Despite its vociferous campaigning last year for levying a 3% tax on the digital earnings of global tech firms, the SPD backed down after concluding that such a move would not be productive. On Wednesday, Germany’s Bild newspaper stated, the country’s finance ministry has, given up its plan of levying more taxes on internet giants,…
Squarely aimed at Apple’s Airpod, GN’s wireless earbuds targets a bigger slice of the $9.6 billion wireless market from its current single digit marketshare. By introducing a new product line that poses a direct challenge to Apple’s Airpods, Denmark’s GN Store Nord appears to be targeting a bigger slice of the growing market for wireless…
While the deal is widely expected to benefit Disney, its impact on Twenty First Century Fox will require more clarity. News reports from CNBC have stated citing anonymous sources familiar with the matter at hand, Twenty-First Century Fox has held talks with Walt Disney Co to divest most of its television and film assets, in…
With an estimated market value of $14.4 billion for 2017’s third quarter, here is how the cloud computing is making a difference and becoming a phenomenon that is driving business growth. With the majority of big U.S. tech companies, including Alphabet’s Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Intel, sinking in big money in the cloud computing business,…
While there is an element in luck in the way geologists locate these deposits, the new method is more structured and thorough. As per the results of a study, scientists are scouring through huge tracts of data, looking for clues for the deposits of minerals, including, oil, gas, copper and gold. The techniques adopted by…
The surge has taken short sellers of the stock by surprise. On Tuesday, boosted by a strong demand for its GPUs, the share prices of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) surged by 9% leaving short sellers low and dry. The rise in AMD’s stock price can be linked to a rally in Ethereum, a cryptocurrency, which…
The difference in approach to Apple’s and Amazon’s personal assistant is telling. Following Amazon’s lead, Apple is expected to announce its plans this coming week for expanding Siri, its voice assistant, to a large variety of app, in efforts aimed at mirroring Amazon’s runaway success with Alexa. However, engineers and artificial intelligence insiders state, instead…
Google Home is fast catching up. As per research firm eMarketer, Amazon’s voice-controlled speakers are dominating the nascent market of voice-controlled speakers. As per the results of its study, Amazon Echo and Echo Dot devices have grabbed 70.6% of the U.S. market in 2017. These speakers feature Amazon’s Alexa, its voice-controlled assistant which allows consumers…
This is welcome news for Britain: despite Brexit it is continuing to be the recipient of funds to create new technologies. Amazon plans on opening a new centre in Cambridge wherein it plans on deploying scientists and technicians to develop its future technologies, including ones for Alexa, its digital assistant that it currently uses in…
The luxurious interiors are designed for tourists unlike the mission oriented capsules of SpaceX and the likes. With space tourism inching towards becoming a reality, Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin has given plenty of glimpses inside its tourism-oriented New Shepard rocket. It has now released the interior photos of its New Shepard’s capsule for its utilitarian spacecraft…
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