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ChatGPT the fastest-growing subscription-based service worldwide growing 296%

5 Nov 2024

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5 ways retail will double-down on digital in 2023

5 ways retail will double-down on digital in 2023

24 Jan 2023

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AI shop assistants: Get ready for a world where you can't tell humans and chatbots apart

Shweta Singh 7 Jan 2022

Smart TV voice assistant transactions to hit nearly $500m in 2023

14 Oct 2021

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Walmart opens up its retail tech to other businesses

2 Aug 2021

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Smart POS terminals in service to grow by 156% by 2026

8 Jul 2021

Algorithms are designing better buildings

Algorithms are designing better buildings

Silvio Carta 19 Jun 2020

Mobile app uses AR to locate friends in a crowd

Mobile app uses AR to locate friends in a crowd

10 Jun 2019

Multilingual broadcast journalist-turned-real estate entrepreneur, Rokelle Sun.

#AfricaMonth: Encouraging female African business leaders from the other side of the world

Leigh Andrews 21 May 2019

How to adopt a digital innovation mindset

Werner Vogels 5 Apr 2017

Nutanix: Acropolis and Prism to deliver invisible infrastructure for next-generation enterprise computing

Nutanix: Acropolis and Prism to deliver invisible infrastructure for next-generation enterprise computing

10 Jun 2015

European privacy watchdogs probe Facebook; EU wants to 'finalise' Google market abuse probe

European privacy watchdogs probe Facebook; EU wants to 'finalise' Google market abuse probe

17 Apr 2015

The future of mobile exam preparation, Q&A with George Burgess

The future of mobile exam preparation, Q&A with George Burgess

Jessica Taylor 2 Apr 2015

Yahoo sees 'end-to-end' email encryption by year-end

Yahoo sees 'end-to-end' email encryption by year-end

16 Mar 2015

Apple Watch may move the needle on wearable tech

Apple Watch may move the needle on wearable tech

10 Mar 2015

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

Fierce battle looms on US 'open Internet' rules

25 Feb 2015

Newsweek Twitter feed hijacked by pro-IS hacker

Newsweek Twitter feed hijacked by pro-IS hacker

12 Feb 2015

US electronics chain RadioShack pulls plug

US electronics chain RadioShack pulls plug

6 Feb 2015

The next global domain name-branding boom

The next global domain name-branding boom

Naseem Javed 28 Jan 2015

Can quake-hit Haiti manufacture itself a high-tech future?

Can quake-hit Haiti manufacture itself a high-tech future?

16 Jan 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Monster collision of 15 Monster Trends in 2015

Naseem Javed 19 Dec 2014

The flying 'dirtbox' spies on mobile users

The flying 'dirtbox' spies on mobile users

17 Nov 2014

Jessica Rich, the FTC offical in charge of consumer protection has fined JDI Dating $616,165 for using fake user profiles to sollicit payments from users. Image:

Online dating services uses fake profiles

30 Oct 2014

Pew's Lee Ranie believes that US businesses and state institutions will be under persistent attack from cyber-criminals and individuals will face growing attempts to steal money or personal data. Image:

Warning of major hacking attack on the USA

30 Oct 2014

Amazon's streaming device, the Fire Stick is being sold for $39 seeking to gain market share that offers a wide number of devices for streaming services already. Image:

Amazon's Fire Stick streams Netflix, Hulu and others

28 Oct 2014

The loss of credit card information and the fraudulent theft from banks after the card information had been stolen is the crime that most people in the US fear. Image: Stock Image:

Credit card hacking is US's top crime fear

28 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Yusuf Mehdi says prices of the Xbox One without Kinect motion detection will drop to $349 for the festive season in a bid too boost sales as Sony's PS4 to gain market share from gamers. Image:

A $50 price cut for Xbox consoles without Kinect

28 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Tuula Rytila says that the Nokia name will be dropped from Lumia smartphones but will still be used on the cheaper phones offered by the company. Image:

Nokia name dropped from Lumia smartphones

27 Oct 2014

Vivek Wadhwa, a Research Fellow at Stanford University says that technology has the ability to examine problems from all different sides, virtually simultaneously making it useful in efforts to stem the spread of the Ebola virus. Image:

Big data used as tool to track Ebola

27 Oct 2014

Microsoft's Satya Nadella says the investment in cloud services and the enthusiasm of users has substantiall boosted it revenue from this division. Image: Wikipedia

Microsoft's earning are pie in the cloud

24 Oct 2014

Amazon's Jeff Bezos holds up the company's Fire smartphone but sales have failed to produce sustainable profits for the company. Image:

Amazon's loss reaches $437m but outlook is confusing

24 Oct 2014

Targeted malware attacks, mainly against Android phones have increased tenfold with 588,000 users worldwide being hacked by criminals after their money. Image:

Hackers targeting mobile phones for banking information

23 Oct 2014

About 92% of US people believe that social media networks give people the right to be more abusive than they would be in a social environment. Image:

Pew says online harassment levels high in US

23 Oct 2014

Genoveva Nunez-Figueroa got stuck in a chimney after she allegedly tried to break into a house of a man she met online. Image:

Woman stuck in chimney after online dating goes sour

22 Oct 2014

GlobalFoundries has bought IBM's semi-conductor business and will be paid $1.5bn for taking over the patents, intellectual property and manufacturing facilities. Image:

IBM sells chip unit but bleeds money

21 Oct 2014

Facebook has unveiled new software, based on the location of the device, that asks for a status update and allows the user to click a button with a message saying "I'm safe" or similar and send it to all their friends and family. Image:

Facebook offers 'safety check' for disaster areas

20 Oct 2014

Google's Patrick Pichette confirmed that profits for the company were down partly as a result of lower advertising revenue generated by the widespread use of smartphones.. Image:

Google profits fall as ad revenue declines

20 Oct 2014

Alleged money-laundering kingpin, Arthur Budovsky has pleaded not guilty to running an underground money-laundering agency for criminals throughout the world. Image:

Underground bank founder pleads not guilty

15 Oct 2014

A flaw in Windows software allowed Russian hackers to spy on NATO, various European governments, energy and telecommunications companies and US academic institutions according to researchers at iSight Partners. A patch for the flaw will be released by Microsoft this week. Image:

Windows flaws let Russian hackers spy on NATO

15 Oct 2014

ICANN's Fade Chehade says that plans are going ahead to remove control of the internet domain names from the US Department of Commerce and involve a global group of 'stakeholders'. Image:

ICANN to be free from US control

14 Oct 2014

Newly-wed Brittany Maynard, 29, is not planning her own death after she was diagnosed with brain cancer. She has moved to Oregon that has a right-to-die law and plans to die on 1 November, before having to endure immense pain and the loss of dignity. Image:

Newly-wed with cancer plans her own death

13 Oct 2014