Google announced on Wednesday it is piloting a program called Accelerated Mobile Pages that allows users to search for news and pull up a host of articles from publishers instantly. “This is a deal-less environment,” Richard Gingras, head of news at Google, said at a media event announcing the program. Google, whose parent company is now Alphabet Inc, is currently piloting the program.
Sony Corp Chief Executive Kazuo Hirai said on Wednesday the company would consider options for its smartphone unit if it failed to turn a profit in the next business year. The company in July lowered its forecast for its mobile communications unit to an operating loss of 60 billion yen in the current fiscal year from an earlier estimate of a 39 billion yen loss.
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Apple’s brand new OS X El Capitan update is not playing nice after users reported that Outlook has been sputtering to a halt since they refreshed their machines. First reported by V3, Outlook 2011 and 2016 users have been unable to retrieve Outlook emails using Apple’s brand new OS X version and neither company has an estimate on how long it will take to fix. Customers have been grumbling that
By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – The EU’s highest court struck down a deal that allows thousands of companies to easily transfer data from Europe to the United States, in a landmark ruling on Tuesday that follows revelations of mass U.S. government snooping. Many companies, particularly tech firms, use the Safe Harbour system to help them get round cumbersome checks to transfer data between offices on both sides of the
President Barack Obama seemed to call Hillary Rodham Clinton’s idea of a no-fly zone in Syria “half-baked.” Clinton described the president’s immigration strategy as “harsh and aggressive.” …
U.S. stocks traded mixed Wednesday as investors digested declines in tech stocks and a slight recovery in oil prices ahead of earnings season.
Daily fantasy sports operator FanDuel says it is banning all employees from playing any daily fantasy sports for money in hopes of rebuilding trust following reports a DraftKings employee may have had …
Tesla Motors unveiled its Model X crossover vehicle last week. Analysts at Morgan Stanley, who have been bullish on the stock, lowered their delivery forecasts in a note Tuesday, due to average transaction prices that are “easily $10,000-$15,000 higher” than previously expected. Morgan Stanley now expects 20,000 deliveries of Model X in 2016, down from 25,000.
