By Jessica Toonkel NEW YORK (Reuters) – TV networks are trying a new tactic to understand what shows and commercials people like to watch: read their minds. Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal and Viacom Inc are each opening labs where they will study TV viewers in mock living rooms filled with infrared cameras tracking their biometrics – such things as eye movements and facial reactions made while hooked up to skin sensors
By Jessica Toonkel NEW YORK (Reuters) – TV networks are trying a new tactic to understand what shows and commercials people like to watch: read their minds. Comcast Corp’s NBCUniversal and Viacom Inc are each opening labs where they will study TV viewers in mock living rooms filled with infrared cameras tracking their biometrics – such things as eye movements and facial reactions made while hooked up to skin sensors
Motorola Solutions Inc, best known as a maker of walkie-talkies and radio systems, blamed weak sales in Latin America and a strong dollar for a profit forecast for the current quarter that fell far short of expectations. Shares of the company – which is unrelated to cellphone and set-top box maker Motorola Mobility – dropped about 9 percent in early trading on Wednesday. Motorola Solutions’ sales have been slipping as
British members of parliament will hold an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding a cyber attack on telecoms firm TalkTalk, which was initially thought to have put the private details of over 4 million customers at risk. The Culture, Media and Sport Committee said on Wednesday that they were concerned about how companies store and secure customer information online and wanted to investigate the robustness of measures put in place by
Sprint shares fell 26 cents, or 5.4 percent, to $4.59 on the New York Stock Exchange. Under Chief Executive Marcelo Claure, the company rolled out half-priced offers, increased data allotments, a hand-delivery service of new phones, new retail stores and the industry’s most-affordable iPhone 6 leasing plan at $1 per month to lure customers. Sprint said it added 1.1 million total net customers in its second quarter.
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc has replaced its star-shaped “favorite” icon with a heart-shaped icon called “like”. “You might like a lot of things, but not everything can be your favorite,” Twitter said in a blog post on Tuesday. “We know that at times the star could be confusing, especially to newcomers.” (Reporting by Abhirup Roy in Bengaluru; Editing by Ted Kerr)
By Deborah M. Todd SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – In a rare public appearance, Google co-founder and Alphabet Inc CEO Larry Page explained why he was spurred to create a whole new structure for the company he created with Sergey Brin almost two decades ago. “I want to push the envelope for what’s possible for an innovative company with large resources,” he said during a Q&A session with Fortune editor Alan
By Suchitra Mohanty and Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – An Indian court on Tuesday jailed a driver of U.S.-based ride-hailing company Uber [UBER.UL] for life for raping a passenger, in a case that highlighted the dangers faced by women from violent sex attackers. Driver Shiv Kumar Yadav received the maximum sentence after he was found guilty last month of the rape, kidnapping and criminal intimidation of the woman, who
By Foo Yun Chee BRUSSELS (Reuters) – U.S. chipmaker Avago Technologies is set to win unconditional approval by the European Union’s competition regulators for its proposed $37 billion takeover of Broadcom Corp , two people familiar with the matter said on Tuesday. Avago offered concessions last Friday, according to the European Commission website, without providing details. Avago serves the wireless and industrial markets while Broadcom’s chips are used widely in
(Reuters) – AT&T Inc said on Monday it would offer BlackBerry Ltd’s new Android-powered smartphone in its retail stores in the United States and online from Friday. AT&T said it would be the first U.S. carrier to offer the BlackBerry Priv, powered by Google’s Android mobile platform. Waterloo, Ontario-based BlackBerry’s move to launch an Android phone marks a shift away from its own BlackBerry 10 platform, which failed to regain
