Adyen reported a big miss on first-half sales Thursday. The news drove a $20 billion rout in the company’s market capitalization . Pavlo Gonchar | Sopa Images | Lightrocket | Getty Images Shares of European online payments giant Adyen jumped on Thursday, after the company reported strong sales growth and better-than-expected profit for 2023. Adyen, … Read more
Luxury ride-hailer Wheely’s big bet on Dubai is that the region’s burgeoning demand from wealthy individuals and digital nomads will make the city a prime fit for the company. Wheely Wheely, a luxury-focused competitor to ride-hailing giant Uber, is launching in Dubai as the company looks to reembark on an international expansion effort that was … Read more
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Mark Zuckerberg. | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Thanks to new regulations, Apple is technically enabling the creation of alternative iPhone app stores in the European Union. But that doesn’t mean large developers like Meta will bite. CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared his company’s view on Apple’s new policies during Meta’s fourth-quarter earnings call … Read more
Many consider Apple’s App Store to be the driving force behind the iPhone’s success. Without it, the iPhone was just another dumb phone trying to be smart. But access to apps via the company’s App Store opened up a whole world of opportunity. Until now, Apple’s proprietary store was the only way, other than illegal … Read more
SEOUL, South Korea — North Korea has abolished key government organizations tasked with managing relations with South Korea, state media said Tuesday, as authoritarian leader Kim Jong Un said he would no longer pursue reconciliation with his rival. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency said the decision to abolish the agencies handling dialogue and … Read more
This picture taken on September 22, 2023 shows a Rokid employee demonstrating an augmented reality helmet at the company’s office at the 2022 Asian Games host city Hangzhou, in China’s eastern Zhejiang province. From autonomous bug zappers to android pianists and driverless ice cream trucks, machines rule the world, at least at China’s Asian Games. … Read more
June Wan/ZDNET The handheld gaming space grew by one as MSI unveiled their Steam Deck competitor, the Claw A1M. The portable gaming console is the first to be built with Intel’s new Core Ultra chipset, which uses advanced AI algorithms and on-chip video codec support for enhanced video quality while streaming games as well as … Read more
Ramon S. Ang (tipping cap) and Manny V. Pangilinan watch a Gilas Pilipinas game during the World Cup. —AUGUST DELA CRUZ Owners of two of the country’s biggest conglomerates who are both enamored with sports in general and basketball in particular, Ramon S. Ang and Manny V. Pangilinan will have a rare moment on stage … Read more
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities in the violence-plagued southwestern state of Guerrero said they were investigating a gruesome massacre that took place in a part of a remote desert where two rival criminal groups have been fighting for control. Police investigators had found five burned bodies stacked onto a burned vehicle when they arrived … Read more
While you were deep in holiday hibernation, Microsoft quietly launched Android and iOS versions of Copilot, formerly known as Bing Chat. SEE ALSO: Bing Image Creator users are doing some… interesting things with new DALL-E 3 upgrade The Android launch was first spotted by X user @technosarusrex, then picked up by Neowin on Dec. 26. … Read more