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October 5, 2016 Yahoo Tries to Get More Fashionable With Polyvore Purchase
Yahoo Tries to Get More Fashionable With Polyvore Purchase Yahoo is buying style-tip specialist Polyvore in its latest attempt to become a more fashionable place to advertise. Financial terms of the deal announced Friday aren’t being disclosed, signaling the price of the acquisition isn’t considered to be significant. Polyvore is an 8-year-old startup that specializes […]
NEWS October 5, 2016 Japan Rocket Set to Blast Off for ISS on Wednesday
Japan Rocket Set to Blast Off for ISS on Wednesday A Japanese rocket is set to blast off later Wednesday, carrying emergency supplies and an unmanned cargo vessel bound for the International Space Station. The H-IIB rocket is set to lift off from the southern island of Tanegashima at 8:50pm (11:50am GMT or 5:20pm IST) […]
NEWS October 5, 2016 The Incredibly Brilliant Way People Are Now Paying for Things in Asia
The Incredibly Brilliant Way People Are Now Paying for Things in Asia When Apple first rolled out Apple Pay in 2014, it was billed as a simpler way to buy goods and services. You take your phone out, tap it to the credit card reader, and off you go. Seems convenient, right? But some consumers […]
ALL DEALS October 5, 2016 Can Fashion and Technology Coexist Without Any Stunts?
Can Fashion and Technology Coexist Without Any Stunts? The worlds of fashion and technology are coming closer and closer together. While technology companies have paid a lot of attention to industrial design in recent times, the use of technology in fashion, and fashion in technology, is still developing. Apple tied up with Hermes, a French […]
CLOTHING October 5, 2016 Clothes Smarter Than You Are: Welcome to the Future
Wish there was a gadget able to transform your boring office uniform into a party outfit, or even a device that guides you straight to new friends? Then call Marcelo Coelho. A researcher with Fluid Interfaces at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Media Lab, Coelho works at the cutting edge of wearable devices that may […]
ALL DEALS October 5, 2016 South Asian Shopping App Zilingo Adds Vue.ai’s Visual Search
South Asian Shopping App Zilingo Adds Vue.ai’s Visual Search M-commerce marketplace app Zilingo, which enables cross border shopping for fashion and lifestyle products in Thailand, and Singapore announced the rollout of visual search and personalisation features powered by Mad Street Den’s vue.ai platform. Available on for users and sellers on Android, the integration uses Vue.ai’s […]
CLOTHING October 5, 2016 New Plastic Clothing Material Could Keep People Cool: Study
New Plastic Clothing Material Could Keep People Cool: Study American researchers have created a low-cost textile made of a plastic base that could cool the body when woven into clothing. The engineers suggested in the US journal Science that the textile could become a way to keep people living in hot climates cool without using […]
NEWS October 4, 2016 LG Says to Invest in Robot Technology
LG Says to Invest in Robot Technology South Korea’s LG Electronics Inc said on Sunday it will aggressively invest in robots, seeking to capitalise on advancing artificial intelligence that may eventually lead to sophisticated machines performing everyday human tasks. LG, in a statement, said its appliances division is preparing the firm’s entry into the robotics […]
NEWS October 4, 2016 Halt and Catch Fire: Battery Woes Go Well Beyond Samsung
Halt and Catch Fire: Battery Woes Go Well Beyond Samsung Samsung’s Note 7 isn’t the only gadget to catch fire thanks to lithium-battery problems, which have afflicted everything from iPhones to Tesla cars to Boeing jetliners. Blame chemistry and the fact that the batteries we rely on for everyday life are prone to leaking and […]
ELECTRONICS October 4, 2016 Japanese Electronics Makers Counting on 4K TVs With Higher Price Tags
Japanese Electronics Makers Counting on 4K TVs With Higher Price Tags Japanese electronics makers are increasingly focusing on high-value added products, such as high-definition 4K TVs, to bolster their TV businesses. In the domestic flat-screen TV market, there has been a vicious cycle in which inexpensive overseas products led to falling prices, hurting Japanese makers’ […]
ALL DEALS October 4, 2016 Japan’s Renesas to Buy US Chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 Billion
Japan’s Renesas to Buy US Chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 Billion Japan’s Renesas Electronics will buy smaller US chipmaker Intersil for $3.2 billion (roughly Rs. 21,392 crores), the companies said Tuesday, as part of a push into the lucrative auto market. Renesas, one of the world’s biggest supplier of automotive microcontroller chips, said it would pay […]
ELECTRONICS October 4, 2016 Samsung Electronics Vice-Chairman Meets Prime Minister Narendra Modi
Reiterating company’s commitment to India as a strategic partner, Jay Y. Lee, Vice Chairman of Samsung Electronics on Thursday met Prime Minister Narendra Modi and apprised him of company’s business operations and citizenship initiatives in the country. Lee told Prime Minister Modi that Korean technology major Samsung is working in synchrony with “Make in […]
