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Nintendo is set to buy back as much as 7.4-percent of its shares from the family of Hiroshi Yamauchi, the company’s third president (out of four) and the grandson of founder Fusajiro Yamauchi. The share buyback has an estimated value of roughly $1.1 billion, though Bloomberg notes that it’s not clea
Naoki Hiroshima’s recent loss of his single-letter Twitter handle @N to hijackers who socially engineered their way across multiple services was a stark reminder that there’s a human element to security on the internet: without touching a line of code, the perpetrators allegedly took fou
Despite being released as a new model, the Black Edition has few differences from the flagship Samsung Galaxy S4. The Samsung Galaxy S4 Black Edition ditches the predecessor’s plastic rear for a black-coloured faux-leather back. On the inside the Galaxy S4 is the GT-I9505 variant with a Qualcomm chi
For the music business, Twitter holds a vast haystack of data with no easy way to find the most valuable needles — like which acts are attracting the most attention and where. To help find them, Twitter has turned to 300, a new company started by Lyor Cohen, one of music’s biggest power brokers. Coh
Is it possible that IBM’s new cloud computing services business unit, the one that got suddenly bigger last year after the acquisition of SoftLayer, is bigger than cloud computing’s dominant player, Amazon Web Services? It turns out that it is, but it’s not a very good comparison. It all depends on
The next time you check into your hotel room, you’ll be able to go through the entire process with nothing but your smartphone. New technology being implemented by Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc. plans to offer the more streamlined check-in process in early 2014 at the Aloft Hotels in M
The creativity of Italians in parking their cars and scooters – on traffic islands, the pavement or simply in the middle of the street – knows few limits. But now police in the capital Rome have enlisted the power of social media to help them get to grips with the endemic problem. Citize
It has grown apparent to NASA scientists, if human beings are ever going to colonize the Moon or Mars, it begins with the vital production of water and oxygen. Mars, a planet rich with carbon-dioxide has the potential to reform its volatile atmosphere to a life-sustaining, earth-like atmosphere. The
Last year NASA funded one man’s plan to build a food 3D printer for astronauts – and now the first prototype can 3D print an entire pizza! Some of these initial pies may not look like much, but the man behind the project, mechanical engineer Anjan Contractor, intends to perfect his edible design. In
If you were crestfallen when you heard that Scentee’s fragrance-emitting smartphone add-on would be hard to get outside of Japan, you can relax, it’s now available worldwide through the company’s site. The perfume plug-in sells for $35 by itself plus a whopping $30 in shipping. Sce
As you settle into watch Super Bowl XLVIII, we hope you enjoy some football with your car commercials. Last year, automakers bought $92 million of the $292 million worth of Super Bowl advertising time, with the total hitting more than $100 million including the pre- and post-games, according to Kant
Shanghai residents spent an average of 31,018 yuan (US$5,085) last year through Alipay, a third-party payment service. Their expenditure accounted for 9.3 percent of the total spending in the country last year, according to Alipay, which was founded by China’s largest e-commerce company Alibaba. The
