Amazon.com Inc said on Thursday it will offer limited free same-day delivery under its Prime shipping service as retailers try to outdo each other on delivery deals, and expanded the service to San Diego and the Tampa Bay Area. Amazon offers same-day delivery to Prime members for $5.99 per order and non-members for $8.99, plus 99 cents per unit. “We know same-day delivery volumes will grow dramatically now that we
Avago, a maker of chips for the wireless and industrial markets, is offering Broadcom shareholders $17 billion in cash and Avago shares valued at $20 billion in one of the biggest deals ever in the chip industry. The deal represents a premium of about 28 percent, according to Reuters calculations based on Broadcom’s market value of $28.85 billion as of Tuesday’s close, the day before the Wall Street Journal reported
Saudi Arabia’s Kingdom Holding, the investment firm owned by billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has no plans to invest in Snapchat, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters on Thursday. The meeting, in which Snapchat Chief Executive Evan Spiegel and chief strategy officer Imran Khan were present, triggered speculation that Alwaleed may take part in Snapchat’s new funding round that has already seen Alibaba Group Holding invest $200 million
China’s Huawei Technologies [HWT.UL], the world’s No. 2 telecom equipment maker, expects total shipments of smartphones in southeast Asia to rise 160 percent to 8 million units in 2015, boosted by strong demand in Myanmar, it said on Thursday. In the first quarter, Huawei posted a 120 percent increase in smartphone shipments in the region, one of the most promising markets in the world, Thomas Liu, President for Huawei’s southeast
Update: An Apple spokesperson has now responded, saying: “We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update.” Original story: Apple’s iMessage platform has been subject to a new bug that shuts down your entire iPhone after receiving the message “effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗”. The second half is Arabic and
Update: An Apple spokesperson has now responded, saying: “We are aware of an iMessage issue caused by a specific series of unicode characters and we will make a fix available in a software update.” Original story: Apple’s iMessage platform has been subject to a new bug that shuts down your entire iPhone after receiving the message “effective. Power لُلُصّبُلُلصّبُررً ॣ ॣh ॣ ॣ 冗”. The second half is Arabic and
Home routers, cable and DSL modems have been exploited by hackers using malware that can be implemented to botnets to take control of Twitter, Instagram and a range of other social media accounts. A report penned by security researchers Olivier Bilodeau and Thomas Dupuy found that the Linux/Moose malware has been targeting consumer routers and modems that have weak credentials, not exploiting any kind of vulnerability. Once the moose is
Home routers, cable and DSL modems have been exploited by hackers using malware that can be implemented to botnets to take control of Twitter, Instagram and a range of other social media accounts. A report penned by security researchers Olivier Bilodeau and Thomas Dupuy found that the Linux/Moose malware has been targeting consumer routers and modems that have weak credentials, not exploiting any kind of vulnerability. Once the moose is
A U.S. judge ordered Yahoo Inc to face a nationwide class-action lawsuit accusing it of illegally intercepting the content of emails sent to Yahoo Mail subscribers from non-Yahoo Mail accounts, and using the information to boost advertising revenue. In a decision late Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California said people who sent emails to or received emails from Yahoo Mail subscribers since Oct. 2, 2011
Cities: Skylines has already garnered a tonne of critical praise, trumping 2013’s SimCity and, in the eyes of many, marking a new benchmark for the city simulation genre. However, it’s been the encouragement of player-made mods that has really helped its community to flourish (just check out the Cities: Skylines modding Subreddit if you want proof). Right now there are around 33,000 available mods and counting. In fact, developers aren’t
