Watch out PayPal: Now you can use Apple Pay online June 13, 2016 Apple has made a major move with its mobile pay service, adding support for it online. This means users can simply use a "Pay by Apple" button when browsing on the iPhone or Mac, in addition to using the iPhone to pay at tills. An Apple Pay button will appear when you pay online, via [...]
Apple is bringing a major emoji update to your iPhone June 13, 2016 A new operating system from Apple will bring an innovative new feature to your iPhone – and it involves emojis. The iOS 10 update which will be released later this year, introduces what Apple is calling "emojification". If you type out a message, it will automatically suggest an emoji option, if there is one, instead [...]
These are the new features coming to your Apple Watch June 13, 2016 A new update for the Apple Watch is here. Revealed at Apple's developer conference WWDC, here are the key things you need to know about the operating system update, coming in Autumn. 1. Faster The demo of the new watch OS showed a much quicker response time giving a near instantaneous 2. Dock screen The [...]
Microsoft is buying LinkedIn in surprise $26bn deal June 13, 2016 Microsoft is buying LinkedIn for $26.2bn (£18.5bn) the company announced today, in a completely unexpected deal that becomes one of the biggest ever in technology. Shares in Microsoft were down more than three per cent while LinkedIn shares rocketed nearly 50 per cent in pre-market trading. In a memo to staff, Microsoft boss Satya Nadella said: “This deal brings [...]
Microsoft megadeals: As Microsoft shells out $26.2bn on LinkedIn, what has become of its other $1bn plus acquisitions? June 13, 2016 Microsoft has announced plans to buy LinkedIn for $26.2bn (£18.5bn) – news so unexpected, it left most of the world's tech industry speechless. And while Microsoft's shares fell 3.1 per cent to $49.88 in pre-market trading in New York, it had quite the opposite effect on LinkedIn shares, which rocketed 48.4 per cent, to $63.42. Microsoft [...]
The Microsoft LinkedIn deal is the wind beneath Twitter’s wings today June 13, 2016 Shares in Twitter were lifted higher by the surprise news that Microsoft is buying LinkedIn in a deal worth $26bn (£18.5bn), rocketing more than eight per cent in early trading in New York. The troubled social network has been in the doldrums in recent months despite the best efforts of newly returned chief executive Jack [...]
Our terrible digital skills could be knocking £63bn a year off the UK’s GDP June 13, 2016 Lack of digital know-how is setting the UK economy back billions of pounds a year, a report published today has found. According to the research by the Science and Technology committee, 12.6m adults in the UK lack basic digital skills, while 13 per cent of those leaving university with a computing degree are still unemployed six [...]
Cisco and Manchester Science Partnerships launch innovation centre in the North of England June 13, 2016 Cisco has taken another step forward in its five-year plan to plough $1bn (£701m) into the UK's tech sector with the launch of a major innovation centre in the North of England. The global IT giant has formed a joint venture with the public-private enterprise Manchester Science Partnerships (MSP) to open the Mi-IDEA (Manchester Inspired – Innovation Digital Enterprise [...]
Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing raises another $600m – one month after it got $1bn from Apple June 13, 2016 Chinese Uber rival Didi Chuxing has just unveiled another $600m (£423m) round of funding – exactly one month after Apple ploughed $1bn into it. China Life made an equity investment of $300m and a long-term debt investment of two billion yuan, about $305m. Didi Chuxing said the two companies had committed to a partnership on internet-powered financial innovation and other initiatives – [...]
Tennis star Andy Murray serves up three more investments via Seedrs June 13, 2016 Tennis star and former Wimbledon champ Andy Murray has announced three more investments in British startups, made via the crowdfunding platform Seedrs. Murray, who lost to rival Novak Djokovic in the final of the French Open last weekend, has invested in Beeline, Dog Tracker Nano and blow LTD. The size of the investments has not been disclosed. Beeline is [...]