Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that operates payment service Alipay and other digital finance products, has continued its Asia expansion with a move into Hong Kong. Alipay and Alibaba’s MyBank digital bank dominate in China, where they are used by over 450 million consumers, and this year Ant has broadened its presence with deals in Southeast Asia, Korea and India. The idea is… Read More
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Meet the CNETer known as “Taco Queen” among her peers. She’s also a compulsive texter who learned a big lesson from the pavement.
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Sunday Ticket subscribers upset over players’ pregame protests are getting their money back, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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Amazon and Google are apparently locked in a dispute over how the video site’s content should appear on the smart speaker.
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�Blade Runner Black Out 2022,� directed by Shinichiro Watanabe, shows what happens when angry humans start killing a new model of long-living Replicants.
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The highest profile ICOs from a consumer internet company to date has come to a close after messaging app Kik raised nearly $100 million from its token sale. The exact amount is 168,732 ETH — around $47.5 million based on today’s $282 ETH price — came from over 10,000 backers. Combined with $50 million raised in a pre-sale for institutional investors the grand total is… Read More
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YouTube pulled a no-show on Amazon’s Echo Show today.
Google pulled the video service from the smart speaker this afternoon, a move Amazon doesn’t seem too happy about. Echo Show owners weren’t given any advance warning previous to the removal.
An Amazon spokesperson confirmed the service had been pulled in a statement, also implying that the move came as a surprise to… Read More
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We took Aston Martin’s new V8-powered DB11 on a journey to Andorra. Encountering every sort of weather and terrain, it was a true test of the big GT.
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It’s like Twitter is trying to screw up the one thing it’s done right.
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Seventeen years ago, Christiane Lemieux created DwellStudio, a popular catalog and e-retailer that built one brick-and-mortar store in SoHo before getting acquired for undisclosed terms in 2013 by the online store Wayfair. Now, she’s back with The Inside, a two-person, New York-based direct-to-consumer home decor brand that’s creating fashionable made-to-order furniture, and which… Read More
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