Twitter has announced it will test new ways to limit online abuse by offering users control over who can reply to tweets. “We want to help people feel safe participating in the conversation on Twitter by giving them more control over the conversations they start,” the company tweeted on its official communications account. “We’ll be […]

Apple News has racked up more than 100 million active users, the Silicon Valley giant revealed Wednesday as it works to get its news subscription service off the ground. The Apple News user base has grown from more than 85 million around this time in 2019. The news-aggregation app currently serves readers in the US, […]

Storied film studio Warner Bros. has signed a deal with Cinelytic, an LA startup that uses machine learning to predict film success. The studio will use Cinelytic’s algorithms “to guide decision-making at the greenlight stage,” according to The Hollywood Reporter, though Cinelytic’s CEO Tobias Queisser stressed that the software is only an assistant. “Artificial intelligence […]

Sony just made what might be one of the biggest surprise announcements at this year’s CES: a car. Called the Sony Vision-S, it’s an electric concept sedan that is meant to showcase the Japanese tech conglomerate’s many different strengths, from entertainment products to camera sensors and more. In fact, the Vision-S features 33 different sensors […]

By Prince Osuagwu Chief Software Architect and CEO of Simplex Business Solutions Limited, Femi Adeniyi, is an Information Technology,  IT consultant with over 25 years of cognate experience in using IT as a business management tool. He is specialized in programming/software development. He has designed applications that presently provide solutions to businesses across many industries […]

China’s technology industry enters a new year after weathering unprecedented turbulence in 2019, when giants emerged in social media and artificial intelligence only to bear the brunt of Washington’s campaign to contain the world’s second largest economy. There’s little reason to think 2020 will be much different given US efforts to hobble Chinese champions from […]

In the days after the US government said it would bar Huawei Technologies from buying vital American components, the Chinese company’s founder, Ren Zhengfei, pulled together an emergency meeting of his top lieutenants at its headquarters in Shenzhen. In a large conference room, the billionaire asked for a report from the head of each business […]

Apple’s price target was raised to US$350 from $280 at Needham, which wrote that the iPhone maker had a number of tailwinds in 2020 that could help it extend last year’s strong rally. The new target matches the Street-high view on the shares, and implies upside of almost 18% from its most recent close. Because […]

Electric vehicle entrepreneur Henrik Fisker has unveiled his first purportedly mass-market EV, an SUV called the Fisker Ocean, ahead of the 2020 Consumer Electronics show. Starting at $37,500, Fisker says the electric SUV will get between 250 and 300 miles per charge, and it will feature solar panels on the roof. Fisker and his eponymous […]

It’s five days into the new year, how are those financial resolutions coming?  A way to jump-start those goals is to grab a smartphone and download a budgeting app for a quick “reckoning,” said Lauren Silbert, general manager of personal finance website The Balance. The Balance ranked the Top 8 budgeting apps for 2020, and […]