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Nokia MixRadio to spin off after Microsoft cuts

Nokia Nokia’s streaming-music app MixRadio has become another casualty in Microsoft’s deep cuts, but the service will live on as a standalone platform, its chief executive has confirmed. Speaking to The Guardian in an interview published Friday, MixRadio chief Jyrki Rosenberg confirmed that “basically, we’re planning a spin-off” from Microsoft. He added that while the streaming music service will continue …

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WeChat dives into wearables to start ‘connecting everything’

Screenshot by CNET WeChat, the China-based messaging app maker, has officially made a foray into the wearable devices market. Wearables from iHealth, Huawei Honor, Lifesense, and Codoon that sport WeChat’s application programming interface (API) went on sale online in China earlier this month, according to WantChinaTimes.com. The market for such fitness bands and smartwatches in China is immature and fragmented …

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