Fashion turned out to be the second top most category, next only to mobile and electronics, at the recently concluded three-day Great Online Shopping Festival (GOSF 2014), organised by Internet giant Google. About 30-40 per cent of the ...
Google has lengthened its leap into medtech by acquiring Lift Labs, a San Francisco startup that makes a spoon to help prevent patients with movement disorders from spilling their food. The Internet giant will fold Lift Labs into Google ...
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Yahoo has posted a first quarter earnings decline of 20% to $311.6 million. In a trading update yesterday, the company added that revenue from display advertising increased by 2% to $409 million. Additionally, first quarter group revenue ...
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Weibo Corp., the Chinese microblogging service often compared with Twitter, filed Friday for a US stock offering seeking to raise $500 million. The move will allow the popular Chinese-language social network to spin off from the Internet ...
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Google has acquired DeepMind Technologies, an artificial intelligence company in London, reportedly for a fee of US$400 million. A Google representative confirmed the deal Sunday, but said the company’s isn’t providing any ...
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US chip giant Intel said Friday it will trim its workforce by five percent this year as it shifts from personal computers to powering mobile gadgets. Word of the job cuts came a day after Intel reported that its net profit last year sank ...
The axing this week of Yahoo's second-in-command sent a signal that reality is setting in for Silicon Valley sweetheart Marissa Mayer, who leads the struggling Internet pioneer. Hearts soared when Mayer was wooed away from rival Google in ...
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Internet giant Tencent has teamed up with Future TV, a subsidiary of China Network Television, and television maker Skyworth Group to jointly produce WeChat television - televisions that are integrated ith the company's mobile messaging ...
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Google said its data centres in Taiwan and Singapore have gone online to cater to the growing number of Internet users in Asia. The Internet giant said in 2011 that it planned its first Asian data centres in Hong Kong, Taiwan and ...
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China is moving to further tighten its grip over social networking services, citing possible threats to national stability. On Friday, Chinese authorities released a new blueprint for the country’s future that covered economic and ...
Google has collaborated with Be Green Packaging to develop and manufacture a new plant fiber tray for its upcoming version of the Chromebook laptop. The internet giant has joined forces with the recyclable packaging products ...
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Chinese Internet giant Tencent Holdings Ltd. (SEHK: 0700) will see stake in Sogou.com, the search engine unit of Sohu.com Inc. (NASDAQ: SOHU), rise to about 40 percent in the near future. It co-announced with Sohu.com. and Sogou.com in ...
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Internet giant Google is migrating from Oracle's MySQL databases to MariaDB, the fork from MySQL established by its co-founder, Monty Widenius. The news was broken by Jeremy Cole, a senior systems engineer at Google at the Extremely Large ...
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A U.S. appeals court upheld a district court decision that Google’s collection of data from unencrypted Wi-Fi networks under its Street View program is not exempt from federal wiretap laws. Google’s data collection does not ...
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Nestlé is to make more than 50M Android-branded KitKat bars, after teaming up with Google to launch the new version of its Android mobile operating system to be called Android KitKat. Nestlé has teamed up with Google to ...
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