Fitbit’s been on a bit of a acquisition spree over the last couple of years, as the company’s looked to grow its business inside the stagnating wearables category. This morning, the hardware maker announced plans to pick up Twine Health, a HIPAA-compliant, cloud-based health management […]
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RED teaming with Foxconn on smaller, cheaper 8K cameras
The news is part of a broader Foxconn effort to branch out from smartphones, a market it says has become stagnant. Foxconn currently relies on Apple for around 50 percent of its sales, manufacturing iPhones, MacBooks and other products. The company recently purchased Sharp, and […]
Google sold 3.9 million Pixel phones in 2017
The latest update on Pixel sales comes from IDC's Francisco Jeronimo, who notes that Google shipped 3.9 million Pixel and Pixel 2 devices in 2017. … when set against the global smartphone market that numbers 1.5 billion units, and it's also less than a typical […]
Starling’s marketplace banking rollout adds pensions, savings, travel insurance and mortgages
Starling, the U.K. challenger bank that offers a mobile-only current account, continues to execute on its marketplace banking strategy. Following the required regulatory approval, the Starling Marketplace is adding a number of financial services integrations, spanning pensions, savings, travel insurance and mortgage brokerage. Specifically, Starling […]
UPDATE 2-Travel group TUI fuels hopes for Turkey recovery
BERLIN, Feb 13 (Reuters) – Europe's largest travel group TUI said summer bookings for Turkey were recovering, echoing comments by rival Thomas Cook and adding to hopes that pressure on profit margins for tour operators may ease. Travel companies and airlines increased their offerings to […]
Google takes AMP beyond basic posts with its new story format
For the most part, Google’s Accelerated Mobile Pages project was about what its name implies: accelerating mobile pages. Unsurprisingly, that mostly meant quickly loading and rendering existing articles on news sites, recipes and other relatively text-heavy content. With that part of AMP being quite successful […]
Nicholls student chefs to attend top French culinary institute
Five Nicholls State University student chefs will travel to France this summer to learn from a top culinary institute in France. The Chef John Folse Culinary Institute students will attend the Institut Paul Bocuse Worldwide Alliance, which unites 14 universities from across the world for […]
Netflix preps late-night series with ‘Daily Show’ vet Michelle Wolf
This definitely isn’t Netflix’s first fling with talk shows — it launched Chelsea Handler’s series in May 2016, and it’s hard to escape the marketing blitz for David Letterman’s show. However, it illustrates Netflix’s desire to compete directly with the conventional talk show circuit by […]
Facebook Lost Around 2.8 Million US Users Under 25 Last Year
Facebook Lost Around 2.8 Million US Users Under 25 Last Year Published on February 13, 2018 at 02:20AM According to new estimates by eMarketer, Facebook users in the 12- to 17-year-old demographic declined by 9.9 percent in 2017, or about 1.4 million total users. That’s […]
Alibaba’s ‘Digital Free Trade Zone’ has some worried about China links to Malaysia
The platform is a win for Alibaba, which hopes to eat rival Amazon's lunch in Southeast Asia, home to a booming e-commerce market. … An Alibaba-led digital trade zone in Malaysia, which is part of Beijing's ambitious infrastructure project, is expected to boost trade between […]