The past couple of years have marked some steep ups and downs for Huawei. Just this morning, the company posted a 25 percent raise in profit to $8.84 billion in 2018. Yesterday, on the other hand, a UK oversight body issued a report noting “serious and systematic defects.” While it’s true that on-going security concerns…
Alibaba has made an acquisition as it continues to square up to the opportunity in enterprise services in China and beyond, akin to what its US counterpart Amazon has done with AWS. TechCrunch has confirmed that the e-commerce and cloud services giant has acquired Teambition, a Microsoft- and Tencent-backed platform for coworkers to plan and collaborate…
A year ago, Apple acquired the digital newsstand app Texture to form the basis of its new subscription-based service, Apple News+, which launched on Monday. As some have expected, the standalone Texture app will soon shut down as a result. According to emails sent to current Texture subscribers pointing to a FAQ on the company’s…
Ride-hailing startup Lyft may bear the distinction bearing highest net loss of any maiden public company ever going public, but despite that, it made its debut in a high gear this morning in. Trading as LYFT on Nasdaq, the company’s shares opened at nearly noon today at $87.24, a pop of 21 percent on the $72/share…
Alphabet’s urban planning subsidiary announced today the launch of CommonSpaces. The new app was created to give park operators and community members a place to enter and organize observations about parks and other publics spaces. Interested parties can create a web portal for a space. The organizer defines the parameters of a study, outlining what…
Political parties, campaigns, and brands can’t get an accurate and cost-effective understanding of opinion in small geographic areas, like the constituencies of lawmakers. This is a big problem in political campaigning. And all political campaigning now has a huge online element, as we know. We also know political turbulence is one of the defining themes…
Earlier this month, Invisibilia celebrated its fifth birthday. As one of NPR‘s most popular podcasts, it deals with the invisible forces behind why we do what we do, think what we think, feel how we feel, and believe what we believe. And despite tackling serious topics — its newest season promises to be an “emotional survival guide,”…
FireEye today released Commando VM, which according to the company, is a first of its kind Windows-based security distribution for penetration testing and red teaming. When it comes to the best-operating systems for hackers, Kali Linux is always the first choice for penetration testers and ethical hackers. However, Kali is a Linux-based distribution, and using…
Nearly three years on from the release of high-end, consumer virtual reality headsets, VR still has a few killer games. There are plenty of decent experiences on the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, but only a handful are real must plays. One of those few is also one of the oldest: 2014’s Alien: Isolation. Despite…
Oppo is all set to make the Reno official on April 10, and as we inch closer to that date, we keep hearing more about this smartphone. A leak from yesterday gave us a pretty good look at Reno’s design, and today the smartphone has appeared on TENAA with its detailed specs and images. Oppo…
