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Bloomberg
Google Attracts Top U.S. Automakers With Self-Driving Technology
Bloomberg
Google's self-driving car technology is attracting top U.S. automakers, as Ford, Fiat Chrysler and General Motors talk with the company while laying the groundwork for a future with autonomous cars. Ford Motor Co. and Google are discussing working ...
Google, Ford Joint Venture Would Advance Technology And Automotive Practices ...MediaPost Communicationsall 356 news articles »

Daily Mail
Premier League may expand video technology to get more correct calls... as FA ...
Daily Mail
The introduction of video referees in the Premier League has moved a step closer — after the FA sent out a questionnaire that could see English football being used to trial the wider use of technology at matches. Red cards, penalty kicks, goals ...
Video technology in football to be discussed at IFAB meetingBBC Sportall 15 news articles »

Honor partners with Zopper to reach out to 267 outlets in Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Vellore, Pondicherry and Bengaluru.
Telecom company Huawei today announced its partnership with mobile commerce firm Zopper to sell Honor smartphones through retail stores to strengthen its market share in India.
“We have decided to introduce Honor smartphones in the offline sales channel, which starts with the tie-up with Zopper, which allow customers to choose the retailer offering the best price for a product

Business Insider
THE FINTECH ECOSYSTEM REPORT: The fight-or-flight moment in financial services ...
Business Insider
Technology is upending workflow and processes in the financial services industry. Tasks once handled with paper money, bulky computers, and human interaction are now being completed entirely on digital interfaces. Given how pervasive financial services ...and more »

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World Wide Technology begins headquarters project
STLtoday.com
When it opens in 2017, World Wide Technology's new headquarters will appear to rise out of the lake at West Port Plaza in Maryland Heights. The six-story building will be the main part of $95 million in projects at West Port by its owner, Lodging ...
World Wide Technology breaks ground on new Westport Plaza headquartersKMOV.com
World Wide Technology to unveil details of $95 million Westport projectSt. Louis Business Jou

While Ericsson has finally signed a patent agreement with domestic handset manufacturer iBall and US-based Apple, it scored a major victory in its fight with another domestic handset maker, Micromax. (Reuters) Swedish telecommunications equipment maker Ericsson has made a successful breakthrough in its patent-related cases with handset majors, both domestic and global. While the company has finally signed a patent agreement with domestic handset manufacturer iBall and US-based Apple, it scored

St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
State to give World Wide Technology, LHM millions to help revive Westport Plaza
St. Louis Business Journal (blog)
The state of Missouri will give World Wide Technology and Lodging Hospitality Management more than $18 million in state tax incentives to help with their planned $95 million development at the plaza. Anchoring that project is a new 210,000-square-foot ...
World Wide Technology breaks ground on new Westport Plaza headquartersKMOV.com
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Vivo Mobile India has announced commencement of local manufacturing from its Greater Noida factory
In a big push to PM Modi’s Make in India and Digital India initiative, Vivo Mobile India has commenced manufacturing its smartphones in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The unit will primarily focus on catering to needs of Vivo’s domestic demands.
The new manufacturing unit will assemble all Vivo smartphones currently available in India. The unit will also empower India with new job creat

Profit Confidential
MU Stock: Here's Why Billionaire D.E. Shaw Is Bullish on Micron Technology
Profit Confidential
Micron Technology, Inc. (NASDAQ:MU), the U.S.-based microchip manufacturer that is trading around $14.50, is less than half the value it was a year ago. Is it time to bail on MU stock? Definitely not, especially given that one of the world's smartest ...
What to Look for in Micron Earnings24/7 Wall St.all 54 news articles »

Hike redesigns its app with support for multi-lingual Indian languages and native keyboard
Hike messenger has announced a new update which brings support for native Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. The updated app with support for these languages will be available from December 23.
The update is now live for Android phones and bring slew of new features:
1. Multi-lingual interface: Hike messenger will allow users to select language o

KMOV.com
World Wide Technology breaks ground on new Westport Plaza headquarters
KMOV.com
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon joined local government and company leaders to break ground on St. Louis-based World Wide Technology's new global headquarters in Westport Plaza in Maryland Heights Tuesday.
Details of planned World Wide Technology project to be announced in Westportfox2now.com
State to give World Wide Technology, LHM millions to help revive Westport PlazaSt. Louis Business Journal (blog)
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With telecom operators up in arms against low-cost calling apps like Ringo, the regulator Trai today said it is examining the issue and would come out soon with suitable action to address their concerns.
“Trai has suo-moto taken cognisance of the service of the said application (Ringo). We are examining it and take suitable decision soon,” Trai Chairman R S Sharma told PTI.
Low-cost calling apps like Ringo are offering service at nearly 90 per cent cheaper rates than telecom operato

Honor partners with Zopper to reach out to 267 outlets in Delhi-NCR, Chennai, Vellore, Pondicherry and Bengaluru.
Telecom company Huawei today announced its partnership with mobile commerce firm Zopper to sell Honor smartphones through retail stores to strengthen its market share in India.
“We have decided to introduce Honor smartphones in the offline sales channel, which starts with the tie-up with Zopper, which allow customers to choose the retailer offering the best price for a product

Micromax is planning to launch its own mobile wallets on its phones. (Photo of Micromax Canvas 5 smartphone)
Trying to tap into the increasing number of Indians starting to use mobile payments, smartphone major Micromax has announced a tie-up with TranServ to offer a native mobile payment solution. Micromax Informatics co-founder Vikas Jain said the first device with the new service will be available as early as next month and most of their devices will get a software update featuring the digit

Twitter may use the app in tandem with drones to capture and broadcast events with Periscope users controlling the process.
Drones capable of taking photos and videos controlled by tweets and sharing them through users’ accounts may soon change the way people use social media, according to media reports.
The tech giant was last week granted a patent for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) which can be guided by likes, retweets and replies, and may also have telepresence and live video interv

Researchers suggest that technology might have a potential role in childhood developmental assessment.
Two year olds are adept at using touch screens and can swipe, unlock and actively search for features on smartphones and tablets, a new study has found. This level of interactivity is akin to play, researchers said, suggesting that the technology might have a potential role in childhood developmental assessment.
The findings are based on 82 questionnaires on touch screen access and use, comple

Obi Worldphone SF1 is a smartphone that comes with “Designed in San Francisco and Assembled in China” tag
Obi has been around for well over a year. Soon after realising that their initial range of strangely-named smartphones were not really a rage in India and other markets, the company has gone back to the drawing board and come out with a new, affordable, Android-based smartphone called the Obi Worldphone SF1. The idea here is to awe with design and surprise with the pricing, but

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 landing successfully on its landing site. (Source: SpaceX Twitter feed)
SpaceX, the company run and founded by Tesla Motors’ Elon Musk, has successfully completed a vertical take-off and vertical landing (VTVL) with its Falcon 9 rocket after delivering a payload of commercial satellites, setting a new landmark in space travel technology.
The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Florida with 11 communication satellites for customer OrbComm Inc and successfully deployed

Samsung already makes chips for companies such as Apple Inc and Nvidia Corp.
Tech giant Samsung Electronics Co Ltd will start making new chips for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Inc next year, South Korea’s Electronic Times reported on Tuesday citing unnamed sources.
The paper said Samsung’s foundry business and Globalfoundries will jointly start producing a central processing chip as well as a graphics processing chip for AMD next year using their 14-nanometre technology.
Samsung has

Vivo Mobile India has announced commencement of local manufacturing from its Greater Noida factory
In a big push to PM Modi’s Make in India and Digital India initiative, Vivo Mobile India has commenced manufacturing its smartphones in Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh. The unit will primarily focus on catering to needs of Vivo’s domestic demands.
The new manufacturing unit will assemble all Vivo smartphones currently available in India. The unit will also empower India with new job creat

Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today told the Delhi High Court that no coercive steps would be taken against telecom companies till the next date of hearing on January 6.
Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) today told the Delhi High Court that no coercive steps would be taken against telecom companies till the next date of hearing on January 6 for not complying with the call drop compensation norms.
Additional Solicitor General (ASG) P S Narasimha made the submission befo

The Pick Mi service is available all across India including far-off places like Kohima, Bhuj, Kangra and Andaman Nicobar islands.
Mi India has announced an update in the home pickup, repair and drop-off sales service called Pick Mi. Users can give a missed call to 7676404444 to book the Pick Mi service for Rs 189.
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The Pick Mi service is available all across India including far-off places like Kohima

The increase of approximately 3.1 million domain names globally equates to a growth rate of 1.1 per cent over Q2 2015.
Domain names and Internet security firm VeriSign has announced that approximately 3.1 million domain names were added to the Internet in the third quarter of 2015, bringing the total number of registered domain names to approximately 299 million worldwide across all top-level domains (TLDs) as of September 30.
The increase of approximately 3.1 million domain names globally equa

Hike redesigns its app with support for multi-lingual Indian languages and native keyboard
Hike messenger has announced a new update which brings support for native Indian languages like Hindi, Marathi, Tamil, Gujarati, Bengali, Malayalam, Kannada and Telugu. The updated app with support for these languages will be available from December 23.
The update is now live for Android phones and bring slew of new features:
1. Multi-lingual interface: Hike messenger will allow users to select language o

Micromax is planning to launch its own mobile wallets on its phones. (Photo of Micromax Canvas 5 smartphone)
Trying to tap into the increasing number of Indians starting to use mobile payments, smartphone major Micromax has announced a tie-up with TranServ to offer a native mobile payment solution. Micromax Informatics co-founder Vikas Jain said the first device with the new service will be available as early as next month and most of their devices will get a software update featuring the digit

Users with iOS 9 on their iPhone or iPad will be able to experience Live Photos in their Facebook app.
The latest iPhones come with the ability to turn still images into video-just like magic-but sharing options had been limited to other Apple apps.
That’s changing as Facebook, one of the leading forums for photo sharing, adds Apple’s Live Photos feature to Facebook’s iPhone and iPad app. Facebook will start offering it Monday to a limited number of users initially, with a bro

While Marathon M5 was launched in India for Rs 17,999; Marathon M5 Plus has been priced at Yuan 2499 in China (Rs 25,500 approximately). (Image Source: shop.gionee) Gionee’s Marathon M5 Plus with highest percentage of Bezel to screen ratio was launched in China on Monday. The company hasn’t divulged any details about its India launch, but it recently announced Marathon M5 with 6020mAh battery.
-Gionee Marathon M5 Plus features a 6-inch full HD screen, 2.5D curved AMOLED display (368