Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg believed the future of social network is in Virtual Reality. Last year, Facebook acquired Oculus, a VR company. Now they partner with Samsung to make mobile VR experience come to life.
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Obama's myRA is a retirement savings solution: free, no risk
The U.S. federal government has launched a retirement savings program called myRA. The program was first announced by President Obama in his 2014 State of the Union address.
Google and Microsoft Race in Cloud Productivity Suite
A stiff competition in productivity apps between Microsoft Office 365 and Google Apps for Work is heating up. Both Microsoft and Google have made their move to win more corporate customers.
Zynga posts $3M profits in Q3, beats expectations
Social online gaming Zynga posts its third-quarter earnings that beat analysts expectations, revealing that the company is still able to compete in current mobile-age time. Zynga reported $176 million in bookings with a revenue of $196 million.
China, Taiwan Presidents to Meet in Singapore, despite growing public opinion backlash
Chinese President Xi Jinping and Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou will meet for the first time in Singapore amidst the expected public opinion backlash. Reuters reported that the meeting coincides with Taiwan's growing anti-China sentiments as the presidential and parliamentary elections are nearing this January.
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Hyundai Motor Co. announced that it will launch a new standalone luxury car brand called Genesis, as the South Korean carmaker seeks to move upscale and to target higher profit margins.
Quebec is reacting positively to its decision of supporting Bombardier Inc with $1-billion lifeline. Quebec says its decision wouldn't attract any trade dispute from the competitors of Canadian airline.
Jon Stewart struck a four-year production deal with HBO, boosting Time Warner's share by 2 percent during midday trading. According to a report published on Forbes, Stewart's main job for the network is to create web content.
A bizare idea just occurred recently in the Twitch live streaming video platform. A group called themselves "twitchintheshell" planned to install Linux on a virtual machine, based on the most popular keystroke entered by Twitch users. The idea named asTwitch Install has ended in a couple of days after being hijacked by botnet installing other Linux distro.
More than 40% of goods sold on the Internet in China are fakes or shoddy, according to a report by an official of the standing committee of the National People's Congress, the country's top law-making body.
The United States is now third place in the list of top tax havens for foreign companies on the biannual Financial Secrecy Index by the Tax Justice Network, next to Switzerland and Hong Kong.
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. announced it has ran steps to improve food safety by hiring two food safety consulting firms, including IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group, to perform batch-testing ingredients as an effort to respond to its E. coli cases.
Amazon is opening its first physical bookstore on Tuesday this week. The store is located in the University Village shopping center, an upscale outdoor mall north of the University of Washington, Seattle.
Following the success collaboration with the fast growing retail delivery service Instacart in Minneapolis, the retail company Target Corporation is now expanding the service with Instacart in San Francisco.
