The $400 million Meta-Giphy deal has been under review by the competition watchdog since June 2020, a month after the deal was announced. The competition regulator on Friday said it fined Meta £1.5 million as the company failed to disclose the resignation of key staff, which is a requirement of the investigation. According to the CMA, Meta failed to notify the regulator about the resignation of three key employees and the reallocation of their roles....

OPPO, the Chinese smartphone company is now one of the leading smartphone companies around the world. OPPO is having a market share of 15.2 %, trailing the other Chinese brands like Xiaomi, Lenovo and also Samsung, the South Korean company. OPPO is now commonly known as the selfie expert and leader. It is having the 4th rank among the smartphones since 2016 which is doing an extraordinary work in the selfie snaps to the people around the world....

In what seems like only a matter of years, Michael B. Jordan has gone from a promising young actor to one of Hollywood’s biggest stars. Jordan does seem like he is destined for superstardom, proving that he can give stunning performances in a wide range of projects. However, Jordan’s movie career is still quite new with only about a dozen films to his resume so far. While his upcoming legal dramaJust Mercypromises to be one of his more acclaimed films, his released projects so far are a bit varied in terms of quality....

Roland Emmerich brings WWII to explosive life in the second trailer for the war epic Midway. Emmerich of course knows all about action after directing the blockbuster alien invasion movie Independence Day, as well as the disaster films The Day After Tomorrow and 2012. The director has also dipped his toe in the historical drama pool, helming the Mel Gibson Revolutionary War movie The Patriot as well as the controversial Stonewall....

Anthony Edward ‘Tony’ Stark or Iron Man is perhaps the most popular character in the entire Marvel universe. With Robert Downey Jr.’s brilliant portrayal of Iron Man onscreen, Tony’s character gained immense popularity worldwide and is often dubbed as ‘the godfather of the Marvel cinematic universe.’ Born with a silver spoon in his mouth, Tony is also brilliantly gifted, a skilled inventor and a successful industrialist, and his lifestyle proves it....

Ina Fried at Cnet has the report, and it’s a classic example of a journalist digging away at a slippery interviewee in an attempt to get a straight answer. Brad Brooks, vice president of Windows Consumer Product Marketing, argued that Mac buyers face hidden costs if they try to add Windows to their Mac or if they decide to forgo Windows compatibility. In fact, his remark is priceless: “If people want a Windows experience, then start with a machine that was built for the Windows experience....

Fast food conglomerates, for example, managed to stay open and do business, while so many traditional restaurants had to shut down. Moreover, the fast-food companies benefited from the glory of apps to deliver food to people’s doors, enhancing modern Americans’ twin penchants for abject lassitude and instant gratification. One beneficiary of all this, of course, was the cabal of tech-driven delivery companies that gouged restaurants so shamelessly, so much so that certain cities chose to put a limit on their commissions....

A Chinese smartphone company, Meitu is known for the selfie-centric smartphone company. It launched another smartphone in Beijing called Meitu T9, yesterday. The phone is also known as the smart photographer. Now the company holding a lunch event on July 26 in Taipei for Meitu T9. The pre-order of the phone will available on the same day when the company unveiled the phone in Taiwan market. The phone will available at NT$20,900 (|$685) for pre-order....

You bought a new smartphone, it works smoothly without crashing or freezing and you expect it to perform flawlessly for months to come and at least you either exchange or get a new smartphone for yourself. But a smartphone develops issues after few months of usage. First, it will start showing that the apps are crashing and gradually disclose that the phone is crashing as a whole. Then again, if you are doing any task that requires more processing power and other resources, the system will freeze and will not allow the user to touch or close the app since the phone has become temporarily unresponsive....

Microsoft is working on a major new Minecraft game for iOS and Android that takes the highly popular platform into the real world. After teasing the title earlier this month, the company has unveiled Minecraft Earth which is set to arrive in beta this summer. The new mobile game will bring a Pokémon Go-style AR experience to let players collaborate with others in real time and cover “the entire planet in Minecraft....

Microsoft just announced a cross-licensing agreement with Samsung. Akin to their patent deals with other Android backers, this one will have Samsung pay per-device royalties for mobile phones and tablets running Android. Microsoft has in total eight cross-licensing agreements with Android backers Acer, General Dynamics Itronix, Onkyo, Velocity Micro, ViewSonic, Wistron, HTC and Samsung. Microsoft explained in a blog post that the agreement “gives both companies greater patent coverage relating to each other’s technologies, and opens the door to a deeper partnership in the development of new phones for the Windows Phone platform”....

Microsoft on Monday announced that it will be eliminating its top-tier cloud storage plan and offering unlimited cloud storage to Office 365 subscribers at no additional cost. The change will begin rolling out today for Office 365 Home, Personal and University customers and will continue over the coming months. Microsoft has added a new landing page where you can sign in and add yourself to the list to be one of the first to receive unlimited cloud storage....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUJfVZzxu3M Microsoft has released yet another Cortana advertisement that mocks Siri for lacking contextual reminders and real-time traffic reports. Microsoft pokes fun at the personal voice assistant by claiming that it “just got bigger,” a sarcastic reference to the larger screen sizes on the iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus. Perhaps the Redmond-based company is overlooking all of the new features Siri gained in iOS 8. This is far from the first Siri vs....

It allows annotations using e-ink and your voice. Here’s our first look at Microsoft Snip Preview and what it can do. Download Microsoft Snip Microsoft Garage If you’d like to try Snip for yourself, simply click this link or the screenshot below. Snip Interface and Features Launching Snip reveals an elegant menu that appears with a smooth animation, similar to the Xbox gaming menu in Windows 10. The first button lets you take a screenshot a specified region....

The full trailer for season 2 of Netflix’s Mindhunter investigates the infamous Atlanta Child Murders from the late ‘70s and early ‘80s, as the series moves into more active investigations. It’s been well over a year since the first season premiered on the streaming service, bringing the Academy Award-nominated directing of David Fincher to television for the first time since the series premiere of House of Cards. Since then, Netflix had been playing things fairly close to the vest with regard to details of when the second season would launch, and they wound up being beaten to the punch by series producer Charlize Theron....

If you own a Meizu 16s Pro smartphone, then here i will guide you on how to install official stock ROM on Meizu 16s Pro smartphone. This guide is simple and easy to follow. We have listed the Official Stock ROM On Meizu 16s Pro below. Download the required file to either upgrade or downgrade your Meizu 16s Pro. Learn How To Install Stock ROM On Meizu 16s Pro pushing the below Guide and use the QPST Software to flash any official Stock Firmware on Meizu 16s Pro....

But now, Microsoft has released the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Facebook and the Microsoft Outlook Social Connector Provider for Windows Live Messenger, which means it’s time to re-enable that People Pane and get connected. Here’s how to connect your Facebook account to Outlook using the Outlook Social Connector. Install Outlook Social Connector. If you are running Outlook 2010, Outlook Social Connector will download via Microsoft Update. If you are running Microsoft Outlook 2003 or Microsoft Outlook 2007, you can download the Outlook Social Connector at the Microsoft Download Center....

Microsoft is updating its Translator app today with some notable features, including support for offline translations, that could give it the upper hand on Google and the competition. The standout feature of the update is support for offline translations, meaning you won’t need an Internet connection at all, and the company notes the addition of that feature should make Microsoft Translator one of the better free offerings around. Like similar offline features, you’ll need to first download content packs that will store the necessary data to do the translations locally without Internet....

Windows 10 August Patch Tuesday These updates will bump your build to 19041.1165, 19042.1165, or 19043.1165 based on the version you are currently running. The main thing these updates include is security and quality improvements. Including three zero-day vulnerabilities and fixes the nagging PrintNightmare vulnerability that allows bad actors to gain access to system-level privileges by connecting to a remote print server. In addition, the patch also includes the following fixes:...

Microsoft has today released an update to its Office 365 suite for the Mac. Today’s update brings full compatibility with the latest macOS release, Mojave. It also now supports Mojave’s system-wide Dark Mode feature, making all the window chrome dark instead of a stark white. Microsoft says Dark Mode support is available in Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, and Outlook as of now. Of course, macOS Mojave is required as Dark Mode in the Microsoft suite of apps is dependant upon your system appearance settings....