Tumblr has unveiled its fourth annual “Year in Review” of top trending topics on the platform in 2016, across categories including the most popular movies, actors, actresses, albums, athletes, and more, in addition to Tumblr-native categories like memes and “ships.”
The first episode Amazon’s ‘The Grand Tour’ featuring ex-BBC Top Gear presenters, has become the biggest show premiere on the firm’s streaming service.
Hitachi has begun tests of passenger services using its “EMIEW3” humanoid robot, designed to guide people to the correct destination.
Domino’s has begun testing New Zealand pizza delivery via the first commercial drone delivery service in the world.
Pokémon Go! is big business, with 13% of the adult UK population having downloaded the game, and more than 5 million playing it regularly, according to new research.
Nintendo shares drop as investors respond to details of licencing agreement. Nintendo have seen shares rise some 60% since the augmented reality game phenomenon Pokémon Go launched. However, shares have fallen back on the announcement that Pokémon Go was developed by US firm Niantic. Nintendo announced profits from licensing would be limited. The debate and … [Read more…]
Verizon have announced the purchase of Yahoo ending speculation on the future of Yahoo. Verizon will $4.8 billion for the business. An announcement was made before NY stock exchange opened earlier today. Once one of the most dominant dotcom businesses, like AOL it never really recovered from the dot-com crash, and has struggled to find … [Read more…]
Messaging app Line is planning a dual Japan-US IPO, which could raise as much as $1.14 bn, which could make it the biggest tech IPO of 2016.
Japan-based messaging app Line has launched its own selfie filter app, imitating a popular feature on Snapchat.
Amazon is launching a new video service called “Amazon Video Direct”, letting people earn royalties on uploaded content.