Since Qualcomm has a near-monopoly position in the 4G LTE and 3G EV-DO modem markets, Apple and others have argued, phone makers have had little choice but to agree. and to a lesser extent Samsung are welcome news for Qualcomm, since their feature sets give Qualcomm more ammo for its claim that its chip customers have plenty of alternatives.
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What is Porting and What Does It Mean for Your Small Business Phone?
As a small business, continuity is a challenge when you move to a new location . While the physical move will displace some of your customers until they get used to the new location, your phone number can come along with you, meaning you don’t have to get a new one.
Baidu Hits the Reset Button After Cleaning Up Online Advertising
Baidu Inc. is convinced it’s put the worst of a government-driven internet advertising crackdown behind it after posting quarterly revenue that beat estimates. Sales fell a less-than-projected 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter after China’s biggest search engine raised registration requirements for marketers and cut the number of ads it displays alongside results.
SpaceX’s Dragon capsule arrives at the space station
The Canadarm 2 reaches out to capture the SpaceX Dragon cargo spacecraft and prepare it to be pulled into its port on the International Space Station on April. The A day after aborting an attempted docking, SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station Thursday and was captured by the station’s robotic arm while flying over Australia.
How Eero Plans To Fend Off Wi-Fi Rivals: Lower Prices And No Distractions
The startup’s whole-home Wi-Fi system is getting a price cut on its first birthday. Can it stay on top of the market it created? After jump-starting the whole-home Wi-Fi market last February, Eero is celebrating its first birthday with price cuts.
traffic jam
The Federal Communications Commission today approved two cellular base stations-one each from Ericsson and Nokia-to use LTE-U , marking the first official government thumbs-up for the controversial technology. FCC chairman Ajit Pai said in a statement that the unlicensed spectrum-historically, the territory of Wi-Fi-can now be used to help ease the load on carrier mobile networks.
NASA Announces Discovery of Earth-Sized Batch of Planets
NASA announced on Wednesday that its Spitzer Space Telescope has revealed the “first known system of seven Earth-sized planets around a single star.” Three of the planets are located in what is known as a “habitable zone,” the region around the group’s parent star.
Landmark Cinemas CEO: “I Love Tentpoles But I Need More Than That”
Speaking Monday at the HPA Tech Retreat, the exec also said he’s not looking to launch virtual reality at his theaters. Neil Campbell, president/CEO of Landmark Cinemas, asserted that he needs a steady stream of all types of movies – not just tentpoles – to keep his cinemas healthy.
Rakuten Surges on Share Buyback at Half the Price of 2015 Issue
Rakuten Inc. surged the most in more than a decade after the Japanese e-commerce operator announced plans to buy back as much as 100 billion yen of stock at a significant discount to a share issue just 20 months ago. Shares climbed 11 percent to 1,149 yen in early Tokyo trade, headed for the biggest gain since 2004.
Apple’s Reported Plan to Launch Several New iPads Makes Sense, But Won’t Stabilize Tablet Sales
Launching new iPad Pro models should strengthen Apple’s grip on the high-end. But bigger improvements will be needed to spark an industry recovery.
Google Brings Tilt Brush To The Oculus Rift
The company may have its own VR platforms, but that isn’t stopping it from developing great content for other systems. If you have an Oculus Rift and have been feeling left out because you can’t use one of the most-awarded virtual reality experiences, Google’s ready to let you in on the fun.
Walmart Surprisingly Didn’t Have an Ugly Holiday Season
Walmart shares climbed by 2.35% to $71 a share in pre-market trading Tuesday after the retail giant reported strong fourth quarter and full-year results. Fourth quarter earnings came in at $1.30 a share on revenue of $133.6 billion, Analysts had estimated earnings of $1.28 a share on sales of $131.1 billion.
Google, Bing Agree to Help U.K. Creative Industries Fight Pirate Sites
A voluntary code of practice is designed to “kick-start collaboration between the parties to demote links to websites that are dedicated to infringing content for consumers in the U.K.” Google and Microsoft’s Bing are two big-name search engines that have voluntarily signed on to a first-of-its kind initiative in Britain aimed at “reducing the availability of infringing content accessed through online search.” The agreement between representatives of rights holders and major search engines was unveiled Monday following a government-chaired series of roundtables.
Sequoia-Backed China Robot Startup Said to Be Raising New Funds
Makeblock Co., a Chinese maker of DIY robotics parts, is seeking to raise funding at a $200 million valuation as the Sequoia Capital-backed startup expands into classrooms and hobbyist’s workshops globally, people familiar with the matter said. The Shenzhen-based company us seeking to raise about 200 million yuan in a series B round, the people said, requesting not to be named discussing a private matter.
Sequoia-Backed China Robot Startup Said to Be Raising New Funds
Makeblock Co., a Chinese maker of DIY robotics parts, is seeking to raise funding at a $200 million valuation as the Sequoia Capital-backed startup expands into classrooms and hobbyist’s workshops globally, people familiar with the matter said. The Shenzhen-based company us seeking to raise about 200 million yuan in a series B round, the people said, requesting not to be named discussing a private matter.
Apple’s Upcoming iPhone Helps Foxconn’s Gravity-Defying Act
Growing optimism about the next iPhone has propelled Apple Inc. to record highs. Halfway around the globe, a lesser-known Taiwanese company is riding that same wave of euphoria.
SpaceX Launches Supply Rocket From Historic Apollo Pad
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. successfully launched its second rocket in as many months on Sunday, bringing it a 10th of the way to its goal of deploying 20 to 24 rockets this year. The Falcon 9 rocket that launched SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on Sunday separated minutes after liftoff and landed upright on Earth in its designated area.
Hawthorne-based SpaceX launches rocket from historic Cape Canaveral site
Hawthorne-based SpaceX has launched a spacecraft carrying supplies to the International Space Station today, its first launch attempt from Florida’s Cape Canaveral since one of its rockets exploded in September. SpaceX Falcon rocket blasted off Sunday morning from.
SpaceX Launches Supply Rocket From Historic Apollo Pad
Elon Musk’s Space Exploration Technologies Corp. successfully launched its second rocket in as many months on Sunday, bringing it a 10th of the way to its goal of deploying 20 to 24 rockets this year. The Falcon 9 rocket that launched SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft on Sunday returned to Earth soon after liftoff.
FCC head: Turn on smartphones’ FM radio capabilities, aid users
Millions of Americans use their smartphones every day to stream music from services such as Pandora or Spotify. Others use mobile devices to access podcasts or radio shows.
Industry Pressures Lead to Speculation on Magazine M&A
A number of magazines reportedly are on the block or are attracting interest, including Us Weekly, Time, Playboy and The Hollywood Reporter. It’s hardly page-turning news at this point: Print magazines are under pressure as readers flock to the internet for instant news and entertainment updates.
CUBAN: Don’t go to school for finance – liberal arts is the…
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban offered a perhaps bleak prediction on the future of jobs in an interview Friday with Bloomberg’s Cory Johnson at the NBA All-Star Technology Summit in New Orleans. Discussing the swiftly evolving nature of jobs due to automation , he noted that across a broad array of industries, robots will replace human workers.
Why We’re Excited About These 3 Top Stocks
No two investors are alike. While some are excited by explosive growth, others look for predictable businesses with competitive advantages.
Ford’s Dozing Engineers Side With Google in Full Autonomy Push
As Ford Motor Co. has been developing self-driving cars, the U.S. automaker has started noticing a problem during test drives: Engineers monitoring the robot rides are dozing off.
The FCC wants you to be able to listen to FM radio from your smartphone
Millions of Americans use their smartphones every day to stream music from services such as Pandora or Spotify. Others use mobile devices to access podcasts or radio shows.
Flex: Cramer’s Top Takeaways
Shares of Flex have been on a tear, rising almost 30% in 2016 and already up another 13% in 2017. “What a winner,” Cramer said of the stock, which trades at just 12 times next year’s earnings.
Visa: Cramer’s Top Takeaways
Visa CEO Al Kelly tells Jim Cramer there’s great opportunity for growth in India and elsewhere in coming years. In an “Executive Decision” segment, Cramer spoke with Al Kelly, CEO of Visa .
Visa Checkout Is Growing Fast — but Is That Enough?
The stock price popped on the revenue and earnings beat and is now up 9% year to date. Underlying business fundamentals also look strong.
Your complete guide to choosing an unlimited data plan
With all the unlimited mobile data plans out there these days , it’s easy to feel a little lost. Between the varying offers and the fine print, choosing a data plan in 2017 may seem like an exercise in frustration.
Paypal and Alphabet Spell it Out for Investors
In this episode of Industry Focus: Tech , they share the most interesting points from both reports, from the most important earnings numbers to little Q&A gems that shed some light on each companies’ long-term plans, and more. Motley Fool co-founders Tom and David Gardner have spent more than a decade beating the market.
Intel Corporation Might Finally Fix This Huge Flaw With Expensive Gaming Chips
Intel offers PC gamers chips with four incredibly fast processor cores , and it also offers them chips with between six and 10 processor cores , but each of these cores is much slower than the four-core chips. Although Intel does not provide sales data by individual chip model, I have a strong suspicion that even gamers with very deep pockets often opt for the super-fast quad-core chip rather than go for one of the more expensive chips.
VMware: Cramer’s Top Takeaways
In an “Executive Decision” segment, Cramer spoke with Pat Gelsinger, CEO, and Sanjay Poonen, COO of Customer Operations at VMware , the virtualization software pioneer with shares that are up 15% so far in 2017 after the company announced a $1.2 billion stock buyback. Gelsinger said that VMware was one of the first companies to turn one physical CPU into 10 virtual CPUs and today, 80% of all workloads are managed virtually since software is so much more efficient and flexible.
Retail Stocks: What to Watch in 2017
Assailed by the relentless and merciless rise of e-commerce, brick-and-mortar retailers are struggling to adapt to an increasingly online world. Will this retail destruction continue in the year ahead? And what are the major retail trends that investors should watch? Read on to find out.
Why Orbital Insight Is One Of The Most Innovative Companies Of 2017
If you want to see beautiful images of Earth from a million miles away, visit NASA’s EPIC website-just don’t expect to learn much about the economic or societal trends happening down below. For that, you’ll need Orbital Insight .
Why Intel Corporation’s Cannon Lake-EP and EX Server Chips May Be Dead
Skylake-EP and EX represent all new architectures built using the company’s 14-nanometer+ technology, while Cannon Lake-EP and EX were supposed to represent mild architectural enhancements of the Skylake-EP and EX chips, but with the benefit of being built on the company’s upcoming 10-nanometer chip manufacturing technology. Although I can’t make this prediction with 100% certainty, I strongly suspect that based on Intel’s most recent disclosures, Cannon Lake-EP and EX are dead.
Work to be done
It was doing a favour for his mother that gave entrepreneur Matt Barrie the idea for setting up a business that is now worth more than A$400m . His company and website Freelancer has a simple concept – it connects people who have work they need doing with others who compete to do the task by submitting the fee they would charge.
How Wal-Mart Can Take On Amazon Beyond Free 2-Day Shipping
The world’s largest retailer ditched its Amazon Prime-wannabe, Shipping Pass, which offered free three-day shipping for an annual fee of $49, and is instead offering free two-day shipping on all orders of $35 or more. It’s a better deal for customers, as a majority of orders on the company’s website are for more than $35, and Wal-Mart’s success has historically come from offering rock-bottom prices without hurdles such as a membership fee, offering a different kind of value from Amazon Prime.
Intel Corporation Expects to Grow Client Computing Group Profit Margin
CCG is Intel’s largest business by revenue, generating nearly $33 billion in sales during 2016. Most of that revenue comes from sales of processors and related components into personal-computer systems, although the company has seen reasonable success from the sale of chips that power cable gateways and, more recently, cellular modem chips into Apple ‘s At Intel’s Feb. 9 analyst day, company management went over its financial expectations for this segment for 2017 — and beyond.
Amazon’s Shipping Costs Are Soaring. Should Investors Be Worried?
Online sellers can save money by avoiding pricey commercial rents and a staff devoted to assisting customers. spends billions more on shipping than it brings in in charges and fees, and many brick-and-mortar retailers have complained that e-commerce sales, though accretive to overall revenue, come with a lower margin than in-store sales.
Intel Corporation Lowers Long-Term Data Center Growth Forecast
After missing this target many times over the last several years — as Bernstein Research’s Stacy Rasgon pointed out in a recent note to clients, Intel only met or exceeded the 15% goal once in the last six years — Intel finally took down its long-term growth target at its Feb. 9 investor meeting. Let’s go over the company’s new financial targets, and look at the company’s rationale for bringing them down.