet reported the total book value of its equity investments for the first time on Monday, revealing that it has gained about $3 billion on its investments in Uber and other companies. It…
[ad_1] Google’s capital expenditures tripled in the first quarter of 2018 from the same period the year before, more than doubling analyst estimates. Google parent Alphabet beat Wall Street estimates in its earnings report Monday, posting revenue of $31.15 billion compared with $30.29 billion expected. And the search engine giant certainly appears to be spending…
[ad_1] Gmail users are being warned about a scam which sees their inbox flooded with unwanted messages. It appears that Gmail accounts are being hacked and then used to send out spam messages and adverts to their own email address. One Gmail user was hacked despite having two-factor authentication enabled on the account. The issue has been…
[ad_1] Alphabet, Google’s parent company, reported another pretty solid beat this afternoon for its first quarter as it more or less has continued to keep its business growing substantially — and is growing even faster than it was a year ago today. Google said its revenue grew 26% year-over-year to $31.16 billion in the first…
[ad_1] Aleksandr Kogan, the data scientist at the center of the Facebook data scandal, said Mark Zuckerberg is “totally” a hypocrite. In March, The New York Times and The Guardian reported that political data-research firm Cambridge Analytica improperly got ahold of data of as many as 87 million Facebook users on the social media platform.…
[ad_1] Amazon is obsessed with trying to get into our homes. It has successfully done so by selling millions of Amazon Echo speakers, which are capable of everything from video chat to ordering diapers and reading the weather. Its delivery drivers are able to enter, too, through the Amazon Key in-home delivery service. And now…
[ad_1] Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google Google parent company Alphabet is slated to post its first quarter earnings today after the bell. Here’s what analysts are expecting, via Thomson Reuters: — Earnings per share: $9.28 — Revenue: $30.29 billion We’ll see three changes to Alphabet’s report…
[ad_1] Reduce, Reuse and Rethink is a CBC News series about recycling. We’re looking at why our communities are at a turning point and exploring ways to recycle better. You can be part of the conversation by joining our Facebook group. From local, small-scale designers to huge corporations, it seems there is a glut of eco-friendly fashion announcements. German sportswear company…
[ad_1] The federal government has launched a new website to hear Canadians’ ideas on how to reduce marine litter, but an environmental group in Nova Scotia wants to know why Canada isn’t adopting more concrete changes. Environment and Climate Change Canada Minister Catherine McKenna was in Dartmouth, N.S., on Sunday for the announcement of the…