Jack Ma has become the richest person in Asia. The 50-year-old founder of Alibaba Group Holding, China’s biggest e-commerce company, passed Li Ka-shing, the Hong Kong property and ports tycoon who has held the top spot in the region since April 5, 2012, according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index. Bloomberg's Yvonne Man has more on "On The Move Asia." (Source: Bloomberg 12Dec)
CNET FCC to spend $3.9 billion to expand Internet access to schools in rural and poor ... Washington Post The Federal Communications Commission agreed Thursday to dramatically boost spending to bring high-speed Internet access to schools and libraries in poor or rural areas, a move that would probably increase Americans' phone bills by about $2 a year.
USA TODAY 'Call of Duty' and Xbox One pace monthly game sales USA TODAY Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare captured the top spot on November's video-game sales list and Microsoft's Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4, according to The NPD Group — the first month Xbox has been the top seller since the consoles were released a ...
Forbes Mark Zuckerberg: Facebook May Offer Something Beyond The Like Button Forbes For years, people on Facebook have wanted something more than the Like button to express their feelings about the posts they see on the social network. Despite the clamoring, though, all you see to click on below posts is a thumbs up. That could change ...
Fortune Twitter co-founder: 'I don't give a sh*t' if Instagram has more users Fortune Yesterday, Instagram announced it has 300 million monthly active users. The news drew immediate comparisons between the photo-sharing app, which sold to Facebook FB for $1 billion in 2012, and Twitter TWTR , a $24 billion publicly traded company ...
Financial Times Google shuts Russia engineering office Financial Times Google is to close its engineering office in Russia, in the latest sign that a crackdown on internet activity by Russian authorities this year could hasten an outflow of engineering talent from the country. A series of moves against internet companies, culminating ...
Wired Original Apple computer sells for $365000 at New York auction Reuters A fully operational Apple computer that company co-founder Steve Jobs sold out of his parents' garage in 1976 for $600 sold for $365,000 at Christie's on Thursday. The Ricketts Apple-1 Personal Computer, named after its ...
Quartz Priceline.com Becomes First Major Online Travel Agency to Integrate Apple Pay ... MarketWatch Priceline.com announced today that it is the first major Online Travel Agency (OTA) to integrate Apple Pay in its recently updated ...
CBC.ca Spanish news to vanish from Google News globally Fresno Business Journal Google announced Thursday it will close Google News in Spain and block reports from Spanish publishers from more than 70 Google News international editions due to a new Spanish law...
NDTV YouTube unveils experimental new GIF maker, currently in testing on PBS Idea ... 9 to 5 Google YouTube has just released a new GIF-making tool in testing on PBS's Idea Channel. The tool is available under the share menu and allows users to pick a five-second clip from the video, add two lines of text, and export the file to their computer. The frame rate ...
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Why Priceline Paid $2.6B for OpenTable: Video - Bloomberg: (Allow video to load after clicking play) Priceline is buying OpenTable in a deal valued at $2.6 billion to add restaurant bookings to its travel business as the industry steps up investments in local listings and mobile services. Bloomberg Contributing Editor Paul Kedrosky, Cory Johnson and Jeffrey McCracken comment on Bloomberg Television's “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg June 13) Amazon.com unveils the Fire Phone, its first smartphone Los Angeles Times Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos holds up the Fire Phone at a media ... The silhouette of Jeff Bezos, chief executive officer of Amazon.com Inc., ...
Amazon And Samsung Are Locked In A Battle Against Google Forbes Amazon's operating system – for the Kindle, and presumably the Fire Phone ... This is, to some extent, the ultimate rebellion by Amazon, using Google's ... and here Amazon might even be able to beat Apple and Google, because it ...
Yahoo, LinkedIn, Google: Not A Diverse Club InformationWeek Yahoo joined LinkedIn and Google in releasing workplace diversity statistics. They tell the same tale: Silicon Valley is predominantly white and male....
Facebook announces its open data-center switch Computerworld Facebook has taken networking into its own hands, building a switch to link servers inside its data centers, and wants to make the ...
Amazon Appstore heads to BlackBerry 10 phones CNET BlackBerry 10 supports apps designed for Google's Android mobile ... Its selection of apps is limited compared to Google's Play store and Apple's App ...
Google Ready to Comply With 'Right to Be Forgotten' Rules in Europe - NYTimes.com By By MARK SCOTT Google will start to remove links to online content in Europe by the end of the month to ... Last month, Google created a rudimentary framework, including a new online form for ... BlackBerry to Add Amazon App Store to Phones ... Yahoo Tech | Harvard scientists successfully transferred a smell across ... NYT Bits Amazon Fire Phone: An All-Seeing 3D Prime Contender - Gizmodo By Brent Rose ...Amazon's phone is here, and it's called the Fire Phone. ... Report: Google in Talks to Buy Stake in Virgin Galactic ... Gizmodo
Yahoo CEO takes heat for stilted presentation in Cannes USA TODAY CANNES, France — This is an advertising conference, so some spinning and selling is expected. Yet, a Tuesday presentation from Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer was flagged by some attendees as an excessively hard sell. Audience members took to Twitter to ...
Earth's Most Abundant Mineral is Seen for the First Time and is Given a Name Chinatopix Believe it or not but the Earth's most abundant mineral doesn't have a name and hasn't been seen, until now. What on Earth is the Earth's most abundant mineral? If you answered quartz, you'd only be partially correct. Quartz is the commonest mineral in the ...
BC court ruling orders Google to block sites worldwide The Globe and Mail In an unprecedented ruling, a B.C. court has ordered Google Inc. to block a group of websites from its worldwide search engine – a decision raising questions over how far one country's courts can exert their power over the borderless Internet. The temporary ... Agency Aims to Regulate Map Aids in Vehicles - NYTimes.com: "“They don’t have enough software engineers,” said Catherine McCullough, executive director of the Intelligent Car Coalition, an industry group. “They don’t have the budget or the structure to oversee both Silicon Valley and the auto industry.”"
