With the aim of satisfying app developers and adding new so-called augmented reality apps, significant changes to its marketplace for third-party software have bene introduced by Apple Inc’s newest operating system for iPhones and iPads. Even as the its two newest phone handsets, the iPhone 8 and iPhone X, set to start shipping to customers…
Thanks to a crushing debt load from a previous buyout and relentless competition from warehouse and online retailers, the once-dominant specialty retailer and ultimate toyland for a generation of post-war baby boomers – Toys “R” Us Inc., filed for bankruptcy. The gravitational pull of Amazon.com Inc., which has revolutionized the way people consume with affordable…
The user that data companies can see will get limited due to Apple adding features to its web browser Safari and this has caused the advertising trade groups to admonishing Apple. Claiming Apple’s move could make online advertising worse and deprive media companies of revenue and arguing against the changes, the move caused six major advertising…
A global could be a possible ultimate result of there is an outbreak of military conflict on the Korean Peninsula and that would be destabilizing for the region, according to Citi’s top global political analyst. Tina Fordham, managing director and chief global analyst at Citi said that the extent of the damage from such a…
Sending a clear signal to Beijing that Washington will oppose takeover deals that involve technologies with potential military applications, U.S. President Donald Trump blocked a Chinese-backed private equity firm from buying a U.S.-based chipmaker. The first announced deal for the buyout fund, which launched last year with a focus on technology investment, one of the…
While one’s personal data is worth a lot to an individual, it would be interesting to know how much worth it carries for the identity thief. According to an annual report on cybercrime by Secureworks, a unit of Dell Inc, the bitcoin equivalent of about $10 to $20 is the selling price for verified high-limit…
Analysts have conflicting views about the emerging market’s (EM) growth outlook despite the fact that this sector has continued to grow faster than developed markets and produced higher returns this year. According to a UBS report, compared to developed markets 2.25 percent, the gross domestic product growth is around 4.5 percent year on year for…
A further slide in the value of the cryptocurrency that left it over 30 percent away from the record highs it hit earlier in the month was started off after the Chinese bitcoin exchange BTCChina said on Thursday that it would stop all trading from Sept. 30. As investors and speculators flocked to domestic exchanges…
The European Union mentioned the United Kingdom once and avoided the word Brexit in a key six-thousand-word speech. redirecting all Brexit related issues to a team that only deals with Brexit has been the strategy of the European Commission – Europe’s leading Brexit negotiator, since the U.K. voted to leave the bloc. The Commission would rather talk about…
There can be a likely erosion of some 30 percent of banking jobs in the next five years because of developments in technology, said Vikram Pandit, who ran Citigroup Inc. during the financial crisis. In a television interview on Wednesday, Pandit, 60, said that the need for humans and staff in multiple bank roles such as…
