Google’s just overtaken Apple as the world’s most valuable company (again) May 12, 2016 Google parent company Alphabet has surpassed Apple to become the biggest publicly traded company in the world in terms of market capitalisation after Apple shares fell below $90 for the first time since 2014. The under pressure iPhone maker and the search giant have been vying to be crowned the most valuable company in the world [...]
Barclays rules out Android Pay, going it alone with own mobile pay app May 12, 2016 Barclays is going it alone when it comes to mobile pay, rolling out its own contactless payment app on Android to all its customers, eschewing Google's own soon to launch Android Pay service. The bank's customers will be able to pay with just a swipe of their debit card from June with Barclays' Contactless Mobile [...]
These are the top 10 most valuable brands in the world May 11, 2016 Half of the top 10 most valuable brands in the world are technology ones, with tech titan Apple topping the list. The Cupertino-based iPhone maker may have suffered a dip in fortunes recently (compared to a decade-long streak of constant growth, at least), but it's still generating cash on the back of its reputation among consumers. [...]
Apple’s just patented a second screen for your iPad with smart cover display May 11, 2016 As if we aren't already assaulted by screen after screen on a daily basis – such is modern life – Apple wants to give you another one. The iPad helped create the concept of "second screening", but Apple thinks you need a second screen for your second screen, raising the prospect of third screening as an actual thing [...]
WhatsApp’s new desktop app is about to ruin workplace productivity May 11, 2016 As if an Internet full of listicles, cat videos, Twitter storms (and perhaps the odd bit of news) weren't enough of a distraction while you're trying to get some work done, there's a new diversion from the daily grind coming to your desktop. Messaging app WhatsApp is escaping the confines of your smartphone and has now arrived on Windows PCs and Apple Macs [...]
UK security services fail in legal bid to get hacker Lauri Love to hand over passwords for encrypted device via “back door” May 10, 2016 The UK's security services have failed in their bid to force a hacker to hand over passwords which would give them access to encrypted information held on his computer, in what's been called a landmark case. A judge has ruled today against the National Crime Agency (NCA), which was seeking the passwords as part of a civil case brought by [...]
Facebook wins copyright case against Chinese drinks company Zhongshan Pearl River Drinks May 9, 2016 If you'd been looking forward to sampling a refreshing "face book" beverage on your next visit to Beijing, you're about to be sorely disappointed. The US social networking behemoth Facebook has won a rare copyright victory in China, after the Beijing Municipal High People's Court ruled that Zhongshan Pearl River Drinks could no longer use [...]
Saudi Aramco targets London, New York, and Hong Kong for international listing May 9, 2016 The public listing of what could become the world's most valuable company, Saudi Arabian oil company Aramco, looks on course to happen in London. London – previously reported by City A.M. as a leading contender for the state-run company's IPO – has been named as part of a potential three-way foreign listing, along with rival global financial centres Hong Kong and New York. Shares [...]
After Apple, another smartphone maker is feeling the slowdown – this time, HTC May 9, 2016 It's tough time in the smartphone market these days. Pretty much everyone who's going to get one has already got one – in established markets at least – and that means the market is, in fact, more finite than firms imagined when growth rocketed over the past few years. Even for the likes of Apple. But it's HTC which is [...]
Someone spent thousands on this one-off Jony Ive designed Apple iPad Pro May 9, 2016 An iPad specially created by Apple's design guru Jony Ive and the only one of its kind in the world has been snapped up at auction for thousands of pounds. The one-off yellow iPad Pro, along with a blue suede smart cover and orange leather Apple Pencil case, was bagged by an unknown buyer at the auction for a hefty [...]