SAN FRANCISCO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – After Facebook’s removal of an iconic Vietnam war photo stirred an international uproar last month, the social network’s executives quickly backtracked and cleared its publication. But the image – showing a naked Read more…
(Reuters) – About six months ago, people working on hardware and the voice-activated Google Assistant for the Pixel phone started sitting next to each other at the company’s Mountain View, California headquarters, hammering out minute Read more…
Hong Kong Applied Science and Technology Research Institute (ASTRI) and the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up the CUHK-ASTRI Joint Research Laboratory, which will conduct Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc has launched a tailored version of its Prime service in China to tap consumer demand for overseas goods, putting the US online retail firm in closer competition with local rivals Read more…
Singaporean cellco M1 and Nokia say they have conducted Singapore’s first “live” Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) demo (live in a lab, anyway), along with a bonus 5G demo featuring robots. The NB-IoT demo, conducted Read more…
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Seventy-five percent of internet use will be mobile in 2017, up slightly from this year, as a growing number of consumers around the world access the web on smartphones and tablets Read more…
If you’ve ever wanted to know if the flat you’re buying is haunted, now you can do it with an augmented reality real-estate app. No, really! Apps developer Spacious says the latest version of its Read more…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese internet search giant Baidu warned investors fourth-quarter revenue will slide, hitting shares, as a government crackdown on healthcare advertising that tipped the firm into its first-ever quarterly sales drop bites even Read more…
Engineering and infrastructure management services provider Downer and Cyient have signed a project agreement for wideband design services. The wideband project in Australia is a dedicated fiber network used exclusively by CSP business customers, providing Read more…
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Flying commuters could be whizzing to work through the sky less than ten years from now, according to ride-services provider Uber, which believes the future of transportation is literally looking up. Uber Technologies Read more…
REUTERS – Twitter said Thursday it would cut 9% of its global workforce to keep costs down even as quarterly results eclipsed Wall Street’s beaten-down expectations, lifting shares that had fallen after a failed effort Read more…
After a rough year and an especially rough third quarter, Ericsson has finally named a new CEO – Börje Ekholm, who serves on the company’s Board of Directors – but with the decision to go with Read more…
(Reuters) – Smartphone chipmaker Qualcomm agreed to buy NXP Semiconductors for about $38 billion in the biggest-ever deal in the semiconductor industry, making it the leading supplier to the fast-growing automotive chips market. The acquisition Read more…
The Digital Single Market may offer China some inspiration for adopting an electronic world trade platform that can tear down national borders and boost international e-commerce. Today, it is impossible to talk about e-commerce without Read more…
HONG KONG (Reuters) – Chinese telecoms equipment group ZTE Corp, which is still facing the threat of curbs on trade with US firms, reported a 10.5% rise in its third-quarter net profit on Thursday. Net Read more…
By 2020, smart machines will be a top five investment priority for more than 30% of CIOs, but as smart machines moving towards fully autonomous operation for the first time, balancing the need to exercise Read more…
ITEM: If you’ve ever attended a videoconference that’s starting late because the conference manager is having trouble connecting everyone, and you sat there wondering how much money the company is blowing waiting for the damn Read more…
Mobile advertising firm InMobi has launched an advanced suite of video ad formats across countries in Asia Pacific to help brands capitalize on the opportunity offered by mobile video advertising. The platform includes an advanced Read more…
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia reported a sharp drop in third-quarter earnings on Thursday, suffering from weaker sales in the wireless network market and warning that the market was likely to shrink further in the coming Read more…
The GSMA has elected Sunil Bharti Mittal, founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises, as its new chairman for the two-year period from January 2017 through December 2018. As GSMA chairman, Mittal will oversee the strategic Read more…
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