Best Buy will hold a one day in-store-only pre-Black Friday event on Saturday, offering exciting brands including Samsung, Sony TVs, PlayStation 4, Xbox, and Apple products. Gotta Be Mobile has reported that the sale would be held in 400 locations and buyers can save $70 up to $1,200 on their favorite tech brands. The event will be in a four hour window from 1 p.m. to 5p.m. local time.
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Chronos Turn Your Favorite Wrist Watch Into Smart Watch
Smartwatch offers a new level of comfort with more than just a timekeeping. However, smartwatch have not been able to penetrate market well enough. A new innovation from Trivoly is expected to bridge the gap between mechanical watch and smartwatch. Chronos, a tiny disc that is able to turn regular wrist watch into smart watch is planned for shipping worldwide in February 2016.
Verizon plans to sell its business for $10 billion
Verizon Communications Inc. is considering to sell parts of its enterprise which could be worth as much as $10 billion. The company plans to focus on its core business.
Putnam farmers venture into agritourism; West Virginia Farms think beyond the corn maze
Corn mazes and pumpkin patches provide additional revenue and interest on farms across West Virginia when harvest time has long past. But other agritourism opportunities exist, as a group of West Virginia producers found out during a four-month class that culminated in a two-day bus tour to Virginia and North Carolina this spring.
New Chinese-Backed Automaker Challenges Tesla
Faraday Future comes as a new challenger for Tesla in building electric car. The Chinese-backed startup company has invested $1 billion to build factory in America. Other than electric car, Faraday Futures also prepares "rolling smartphone" as a different business model in automotive industry.
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Facebook hires software engineer Lior Gonnen, the founder and chief executive of Android news app Roundup. Venture Beat reported Facebook brought Gonnen in at their Menlo Park, Californian headquarters.
The Justice Department launched an investigation on drug makers Merck & Co, Valeant Pharmaceuticals International, and Eli Lilly & Co for alleged over pricing. The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Attorney's office in Eastern District of Pennsylvania, along with the Justice Department's civil division set a probe on Merck, Eli Lilly, and Valeant on how these drug makers calculate and report their product pricing to the government medical rebate program.
UGG has been marked as one of the leading brands to the shoe fashion market. Recently, it has come up with another of the upgraded idea, which is strongly anticipated to 'win' winters this year.
Google has launched a new feature that has the capability to automatically reply to your emails on your behalf. The latest feature named Smart Reply by the Google team uses artificial intelligence to scan the email, understand what it says and come up with three short answers for it. The user can then select one of those three answers and send it as a reply to that particular email with a single tap.
High school graduates in Pueblo County, Colorado will get college scholarship from increased tax on marijuana growers by 2017. A CNN report shows that 60 percent of Voters in the county approved Tuesday a measure that will increase taxes on marijuana growers by 5 percent in the year 2020.
Rapes are the major problem encountered by women as well as men. The sense of security is long gone in people starting with the age below 10, ruining the remaining life of innocents.
Lenovo recently announced its strategic partnership with Nutanix, an enterprise virtualization company. Their partnership will develop a hyperconverged applicances for agile and scalable cloud computing. It will be a great benefit for Lenovo who just purchased IBM Intel server division last year.
The significant jump in shares of Facebook and Amazon took them into $300-billion club on 4 October. The market capitalization of Facebook soared to $303.6 billion surpassing General Electric's (GE) $299.1 billion.
Target, one of America largest retail stores is closing 13 stores across the United States that has been performing badly over the years. The management blames decreasing profit in these stores as the main reason for the closure.
