Toshiba Corp. and its joint venture partner Western Digital have made peace over the embattled Japanese electronics giant’s plan to sell its flash memory unit to raise cash to stay afloat. The agreement allows Western Digital to participate in future investments in their joint venture, clearing the way for a consortium led by Bain Capital to buy Toshiba Memory Corp., the companies said Wednesday. The deal also addresses concerns over protection of valuable patents and other intellectual property in the highly competitive field of flash memory products used in many high-tech products. The two companies said it settles all disputes in litigation and arbitration…
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HIGHLIGHTS Celebrities will answer the most googled questions about them Will be available only on mobile search, not made for desktop Pilot is rolling out in the US initially Google launched an exciting new feature for Search on Thursday. Google Search will now show selfie-style videos, from certain celebrities, for answers to questions that users popularly search for about them. These celebrities will be a mix of rising stars and well-established personalities. In a blog post, Google said that it had started piloting the feature with a few celebrities, namely, Priyanka Chopra, Will Ferrell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Gina Rodriguez, Kenan Thompson,…
HIGHLIGHTS You can share live gameplay with your Facebook audience Facebook is testing playing games during video chats Games like Angry Birds and Sonic Jump coming to Instant Games next year Launched in May this year, Facebook Messenger’s Instant Games is getting upgraded with features like a new live-streaming option that lets you broadcast Instant Games to all your friends and followers with Facebook Live. Another feature will be rolled out for select games in which users will be able to video chat and play these games during a video call. Let’s begin with the new live streaming functionality for Facebook Messenger Instant Games.…
WhatsApp Business standalone app is expected to launch soon HIGHLIGHTS New FAQ listing shows WhatsApp Business app is in development WhatsApp earlier said to extend its app for businesses The WhatsApp Business will have a redesigned app icon WhatsApp seems set to launch a standalone app for businesses, which will feature both verified and non-verified profiles. In a new FAQ published on its website, WhatsApp has detailed the Business accounts, including key features and how to distinguish between verified and non-verified profiles. In Asia, organisations have been using WhatsApp as an informal means of coordinating with their clients and customers for the past…
Rob Gronkowski will miss next week’s game against the Miami Dolphins. Photograph: Nesmith/CSM/REX/Shutterstock The NFL has suspended New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski one game for a late, gratuitous hit to the head of Buffalo defensive back Tre’Davious White. White was lying face down on the sideline after intercepting a pass Sunday when the 265lbs Gronkowski body-slammed him, driving his forearm into White’s back and head. Gronkowski was called for unnecessary roughness, but because of retaliation from the Bills there was no penalty assessed. White was later evaluated for concussion, a particular concern given the issues around brain trauma suffered by NFL players.…
Today I spent one hour playing the game called Whamageddon. Which is tragic, since the game lasts almost a month. The rules are simple: From December 1 to December 24, avoid hearing the Die Hard of Christmas songs, the song that’s not really a Christmas song but still gets played over every CVS sound system all December: Wham’s “Last Christmas.” (If you’re playing, don’t click that link.) Yesterday, only an hour after my editor Slacked me about the game, “Last Christmas” came blasting over the office stereo. And that afternoon, just in case I wanted to call the first one a gimme, the song came on again.…
Tim from Marshall, MI I feel like Jamaal Williams (to be successful) has to be treated as a feature back. He seems to get stronger as the game progresses. I like Aaron Jones because he has the big-play ability. However, it seems to me that if they split carries, Jamaal will not experience the kind of success that Aaron will, given his style of running. Am I off-base? We haven’t seen Williams and Jones used in tandem yet, so it’s hard to say what would happen if they split carries. I think their running styles complement each other, though. Williams made plays from the…
In the present scenario, privacy has become a rare commodity for all users. With the advancement of technology and people becoming more and more social there nothing left to be hidden. It seems like Privacy has been taken away from people as one can easily find another’s personal information, including their email address, phone numbers, social accounts etc over the web. There are large numbers of people who can misuse these details in some harmful manner thus it becomes important for us to maintain a proper check on our data privacy settings. You can take the below- mentioned steps in…
I’m lost in my living room. But fortunately I’m adrift in the warmth of a song playing through the speaker of my record player. One month of completely giving up social media has resulted in 86 unread Facebook notifications, seven unopened Snapchats, and countless instances of Twitter telling me “so and so and 150K others liked so and so’s tweet.” Yet, here I sit with my eyes closed while Pink Floyd’s The Dark Side Of The Moon echoes off the walls. Can a Millennial raised in the cocoon of constant social media really unplug without feeling unplugged from reality? That was the…
Many important decisions made within a government agency happen after collecting and analyzing pertinent data. Reviewing analytics about your agency’s social media presence is smart, but many agencies just don’t do it. Part of the challenge is that a lot of government agencies still don’t have a dedicated social media coordinator. In an “other duties as assigned” situation, the nice-to-have aspects of a social media program, such as reporting on analytics, often get pushed aside because there isn’t enough time or manpower. The other challenge is discerning what data is the most meaningful to government agencies. WHAT DATA SHOULD WE…