CapitalG, a growth investment fund under Alphabet has led $1bn round of investment in ride-hailing company Lyft. With this investment, Lyft’s valuation has gone up to $11bn. CapitalG’s partner David Lawee will be joining ...
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With an aim to rival against the two best-known electronics giants, Apple and Google, Amazon.com Inc., an American e-commerce and cloud computing company based in Seattle, Washington, launched its latest version of smart speakers, ...
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At 12 p.m. EST on October 4th, Google, an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, launched its high-end pixel smartphones, Pixel 2 and Pixel 2XL,using Android system 8.0. ...
HTC Corp., a Taiwanese consumer electronics company manufacturing devices such as mobile phones and tablets, confirmed to sell its mobile business division to Google, an American multinational technology company that specializes in ...
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Patent Portfolios--6th in the Semiconductor-Manufacturing Sector and 24th Overall Peregrine Semiconductor Corp of San Diego, CA, USA – a fabless provider of radio-frequency integrated circuits (RFICs) based on silicon-on-insulator ...
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Co-founder of Kids Industries Gary Pope talks the transition of TV advertising to digital. 65 years ago, the first TV ad for toys aired in the US: 45 seconds of advertising history that led to the sale of 100m Mr and Mrs Potato Heads. ...
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Last December, Google updated its mobile search app to offer location-based news, sports and weather reports, but today it’s introducing a major update that will make the feed a more personalised, Facebook-esque platform. Rolling ...
Rather than taking a backseat, as the V-Series phones have done previously, the forthcoming LG V30 is shaping up to surpass the flagship G6 handset. We’ve already seen reports suggesting a gorgeous 18:9 FullVision edge-to-edge ...
Google Play Movies is now offering content in 4K HDR, with the High Dynamic Range content coming at no extra cost. Google added 4K movies to the store back in December and is now including the impressive HDR standard, which improves the ...
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LG has finally taken the wrapper off its mid-range LG Q6 handset, which appears to be the phone many envisioned as an LG G6 mini. The handset rocks a 5.5-inch 2160 x 1080 panel, which is smaller than the 5.7-inch, 2880 x 1440 G6, but ...
There have been numerous rumours surrounding the Google Pixel 2, the follow-up to last year's Pixel phone. First, Google's hardware head, Rick Osterloh told Android Pit: "You can count on us to follow [the Pixel]. You can count on a ...
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Not one to be left out, Samsung will reportedly plonk its fledgling personal assistant Bixby into a smart speaker. The Wall Street Journal’s sources say the company is planning to contend with the Amazon Echo, Google Home, Apple ...
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Just two days ago, the long-rumoured Galaxy S8 Active popped up over at the FCC, suggesting a launch is imminent for the ruggedised version of the S8. And now, support for the phone has seemingly been spotted alongside two other devices ...
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Google is reportedly planning to introduce a Chromebook with a dedicated button for the Google Assistant button and an integrated fingerprint sensor. The device codenamed ‘Eve’ will also feature Intel’s Kaby Lake ...
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We’re now almost certain about regional European pricing for Huawei’s next budget smartphone, the Honor 9. Huawei launched the Honor sub-brand back in 2013, in a bid to better compete with China’s online phone brands ...