Romeo Gacad | AFP | Getty Images Twitter president of global revenue and partnership Adam Bain speaks at a press conference in Jakarta on August 29, 2014. Indonesia has long been the Twitter capital of the world, but rival apps and rancorous political debate are driving users away, illustrating the challenges the microblogging service faces even in markets once considered strongholds. While Twitter doesn’t break down country figures, Global Web Index data shows Indonesia remains joint first with Mexico in active users among the 34 countries the UK-based metrics company monitors – and significantly ahead in terms of penetration, at…
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If you’re in Asia and single but want to turn that status around, there’s a mobile app which even has a date-guarantee program for you. Paktor is a Singapore-based mobile-dating app which offers users the chance to reject (swipe left) or approve a match (swipe right) with over 5 million users across Asia. The app operates in six Southeast Asian countries and in Taiwan, and often draws comparisons to Tinder, except that it has some Asia-specific tweaks. “We observed that there is a more conservative culture in Asia,” said Joshua Phua, CEO and co-founder of Paktor in a CNBC interview.…
John McDonnell | The Washington Post | Getty Images Golden State guard Stephen Curry, center, splits the defense of Washington guard Garrett Temple, left, and Washington guard Gary Neal as the Golden State Warriors play the Washington Wizards in Washington, February 3, 2016. It’s a weekend of monster slam dunks, 3-point shootouts and a chance for the NBA’s most successful players to showcase their talents. But Commissioner Adam Silver will take a time out from the All-Star game festivities in Toronto on Saturday to announce that the National Basketball Association has reached a new milestone. It’s the first professional sports…
British researchers have found a new way to identify immune cells capable of detecting tumors — opening a path to treatments that could trigger the body’s natural defenses to wipe out cancer. The discovery by scientists at University College, London promises to bring greater precision to the new generation of “cancer immunotherapies”, which have been generating excitement as the most important breakthrough in oncology for decades. Immunotherapies, which aim to help patients’ disease-fighting T-cells hunt and destroy tumours, have been shown to extend the lives of some people with advanced forms of cancer for months or years. But the first…
About 20 million adults under the age of 65 have gained health insurance of some kind in the six years since Obamacare has been law, leading to an all-time low rate of Americans without insurance, President Barack Obama announced Thursday. The new tally indicates that about 2.4 million additional people gained insurance since last fall. Obama revealed the new tally during a speech in Milwaukee, where he touted the benefits of the ACA. Mark Wilson | Getty Images Protestors raise awareness to keep Affordable Care Act. Officials said the gains in the number of people insured over the past six…
If being flung through the air isn’t terrifying enough, you’ll soon be able to slap on a Gear VR headset for a completely different experience. Credit: Six Flags 3COMMENTS Derek Walter | @derekwalter Greenbot Mar 3, 2016 11:03 AM Six Flags roller coasters in nine U.S. parks will soon will try and jazz up the experience by letting you wear a Gear VR headset. During the ride you’ll co-pilot a fighter jet or zip through the skies with Superman. The movements are designed to sync with the real-life roller coaster. Six Flags published a full list about which parks will…
Mar 3, 2016 10:16 AM Nest and Amazon seem to be putting their differences aside and to enable their connected-home products to work with one another. In a blog posting today, Nest founder Matt Rogers announced that in few weeks, Nest thermostat users will be able to set the temperature through Amazon’s Alexa voice assistant, which is available on the Amazon Echo speaker and Fire TV media streamer. A similar integration just arrived for Emerson Sensi smart thermostats, and is coming to Honeywell thermostats as well. Echo already works with thermostats from Ecobee. (Amazon also announced a pair of new Alexa-enabled devices…
A simple but elusive strategy has been beating the market this year: Just own what the hedge funds don’t. Stocks with the lowest concentration in hedge fund portfolios as measured by equity capitalization have crushed the S&P 500 this year, according to a Goldman Sachs analysis. The “low-concentration” basket has turned in a basically flat performance that while unspectacular far outdistances the market index, which is down 6 percent year to date. That means owning stocks such as Realty Income, Exxon Mobil, 3M andReynolds American, all of which have a comparatively low concentration in hedge fund portfolios, has been a…
Alcatel OneTouch Fierce XL is available with Android Lollipop and Windows 10. The model running on Microsoft’s latest OS was introduced in January and Alcatel promised there are more to come. In fact Steve Cistulli – the senior vice president of the North America region for Alcatel – spilled the beans on an upcoming ‘superphone’ later in 2016. Today WMPowerUser got some exciting information on this particular ‘superphone’. According to their source, the Windows 10 flagship will be called the Idol Pro 4. Some of the touted specs include a 1080p display, the latest Snapdragon 820 chipset, and Continuum support.…
Scott Elsen | Getty Images Deutsche Bank downgraded shares of Chipotle Mexican Grill to a “sell” from a “hold” on Tuesday, citing a lack of faith in the company’s ability to recover after a series of foodborne illness outbreaks. “We still question what a recovery will look like (and when it will materialize),” Deutsche Bank analysts said in a research note. They said that while management has been proactive in “trying to regain consistency and customer trust, there is tremendous uncertainty on how well they will be received.” The bank’s analysts foresee a 24 percent drop in Chipotle’s stock price,…