Affected users should manually download the security update from the Microsoft Update Catalog website. Software giant, Microsoft Corp has issued an emergency security update that plugs bugs in Intel Corp’s buggy Spectre firmware patch. Microsoft’s update comes nearly after a month following Intel’s confirmation that its chips had exploitable vulnerabilities, now known as Meltdown and…
First Solar’s shares have appreciated by 54% since September 30. Barron’s has advised investors to cash in on their First Solar Inc holdings shares and pocket the big gain the shares of the solar panel maker has made in recent months. Since the end of September, the stocks of First Solar has risen by 54%…
Coincheck’s statement comes in the wake of a cyber attack in which it lost $425 million of NEM coins, marking it as one of the biggest heists in the digital currency’s history. Coincheck Inc, a Tokyo-based cryptocurrency exchange stated it would return neqarly $425 million (46.3 billion yen) of virtual money it lost to a…
The effort is in line with Fujitsu’s intent on offloading its non-core businesses. On Friday, Fujitsu Ltd stated it is holding talks with Polaris Capital Group to sell its mobile phone business to the investment fund, a deal which could fetch as much as $456 million (50 billion yen). Japan’s Nikkei news agency stated that…
Dell’s board is set to meet later this month to discuss these options. As per a source familiar with the matter at hand, Dell Technologies Inc is weighing its strategic options which includes merging with its majority-owned VMware Inc which is listed in the New York Stock Exchange as well as an initial public offering…
A positive investor outlook for emerging markets (EM) was recorded in a poll of poll of investment managers and financial advisors by the Columbia Threadneedle Investments. This was a sentiment that followed those economies were one of the best performing assets in 2017. The level of optimism for the EM was 45 per cent and…
The agreement, spanning several years, covers areas of technology related to RF Front-End components. Qualcomm Technologies Inc stated it has signed memorandums of understanding (MOU) for sales worth at least $2 billion with Xiaomi Communications, Lenovo Group, Vivo Communication Technology and the Guangdong OPPO Mobile Telecommunications Corp. On Thursday, the U.S. chipmaker disclosed that the…
Gartner and SK Hynix have reported that demand for NAND memory chips are set to rise in 2018. South Korean memory giant, SK Hynix, has reported a record surge in its fourth quarter profits, easing market concerns of a decline in memory chips demand. With the news reaching the market, shares of SK Hynix rose…
Emerging from bankruptcy protection, the firm is pushing to reinvent its brick-and-mortar stores as well as rejig its website to take on more e-commerce. Specialty retailer Toys “R” Us Inc stated it will be closing one-fifth of its stores in the U.S. in the coming months as it struggles to emerge from one of its…
XtalPi uses quantum physics, AI and cloud computing to improve drug design processes. China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd along with Sequoia Capital China and Alphabet Inc’s Google have joined a $15 million series B funding round for XtalPi Inc, a Boston and Shenzhen-based artificial intelligence (AI) pharmaceutical firm. A statement by Google and XtalPi confirmed that…
