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The Chinese market is definitely showing much love to the latest addition to the HTC One family, the HTC One E8 aka Vogue Edition. HTC has announced via Weibo that the company has sold 50,000 units of the HTC One E8. The handset was introduced at the starting of this month in China, and there […]
With the Blackberry OS 10.3 update coming to users this fall, Blackberry has also announced it is partnering Amazon to make the over 240,000 applications on Amazon Appstore to Blackberry 10 devices. The Amazon Appstore would come pre-installed with Blackberry’s own Appworld beside which will still serve as the official app store for the Canadian […]
Facebook Creative Labs, an innovative arm for creating brands with different facets and not really connected to the Social media brand has released a new app called Slingshot. It is okay to say that after so many attempts to purchase Snapchat by Facebook, it has finally come up with a very odd competition for Snapchat […]
Paypal, an online payment platform owned by eBay has announced its expansion into ten more countries this week, including Nigeria, Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Zimbabwe. The addition would increase the number of countries Paypal operates in to 203. Starting from today, June 17th users in five European markets – Moldova, Monaco, Montenegro, Macedonia, Belarus; four […]
Nokia over the years has always shown it is a force to reckon with and has its own established brands. Brand names like Lumia, Asha, Clearback, Surge, Mural and Pureview has been associated with Nokia over the years. And when Microsoft took over Nokia’s mobile unit (mobile and services unit) and renamed it into Microsoft […]
China’s largest e-commerce operator, Alibaba Group Holding LTD has agreed to acquire the remaining stakes in popular browser and web search company, UCWeb. Alibaba already had 66% interest in UCWeb announced, however it was revealed that the deal is worth more than the $1.9 Billion paid by Baidu for 91 Wireless last year. The Baidu-91 […]
One of the bestselling Android app on Google Play has been made available for download freely after shedding its $3.99/£2.99 asking price. The price which has been its source of revenue over the last few years, will see the company only make money from the enhancement made to the SwiftKey Keyboard app – Premium Keyboard […]
With the recent confirmation, after news first surface that the Cupertino giant were reportedly in negotiations to acquire the popular branded headphones, speakers and subscription music streaming service company. With reference to the nearly completed (subject to regulatory approval) Apple Deal with Beats Music that costs $ 3 Billion ($2.6 Billion in Cash and $400 […]
Huawei Kirin 920 SoC Huawei has announced its next generation of chipset, the Kirin 920 SoC. At the beginning of April, the Senior VP of Huawei announced that the chinese smartphone maker is working on a flagship smartphone with metal body and will differentiate itself from competition. The smartphone in question would be powered by […]
Google last Thursday unveiled plans it was working on a tablet computer with 3D applications, computer vision and advanced sensing tools. The Project Tango Developer Tablet Kit can be used to make apps that track full 3D motion and recognise surface of things nearby. The currently released version of the project is the Project Tango […]