Music-streaming heavyweight, Spotify, has just announced a new feature aimed at delivering a personalised playlist top you each and every Monday to kickstart your week. Discover Weekly will sit at the top of your playlist folder, offering two hours of music tailored specifically to your own tastes and what people like you are listening to at the moment. Each song in the weekly-updated playlist will be based both on the
If you’re an avid Apple supporter, you’ve got reason to be glum today. Samsung continues to dominate the global smartphone marketshare, according to data from consultancy TrendForce. Nearly twenty-seven percent of smartphone shipments during the second quarter of 2015 were made by the South Korean technology manufacturer. This figure held steady compared with the first quarter of the year. If you’re keeping count, this means Samsung sold more than 45
Introduction and perpetual updates When Terry Myerson was trying to explain why the version of Microsoft’s operating system after Windows 8 wasn’t called Windows 9, he said the name had to match how different this new release of Windows would be. “We’re at an inflection point,” he explained. “We’re at a point where we carry forward all that’s good in Windows and step across into a new way of doing
It’s already pretty clear that Team Fortress 2 is the greatest ever game (involving hats), and Lego is clearly no longer for kids – so when someone recreates a life-size TF2 gun with plastic bricks, we are always going to be on board. ZaziNombies are the people behind this Tomislav replica which, they insist in a video preview, is heavy enough to make you think you’re toting the actual gun.
By Julia Fioretti and Andrew Callus BRUSSELS/PARIS (Reuters) – A Spanish judge has asked Europe’s top court if online taxi-hailing app Uber is a “mere transport service” or a digital service, as the U.S. start-up claims, in a case that could set a precedent for legal battles across the continent. A judge in Barcelona has referred a case brought by the city’s main taxi operator against Uber towards the end
PayPal, spun off from eBay Inc , is widely expected to build partnerships with e-commerce rivals and try to seize market share from startups such as Stripe and Square and technology behemoth Apple Inc , which unveiled its own mobile payments service last year. PayPal shares soared to $42.55 in early trading, up from Friday’s close of $38.35 when the shares were trading on a “when issued” basis. EBay’s stock
Christina and Kevin Dirks have been searching for a house in the Denver area for four months at prices up to $275,000. Bidding wars, a hallmark of last decade’s housing boom, are making a comeback in a number of metro areas across the U.S.
The debt crisis in Greece and the stock market meltdown in China are just “warmup acts” to the main event for U.S. investors: the Fed, strategist Jim Paulsen.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Greece has repaid its arrears to the International Monetary Fund, worth about 2 billion euros, IMF communications director Gerry Rice said on Monday. “Greece is therefore no …
Yahoo Finance went to Ford’s F-150 assembly plant in Dearborn to talk to CEO Mark Fields about the challenges Ford faces.
