Trying to schedule a haircut? Or book a restaurant table? Google’s virtual assistant will soon be able to do that for you, a new offering that could give the search engine even more granular data about offline
Author: Agency Staff
When Xiaomi’s founders were eating millet congee at an office in Beijing’s Zhongguancun neighborhood in 2010, they decided to create a smartphone brand selling handsets at “honest” prices. Eight years later, Lei Jun and the
This month, the European Union will embark on an expansive effort to give people more control over their data online. Known as the General Data Protection Regulation, it’s ambitious, well-intentioned and largely wrongheaded
Warren Buffett boosting his stake in Apple has pundits predicting it is poised to hit $1 trillion (R12.5 trillion) in market value. But the iPhone maker isn’t the first to tread that lofty path. PetroChina crossed
How much is your privacy on Facebook worth? This question has seen renewed attention following the revelation that political analysis firm Cambridge Analytica, hired by the Donald Trump election campaign, gained access to
Surprise! Bitcoin is getting no love from two of the world’s wealthiest men. “I would short if there was an easy way to do it,” Bill Gates said on Monday in an interview on CNBC. Gates said he had previously
Berkshire Hathaway bought an additional 75m shares of Apple in the first quarter, while dumping its remaining stake in IBM, chairman Warren Buffett said in a CNBC interview. The Apple purchase, which would have
Facebook has been conducting market research in recent weeks to determine whether an ad-free version paid by subscriptions would spur more people to join the social network, according to people familiar with
In hindsight, Elon Musk’s statement at the beginning of Tesla’s latest earnings call that “We’re going to go as long as there are good questions to answer” sounds less like encouragement and more like a warning
A few hours after Elon Musk berated analysts for what he perceived as unimaginative questions, Volkswagen has said it was writing a cheque for batteries that almost match Tesla’s entire market value. VW has awarded