Apple really has a very strong hold on the Japanese smartphone market. In October Apple sold three out of every smartphones. That is a staggering 76% of all smartphones. Apple, which released new iPhone 5S and 5C models in September, won 76 percent of Japanese smartphone sales last month, market researcher Kantar Worldpanel ComTech said Thursday. Apple’s share of smartphone ... Read More »
Facebook has been blocked in Russia. Russia’s has decided that Facebook is just too much of an annoyance that it best be eliminated. Russia’s Internet blacklist, which can blackhole websites for reasons ranging from copyright infringement through to drug-related information, has welcomed its highest profile addition. Russia’s telecoms watchdog has confirmed that Facebook has been added to the list leaving ... Read More »
The Indian Rupee has been losing it’s value at historic rates while it has been trying to stabilize itself with no positive outcome. India’s rupee sank down to 65.04 against the US Dollar, all this while the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) and the government have been in crisis management for the past several months to stop the collapse of ... Read More »
Yahoo’s email service has been shutdown in China after it warned it’s users back in April about the closure and requested it’s users to go somewhere else. Yesterday was the last day for Yahoo China email users to login and migrate their emails to an alternate email service. Since Yahoo China is run by local e-commerce titan Alibaba, that company ... Read More »
A survey has revealed that China’s manufacturing is declining at is at a 4-month low. While economic reforms are being brought into effect to save the economy and it does seems to be be effective. But the other side of the sector seems to suggest the contrary. The only real truth behind the slowdown is decreasing requirement, which could only ... Read More »
Rent a boyfriend service in China is actually a new service that is turning into an industry that is making a lot of money and happy customers. Rent a boyfriend, seems to have tapped into girls need to manage their nosy relatives who keeps pestering them with questions about marriage. With the Chinese New Year Celebrations on ladies visiting their ... Read More »
Panic stuck Sendai Airport, a major airport in Japan after construction workers found a unexploded World War II bomb in the runway. All 92 flights in and out of Sendai airport were cancelled after the 250-kilogram (550-pound) bomb was uncovered during construction near a runway, local police official Hiroshi Ouchi said. The bomb was identified as American-made and is believed ... Read More »
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