Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Amazon launches United Arab Emirates site

Amazon launched a new website in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday, replacing Souq.com — the popular regional e-commerce platform it bought for $580 million in 2017 — with Amazon.ae.


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Apple's iPhone sales fall 17% from prior year

Apple reported earnings results for its fiscal second quarter after the bell on Tuesday.


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Facebook debuts privacy features as it looks to move past 'old issues'

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg opened up his company's annual developer conference with a warning that its past issues will keep surfacing as it evolves into a more secure platform.


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Instagram is testing hiding your likes

What is Instagram without likes? Some users are about to find out.


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The new Oculus headset shows how far VR has come. It's still not enough

The other day, as I stood on a beach, pulling back the pocket on a slingshot to fling fuming red birds at sneering green pigs, I thought to myself: this is fun, but I'm not sure I need to do it over and over again.


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Forgotten features from past Facebook F8 events

F8, Facebook's annual conference for developers, is a chance for the company to show off new features. But not all of its announcements come to fruition.


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Sri Lanka lifts social media ban imposed after Easter bombings

Sri Lankans are able to sign into social media for the first time in over a week.


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Apple earnings: Is the worst over yet for iPhone?

Apple reports its second quarter earnings results after the bell on Tuesday. The key question for the company: is the worst over yet?


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Mobile Chrome Hoax Could Target Android Users

A new method for hiding the true location of a website from users of the mobile Chrome Web browser has come to light. Phishers can trick users into revealing their credentials for a legitimate website to operators of a malicious one, security researcher James Fisher reported. Scammers can exploit mobile Chrome's feature that hides the address bar when users are scrolling on a Web page by inserting an address bar that allows a fake site to pose as a legitimate one, such as that of a bank, Fisher explained.

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Samsung operating profit plunges to lowest level since Galaxy Note 7 fiasco

Samsung reported a 60% plunge in operating proft for the first quarter, as the South Korean technology company grapples with the delayed launch of its troubled Galaxy Fold phone and waning demand for its memory chips.


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