Broadcom is back with what looks like a final offer to acquire U.S.-based chipset manufacturer Qualcomm. After the $120 billion offer, which also includes a higher breakup fee, Broadcom is prepared to offer the SoC maker $146 billion, which is an unprecedented moment and will definitely go down in history as the largest tech acquisition […]
LG Electronics is giving up on the Chinese Android smartphone market amid heavy losses, having opted to officially exit the Far Eastern country, local media reports. The Seoul-based original equipment manufacturer hasn’t launched a new handset in China since the LG G5 SE in mid-2016 but was still selling select models until recently, though its […]
Apple is looking into a glitch that reportedly makes it extremely difficult for iPhone X owners to answer their phones. Though most people likely spend their days texting, messaging, and posting pictures to social media, phone calls are the cornerstone of a smartphone. Accordingly, some iPhone X owners are a bit annoyed lately that a […]
If you haven’t seen it by now, Amazon’s Super Bowl LII commercial is fairly clever. Kudos to the company for coming up with a fun way to mash together celebrities and Alexa without it feeling overly cheesy or trying-too-hard. More importantly, a big thanks to Amazon’s engineers who came up with an ingenious way […]
More and more people are rocking out to Apple Music instead of Spotify. And as a new report from The Wall Street Journal indicates, if Apple Music continues to grow at its current rate, it will officially overtake Spotify this summer as the streaming world’s number one service. The news likely doesn’t thrill Spotify, which […]
The recent launch of Audiobooks on Google Play has been hit and miss for most. There’s some high prices on popular series like Harry Potter, and some series such as The Dresden Files (It’s fantastic) are incomplete. If you want to try some out, or get something interesting for the kids to listen to, then […]
Microsoft reportedly will offer Windows 10 S as a default “mode” that it will sell with virtually all Windows consumer versions, several of which are being added as a part of a roadmap update. What isn’t clear, however, is whether the new Windows 10 versions — Entry, Value, Core, Core+, and Advanced, according to a […]
Super Mario Run continued building on its 200 million global downloads recorded in October, Nintendo revealed as part of its consolidated financial report for the final quarter of the calendar year 2017, i.e. the third quarter of its current fiscal year. The first official Mario mobile game in the history of the company still boasts […]
Whether it’s the headlights or the infotainment, the A-Class is loaded with cutting-edge tech. While the US won’t be getting the hatchback variant of the A-Class, its debut nevertheless gives us an idea of what’s to come Stateside. Mercedes-Benz unveiled the 2019 A-Class hatchback today. Destined for European markets, the A-Class piles on the tech. […]
IPhone unit sales fell short in the last quarter, but Apple Inc. thinks investors should look beyond that stumble. Analysts, though, aren’t totally convinced. In its earnings report late Thursday, Apple AAPL, -0.26% delivered better-than-expected, record sales of $88.3 billion and net income of slightly over $20 billion for the fiscal first quarter. But unit […]
With Windows Insider build 17083, Microsoft responded to criticism about transparency by adding a ‘Diagnostic Data Viewer’ app to the OS for beta users to try out. Microsoft last week gave Windows 10 testers a peek at an app that shows exactly what diagnostic data the company collects from customers and transmits to its own […]
The Owl dual cameras look like a pretty darn good dashcam, but there’s so much more to it than that. Dashboard cameras are a great way to protect yourself with video evidence from all sorts of trouble while driving — everything from fender benders to insurance fraud and more. They can also be fun when […]
