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Introduction Everyone sees how useful data is to their business these days, observes T.K. Rangarajan, who runs the teams creating Microsoft’s core database platforms. In fact, they’re beyond enthusiastic. “The world is drunk on data,” he says. “Everyone has seen enough evidence that with data you can get great insights, with data you can see the effect of recommendations, like people liking your stuff on Facebook. Now business leaders are
Samsung Galaxy Note 5: what we want to see The Samsung Galaxy Note 4 is the ultimate refinement of the phablet platform the company created with the original Galaxy Note. A powerful display, even more power stuffed inside and new take on the phablet’s design made for a handset worth of 4.5 stars even though it’s controversially expensive and huge in the hand. Since its release back in November, we’ve
Introduction and features Nikon’s compact system camera (CSC) line-up seemed to start well when the Nikon 1 J1 and Nikon V1 were first announced back in September 2011. But after an initial flurry of impressive sales reports, the market seemed to lose interest. However, the changes brought by the latest introduction, the Nikon 1 J5, could see renewed interest from Nikon SLR lovers looking for a smaller alternative. With its
Google has spoken. The company has confirmed that more google searches take place on mobile devices than on computers in 10 countries including the US and Japan. The company didn’t expand on what other countries were in the list but that is likely to include a bunch of European countries. It didn’t elaborate on when that shift happened or the type of queries involved. What it did say though is
Some bright spark/marketing professional started the Twitter game #videogamesitcoms. It quickly “went viral” and hit a trending bar near you, giving rise to some of our favourite cross-media mashups of all time. Here are eight video game sitcoms that we’d probably watch: Two and a Half Megamen Two Megamen and a normal sized man live together in a house. One of the Megamen is a hit with the Megaladies, the
Authorities in China’s southwestern city of Chengdu visited the offices of Uber on Wednesday as part of a new investigation into the online taxi-hailing service, a spokeswoman for Chengdu’s transportation commission said. The visit is the second made by authorities to Uber’s China offices in the last week. The official Xinhua news agency said on Friday Guangzhou authorities raided Uber’s office there on suspicion of an “unlicensed operation”. “A few
SHANGHAI/HONG KONG (Reuters) – Alibaba Group Holding Ltd named a new chief executive on Thursday, as the Chinese ecommerce group’s blistering growth faces headwinds and less-lucrative mobile transactions surpassed those from personal computers for the first time. Alibaba said Chief Operating Officer Daniel Zhang would on May 10 replace Jonathan Lu, who as the firm’s low-key chief executive of two years was frequently eclipsed by outspoken founder and Executive Chairman
By Leila Abboud and Gwénaëlle Barzic PARIS (Reuters) – Telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent , which is set to be bought by larger rival Nokia , improved profit margins in the first quarter despite a marked sales slowdown in its biggest market, the United States. Although it reported a net loss, higher software sales, a weak euro, and strong demand for its Internet routing products – which help telecom operators handle
By Georgina Prodhan MANNHEIM, Germany (Reuters) – German industrial group Siemens will cut a further 4,500 jobs as it battles to cope with subdued economic growth and weak demand from energy customers. Chief Executive Joe Kaeser did not say where the new cuts would be geographically. Siemens has to tread carefully cutting jobs in Germany, where trade unions are strong, and it has reduced previously announced job losses by a
By Karen Freifeld NEW YORK (Reuters) – ItBit Trust Company, LLC, a bitcoin exchange, has been granted a charter under New York State’s banking law, becoming the first virtual currency company to receive a charter in the state, according to New York’s Department of Financial Services. The exchange can begin operating immediately, but will be required to meet the obligations for both a trust company under New York law and
