Adobe has merged two of its app development services into one in an attempt to help businesses easily build professional-looking apps, without requiring a whole lot of coding know-how. The Digital Publishing Solution and Adobe Experience Manager Apps components of the company’s Marketing Cloud services are now under one Adobe Experience Manager Mobile umbrella. Using the new-ish service, teams inside a business can work together to build a snazzy-looking application without requiring a whole lot of code. Experience Manager Mobile is designed to allow a designer to create a rich canvas with which to display content that includes assets from…
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A global recession looms because of depressed oil prices and an economic slowdown in China, market watcher Mark Grant said Thursday. The U.S. won’t be spared because of the interconnectivity of the world economy, he said. Grant, managing director and chief fixed income strategist at Hilltop Securities, told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” his reading of China indicates its economy is growing at only about 2 percent, far lower than the official numbers of 6.9 percent for 2015, which were a 25-year low. “You’re also seeing this in terms of demand and supply for commodities,” he said, warning especially about the growing…
Chinese telecommunication authority TENAA has greenlit the LeTV Le Max Pro, officially the first smartphone to feature the Qualcomm Snapdragon 820 chipset. With that hurdle cleared, the Le Max Pro is now one step closer to market launch. LeTV’s latest and greatest comes with a 6.33-inch display with QHD resolution in a reasonably compact 167 x 83.4 x 8.95mm body. Weight is a manageable 201g, and while TENAA doesn’t disclose such specs, we’d expect battery capacity to be the same 3,400mAh as in the Le Max (non-Pro). Chipset aside, the phablet is also equipped with 4GB of RAM and 64GB…
im Cramer had to give some credit to the markets on Wednesday. They finally started to make sense, and there was one move in particular with the price of oil that gave him a glimmer of hope. When the price of oil turned up, suddenly it took the averages with it, which is how the Dow Jones went from being down 193 points before the reversal and finished up 183 points. “Something really profound happened today. The stocks of the companies that were most on the ropes in the oil patch … led the rally, and that’s actually a major…
A potential HTC Desire 530 smartphone has been listed on a Dutch retailer’s website and it’s the first time we hear about it. The listing doesn’t mention any specs, but does reveal a few key points on the Desire 530’s release. For one, its price will be just above €190, positioning it in the lower mid-range segment. Additionally, the retailer expects to have it in stock on February 23, hinting at an MWC announcement a couple of days earlier. The last bit of the Desire 530 puzzle, uncovered today, is the color options, of which there will be at least…
With the growing popularity of wearable devices, Fitbit came public last year in a widely anticipated public offering. However, since that time Fitbit’s stock has plunged a dramatic 45 percent year to date. Jim Cramer spoke with the company’s chairman and CEO James Park, to find out what could be driving the decline and what investors can expect from the company going forward. Scott Mlyn | CNBC James Park, CEO, Fitbit One of the ways that Fitbit has attempted to innovate its devices is to incorporate a fashionable aspect to it by launching the Fitbit Alta. Read more from Mad…
Gionee has launched a new entry-level smartphone in India – the Gionee P5W. It is built around a 5” IPS display of 720p resolution, and its body is made of glossy plastic. The chipset in charge of the P5W is the MT6735 with a quad-core 1.3GHz Cortex-A53 processor, Mali-T720 GPU, and 1GB of RAM. The rest of the key specs include 16GB expandable storage, 4G LTE connectivity, a 5MP main snapper, and a 2MP selfie shooter. Finally, there is a removable 2,000 mAh battery that promises to power the thing for a day. The Gionee P5W runs on Android 5.1…
Viacom and CBS shares jumped Wednesday on leadership changes, and some “Fast Money” traders believe the stocks could have more room to climb. CBS named CEO Leslie Moonves its chairman, replacing the 92-year-old Sumner Redstone. Viacom’s board could follow suit and replace Redstone as chairman on Thursday, sources told CNBC. Viacom and CBS shares rose 10 and 4 percent, respectively, in after-hours trading. Both stocks have lagged peers in the media space likeWalt Disney in the last year. “I think there may be some room for them to close the gap,” said trader Tim Seymour. Getty Images Sumner Redstone in…
We already know that Xiaomi’s upcoming Mi 5 flagship smartphone will be officially unveiled later this month. We also know that the device will be available for media preview at this year’s MWC. But, in what could come as a surprise for many, we’re now hearing that the handset could have a Windows 10 variant, too. Aside from the OS, the Win 10 variant is said to be identical to its Android cousin. The rumor also suggests that the device will be made official at a simultaneous event in China and Barcelona (during this year’s MWC), alongside the Android model.…
Although there have already been reports that Samsung’s Galaxy S7 flagship smartphone will land in China sometime in March, we’re yet to hear any confirmation on this. Now we have some sort of unofficial data pointing that way as three variants of the device have recently cleared China Compulsory Certification (3C). The said variants carry model numbers of SM-G9308, SM-G9300, and SM-G9350 – while the first two are Galaxy S7 models, the third one is Galaxy S7 edge. All three feature support for fast charging at 9V 1.67A and 5V 2A. Sadly, as is the case usually, nothing else was…