Best Buy
Best Buy has ‘ceased ordering’ smartphones from Huawei
Huawei seems to have hit another setback in its plans for US expansion. It's not just carriers that are giving the cold shoulder to the company; retailers are…
Business
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Business news from The Jolt Journal: the US economy, jobs, inflation, interest rates and tariffs, plus crypto policy and tech industry moves.
Business
A Coinbase bug would have let anyone get free ether
Cryptocurrency exchanges have gotten a lot of criticism lately. They're easy to hide from the IRS, are high-valid targets for hackers and easily affect tech issues too. It…
Business
Ubisoft is finally free from entertainment giant Vivendi
Vivendi, the entertainment giant behind the Universal Music Group and Dailymotion, kept continuously bought Ubisoft shares since 2015 to the point that it became the company's largest stakeholder.…
Business
Google reportedly acquires Lytro for around $40 million
We first heard about Lytro back in 2011 when, at the time, it came out with an unprecedented "light field" technology with the ability to refocus pictures after…
Business
Travis Kalanick acquiring company that rehabs real estate and will become CEO
Former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is making moves. According to a report from Recode, Kalanick is acquiring a startup called City Storage Systems. THeir focus is to repurpose…
Business
Samsung smart TVs will get Roku’s free movie channel this summer
Last year, Roku had launched a free, ad-supported film channel that is available to all those with a Roku player, stick of TV in the US. For all…
Business
Uber ‘likely not’ at fault in pedestrian accident, police chief says
Yesterday, we learned that Uber was halting all of its self-driving tests after one of the company's self-driving cars struck a pedestrian in Tempe, AZ, on Sunday. The…
Business
Nimbus Data overtakes Samsung’s record with 100TB SSD capacity
Just a month ago, Samsung released a record-setting 30TB SSD, but it didn't last very long. Nimbus Data has come out with the ExaDrive DC100, which has a…
Android
Microsoft and BlackBerry are teaming up to make work phones more secure
BlackBerry and Microsoft may have been foes for a long time, but it appears that both have had a change of heart for a common goal. Both companies…
Amazon
Google partnering with big retail brands to better compete with Amazon
While it seems like Amazon continues to take over the online shopping every year, Google isn't going to just sit around and let that happen. The search engine…
Business
Qualcomm’s ex-chairman will leave company and plans to take company private
Every since Qualcomm was founded in 1985 by Irwin Jacobs, it's become quite the mobile chips behemoth. When he passed away, it was passed to his son Paul.…
Apps
L’Oreal has bought Modiface, a major AR beauty company
Today, L'Oreal announced that it's buying Modiface, a company that's had a hand in the creation of many custom augmented reality beauty apps, including those from Estée Lauder…
Business
A New York town becomes first city in the US to ban crypto mining
As cryptocurrency becomes more popular in the world, it's also creating problems for places where miners are setting up. Turns out that the town of Plattsburgh, New York,…
Business
Airbnb is making it easier to find accessible rentals
Remember the startup Airbnb bought last year? Well, it appears that the company is putting the travel accessibility startup to work. Airbnb has introduced 21 filters that will…
BlackBerry
John Chen will remain CEO of BlackBerry through 2023
John Chen will continue to be BlackBerry's CEO through at least November 2023, the company announced today. BlackBerry praises Chen for turning things around the company where at…