Tag: competitor

  • EA soars after its Fortnite competitor quickly reaches 10M players

    EA soars after its Fortnite competitor quickly reaches 10M players

    [ad_1] EA soared 16 percent Friday after announcing its Fortnite competitor gained 10 million players in its first 72 hours. The stock fell nearly the same amount just a few days earlier after reporting its third-quarter 2019 earnings. CEO Andrew Wilson had said the company “did not perform to our expectations,” reporting a revenue miss…

  • Uber competitor Chauffeur-Privé rebrands to Kapten – TechCrunch

    Uber competitor Chauffeur-Privé rebrands to Kapten – TechCrunch

    [ad_1] French company Chauffeur-Privé is going to expand aggressively over the next couple of years. That’s why the company is changing its name to Kapten — a name that sounds less French. “We wanted to share with you a very important piece of news,” Kapten co-founder and CEO Yan Hascoet said in a press conference.…

  • Google no longer considers Microsoft Cortana a competitor

    Google no longer considers Microsoft Cortana a competitor

    [ad_1] Michael Short | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sundar Pichai, chief executive officer of Google In the rapidly growing virtual assistant market, Google is no longer worried about Microsoft Cortana. In its 2018 annual report, which was published on Tuesday, Alphabet tweaked a line about competitors, removing Microsoft while keeping Amazon and Apple. The deletion…

  • Xbox Live Coming To Switch Could Signal A New Era Of Competitor Collaboration

    Xbox Live Coming To Switch Could Signal A New Era Of Competitor Collaboration

    [ad_1] With news that Microsoft is bringing Xbox Live to the Nintendo Switch, as well as mobile devices, a new era of cross-platform cooperation could be at hand. Xbox and Nintendo have already shown a willingness to cooperate through initiatives like crossplay on games like Fortnite, Rocket League, Minecraft, and Wargroove, but this is another…

  • Microsoft No Longer Sees Cortana as a Competitor to Alexa or Google Assistant

    Microsoft No Longer Sees Cortana as a Competitor to Alexa or Google Assistant

    [ad_1] Microsoft seems to be giving up on its ambitions to dominate the voice-powered virtual assistant arena and will reportedly be focusing on building Cortana as a skill for the competing platforms like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant. According to an online report, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella earlier this week revealed to select journalists that…

  • Tesla competitor, Byton’s M-byte, has a videoscreen as big as 7 iPads

    Tesla competitor, Byton’s M-byte, has a videoscreen as big as 7 iPads

    [ad_1] The CES event focused primarily on the digital technology going into the new M-byte, an extensive array of features that the company has dubbed “Byton Life,” something meant to “transform those four wheels into the next-generation smart device.” Breitfeld declared. “M-byte could become the most important digital device in your life.” The system relies…

  • Waymo’s Chinese competitor Pony.ai is pacing itself in driverless cars

    Waymo’s Chinese competitor Pony.ai is pacing itself in driverless cars

    [ad_1] Dave Zhong/Getty Images for CNBC International Hu Wen, COO of poni.ai, speaks during Fireside Chat on Day 1 of CNBC East Tech West at LN Garden Hotel Nansha Guangzhou on November 27, 2018 in Nansha, Guangzhou, China. Chinese start-up Pony.ai is trying to take on Google‘s Waymo by taking a measured approach toward autonomous-vehicle…

  • Mark Zuckerberg calls Apple biggest Facebook competitor in messaging

    Mark Zuckerberg calls Apple biggest Facebook competitor in messaging

    [ad_1] As Facebook eyes its messaging apps Messenger and WhatsApp to drive future growth, CEO Mark Zuckerberg is focused on a company that isn’t even in the social media space: Apple. “Our biggest competitor by far is iMessage,” CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on an earnings call on Tuesday with investors, referring to the messaging service…

  • POV podcast: Georgia Simmerling — a year-round competitor

    POV podcast: Georgia Simmerling — a year-round competitor

    [ad_1] She is the first Canadian to compete in three different sports in three Olympic Games, but that was never the plan for Georgia Simmerling.  A career in alpine skiing was going beautifully until she discovered an even greater skill in ski cross. The slide from there into track cycling might seem like more of a head scratcher,…

  • Saudi wealth fund invests $1 billion in competitor Lucid Motors

    Saudi wealth fund invests $1 billion in competitor Lucid Motors

    [ad_1] Tesla stock dipped as much as 2 percent in early trading Monday on news the Saudi Arabia’s sovereign wealth fund has invested $1 billion in rival Lucid Motors. The investment will fund Lucid Motor’s 2020 commercial launch of its first electric vehicle the Lucid Air, Reuters reported. Tesla CEO Elon Musk had previously touted…

  • Samsung Galaxy Home Smart Speaker Unveiled as Apple HomePod Competitor

    Samsung Galaxy Home Smart Speaker Unveiled as Apple HomePod Competitor

    [ad_1] Samsung’s wading into the smart speaker market with an entirely new product called the Galaxy Home. The speaker has a large, rounded body and sits on a tripod – a very different design from competing speakers offered by Amazon.com, Google, Microsoft, and Apple. Samsung announced a partnership with Spotify, which is the default music…

  • Activision announces ‘Call of Duty’ game mode competitor to ‘Fortnite’

    Activision announces ‘Call of Duty’ game mode competitor to ‘Fortnite’

    [ad_1] The surging popularity of Epic Games’ “Fortnite” is attracting competition from a big game publisher. On Thursday Activision Blizzard announced it will include a battle-royale game mode called “Blackout” in “Call of Duty: Black Ops 4.” The title is slated for release on Oct. 12. “The Black Ops community means everything to us, so…

  • ‘A competitor will be removed’ if Sprint and T-Mobile merge: analyst

    ‘A competitor will be removed’ if Sprint and T-Mobile merge: analyst

    [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…

  • Alcoa shares dive 12% after US reconsiders penalties against Russian competitor

    Alcoa shares dive 12% after US reconsiders penalties against Russian competitor

    [ad_1] Alcoa shares dropped Monday after the U.S. Treasury Department issued a six-month reprieve to sanctions levied on a top Russian aluminum competitor. Its stock fell more than 12 percent after the department said it would give Americans until October to wind down transactions with Rusal. The extension was granted, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said,…

  • Barclays upgrades Merck, downgrades competitor Pfizer

    Barclays upgrades Merck, downgrades competitor Pfizer

    [ad_1] Barclays upgraded Merck to overweight from equal weight on better opportunities versus its competition. It also downgraded Pfizer to equal weight from overweight, citing a less likely chance of a “transformative” acquisition. Analyst Geoff Meacham and his team also raised their price target on Merck by $2 to $64, a more than 17 percent…

  • Twitter working on Snap Discover competitor with location-based snaps

    Twitter working on Snap Discover competitor with location-based snaps

    [ad_1] Twitter is working on camera-first feature that could change the emphasis on the platform from text to video and images, giving advertisers a competitor to one of Snap’s most popular advertising opportunities, according to three senior agency executives who have either seen a demonstration of the product or are familiar with it. The new…

  • Hangouts Chat, Google’s Slack competitor, comes out of beta

    Hangouts Chat, Google’s Slack competitor, comes out of beta

    [ad_1] Hangouts Chat, Google’s take on modern workplace communication, is now generally available and is becoming a core part of G Suite. Hangouts Chat was first announced at Google Cloud Next 2017, together with Hangouts Meet. While Meet went right into public availability, though, Chat went into an invite-only preview. Now, Google is rolling Chat out…

  • Google Launches Hangouts Chat, Its Microsoft Teams and Slack Competitor in G Suite

    Google Launches Hangouts Chat, Its Microsoft Teams and Slack Competitor in G Suite

    [ad_1] Google released an update to its Internet chat tool Hangouts on Wednesday, aiming to make it suitable in workplaces so the Alphabet unit can compete with business software makers including Microsoft Corp and Slack Technologies. Hangouts Chat supports instant messaging across devices between workers, including group conversations. It also allows users to integrate widgets to…

  • Google Hangouts Chat, Slack competitor, available

    [ad_1] Google on Wednesday said it will be making its team communication app for work available to customers of its G Suite portfolio of cloud productivity apps this week. The Hangouts Chat app gives Google a direct competitor to privately held Slack and the many Slack alternatives that have emerged in recent years, including Microsoft…

  • With Easy Ride trial, Nissan takes new step toward being Uber competitor

    With Easy Ride trial, Nissan takes new step toward being Uber competitor

    [ad_1] YOKOHAMA (Reuters) – Facing a future in which self-driving cars may curb vehicle ownership, Nissan Motor Co is taking its first steps to becoming an operator of autonomous transportation services, hoping to break into a segment set to be dominated by Uber Technologies and other technology firms. In partnership with Japanese mobile gaming platform…

  • Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

    Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, opens its API to all developers

    [ad_1] The arrival of Stride, Atlassian’s Slack competitor, was probably the company’s biggest launch of 2017. While the company generally allows developers to easily integrate with its products, Stride’s API remained in closed beta for significantly longer than the product itself, which exited beta last September. Today, however, Atlassian is opening the Stride API to…