Honda recently launched the facelifted version of the Amaze at Rs 5.29 lakh (ex-showroom New-Delhi). This is the first time the car is being refreshed after its introduction in the Indian market in April 2013. Check out this new version, which gets the much needed updates. The Amaze will rival the Maruti Suzuki Dzire, Ford Figo Aspire, Hyundai Xcent and the Tata Zest with new vigour. The most evident change upfront is the new grille. This meaty new chrome grille replaces the twin horizontal slat grille seen on the predecessor. The front bumper has also been revised with honeycomb mesh…
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The Maybach S600 Guard – a luxury armoured sedan, will be launched tomorrow by the German manufacturer Mercedes-Benz. The launch comes close on the heels of the Mercedes E-Class Edition E launched last month. The Maybach Guard is VR10 certified. It can take hardened steel core bullets even on its windows to keep its occupants safe. This is the highest armoured rating for a civilian car. It can also stand a blast of nearly 15kg of TNT from four metres away. The fuel tank can heal itself if it takes a hit and will not catch fire in any case.…
In CNBC’s social media on campus series, we asked editors at college papers across the country: What social media platforms are hot? Are any of them dead or just for old people? This installment is by Sonali Seth, a sophomore at the University of Southern California. Source: Mimi Nguyen Sonali Seth We, millennials, have fallen out of love with Facebook for exactly the same reason we fell in love with it: its unapologetic ubiquity. Like so many other social networks, its increasing publicity of our online presence has forced us to grapple with new questions about what it means to…
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…
Toru Yamanaka | AFP | Getty Images People dressed up as Pikachu, the famous character of Nintendo’s videogame software Pokémon, dance in a Pikachu Outbreak event in Yokohama, Japan, in August. Wanna catch ’em all? You’re gonna need to do a lot of walking. Nintendo’s enormously successful Pokémon franchise is coming to mobile devices in a free-to-play, augmented reality game due in 2016. Nintendo’s long-awaited entry into the mobile gaming market is coming in a somewhat roundabout way, as the publisher, The Pokémon Co. and game developer Niantic have announced “Pokémon Go,” a new franchise that will let players catch,…
Video game developer Kabam has seen the future of mobile gaming, and it looks a lot like a galaxy far, far away. Kabam, the gaming darling with a billion-dollar valuation and the backing of Alibaba, this year said it would focus solely on creating console-quality games in what it called a “Fewer, Bigger, Bolder” strategy. A significant part of the push to put more resources into fewer games is licensing highly recognizable intellectual property like “Star Wars.” For the most part, the plan seems to be panning out. Kabam has partnered with some of the most lucrative franchises in pop…
Jose Luis Pelaez I Blend Images | Getty Images The Super Tuesday primaries solidified Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton as the likely party nominees for the general election, with both winning seven states. Market analysts are now starting to suggest clients invest around a possible Clinton or Trump presidency. “Super Tuesday front-runners Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton delivered strong enough results to begin focusing on a general election match-up,” FBR’s Benjamin Salisbury wrote in a note to clients Wednesday. The 2016 election is already impacting drug stocks with the iShares Nasdaq Biotech ETF down over 20 percent this year and…
Google is collaborating with one of the world’s leading aid organizations for children, UNICEF, to lead the fight against the world’s latest health threat, the Zika virus. Victor Moriyama | Getty Images News | Getty Images A biologist works on putting blood on iron plates, to feed the females of the nursery that produces genetically modified mosquitoes. The tech giant has provided a $1 million grant to the United Nations’ program, to help raise global awareness, while supporting vaccine development and prevention efforts against Zika’s transmission, Google announced Thursday. Google is also sending top engineers, data scientists and designers to…
A new LG phone has been spotted on benchmarking website GFXBench. The listing reveals that the device is powered by a Snapdragon 652 chipset and sports a 5.3-inch Quad HD display. It has 3GB of RAM and 32GB of internal memory. In terms of camera, both front as well as rear units are listed as 8MP, although we’re expecting the main camera to be better. As for the operating system, the listing says the handset runs Android 4.4 KitKat, which is definitely a mistake of some sorts. The smartphone carries a model number of H840, suggesting it could be a…
The Privacy Shield agreement is intended to guarantee the personal information of European Union citizens the same privacy protection when processed in the U.S. as it would receive at home. Where these guarantees are not available, the information must stay in the EU. Privacy Shield replaces the earlier Safe Harbor agreement, which was torn up by the Court of Justice of the European Union last October because it did not provide adequate protection. Like its predecessor, Privacy Shield require U.S. businesses wishing to process EU citizens’ personal information to self-certify that they will comply with a certain number of principles.…