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Amazon buys Souq.com

Amazon buys Arab world’s biggest e-commerce platform Souq.com, which is valued at over $1bn after it raised $275m from investors last year. Russ Grandinetti, Amazon Senior vice President said “We have been serving customers in the Middle East for many years, but Souq will allows to do it in a way that it takes it…

Apple launches Clips

Apple has launched Clips, a new free app for adding filters and special effects to photos and videos in iPhones and iPads and could become a major player in the emerging augmented reality (AR). Clips is a simple editing tool like Snapchat’s selfie lenses and Instagram’s Prisma, which can manipulate photos and videos incorporating music from…

KM Birla, Chairman of the Idea-Vodafone merged group.

Vodafone-Idea merger biggest telecom company in India

UK-based Vodafone is merging with India telecom Idea Cellular, creating India’s biggest telecom company, by revenue and 400 million subscribers replacing Bharti Airtel, and will have 43% revenue share in the market by 2019 against 33% held by Airtel and 13 per cent by Reliance Jio. It was Jio, owned by India’s richest man Mukesh…

Chuck Berry Rock’n’Roll legend dies

Chuck Berry died aged 90, was the man who defied Rock’n’Roll and it’s first guitar poet, who helped to define the music, by fusing distinctive lyrics with tunes specially made for 19503 US teen consumerism. Born Charles Edward Anderson Berry on Oct 18, 1926, in St. Louis, he grew up in a middle-class neighbourhood there.…

Lizzie makes history in Cheltenham Gold Cup

Lizzie Kelly (23) becomes the first woman to ride in the Cheltenham Gold Cup for 33 years since Linda Sheedy partnered 500-1 chance Foxbury in 1984. She also became the first female rider to win a Grade One over jumps in Britain when Tea for Two claimed the Kauto Star Novices’ Chase at Kempton last…

Mt Etna Erupts, Eight Injured

Mount Etna in Sicily, one of Europe’s tallest and the most active volcanoes in the world erupted spewing lava up in the sky in the early hours of Thursday 16th March 2017, after eight tourists suffered minor injuries. Lava flow mixed with steam had caused a huge explosion, pelting boiling rocks and steam. Mount Etna,…

War of titans: Samsung Galaxy S8 and iPhone8 fight for the top spot

Samsung and Apple are getting ready to launch their latest product Galaxy S8 and iPhone 8 also known as iPhone ‘Edition’) being 10th Anniversary of iPhone. Samsung Galaxy S8 will aim to capture a much higher demand than its predecessor Galaxy S7 after their flagship smartphone Galaxy Note7 was withdrawn from the market due to faulty…

Toyota to invest £240m in its UK factory

The Japanese carmaker Toyota is to invest £240m in its UK factory at Burnaston plant near Derby, which made 180, 000 vehicles last year, including the Auris and Avensis models. The factory employs about 2, 500 people, and another 590 at Toyota’s engine plant at Deeside, North Wales. Johan Van Zyl, chief executive of Toyota…

Levi’s Jacquard jacket with Google power

Levi’s and Google have brought out a technology denim jacket. The Jacquard denim with technology woven into the fabric, that enables touch interactivity, once paired to a smartphone via Bluetooth, the jacket allows the wearer to control key functions with gestures by brushing or tapping off the cuff, and double tap with two fingers starts…

Intel buys Mobileye for £12.5bn

US chipmaker Intel is taking over specialist and world leader in collision avoidance systems, Mobileye for $15.3bn ( £12.5bn). Mobileye, Jerusalem-based, Israeli company which develops “autonomous driving” systems. The deal is the biggest ever exit in the history of Israeli industry. Intel said that the acquisition will bring out the best-in-class technologies from both companies,…