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Atlassian Corporation Plc announced to sell its communication tools HipChat Cloud and Stride to the rival Slack Technologies Inc. As per the deal, Slack will pay an undisclosed sum to acquire the intellectual property (IP) for Stride and HipChat over three years and Atlassian will take a small stake in the former company. With this, the Australia-based software enterprise giant, Atlassian made way to discontinue its real-time communication products for the internal organization. The company now aims to focus on its core expertise, wh...

Atlassian Closes Chat Platform To Focus on Project Management Tools

5 months ago

Anna Versai

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The Facebook Inc. (FB) executives on Wednesday saw investors’ inevitable reactions on 2018 Q2 earnings. The social media giant earned $13.2 billion revenue during the quarter ended on June 30, 2018, compared to $9.32 billion generated in the same duration last year. Highlighting the gravity of the situation, the growth of Facebook decelerated 7 percent in Q2 with $370 million total revenue when evaluated against $536 million revenue earned for the Q1 this year. David Wehner, Chief Finance Officer of Facebook had earlier warned share...

Facebook Hits Low After 2018 Q2 Earnings Announcement

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Facebook Inc. has set up a subsidiary in Hangzhou, located in China, a nation where the social media giant’s site remains blocked for ten years. As per a filing seen on China’s National Enterprise Credit Information Publicity System by Reuters, the Facebook Chinese subsidiary was approved recently on July 18. “We are interested in setting up an ‘innovation hub’ in Zhejiang to support Chinese developers, innovators and start-ups,” commented Debbie Frost, a Facebook spokesperson, pointing towards the Chinese province where Hangzhou is ...

Facebook Sets Up Innovation Hub in Restricted Zone

5 months ago

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Microsoft Corporation’s 2018 fourth quarter result implicitly highlights a major trend - it is steadily growing in the gaming business. Announced on Thursday, the company’s Gaming Revenue grew to $643 million or 39 percent up in 2018 Q4 against the corresponding duration previous year. Xbox software and services made the key contribution to the higher revenues in the Microsoft gaming business, cites the released statement. Crediting the success to third-party title strength (probably whispering ‘Fortnite’), Xbox software and services...

Microsoft is Doing Great in Gaming Business, Reveals FY18 Q4 Report

5 months ago

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The Future of Life Institute announced today that over 160 companies and 2,400 individuals have signed a pledge not to develop lethal AI weapons. Signatories made the pledge during the 2018 International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) in Stockholm. In the pledge, signatories promised they will "neither participate in nor support the development, manufacture, trade or use of lethal autonomous weapons." Representing 90 countries, the signatories also called on governments to introduce laws against lethal AI weapons....

Elon Musk, DeepMind Founders, and Others Pledge Not to Develop AI Weapon...

5 months ago

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During an earnings call with analysts in May 2018, Apple Inc.’s CEO Tim Cook disclosed its record 2018 March quarter results. The company posted revenue of $61 billion, increased 16% on-year and net income of $13.8 billion, for the second quarter. Additionally, he announced to put high stakes on Indian markets, the world’s fastest growing Smartphone market. Cook said, “India, we set a new first-half record. So we continue to put great energy there. Our objective over time is to go in there with all of our different initiatives from r...

iPhone Sales Dips in India Despite New First-Half Sales Record

5 months ago

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IDMvalidate has set the pace for how to provide instant ID authentication results for embassies, banks, cryptocurrency exchanges and other financial institutions who want to undergo a primary second-source verification. Seth Sewornu, the former head of the Ghana Police Visa and Document Fraud Unit, once met a man who tried to rent his passport. The detective had a valid UK visa, and the man offered him $1,300 because they looked alike. If Sewornua had leased his passport to the visa fraudster—he did not—it would not have caused much ...

New IDMvalidate App makes ID authentication easier

5 months ago

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Apple Inc on Thursday announced its investing $300 million in China to fund the provision of renewable energy resources to suppliers, Apple said in a statement. The project, which represents Apple's commitment to increase the volume of renewable energy in its supply chain and to address climatic change, would power up to 1 million homes in China. The U.S. tech giant said the project will involve 10 initial suppliers alongside Apple, jointly investing almost $300 million for a period of four years into the China Clean Energy Fund. The...

Apple Announces $300 Million Renewable Energy Fund In China

5 months ago

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American chipmaker Broadcom Inc. today announced that it has agreed to buy CA Technologies for $18.9 billion. It will finance the deal with cash on hands featuring $18 billion in new, fully-committed debt financing. The alliance scheduled to complete the legal formalities of acquisition by the fourth quarter of this year. Majorly eyeing on data center gears and processors, Broadcom’s purchase of a leading IT management software and solution provider has come as a surprise to the global trade analysts. Yet, the commendable growth of t...

Chipmaker Broadcom Acquires CA Technologies for $18.9 Billion

5 months ago

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You are doing a final editing of a presentation on your Smartphone which is to be delivered in next 5 minutes. Meanwhile, the device simply slips from your hands. Now either the presentation will happen or there is another burn on your pocket. Okay, this is something similar to watching a horror movie and you don’t want to start your Monday like this. Don’t worry, soon we may see no phones with broken screens, thanks to a German student named Philip Frenzel of the University of Aalen. He has designed an “airbag for Smartphone” as a p...