(Reuters) – Dish Network Corp reported higher-than-expected quarterly revenue and profit as it earned more per pay-TV subscriber and added broadband Internet users. The second-largest U.S. satellite TV company by revenue said on Wednesday that its average revenue per pay-TV user rose to $87.91 in the second quarter from $84.15, a year earlier. Dish has been losing pay-TV subscribers as rivals offer discounts to both new and existing subscribers.
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is hoping a Canadian Olympic gold medallist once tipped to be the next chief executive of Goldman Sachs Group Inc will help them make it big in the United States. Michael Evans, who turns 58 this month, retired from the U.S. investment bank in 2013, having forged a reputation as one of the most prolific deal makers in Alibaba’s native China during a seven year stint
Alibaba Group Holding Ltd is hoping a Canadian Olympic gold medallist once tipped to be the next chief executive of Goldman Sachs Group Inc will help them make it big in the United States. Michael Evans, who turns 58 this month, retired from the U.S. investment bank in 2013, having forged a reputation as one of the most prolific deal makers in Alibaba’s native China during a seven year stint
By Joseph Menn LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send information out of an office through sound waves. The new makeshift transmitting antenna, dubbed “Funtenna” by lead researcher Ang Cui of Red Balloon Security, adds another potential channel that likewise be would be hard to detect because no
By Joseph Menn LAS VEGAS (Reuters) – A team of security researchers has demonstrated the ability to hijack standard equipment inside computers, printers and millions of other devices in order to send information out of an office through sound waves. The new makeshift transmitting antenna, dubbed “Funtenna” by lead researcher Ang Cui of Red Balloon Security, adds another potential channel that likewise be would be hard to detect because no
Earlier this year, rumors claimed that Apple would have three new iPhone versions in stores in 2015, but subsequent reports disputed those claims. Some argued that Apple had canceled the smallest model in its iPhone 6s family – thus far referred to as the iPhone 6c – while others said the phone might still be on track for release at a later point. Now, a new report says that Apple is still making the handset,
From autonomous warfare to still-distant sentience, artificial intelligence in 2015 is nothing like we expected. Here are three things every geek who dreamed of a robot future needs to know.
How do you troll the richest troll in America? Yesterday afternoon, Gawker published Donald Trump’s cellphone number, giving the public the ability to question his policy proposals, tell him off for using brash rhetoric, or just pitch him on a business idea. It seemed like fitting payback after Trump gave out the cellphone number of Senator Lindsey Graham, who proceeded to destroy his phone in a publicity stunt.
