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Sony profits rise on the back of PS4 game sales, Spotify shares
TOKYO, Japan – Sony on Tuesday, July 31, raised its full-year profit and sales forecasts after reporting a near-threefold increase in first-quarter profit, as its recovery continues under a new CEO.The...
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Tesla held talks with Germany, Netherlands over new factory – report
WASHINGTON, USA – Electric automaker Tesla has held talks with officials from Germany and the Netherlands about building its first major factory in Europe, the Wall Street Journal reported Monday.Tesla...
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Images of alleged upsized iPhone X emerge online
MANILA, Philippines - With numerous rumors being tossed around in the past couple of months, it was only a matter of time before we got our firsts glimpse at Apple’s latest wave of handsets.Thanks to...
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Facebook uncovers political influence campaign ahead of U.S. midterms
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Facebook said Tuesday, July 31, it shut down more than 30 fake pages and accounts involved in what appeared to be a "coordinated" effort to stoke hot-button social issues ahead of...
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Apple quarterly profit leaps in 'best June quarter ever'
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Apple said Tuesday that its profit had jumped more than 30% to $11.5 billion in the recently ended quarter, besting market expectations despite selling fewer iPhones than analysts...
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Apple inches closer to $1-T market value with earnings on the horizon
SAN FRANCISCO, USA (UPDATED) – Apple will release quarterly earnings figures Tuesday, July 31, as it flirts with a history-making, trillion-dollar market value based on its share price.To hit the...
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Ubisoft opens new PH studio
LAGUNA, Philippines - French game developer and publisher, Ubisoft officially opened the doors to its Philippine studio located inside the De La Salle University Science and Technology Complex in Santa...
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Huawei tops Apple in tightening smartphone market – IDC
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – China-based Huawei took the second-place spot from Apple in a tightening global smartphone during the second quarter of this year, according to figures released Tuesday, July 31,...
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Facebook, Instagram to introduce time-management tools
PARIS, France – Do you worry that you, or your children, spend too much time on social media? Facebook and Instagram on Wednesday, August 1, said they want to help you take control.In a statement, the...
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Facebook cuts API access for ‘hundreds of thousands’ of inactive apps
MANILA, Philippines - Facebook announced on Tuesday, July 31, US time that they are cutting access to the company’s application programming interface (API) for “hundreds of thousands of inactive apps”...
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Google sets limit to number of notches on Android P devices
MANILA, Philippines - While we have yet to see a device with more than one notch cutout, Google has gone ahead and set the ground rules for the maximum number of notches an Android device can have.In a...
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Google developing censor-friendly search engine for China – source
BEIJING, China – Google is crafting a search engine that would meet China's draconian censorship rules, a company employee told AFP on Thursday, August 2, in a move decried by human rights...
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How to know if your Reddit account was hacked
Reddit announced on Wednesday that a hacker broke into its computer systems in June, gaining access to the email addresses of some of its users and a database of user names from 2007.The company did...
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Starbucks and Alibaba join forces as China coffee war brews
SHANGHAI, China – Starbucks coffees will be delivered to Chinese consumers with the help of e-commerce giant Alibaba, the companies said on Thursday, August 2, as two of the world's biggest names in...
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Apple is world's first trillion-dollar company
NEW YORK, USA – Apple – the culture-changing company behind the iPod, iPhone and iPad – hit another milestone on Thursday, August 2, US time, becoming the first private-sector company to surpass $1...
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An amazing return: 'Marvel’s Spider-Man' is everything a fan could hope for
KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia – Spider-Man is arguably one of the most covered and coveted comic-book heroes in pop culture. On the big screen, the millennial generation has gone through two of his trilogies...
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Chinese-American engineer charged with stealing GE technology
WASHINGTON, USA – A Chinese-American engineer faces charges of stealing valuable technology from General Electric, sneaking it out hidden in a picture of the sunset to take to China, the US Justice...
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Grab raises $2B to fight ride-hailing competition
SINGAPORE – Ride-hailing firm Grab said on Thursday, August 2, it has raised $2 billion from investors to expand its offerings including electronic payments, food delivery and courier services as it...
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Music streaming giant Deezer raises 160M euros
PARIS, France – Global music streaming platform Deezer said Thursday, August 2, France time, it had raised 160 million euros ($186 million) in fresh funds from investors, including the Saudi sovereign...
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Milestones: Apple's road to being a trillion-dollar enterprise
SAN FRANCISCO, USA – Launched on a shoestring budget in a Silicon Valley garage more than four decades ago, Apple survived a near-miss with bankruptcy before soaring to a trillion-dollar market value...
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