HTC CEO Cher Wang is cutting her staff as she looks to boost her company’s performance. Andrew Hoyle/CNET Smartphone maker HTC has announced sweeping layoffs as co-founder and CEO Cher Wang works to rebuild the ailing company. HTC will cut 15 percent of its workforce as part of a broader push to refocus on “premium …
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Apple Pay is already available, but it will eventually be joined by MCX’s CurrentC. James Martin/CNET A consortium of retailers developing an alternative to mobile-payment platforms Apple Pay and Samsung Pay might have to delay its national rollout until next year. CurrentC, the mobile-payment platform developed by the Merchant Customer Exchange (MCX), will kick off a public beta within the …
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Current owners of the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus are loyal — to a degree. CNET Android smartphone owners have become more loyal to their operating system than iOS users over the last two years, according to new data. Between July 2013 and June 2015, 82 percent of previous Android owners stuck with the operating system when they purchased …
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Sprint is opening the world to its customers to make it cheaper to make calls and access data. Sprint Sprint is the latest US carrier to make it easier (and cheaper) for customers to communicate with friends and family around the world. Sprint on Monday unveiled its Open World add-on plan, which offers free calling and texting from the US …
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Demonstrators took to the streets in 2012 to protest SOPA, ultimately helping to kill the controversial bill. Sarah Tew / CNET The Stop Online Piracy Act died in 2012. But now some of the largest technology companies in Silicon Valley are growing concerned that major movie studios are trying to bring it back. Google, Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Yahoo on …
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Ads or not, streaming music appears to be on a path to serious growth, Juniper Research data shows. Lexy Savvides/CNET Apple Music’s subscription-based music-streaming offering won’t prove to be much of a detriment to ad-supported music listening, new data from Juniper Research shows. Revenue generated from ad-based music streaming is expected to hit $782 million worldwide this year, and jump …
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The Spice Android One Dream UNO is one of the first Android One devices available in India. Spice Google’s low-cost Android One platform is not as successful as the company would like, and now it’s planning to work with handset makers in India to boost adoption. Android One has “not delivered to expectations,” Google managing director in India and Southeast …
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Enlarge ImageHTC’s latest flagship handset, the One M9, isn’t helping the company succeed. Andrew Hoyle/CNET The second quarter of 2015 was not kind to HTC as revenue for the Taiwanese phone maker slid significantly and its profits from last year turned to losses this time around. The company’s revenue reached NT$33 billion ($1.04 billion) worldwide (PDF) during the second quarter, …
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India has banned hundreds of pornographic websites, making it harder — but not impossible — for Indians to access the content. CNET One of the world’s largest markets for watching pornography has lost access to over 800 sites, according to reports. Over the weekend, India’s government called on Internet Service Providers (ISP) across the country to ban over 800 pornographic …
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Uber plans to expand its India presence far beyond New Delhi. Uber Car-hailing service Uber is looking to dramatically broaden its presence in India. The company will invest $1 billion over nine months to expand across India, Uber said on Friday. The cash will be used to bring its service to more cities across the country, as well as to …
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