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Rapidly-growing Chinese manufacturer Xiaomi announced its first wearable today, the Mi Band. While it’s a fitness band rather than a smartwatch, it does have one smartwatch-style feature: it can be used instead of a passcode to unlock Mi phones. The waterproof Mi Band measures activity levels and sl
ARM Holdings’ chip licensing business continues to grow, the company said, reporting year-on-year increases in second-quarter profit and revenue. Revenue for the quarter totaled £187.1 million (US$309.6 million) for the quarter, up from £171.2 million a year earlier, according to International Finan
Even as cable giant Comcast tries to get bigger by absorbing Time Warner Cable, its own revenue grew in the last quarter to $16.8 billion, up 3.5 percent from last year, and net income hit $1.99 billion. The most important number for a subscription business though is how many customers it has, and t
South Korean capital Seoul could potentially ban Uber in the city, in favor of its own still-in-development app. The city government advised that it would try to ban the car-hailing app, as current South Korean law makes it illegal to provide any sort of fee-based transportation service via privatel
Icix, a startup that makes it easier to track and test consumer products, has raised $25 million in a third round of funding. The San Francisco company helps companies form business networks that share information with trading partners. Over the past four years, the company has been working on Direc
U.S. software-management company AppDynamics said Tuesday it raised $120 million in venture capital, launching the company into the growing group of startups valued at more than $1 billion. The company taps into the growing tendency of business to rely on software applications, meaning easy-to-deplo
Record numbers of new tablet users, and the first rise in fixed-line revenue in seven years, drove Verizon Communications’ second-quarter revenue up 5.7 percent year on year, it reported Tuesday. Revenue for the quarter ended June 30 totaled US$31.5 billion, up from $29.8 billion a year earlier. Wir
Yahoo has reached an agreement to acquire Flurry, a mobile analytics company, as part of a push to grow its advertising revenue within its mobile products. Flurry provides tools that help developers and publishers learn more about who’s using their apps in order to better target them with ads.
According to the rumors, HTC is said to be working on the Nexus 9 tablet which has been given the codename Flounder/Volantis. However according to a recent rumor from @evleaks, he has revealed that HTC is working on two more tablets apart from the Nexus 9, making this a pretty big tablet effort from
Samsung’s Galaxy Tab S range of tablets is very good, the best the company has made in fact. Sure, we could argue that the Note line was already covering the company’s slate output just fine, but this is Samsung and having multiple products for each market is what the Korean juggernaut d
Earlier last week it was announced that the phone unlocking bill had been passed by the Senate. What does this mean for the average user? Well it basically means that you are allowed to unlock phones legally, where previously a law had made it so that unlocking your phone was considered an illegal a
Monitise has announced that it’s entering into an expanded, multi-year global alliance with IBM. The alliance is designed to deliver cloud-based solutions aimed at enabling mobile e-commerce for financial services institutions. Monitise’s share price is currently up 1.8%. The alliance will, the comp
