Samsung Galaxy Note 7 Fiasco Could Cost Company a Whopping $17 Billion Samsung Electronics’ worst-ever recall could cost the company as much as $17 billion after it halted sales of its flagship Galaxy Note 7 for a second time, spelling an almost certain end for the ill-fated premium model. Samsung announced the recall of 2.5 million Galaxy Note 7s in ... Read More »
GoPro Halts Sale of Hero5 Camera on Amazon Wearable camera maker GoPro Inc said on Thursday it temporarily stopped selling its latest Hero5 camera model on Amazon.com Inc in the United States as the company negotiates pricing with the online retailer. GoPro’s shares fell as much as 3.8 percent, on track for its worst six-day drop since May. The company ... Read More »
‘ AMD Reaches Deal With Alibaba to Use Chips in Cloud Service Advanced Micro Devices Inc., struggling to re-establish its data centre chip business, said Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. plans to provide cloud-computing services based on its graphics semiconductors. China’s largest e-commerce company is working on expanding the range of services it offers over the internet and will work with ... Read More »
Google to Build a ‘Primary’ Mobile Index for Search Results in the Next Few Months HIGHLIGHTS Garry Illyes said that the mobile index should arrive in a few months The new mobile index will be updated more often than desktop It will be considered as the primary index by Google Google is going to create a new mobile index for ... Read More »
4chan Users Claim to Have Hacked Hillary Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta’s iPhone, iPad HIGHLIGHTS 4chan hackers found John Podesta’s password in WikiLeaks email dump WikiLeaks, however, says it had changed password before releasing emails Podesta’s Twitter account had been hacked earlier as well Hackers on a 4chan message board claim to have wiped the iPhone and iPad of Hillary ... Read More »
Yahoo Restores Automatic Email Forwarding After Brief Outage Yahoo says it has restored automatic email forwarding after a brief outage sent a flutter of indignation across the internet. Yahoo Mail executive Michael Albers says in a statement the feature had been disabled as Yahoo upgraded its platform. News of the outage , first reported by The Associated Press, came following ... Read More »
Twitter (NYSE:TWTR) isn’t just a social media network. Over the course of the last decade, the microblog site has emerged to become an integral part of global society in its own rite. Twitter is a place where anyone can find fame, elections are fought and won and news travels the globe at break-neck speed. Bearing that in mind, it’s little ... Read More »
Small businesses are waking up to the potential for using social media to market their products, a new study has found. How Small Businesses Are Using Social Media According to the report by SCORE, a nonprofit association for small businesses, 45 percent of these small companies use social media marketing to promote a specific product or service. Apart from product ... Read More »
ProFinder is a new professional services marketplace that LinkedIn (NYSE:LNKD) is piloting across the U.S. It is a “freelancer for hire” site similar to Fiverr, Flexjobs or Upwork, designed to help businesses find local freelance talent. How LinkedIn ProFinder Works To request a service, the business owner or manager goes to the ProFinder website and answers the “What service do you ... Read More »
Usefulness Functionality Price Summary Sound Suite is a system designed to manage the content that callers hear while on hold. It gives businesses the ability to select music playlists and promotional messages directly from the admin interface. Sound Suite, a product from Tie National, a technology solutions provider for multi-location businesses, is a system designed to manage the content that ... Read More »
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