LinkedIn is rolling out updates to its Premium subscription plans in a move to boost the value proposition and direct outcomes delivered through LinkedIn data on businesses, careers and education. The changes are designed to make better use of both existing data and the new datasets LinkedIn is gathering on salary, company details and the courses its users are completing on LinkedIn Learning, a new service the company repackaged in September following its 2015 acquisition of Lynda.com. “The goal for us on the Premium team is to deliver direct economic outcomes to our members,” says Gyanda Sachdeva, senior director of…
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Microsoft’s planning a sleek visual refresh for Windows 10, and the company quietly teased its first official glimpse of what’s coming in the future during the Windows Developer Day keynote on Wednesday. There aren’t many details being shared about “Project Neon” right now—as the refresh was called in earlier leaks—but the new visual look will focus on animations and transitions. The basic concept is “to add fluidity, animation, and blur to apps and the operating system,” as first reported by Windows Central. The new design language also hopes to make it easier for developers to create attractive apps. The design refresh…
PCWorld | FEB 9, 2017 8:00 AM PT Credit: Microsoft MORE LIKE THIS Meet Cortana: The ultimate guide to Windows 10’s helpful digital assistant 4 ways to get things done faster with Cortana Windows 10’s Cortana now makes it easy to list who’s naughty or nice VIDEO 3 Ways to Speed Up Windows 10 Windows 10’s Cortana is already a dutiful digital assistant, providing answers, reminders, or other information when asked. But Microsoft has given her more power to take the initiative, automatically setting reminders for commitments you’ve already agreed to. Take an email, for example. You may have promised…
Sony has re-issued the Android 7.0 update for the Xperia Z5, Xperia Z3+ and Xperia Z4 Tablet after it suspended it almost a month ago due to issues reported by early adopters. The update carries the build number 32.3.A.0.376 while the last update was 32.3.A.0.372. The firmware will be gradually rolling out to each Xperia device over the air but more experienced users could attempt to flash it onto their devices once the firmware becomes available – link to XDA thread here. source”cnbc”
Nokia is no longer making phones as the rights to the brand belong to HMD Global, it’s still making telecom network equipment and is aiming to buy Comptel, a fellow Finnish software company in order to stay relevant in the 4G mobile broadband equipment production. Nokia, Ericsson and Huawei are the three biggest players on the global market for telecom equipment. 4G connection is rapidly expanding across emerging markets and 5G is being tested in various cities. So in order to stay relevant, Nokia wants to acquire Comptel for $370 million cash. The offer is €3.04 per share, which is…
Sony has started rolling out a new update to the Xperia X units that are part of the Japanese company’s Concept for Android program. The update arrives as version 38.3.A.0.107 and brings along Android security fixes for the month of February. The update brings along changes related to the modem software as well as some stability improvements. It is currently available on the Experimental track of the Concept firmware – it should be live on the Stable track sometime next week. This new update comes shortly after version 38.3.A.0.94 started rolling late last week. That update brought along several changes,…
NEW DELHI: Country’s largest steel maker SAIL is planning to spend up to Rs 4,000 crore on the modernisation and expansion of its plants in the coming fiscal. “The Capex for the ongoing fiscal is nearly Rs 4,000 crore (2016-17). Next fiscal it should be similar range, somewhere between Rs 3,000 to Rs 4,000 crore,” SAIL Chairman P K Singh told PTI. The company would fund the capital expenditure through debt, he said. “We will invest the amount throughout our plants. We are a big company and continuously we have to invest otherwise technology goes obsolete, processes go obsolete…Continoulsy there…
India has bought more than five million tonnes of wheat since mid-2016, already its biggest annual purchase in a decade, after it began an import campaign to meet a supply shortfall left by two years of lower production. The country is slowing down imports ahead of the harvest in April and purchases in the months ahead will depend on production this year, two traders told Reuters on Wednesday. “There will be more deals signed in the coming months,” said one Singapore-based trader. “It will not be more than 200,000 to 300,000 tonnes as the domestic harvest is expected to replenish…
RBI Governor Urjit Patel (AFP Photo) MUMBAI: RBI Governor Urjit Patel on Wednesday said there is further scope for banks to reduce lending rates as the Reserve Bank has already brought down its policy rates by 175 basis points since January 2015. “There is still scope for the lending rates to come down because our policy rates came down by 175 basis points and weighted average lending rates have come down only by 85-90 basis points. I think there is scope for more transmission,” Patel said in the post-policy press meet. In the sixth bi-monthly monetary policy on Wednesday, the…
(Representative image) MUMBAI: RBI’s decision to keep rates unchanged caught the stock markets off-guard on Wednesday with a sharp plunge in the Sensex within minutes of the policy announcement amid a heavy pounding of bank stocks, but a quick recovery saw the index limiting its losses at just 45 points. NSE’s Nifty index fared better by closing with a marginal 0.75-point gain at 8,769.05. BSE’s Sensex ended the day 45.24 points lower at 28,289.92, after recouping a large part of its intra-day loss of 186 points. Contrary to market expectations, RBI left interest rate unchanged at 6.25 per cent, and…