With the aim to expand in China’s home rental sharing market, Airbnb Inc. is in talks to acquire China’s Xiaozhu.com, reported the media quoting people familiar with the matter. The source, who was not named in the media reports as the talks are private, reportedly informed that the companies have held multiple meetings and the…
Oppo and Vivo has outrank everyone after elbowing Apple aside, thanks to people like Cheng Xiaoning now even while just two years ago, these companies couldn’t crack the top five in China’s smartphone market. Tapping into her WeChat social media account to promote the brands that pay the biggest commission, Cheng runs a thriving electronics…
If IoT device manufactures adhere to the best practices recommended by BITAG it could help mitigate DDoS attacks from script kiddies. In 2010, Time Warner Cable, Verizon, Comcast, Google, Microsoft and Intel along with a handful of other tech companies had collaborated forces with former FCC’s Chief Technologist, Dale Hatfield to form the Broadband Internet Technical…
However, law enforcement agencies can track potential threats by making a formal request. If there were any lingering doubts as to Twitter’s intentions of keeping spies and the police at a distance from its platform, it has cleared them up now: through its blog it has issued a warning to developers that it will not…
In a demonstration of its technological capabilities, Tesla has showcased solar as a viable option. We need not always depend on fossil fuel. Not one to waste time, having completed the acquisition of SolarCity, Tesla has jumped onto the bandwagon to display the merits of the merger. It has now revealed that the entire island of…
Very different views of the impact their proposed $48 billion combination will have on health-insurance markets were presented by Anthem Inc., Cigna Corp. and the U.S. government to a federal judge. Since the deal will increase the companies’ dominance and cut consumer choice, the biggest merger in the history of the American health-insurance industry should…
The long-running dispute between Russian billionaire Dmitry Rybolovlev against a Swiss businessman who operates the biggest art storage facilities around the world has now drawn in Sotheby’s which has joined the dispute over a Leonardo da Vinci painting. The auction house’s role in the private sale of “Christ as Salvator Mundi” to Yves Bouvier, president of Natural…
The government has left the standard open for incorporating innovation in this technology. Way back in June this year, the U.S. Department of Justice had proposed a list of specifications for smart guns, as a way forward to bring safety technology into pistols. Among the measures proposed were a slew of fail safe countermeasures, including…
Since these hurdles are highly complex, they will take some time before Novartis and Alphabet can overcome them. If you were hoping to buy Alphabet’s new smart contact lenses this year, you will have to be a little more patient since the project has run into a little hurdle: its partner, Novartis has stated its inability…
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has now has an alluring incentive for technology companies to build more plants in his country: the fastest-growing smartphone market in the world after having struggled in his campaign to bring more manufacturing jobs to India. According to a joint study by Counterpoint Research and India’s leading management school, the…
