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Nintendo Posts Full Year Loss After Weak Wii U Sales

The Wii U comes with a touchscreen gamepad controller Weak sales of its games consoles have led Nintendo to report an annual loss. The Japanese firm reported a net deficit of…

Tunein Adds Way to Hear ‘Recently Started’ Songs

Tired of flipping through the radio dial? Internet radio service TuneIn is offering a way to see which songs have just started on 100,000 radio stations around the world, allowing…

Behind Alibaba IPO is Unlikely China Success Story

The mammoth IPO planned by e-commerce giant Alibaba Group highlights founder Jack Ma’s improbable rise to China’s entrepreneur-in-chief. Ma, a former English teacher who flunked his college entrance exam twice,…

Norwegian Army Tests Virtual-Reality Headset in Tanks

Wearing a virtual-reality headset is a new experience for soldiers The virtual-reality Oculus Rift headset has been put to a novel use by the Norwegian army – helping soldiers to…

Amazon Launches Shopping Via Twitter

Online retailer Amazon has announced a partnership with Twitter that allows users to add products to their shopping carts by tweeting a special hashtag. They can do so by replying…

HTC Steps Up Advertising to Regain Once-High Market Share

Taiwan’s HTC Corp is stepping up advertising to ensure sales of the One M8 smartphone live up to the new flagship’s critical acclaim, and win the vendor a bigger share…

Warning Over Unintentional File Leak from Storage Sites

People using file storage services, such as Dropbox and Box, are being warned that they are at risk of inadvertently leaking their own files. Intralinks – which is a competitor…

Nokia Launches $100m Smart Car Fund

Nokia has said mapping service is one of the three key business it will focus on Nokia has launched a $100m (£59m) fund which will invest in firms specialising in…

Lead Underwriters Start Candy Crush Maker with “Buy” Ratings

The three lead underwriters of King Digital Entertainment Plc’s IPO started coverage of the stock with “buy” ratings or the equivalent, two days ahead of the release of the “Candy…

Samsung, Sony to Open Home Entertainment Shops Inside Best Buy Stores

Samsung and Sony are going head to head with new in-store entertainment shops at hundreds of Best Buy locations nationwide. Samsung will launch 500 Samsung Entertainment Experience areas at Best Buy stores, while…

Bill Gates on Track to Own no Microsoft Stock in Four Years

Bill Gates, the former chief executive and chairman of Microsoft Corp, will have no direct ownership in the company he co-founded by mid-2018 if he keeps up his recent share sales….

Jury Says Samsung Infringed Apple Patents

A California jury awarded Apple $119 million – far less than it demanded – in a patent battle with Samsung over alleged copying of smartphone features, and the jury made…

Growth in Online Gaming, Video Watching Boosts Akamai

Akamai Technologies Inc, which hosts content for companies on its servers, forecast current-quarter results above analysts’ estimates and it posted better-than-expected quarterly results as more people play games and watch videos online. Shares…

Nasa Shows off Prototype Spacesuit for Journey to Mars

Will this be the suit worn by the first humans on Mars? US space agency Nasa has been showing off the wardrobe essentials for future astronauts looking for a new…

Today’s Advice to Graduates: No Selfies

Toss your cap. Turn your tassel. Just don’t snap that selfie. Graduates at the University of South Florida and Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., have been asked to refrain from…