Toshiba Corp., whose sale of its chip unit is being challenged in court by manufacturing partner Western Digital Corp., agreed to hold off closing the deal until a hearing on July 28. Toshiba will proceed with negotiations and contract signing in the meantime, the company said in a statement.
Apple will put augmented reality software in as many as a billion mobile devices. Alphabet Inc’s Google beat Apple by three years in releasing AR tools, but its features are on very few phones. In contrast, Apple can easily pair its software and devices, which gives it the edge.
Asia’s second-largest outsourcer of IT services, Infosys, forecast a 7.1 to 9.1 per cent climb in revenue for the year ending March 2018 on a U.S. dollar basis. That beat analyst estimates and its own previous outlook, both of which projected growth of 6.1 to 8.1 per cent.
Facebook Inc. is taking another stab at turning its Oculus Rift virtual reality headset into a mass-market phenomenon. Code-named “Pacific,” the device resembles a more compact version of the Rift and will be lighter than Samsung’s Gear VR headset, one of the people said.
The furniture giant’s existing AR tool, which lets customers see how sofas and wardrobes might look in their homes, was built by Metaio GmbH, an AR startup Apple acquired in 2015. Metaio’s software tools unavailable to developers are showing up again.
Amazon.com Inc. said its third annual Prime Day, the 30-hour sales event, featuring discounts on a broad assortment of goods, generated about $1 billion in revenue for the Seattle-based web retailer and was the biggest day ever for the e-commerce giant.
The event "grew by more than 60 percent" compared with the same 30-hour stretch in 2016. What exactly does it mean that an "event" grew by more than 60 percent from the same fake event last year? Is that number of items available or sold? Revenue? Amazon doesn't say.
The new lab, called Microsoft Research AI, will be based at the company’s headquarters in Redmond, Washington, and involve more than 100 scientists from across various sub-fields of artificial intelligence research, including perception, learning, reasoning and natural language processing.
Apple Inc. will establish its first data center in China to speed up services such as iCloud for local users and abide by laws that require global companies to store information within the country. Apple said that the new facility will be entirely driven by renewable energy.
Vizio Inc. sued LeEco Inc. in the wake of the Chinese technology conglomerate’s failed attempt at a $2 billion acquisition of the US television maker. When Vizio tried to work out further terms of the framework agreement, it was met with "radio silence," the company said.
Amazon Prime Day 2017: The original Echo model was discounted 50 percent, to $89.99. The smaller Echo Dot, at 30 percent off, and the Kindle Fire 7 tablet with Alexa were also among the top deals during the 30-hour event, according to a statement from the Seattle-based e-commerce giant.
Founded in 1999, Jawbone was once a darling of Silicon Valley and regarded as a pioneer in wearable technology. Yet the company missed payments, had manufacturing issues that led to refunds for its fitness device and cut employees, despite raising multiple rounds of funds over a span of more than a decade.
Microsoft Corp. is waking up to the problem in its own backyard, after the 2016 presidential election shed light on how far rural parts of America had fallen behind cities in reliable, fast connectivity, and the challenges that gap poses for residents.
After suffering some pretty brutal quarters at the hands of compatriot competitors and a weakening global smartphone market, the Chinese startup trumpeted its return last week at an all-hands staff meeting. Shipments in the second quarter climbed 70 percent from the prior three-month period.
Apple's new headquarters building in Cupertino, California--its official name is Apple Park; unofficially it's "the spaceship"--costs an astonishing $5 billion. That makes it the third most expensive modern building at the time of completion, not just in the US but in the world.
Alphabet Inc. Chief Executive Officer Larry Page was ordered to submit to questioning by Uber Technologies Inc. in his company’s lawsuit over trade secrets for self-driving car technology. Waymo argued the deposition of Page was unnecessary and intrusive.
Waymo, Alphabet Inc.’s self-driving car division, dropped three of four patent-infringement claims in its lawsuit against Uber Technologies Inc. over the startup’s autonomous vehicle program. Waymo’s decision to include patent claims in its complaint against Uber was a surprise move for Google parent Alphabet.
Samsung Electronics Co. heads into the latter half of 2017 with record quarterly earnings under its belt, hoping to sustain that momentum as Apple Inc. prepares to debut the 10th-anniversary iPhone. Samsung intends to use its well-received Galaxy S8 to extend its lead against its American rival.
On a conference call with investors this week, Imagination CEO Andrew Heath said the company was informed by Apple at the end of March "that they were certain" that products to be released in 2018 or early 2019 will no longer use Imagination’s intellectual property.
The 23-year-old who saved the world from a devastating cyberattack in May- Marcus Hutchins, was asleep in his bed in the English seaside town of Ilfracombe last week after a night of partying when another online extortion campaign spread across the globe.
Baidu Inc. has enlisted more than 50 partners for its Apollo driverless project, signing up major players in areas from mapping and ride-sharing to automaking to aid the Chinese search giant’s foray into AI-powered vehicles.
Facebook Inc., Twitter Inc. and Snap Inc. are seeking online rights to video highlights from next year’s World Cup, soccer’s most popular tournament. Facebook and Twitter hosted very little video during the last World Cup, which aired on Walt Disney Co.’s ESPN in the US.
Google could see more fines from European Union antitrust regulators this year as probes into its AdSense advertising service and Android mobile-phone software near their end, three people familiar with the cases said just a week after the company was hit with a record penalty.
LeEco Chairman Jia Yueting asked for more time to repay debt and realise his ambitions of disrupting the automobile industry, days after a Chinese court froze billions of dollars in assets controlled by him and associated companies.
Amazon.com Inc. will once again encourage deal-seekers to shop with their voices during its third-annual Prime Day sales event by offering discounts exclusive to people using the Alexa voice-activated platform to place orders. More than 100 deals will be available for bargain-hunters using Amazon’s Echo speakers.
