Sony spinoff Vaio Corp. will launch a phone based on Windows 10 Mobile this week, following Acer into the suddenly hot market for third-party Windows phone hardware. Mynavi.jp reports that Vaio will be holding a press conference to announce the new phone on February 4. Executives from both Microsoft and Vaio are expected to attend, including Takuya Hirano, the president of Microsoft Japan. A spokeswoman for Vaio in the United States confirmed the announcement, but declined to provide further details. Mynavi.jp also published a photo which named both Acer and Vaio—as well as Mouse Computer, freetel, ThirdWave, and NuAns—as Windows 10…
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CNBC “‘Halftime Report” trader Jon Najarian sold his gun and beer stocks after one day to take advantage of a bounce in the market. In another move, trader Joe Terranova bought shares of Range Resources and Cabot Oil & Gas, both U.S.-based energy producers, for his model portfolio Thursday. Here’s why Najarian sold Anheuser-Busch InBev and Smith & Wesson in such a short-term trade. [“source -cncb”]
Soon, turning off the heat and lights before leaving your house could be as simple as turning a key in a Bluetooth-equipped lock. This scenario may be possible with the latest Bluetooth wireless technology, which could start appearing in products next year. With the improvements, devices will be able to communicate directly over a longer range and at faster speeds than with current technology. The range and speed of Bluetooth will continue to increase in coming years as the markets for home automation and IoT grow, said Mark Powell, executive director at standards-setting organization Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG). The…
As the U.S. technology giants dive into earnings next week, they face a notably skittish investor base: The Nasdaq composite index is on pace for its worst month since the 2008 financial crisis. Apple reports results on Tuesday, followed by Facebook on Wednesday, and Amazon.com and Microsoft on Thursday. Alphabet is slated to report Feb. 1. The five most valuable U.S. tech companies have all tumbled to start 2016 along with the rest of the stock market. Amazon, the top performer last year in the S&P 500, is the biggest laggard of the group in January, down 15 percent, compared…
You’re on every do-not-call list and you’ve tried opting out, but still the telemarketers keep pestering you. What’s a consumer to do? Just ask the Jolly Roger Telephone Company. That’s what Roger Anderson did, though in his case it was a matter of creating the company first. Reportedly a frustrated telecom professional himself, Anderson did just that, and now it’s on hand to help phone owners at their wit’s end. In a nutshell, Jolly Roger Telephone offers a bot that’s designed to waste as much of a telemarketer’s time as possible by making the caller think there’s a live human…
New York Stock Exchange chief Tom Farley said Friday it could be a good year for initial public offerings despite the delay of what was supposed to be the first big IPO of 2016 . “The pipeline is very big. We had a couple dozen companies in the fourth quarter that were prepared to go public, and then just didn’t,” Farley told CNBC’s “Squawk Box” at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “And they include great, big IPOs: Univision, Albertsons, Soulcycle. There was lots of really great companies. They haven’t just gone away, they’re waiting for the IPO window…
We can live with a slowing Chinese economy, said Frederic Neumann, co-head of Asian economics research at HSBC. “Don’t always buy the headlines, the headlines are screaming China might be falling off a cliff, but if you look at the economy, it’s not exactly true,” he told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange” on Friday. “Home sales [there] are holding up, car sales are picking up, and retail sales are doing better.” Read MoreLazard Vice Chairman: ‘I’m still optimistic’ While growth in the world’s second-largest economy shows signs of slowing, Neumann believes it’s a necessary adjustment. “We’d be quite worried if the Chinese…
Facebook knows everything about you, from who your friends and family are to what you like and where you’ve been. It even knows the posts you draft but never publish. Combine all that information with the power of the like button, which signals to Facebook that a post should be shared more widely, and the network should know exactly what to show in your News Feed every day. But it doesn’t—not even close. The Facebook News Feed algorithm can be infuriating. It won’t show me all of my best friend’s posts, which I obviously want to see, but it will surface…
The nasty few weeks in financial markets that kicked off 2016 could be the new normal, said Zhu Min, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund. Volatility is not going away anytime soon, even if we’re not in a global recession, he added. “Obviously the market is very fragile,” Min told CNBC’s “Worldwide Exchange” on Friday in an interview from the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. “I think the market is in a correction move.” Last year, the IMF recorded the most market volatility since 1929. But wild swings, he said, do not point to a global recession.…
When it comes to the problem of stopping errant drones, there’s been a number of high-tech solutions — from radio jamming to laser beams to nets launched by other drones — but a group in The Netherlands is proposing a low-tech solution that’s much more elegant. Guard From Above says it is training birds of prey to attack drones, taking advantage of their natural predatory instincts and precision in the sky. A video posted by the company on YouTube shows a bird attacking a DJI Phantom drone as it hovers, grabbing the drone with its feet and flying away with…