One of the more baffling design choices that Google’s made a long time ago in its Play Store for Android has to do with the fact that apps and games are grouped together in one section, under the Apps & games heading. This obviously doesn’t make a lot of sense, since besides the fact that both categories consist of software that’s installable on your device, they are quite different after all. The current situation has created ridiculous issues, especially in charts, which are a mix of both categories naturally. To make things slightly more bearable, games are using sub-categories to…
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If you recall, earlier this month, Huawei officially announced its Nougat update plans, revealing that the Mate 8 and P9 will be the first devices getting the update, something which the company said will happen in Q1, 2017. However, a recent rumor suggested that the update will be pushed out – at-least to the units in China – on December 7. Well, according to a new report, the final Nougat update for the Mate 8 and P9 has indeed started rolling out ahead of the schedule in the Asian country. Huawei P9 It arrives as build version B352 for the…
The UK investigation into October’s “flash crash” in sterling has focused heavily on the Japanese trading operations of Citigroup, which fired off repeated sell orders that exacerbated the pound’s fall, according to bankers and officials involved in the inquiry. Citi’s traders are not believed to have started the slide in the currency in thin Asia trading but its Tokyo desk played a key role in sending the pound to its lowest levels in 31 years, bankers and officials said. The value of the pound fell from $1.26 to $1.14, with a 9 per cent slide in about 40 seconds. TORU…
European authorities could punish the Italian government for putting taxpayers’ money into the recapitalization of the troubled lender Monte dei Paschi di Siena (BMPS), but such a decision would prolong the ongoing European crisis, an economist told CNBC on Wednesday. “If Italy goes entirely by the European rules, it has to go ahead with a ‘bail-in’ before it provides government funds to recapitalize the banks,” Marios Maratheftis, chief economist at Standard Chartered, told CNBC on Wednesday. “And if you ‘bail-in’ bond investors in Italy, it would be quite different than bailing in bond investors anywhere else because a lot of…
The European Commission has fined banks Credit Agricole, HSBC and JPMorgan Chase a total of 485 million euros ($520 million) for their part in a cartel to fix the price of financial benchmarks linked to the euro. They were part of a seven-bank cartel that colluded between September 2005 and May 2008 to distort the Euribor benchmark interest rate used to reflect the cost of interbank lending. JP Morgan was fined 337 million euros, Credit Agricole 115 million euros and HSBC is being asked to pay 34 million euros. The trio of banks had held out against a September 2013…
Adam Jeffery | CNBC It is the oldest lender in the world and it has been making headlines for several months amid concerns it doesn’t have the financial firepower to cover its bad debts. The European Banking Authority said last July that it would have the greatest difficulty among all European banks in covering its toxic loans. As a result, Monte dei Paschi di Siena announced in November it would seek 5 billion euros ($5.4 billion) in fresh capital during the month of December to improve its capital position. But the plan is currently at risk, following the government’s defeat…
According to the recent notification circulated by the enrollment, eligibility, and migration department of the university, several colleges across the city haven’t completed the enrolment process of its students from 2012 till 2015. University of Mumbai RELATED STORIES UGC issues directives to educational institutions to promote digital economy 11 points Prakash Javadekar highlighted on education at #AAJTakAgenda2016 Delhi can appoint retired govt. teachers if required: Manish Sisodia No US jobs for IIT Bombay this placement season National Institute of Ayurveda ties-up with Malaysia university to popularise Ayurveda in Malaysia In a shocking revelation, over 3,000 students studying under the University…
Union Minister for HRD Prakash Javadekar, in recent times, issued a direction to educational institutions to adopt and promote cashless transactions and conduct of business. Digital economy RELATED STORIES 11 points Prakash Javadekar highlighted on education at #AAJTakAgenda2016 Delhi can appoint retired govt. teachers if required: Manish Sisodia No US jobs for IIT Bombay this placement season National Institute of Ayurveda ties-up with Malaysia university to popularise Ayurveda in Malaysia More than 5000 faculty positions lying vacant in IITs, NITs The Union Grant Commission (UGC) in privy with the government’s ambition to make India a digital economy has urged all…
With millions of apps in the Play Store and enough space on our phones to comfortably store hundreds of them, updating can be a tedious, data-chomping process. Earlier this year, Google announced it was using a new Delta algorithm that reduced the size of updates by as much as half when compared to the old way of downloading APKs. Now it’s taking it a bit further in a continued push to save you time, space, and money. The new approach, called file-by-file patching, creates updates that are as much as 90 percent smaller than the full app. On average, the…
Fitbit, the maker of popular fitness trackers, has acquired assets owned by rival Pebble, including key employees and intellectual property related to software and firmware development. The deal, which was reported last week, closed on Tuesday, Fitbit announcedon Wednesday. Amid slumping sales in the overall smartwatch market, Fitbit was interested in the PebbleOS, which has a large number of apps running on it and can be paired with both Apple’s iOS and Android. Pebble, which launched with the help of a $10 million Kickstarter campaign in 2012, will stop manufacturing devices, company founder Eric Migicovsky said in a blog post. “Pebble is…