Chinese tech giant Tencent exceeds Facebook with net worth of $522 billion

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Tencent Holdings Ltd has become the first Chinese firm to be worth more than $500 billion and surpassed Facebook to be the world’s fifth-most valuable…

Apple acquires augmented reality startup VRvana for $30 million

Apple acquires augmented reality startup VRvana for $30 million

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The rumors that Apple has been working on augmented reality headset just got more heated up. Apple has acquired VRvana, a startup that crowdfunded a…

AliExpress begins sales for Black Friday after enormous sales on Singles’ day

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Alibaba Group, the leading Chinese e-commerce giant has recently earned $25.3 billion from Singles’ day sales from its various marketplaces including AliExpress. The sales recorded…

Google initiates work for its new $1.3 billion headquarters in London

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Google has started work for its UK-based headquarters which has been recently visited by Google & Alphabet’s chief financial officer Ruth Porat. Google has officially…

Uber paid hackers $100,000 to cover up security breach affecting 57 million accounts

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The globally renowned ride-hailing giant, Uber has been exposed on concealing a big security breach that affected 57 million users’ accounts. Uber paid $100,000 to…

Galaxy Note 8

Samsung bribes iPhone users to try Galaxy S8 and Note 8 for a month in $45

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Samsung is not going to let it go easily. The South Korean electronics giant has again stepped forward with its last attempt to offer iPhone…

Xiaomi launches mid-range Mi Note 3 with 4GB RAM and 64GB storage

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Xiaomi has launched an all-new cheaper variant of the Mi Note 3 smartphone which was launched a couple of months ago. The new variant of…

More than 400 of the popular websites track each click of users visiting their site

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Most of us who have spent enough time on the internet already know that several websites record visits of users including the log of pages…

Google plans to ‘de-rank’ articles by popular Russian new sites

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

It seems like Google is planning to start a crackdown against Russian news media publishing websites like RT and Sputnik. Eric Schmidt, the executive chairman…

Visa begins the first phase of its blockchain based payment service

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

The globally renowned credit card giant, Visa has launched the first pilot phase of B2B Connect, its blockchain-based business-to-business payments service. This initiative comes right…

OnePlus 5 will be discontinued once the current stock ends, officially confirmed

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

An executive of OnePlus has confirmed that the company will discontinue the sales of its OnePlus 5, as it has previously done with OnePlus 3T…

Bitcoin Blasts Price Rise

Bitcoin smashes $8000 barrier

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 2 min read

Bitcoin hits a new all-time record high of $8041, after seeing a drop off on November 12 where its price reached $5500. This boost in…

Sana Naeem law student from LUMS wins Rhodes scholarship of 2018

By Sajeel Syed ⏐ 8 years ago ⏐ Newspaper Icon Newspaper Icon 4 min read

LUMS Shaikh Ahmad Hassan School of Law (SAHSOL) student, Sana Naeem, Class of 2018 has been awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarship. Only one Pakistani student…

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