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Intel has been increasingly catering to data centres as revenue from PCs has flattened since shipments peaked in 2011.

Intel to invest USD 11 billion on new chip plant

The news follows a commitment by Intel in May last year to invest about 18 billion shekels to upgrade its existing...

29 Jan 2019 11:11 AM IST

Ubers competitors and businesses in the gig economy will also be considering what this means for them. (Photo: AP)

Taxis block major road in biggest anti-Uber protest yet

Anti-riot police backed by a fleet of tow trucks took several hours to clear the vehicles from the capital.

29 Jan 2019 11:05 AM IST

Japan plans to ban government purchases of equipment from Huawei and ZTE to beef up its defenses against intelligence leaks and cyber attacks, sources told Reuters this month.

Countries must act as one on Huawei

Some Western governments, led by the United States, have barred the use of the Chinese company's equipment.

29 Jan 2019 10:58 AM IST

That was until her shock arrest of Huaweis Meng Wanzhou in Canada at the request of US authorities on Wednesday, a move that has entangled her in the protracted diplomatic tensions between Washington and Beijing. Her fate is now uncertain. (Photo: AP)

Huawei CFO to appear in Canada court on Tuesday

Canada arrested Meng on Dec. 1 at the request of the United States.

29 Jan 2019 10:49 AM IST

Instagram had introduced re-sharing on Stories last year, letting people regram public feed posts from other users to their Story.

Instagram back up after partial outage

Instagram did not specify the number of people or the regions affected.

29 Jan 2019 10:39 AM IST

An even-lower priced iPad could help Apple teach Google a lesson.(Photo: AP)

Apple says spent USD 60 billion with US suppliers in 2018

Since 2011 the total number of jobs created and supported by the company in the United States had more than tripled.

29 Jan 2019 10:34 AM IST

Facebook lays out structure of content oversight board

The board, which will have up to 40 global experts, will not include current or former employees of Facebook.

29 Jan 2019 10:26 AM IST

Amazon declined to put a price tag on the program, called Amazon Future Engineer, but said it will take up a big chunk of the USD 50 million that it committed to spend on computer science education last year.(AP Photo/Richard Vogel, File)

Amazon is unignorable by companies

Executives of public companies worldwide mentioned Amazon' in over 2,300 calls and conference presentations in 2018.

28 Jan 2019 5:50 PM IST

For mobile phone, tablet and wearable products, Samsung will replace the plastic used for holder trays with pulp molds, and bags wrapping accessories with eco-friendly materials.

Samsung to replace plastic packaging with sustainable materials

Under the company's sustainability policy, Samsung plans to replace packaging with environmentally sustainable...

28 Jan 2019 5:20 PM IST

The e-learning platforms can recognise individual academic requirements, natural flairs of learning, and also keep a track of a students progress across a wide variety of subjects as well as topics. (Photo: Pixabay)

Enhancing the learning experience with e-learning

The advent of e-learning is helping to address some of these challenges that have been inherent to our education system.

28 Jan 2019 1:58 PM IST

ShareSave allows for a place where Mi Fans connect.

Xiaomi brings ShareSave to India, connecting us to China

ShareSave offers users outside of Chinese mainland a convenient and cost-effective way to purchase ecosystem products.

28 Jan 2019 1:47 PM IST

While consumers like us, in the 5G phone era will demand the zippy speeds of SSDs, enterprises still overwhelmingly bank on good old hard drives.

Dive into data

Spurred by 5G, we're headed into a new zettabyte datasphere, say experts.

28 Jan 2019 1:27 PM IST