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About a week ago, rumors regarding Google’s parent Alphabet’s decision to acquire American wearable maker Fitbit, surfaced online. Now, Google has officially confirmed that it will buy the Fitbit company in a new deal worth $2.1 billion. This move from Google can be said to be one in the direction of the tech giant’s desire to hold a larger stake in the wearables business, an area mostly dominated by a rival company Apple.An official statement from Google’s Senior Vice President for Devices...

Long-awaited Apple’s TV streaming service Apple TV Plus is finally live and you can start watching it on any platform that offers the Apple TV app, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV and support non-Apple devices, as well as on the web at tv.apple.com.Apple is launching with a library of nine titles, and a few more announcements are to come during the next few weeks. Also, the venture counts Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg among its first wave of talent. Apple TV Plus launched on Friday with...

A reliable source published a Reddit post on October 30 stating that Diablo 4 will channel the same elements that developed Diablo 2 into a cult classic. The source has a known and undisputed track record. Thus, it is credited with a level of legitimacy that is mostly absent in other wild rumors.Previously, they correctly predicted Pokémon Sword and Pokémon Shield and Ghost Recon Breakpoint details way before official announcements. Daniel Ahmad, a respected industry analyst, posted on...

American multinational conglomerate General Electric has brought new hope for its investors after its announced strong Q3 results. GE has been struggling over the past three years witnessing a major slowdown in its output. In the last three years, the GE stock price has been on a constant downfall and corrected over 66%.However, under the recent leadership of Larry Culp, the multinational giant looks poised for a solid resurgence. After the company announced its Q3 earnings on Wednesday, GE’s...

Nearly one-third of Americans falsely believe that the US dollar is backed by gold, and 70% don’t know what is backing it. That’s just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to US financial illiteracy, however. A new study reveals just how little Americans know about how their money works. An eye-opening new study into financial literacy reveals just how little Americans know about the US dollar – or how the monetary system works at all. The study, sponsored by cryptocurrency firm...

Photo: PixabayPolitical wars forced Twitter to distance itself from misinformation that usually pops up during elections. Head of Twitter Jack Dorsey seems to continue his quest to make the Internet a better place. After a prominent Bitcoin advocate had recently invested in a cryptocurrency-related venture called CoinList, he is now on the way to cut all political ads off on Twitter.The vast majority of so-called conspiracy theories made public via those ads probably came from wise...

Apple has published an official report, detailing its earnings for the fourth quarter of its fiscal year which ended on September 28, 2019. According to the report, Apple reasonably exceeded analysts’ expectations on earnings per share as well as total revenue. Regardless, stocks remained relatively stagnant, in response to Apple’s announcement. Now they are traded at approximately 240$.The report shows that Apple pulled in total revenue of $64 billion in the fourth quarter, a year over year...

The most recent game from the stables of Infinity Ward, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare, is like nothing ever seen as it breaks previous records to become the fastest-selling game in the franchise in recent times, making a profit of $600 million within the first three days of its launch.This is definitely good news for all Activision Blizzard investors as the remarkable performance of Call of Duty over the weekend seems to have infused the needed strength to its weak share price.At the moment...

Rival carmakers PSA Group and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV announced their plan to merge, combining assets in order to confront pricey new era of trade tariffs, emissions rules and electrification.Shareholders of each company will own 50% of the combined entity, that will be listed in Paris, Milan and New York. Investors in Fiat will get dividend worth of 5.5 billion euros and its robotics subsidiary Comau, while France’s PSA will probably issue its 46% stake in auto-parts maker Faurecia SE....

In order to hold a throne of the world’s most innovative tech company, Apple is detected to deploy providers in order to make its first-ever 5G iPhones next year (“innovative” obviously doesn’t have the same meaning for Apple as for the rest of the world). As per Nikkei’s sources, there are three flagship models set to include the most advanced mobile processors that now exist including the leading-edge screens.The company hopes that upgraded iPhones will prevail over Huawei‘s current...