[ad_1] Hunker describes itself as an editorial website to help “first-timers improve their homes — with inspiring tours, practical solutions and design advice for real people.” Shopify is an all-in-one commerce platform where users can start and run an online business, facilitating 820,000 online stores since June 2019. Depop calls itself “the creative community’s marketplace” […]
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Google might finally pay news outlets for their content
[ad_1] “We want to help people find quality journalism—it’s important to informed democracy and helps support a sustainable news industry,” Google said in a statement shared by WSJ. “We care deeply about this and are talking with partners and looking at more ways to expand our ongoing work with publishers, building on programmes like our […]
Huawei accuses US Justice Department of ‘political persecution’
[ad_1] The company starts the statement by claiming that many of the criminal charges the US Justice Department announced yesterday are based on older civil disputes that have already been resolved in the past.”In these disputes, no court has ever found that Huawei had engaged in malicious intellectual property theft, or required Huawei to pay […]
Samsung’s jailed union-busting chairman steps down
[ad_1] All of these actions took place in 2013, when Lee Sang-hoon was Samsung’s chief financial officer. He was appointed chairman in March 2018, when Samsung split the chairman and CEO roles for the first time. The company thought that decision would increase transparency following a bribery scandal that involved Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, better […]
Apple ordered to pay employees for time lost to bag searches
[ad_1] Apple won an earlier battle in district court, but the case went to the California Supreme Court on appeal. There, the judges ruled that Apple workers were “clearly under Apple’s control while awaiting, and during, the exit searches.” The court dismissed Apple’s argument that bringing a bag to work was an employee convenience that […]
Roku claims 36 million active users as streaming continues to spread
[ad_1] According to Roku, we’re now in the “streaming decade.” And the company that grew from a Netflix box to a behemoth in its own right is claiming that the last quarter of 2019 was a big one (PDF), with retail sales up 33 percent and total streaming hours up 60 percent compared to the […]
NVIDIA cuts its outlook by $100 million due to 2019 coronavirus
[ad_1] NVIDIA opted out of attending MWC 2020 due to coronavirus-related safety concerns before the organization behind the event decided to cancel it altogether. That’s not the only tangible impact the virus has had on the industry, though. Apple had to close all its retail stores in mainland China out of an “abundance of caution.” […]
Bidding for the ‘Nintendo PlayStation’ prototype is already over $200k
[ad_1] We’ve already had a chance to play around with the “Super Disc” system, but now that they’ve decided to sell it, getting hold of the artifact yourself is going to be expensive — after being live for about 24 hours the price has reached $205,000. (If you’re wondering who would pay that much, Oculus […]
YouTube TV won’t work with App Store subscriptions after March 13th
[ad_1] “You’re currently subscribed to YouTube TV through Apple in-app purchases, so we’re writing to let you know that, starting March 13th, 2020, YouTube TV will no longer accept payment through Apple in-app purchases,” reads the company’s email. “You’ll be billed for one final month of service and then your in-app purchase subscription will be […]
Judge grants Amazon’s request to put Microsoft’s Pentagon contract on hold
[ad_1] The JEDI contract is meant to modernize the Department of Defense’s cloud infrastructure. Amazon and Microsoft were the final contenders, and after the contract went to Microsoft, Amazon claimed that President Trump “launched repeated public and behind-the-scenes attacks to steer the JEDI Contract away from AWS to harm his perceived political enemy-Jeffrey P. Bezos.” […]