Sony fans were surely left disappointed when the Xperia Z4 was only announced for Japan, even if it is almost exactly the same as the Xperia Z3, but all hope may not be lost, as there are signs that it could be released elsewhere, just possibly with a different name. While browsing the White Paper for the Style Cover Window on Sony’s website, juggly.cn spotted that the cover is listed
(Reuters) – Google Inc’s YouTube will directly invest in new shows to be launched in partnerships with its four top content creators, it said in a blog on Tuesday. The world’s No. 1 online video website also said it entered into an agreement with DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc unit AwesomenessTV to release feature films over the next two years. The partnerships would help YouTube, which completed 10 years last week,
Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL] launched on Tuesday the Honor 4C smartphone, the latest bid by the Chinese technology firm to gain market share in the highly competitive budget handset segment from domestic rivals such as Xiaomi Inc. The phone has a 5-inch display, slightly larger than the iPhone 6 and the same as Xiaomi’s Mi 4 smartphone, and starts at 799 yuan ($129). To cut on marketing costs, the
PayPal, eBay Inc’s electronic payments division, said on Tuesday it will extend its single-touch payment service from mobile devices to online transactions to try to reduce the $4 trillion in merchandise abandoned in retailers’ online shopping carts every year due to complicated checkout procedures. PayPal One Touch, which is widely used by shoppers on mobile phones, is designed to ease checkout flows that have users bouncing between screens and typing
(Reuters) – Apple Inc beat Wall Street’s revenue and profit forecasts on Monday as it sold more iPhones in China than the United States for the first time, but the company gave no sales figures for its new Apple Watch. Apple’s iPhone sales in China soared, increasing its revenue in the country 71 percent to $16.8 billion, although that was helped by gift-buying for Chinese New Year. Chief Executive Tim
By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – All cars and light vans in Europe will have to be fitted with automatic emergency calling devices from April 2018 under new rules approved by European Union lawmakers on Tuesday, which could cut road deaths by 10 percent a year. The so-called eCall device will automatically alert the nearest emergency centre in the event of a crash by calling the EU-wide emergency number 112,
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Oil prices turned positive on Tuesday after reports that Iran had seized an U.S. cargo vessel raised geopolitical tensions and concerns about the security of Middle East crude shipments.
U.S. home prices climbed at a faster pace in February than the previous month, driven by higher sales and a limited supply of available houses. The Standard & Poor’s/Case-Shiller 20-city home price index …
Bank of America Corp. is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission over whether it broke rules designed to safeguard customer accounts, according to a person with knowledge of the probe. Investigators are examining a variety of large, complex trades and loans over a three-year period intended to save on funding costs and free up billions of dollars in cash and securities for trading that the firm otherwise would