Tag: News

October 27, 2016

Slack took workplace conversation by storm, and after Facebook just released its take on the concept, now Microsoft is looking to for its own piece of the market. A report by MSPoweruser suggests that the company is set to unveil […]

October 17, 2016

Autonomous cars and ride-hailing. These two mega-trends are on a collision course and it has the rental-car industry shaking in its boots. Rightfully so. The entire car rental industry could soon be upended as autonomous vehicles change the entire calculus […]

September 29, 2016

Updated: BlackBerry announced it would actually stop making its own smartphones, due to the $372 million loss for its fiscal second quarter. Therefore, the DTEK60 is “unlikely to show up”, as CNET puts it. Although CrackBerry announced on Monday, September […]

September 12, 2016

Facebook gave another hint as to how they might be able to use those broader connective goals to change how we do business on a broader scale. Via a post on the Facebook Business blog, The Social Network has launched […]

September 7, 2016

Apple will partner with Sony, developers of the FeliCa standard, in an effort to break into Japan’s mobile payments market, Nikkei reports. By integrating Apple Pay with FeliCa hardware, Apple is able to tap into a vast point of sale […]

September 2, 2016

DSW Inc.’s 483 stores and those stores’ employees play a pivotal role in helping the multichannel shoe retailer fulfill online orders. Interim chief financial officer Jared Poff told analysts on DSW’s Q2 2016 earnings call online sales grew 21% year-over-year […]

August 29, 2016

If it seems like we’re saying the same thing every year, it’s because we are. Again, Apple is weeks away from releasing a new phone without the supply to meet the expected demand. At this point, it’s tradition. This year’s […]

August 29, 2016

Cosmetics retail chain Ulta Beauty is shifting its focus to digital advertising from print—and it’s paying off. Ulta, No. 153 in the Internet Retailer 2016 Top 500 Guide, reported e-commerce sales of $55.9 million in the fiscal second quarter of 2016, […]

August 24, 2016

As part of a patent licensing agreement, Lenovo will ship Android devices bundled with Office and other Microsoft productivity apps. Android keeps paying off for Microsoft, and a patent licensing pact between the Redmond, Wash., software giant and Lenovo is […]

July 25, 2016

Yahoo was the front door to the web for an early generation of internet users, and its services still attract a billion visitors a month. But the internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday’s great idea, and Yahoo has now […]

July 14, 2016

Amsterdam-based Hippo today released the latest version of its web content management platform — an update a company official called a “completely re-architected platform with all benefits of the cloud.” The open-source provider released Hippo onDemand, which is designed to transform digital business […]

July 7, 2016

  Google may be working on two Nexus-branded Android Wear smartwatches, putting the company in direct competition with hardware partners like Motorola and Samsung. The word on the watches comes from an anonymous “reliable” Android Police source. Code named Angelfish […]

July 6, 2016

When Kunal Thakkar, senior vice president of operations at online electronics retailer Newegg Inc., finished his master’s degree in engineering management, the plan wasn’t for him to stay in the United States, but rather to return to his native India. […]

July 1, 2016

If you doubted the scope of Google’s VR ambitions, doubt no longer: as well as bringing virtual reality to Android Nougat in the form of Daydream, it’s also building it into its mobile Chrome browser. The latest beta and developer […]

July 1, 2016

  Evernote just announced that it is raising the prices of its premium tier plans, but the change that could annoy the most number of users is on the free Base plan which will now be limited to use on […]

June 30, 2016

Dell has stopped selling Android devices as it steps away from slate-style tablets to focus on Windows 2-in-1 devices. The company isn’t refreshing the Venue line of Android tablets, and will no longer offer the Android-based Wyse Cloud Connect, a […]

June 28, 2016

T-Mobile is now updating the Samsung Galaxy Note 4, a phone that many refer to as the best phablet of 2014, to Android 6.0 Marshmallow. Once you’ve installed the update on your phablet, the Note 4 will be running software […]

June 28, 2016

Apple’s iPhone 7 Plus release date is likely to surprise no one thanks to the Autumn launch date of iOS 10. That’s when the software update will arrive, with iPhone 7 expected in tow, too. But the exact iPhone 7 […]

June 28, 2016

    Apple’s forthcoming iOS 10 update was unveiled one week ago, and even in its current beta form, it’s already transforming the way developers use their iPhone and iPad. The best new iOS 10 features involve shortcuts to make […]

June 27, 2016

  Ahead of the weekend, Yahoo! announced the launch of Yahoo Storytellers, a full service content marketing studio for brands and agencies. The platform, we’re told, leverages Yahoo’s editorial expertise, extensive data, and native advertising through Yahoo Gemini. According to […]