Tencent – the First Chinese Firm Valued at $500 Billion
As per the latest tech related news, Tencent, a popular Chinese tech firm, becomes the first company from this part of the world to get valued at more than $500 billion. The company is about 19 years old and is listed on the Hong Stock...
Airbnb Plans to Offer Home Rentals for Disabled Travelers
In the latest marketing news, Airbnb which is a short-term rental company has acquired Accomable in order to offer home rentals for disabled travellers. On Thursday, 16th November 2017, Airbnb announced that it had acquired the London startup Accomable to expand home-renting opportunities for people...
Apple Pay Cash Beta: Seamless Cash Transfers via Messages
According to the latest finance news, Apple has launched the beta version of its Apple Pay Cash, which is a direct person-to-person payments method through its iMessage service. Apply Pay Cash allows users to send and receive cash through the Messages app on iPhones. The...
Apple Iphone X Sold Out In the Top 20 Big Cities
In the latest tech news, the iPhone X which went on sale on Friday at 8 A.M and immediately started selling out on Saturday afternoon itself. Apple’s most expensive iPhone ever saw consumers lined up hoping to buy the phone. The iPhone featured an edge-to-edge...
Amazon Employs 77% More As Compared To Last Year
In the latest HR news, Amazon has been on a hiring spree and has expanded their staff by an amazing 77% since the past year. Currently Amazon has 541,900 part-time and full-time workers, due to its purchase of whole foods and regional warehouses. They are...
Cloud growth costs 3,000 jobs at Microsoft
In a move to focus on the growing cloud business, Microsoft on Thursday announced a major reorganisation that will lead to nearly 3,000 job cuts in sales staff outside the US, media reported. According to a report, the job cuts amount to less that 10...
Senate lawmakers analyze the ‘Space Race’ of trucking
Safety and industry experts on Wednesday urged Senate lawmakers to push ahead with placing autonomous-trucking technology on America’s roadways, saying the vehicles could be a “game-changer” for highway fatalities and warning of the economic risks the U.S. would face should it fall behind in trucking’s...
H-1B clampdown may cause US to lose its competitive edge
According to the latest IT news, clampdown on H-1B visa programme will make it difficult for the US IT sector to attract open talent from countries like India and America might lose its competitive edge, a top American think-tank has said. As the Trump administration...
Uber cannot operate in London anymore
According to the latest tech news, Transport for London (TfL) has rejected to renew Uber’s private license hire on 22nd September 2017. Uber holds a license to operate in the city. However, it will expire at the end of this month.In a statement today, TfL...
Test candidates using a real-time code editor with Skype’s new feature
The Skype interviews feature was introduced last week as a technical preview, and currently only works in the browser version of Skype, says Microsoft. Of course, there are already various solutions for conducting interviews with remote technical talent on the market, like Interview Zen, CoderPad,...
