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Uber is reportedly very close to selling off its Uber Eats food delivery business in India. According to a TechCrunch report citing three people familiar with the matter, Uber is at the final stages of negotiations with Indian rival company, Zomato. If negotiations are successful, Zomato will take it over.Valued at more than $2 billion, Zomato is easily one of the largest food delivery businesses in India and hasn’t made it very easy for Uber Eats since the latter launched in May 2017. The...

In the modern world with an incredibly high level of technological development more and more people use tech benefits in building their careers. Instead of daily commuting to and from work, they choose to freelance. Some are quite skeptical about such a way of earning money and believe that freelancing is more about something you do when you can not get a real job. However, they are wrong, and we are going to prove it.Freelancing is a fast and affordable way to start earning an income from...

The U.S-based mass media and entertainment conglomerate Walt Disney is now enjoying the success of its latest animation movie Frozen 2. According to media reports, Frozen 2, which started to set records just after the release, has crossed a whopping $1 billion in global box office collection.This is also the third movie from Disney Animation (and sixth from the overall Disney group) this year which has crossed a billion-dollar mark. The other five movies that have achieved this milestone...

Stocks for popular American auto manufacturer, General Electric (GE) has jumped in response to a bullish rating. In a note to investors, UBS financial services company analyst Markus Mittermaier promoted GE stock from a Hold to Buy rating, also increasing his target estimate by about 26% from $11.50 to $14. In response, on Wednesday, GE stock climbed by about 1% as Mittermaier said in the note that he believes “the stock is at a positive inflection point into 2020.”So far in 2019, GE has...

As the year is coming to an end, the Android community seems to be more and more eager for the upcoming Samsung Galaxy S11, and we already have plenty of details about it as well.The implied design of the new phone has, of course, already leaked, with some of them even claiming that there might be five different S11 versions, including Galaxy S11e and Plus flavors. The look will be similar but camera systems on the back should be different.What we officially know is that Snapdragon 865...

Sports footwear and apparel company Nike announced it has been given a patent to tokenize its shoes on the Ethereum blockchain.In a document posted on the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on December 10, Nike stated that its plan to generate unique IDs and create ERC 721 tokens for some shoes, dubbed CryptoKicks.When buying shoes, people will be able to “unlock” these tokens and then link them with unique owner IDs to confirm ownership. The token will not be used only as a representative of a...

Pre-orders for Apple’s new Mac Pro desktop computer officially began yesterday. The Mac Pro which was initially announced at the Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in June is priced at $5,999 for the desktop unit alone. Unlike many desktop computers especially with Windows, the Mac Pro’s 6k Pro Display XDR monitor is sold separately for an interesting $4,999, pushing the price of both units up to $11,000. However, this price seemingly only gets you the bare minimum and if you want...

General Motors has introduced the new versions of its best-selling models the Chevrolet Tahoe and the Suburban SUVs. Sources indicate that the new versions of the popular models are larger than previous ones with a whole lot of technology and new features that combine both safety and comfort. Industry pundits have indicated that the profits made from the sales of these two models will propel the automaker to complete the self-driving cars and electric vehicles which include the 20 planned to...

Google’s parent company Alphabet, has announced that it has added Nobel laureate Frances Arnold to its board of directors. Arnold who received 2018’s Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is now the third woman on the tech giant’s board.In a tweet posted yesterday by Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, Arnold will be bringing her “incredible academic and industry expertise with a career spanning chemistry, engineering, renewable energy and more,” to the company.I’m thrilled to welcome @francesarnold to the...

After much foot-dragging, software giant Microsoft has finally decided to shut down its Wunderlist App come 2020. Sources indicate that Microsoft prefers its To Do as it offers a better end-user experience and be able to compete favorably with other personal organization apps that are currently in vogue and trending in app stores.Wunderlist app users will no longer be able to sync their to-do lists starting from May 6, 2020, but rather will be able to import their data into Microsoft’s To Do...