Alibaba Group Holding Ltd will invest heavily in existing and new ventures abroad, making its push beyond the China market a top priority, the Chinese e-commerce leader’s new CEO, Daniel Zhang, said. “We must absolutely globalize,” Zhang said in his first speech since taking up his new post this week, according to a report on Thursday on Alibaba’s news and commentary website, Alizila. The vast bulk of Alibaba’s revenue comes
With the digital world still recovering from the Heartbleed bug, there’s a new nastily named vulnerability in town, and its consequences could be even more catastrophic. The zero-day flaw could theoretically allow an attacker to take over a data centre from within. CrowdStrike’s Jason Geffner, who found the bug, has christened it Virtualized Environment Neglected Operations Manipulation – or Venom for short. It uses a bug inside a legacy virtual
Camera rumors, precedents and possibilities We can’t tell you for certain what 2015 holds in store for new cameras, but we can give you our best guess – and we think we’ve nailed a few key stories already. We’ve gathered together rumours, tip-offs and speculation from a number of respected sources and combined this with our own research and experience to produce a list of cameras we think we could
To get the most out of your smartphone or music player, you have to buy a respectable set of headphones. There’s no getting around it. The dinky throwaways that are included with today’s most popular devices just don’t cut the mustard. But when it comes to making a selection, it’s all too easy to get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of options to choose from. That’s why we’ve covered the
Update: TCL has announced that the most premium of its new line of Roku TVs, the 3800 and 3850 series, will be available later this month. The 3800 series, ranging from $229 to $479, features a 1080p panel and 120Hz refresh rate (40-inch and larger only) inside a modern design with quad pedestal stand. The 3850 series, going from $249 to $699 across its three screen sizes, offers the same
You know the deal with Top Gear right? It was a TV show where three men acted like big kids driving cars up and down the country – sometimes even the world – getting into all kinds of trouble. It proved quite popular all over the globe until Jeremy Clarkson was dropped from the program after an alleged assault on a producer over a steak or something. Ever since rumours
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch “Instant Articles” that will let them publish articles directly to the social network’s mobile news feeds. Instant Articles will let stories load more than 10 times faster than standard mobile web articles and will include content from publishers such as the New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic, Facebook said in a blog post on its website. The
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch “Instant Articles” that will let them publish articles directly to the social network’s mobile news feeds. Instant Articles will let stories load more than 10 times faster than standard mobile web articles and will include content from publishers such as the New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic, Facebook said in a blog post on its website. The
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc tied up with nine news publishers to launch “Instant Articles” that will let them publish articles directly to the social network’s mobile news feeds. Instant Articles will let stories load more than 10 times faster than standard mobile web articles and will include content from publishers such as the New York Times, BuzzFeed and National Geographic, Facebook said in a blog post on its website. The
Finland’s Nokia is planning to cut up to 70 jobs from its technologies unit in Finland, its spokeswoman said on Wednesday. “Nokia Technologies has revised its long-term strategy and will consequently reshape organization. The unit, which includes Nokia’s patents and brand-licensing business, has employs 650 globally and about 400 in Finland.
