Industry news Home News Industry news (Seite 3) 110417 Tesla is the most valuable american car company The luxury electric-car company Tesla has yet to turn a profit, losing hundreds of millions of dollars last year alone. But on Monday, the darling of Silicon Valley became the most valuable American car company, surpassing General Motors, the Detroit granddaddy with $10 billion in sales on nearly 10 million vehicles. Shares of Tesla, run […] 100417 Apples new app “Clips” Apple Clips, the latest application from Apple, is now available to download. Apple Clips might be viewed as a take on Snapchat — it’s about recording and sharing quick video clips with friends, just like Snapchat — but it’s also very different. It doesn’t, for example, have a section for Stories, Friends or advertisements. It’s […] 060417 Marissa Mayer will not be part of Verizon According to sources, Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer will not be continuing with the new company that was announced today prematurely in a tweet by AOL CEO Tim Armstrong. The new Verizon-owned entity is called Oath — we’ll get to mocking that name later in the post — and is the combination of AOL and Yahoo. […] 050417 Google and the Pax initiative Google announced the Android Networked Cross-License, or Pax for short, a royalty-free community patent cross-licence which will enable it and Android device makers to collectively defend themselves against patent lawsuits. Companies signing up can use each other’s patents without fear of being sued, something which happens quite frequently. Complete article: Google and the Pax initiative 040417 PETA criticizes Nintendo The People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals organization is picking a fight with Nintendo this week, and Switch launch title is to blame. After Nintendo garnered some press for challenging a real-life cow farm to a showdown in the collection’s milking minigame, PETA’s president took the developer to task for “sugarcoating the subject.” Complete […] 030417 Snapchat – new search tool Snapchat on Friday launched a search tool for its popular Stories feature, an attempt to broaden the app’s appeal by opening up content to more users. The new tool uses machine learning to scrape information in the posts, such as text and visual elements, to show users relevant content such as a local basketball game, […] 300317 The new Samsung Galaxy S8 Yesterday, Samsung showed off its new, nearly bezel-less Galaxy S8 and S8 Plus phones, and today you can preorder it through all four major carriers in the US and Best Buy. Preorder shipments should arrive on April 21st when the device will be available in stores. The S8 and S8 Plus prices vary across retailers […] 290317 Huawei – the P10 lite Huawei P10 lite is the newest budget-friendly phone from the Chinese manufacturer, Huawei which is one of the leading mobile phone producers today. Recombu reported that though Huawei P10 lite is at an affordable price much lower than the Huawei P10, it still offers strong specs. At the price of less than $400, the Huawei […] 280317 Elon Musk´s new dream Serial entrepreneur Elon Musk has a new company — yes, another one — focused on developing the capabilities of the brain through technological augmentation. Neuralink, the new venture, officially broke cover thanks to a Wall Street Journal article today, though it’s been known for some time that Musk was working on brain-computer interface tech as […] 270317 Google´s next app Google isn’t usually shy about launching experimental new apps and then closing them back down again if they don’t work, and it sounds like the tech giant’s next testing of the app waters will revolve around photo editing with friends. The idea behind the as-yet-unannounced app is that you and your buddies can work on […] 240317 Pokémon GO Shiny update As already confirmed, Shiny Magikarps are now in the wild and is one of the only special new Pocket Monsters to catch, at least during the current Pokemon Go Water Event. Without any kind of real direction from the development team, fans are finding out the best ways to catch the new Magikarp. Complete article: Pokémon […] 230317 Tesla – Model S 60 and 60 D will no longer be offered Soon, the cheapest new Tesla Model S you’ll be able to buy will cost $74,500. That’s up from $68,000 today, but it’s not because the California-based automaker randomly decided to raise prices. The increase in base price is because the apparently slow-selling Model S 60 and 60D will no longer be offered, making the 75 […]