Broadcom names Kirsten Spears as CFO in leadership shakeup

Broadcom Inc has appointed its principal accounting officer, Kirsten Spears, as chief financial officer and forecast first-quarter revenue above estimates as key client Apple Inc doubles down on 5G devices, driving demand for its chips.

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Disney reminds the world it's executing streaming at a different level than competition

Disney's show of intellectual property force during Thursday's investor day illustrates how it's streaming strategy separates it from the competition.

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Google Chrome, Firefox, Other Browsers Impacted by Widespread Malware Campaign: Microsoft

An ongoing malware campaign is hitting the Internet with a browser modifier malware called Adrozek that injects ads into search results and puts malicious browser extensions, Microsoft revealed on Thursday. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Yandex Browser, and Mozilla Firefox are affected by the newly discovered malware attacks.

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Samsung Galaxy S20, Galaxy Note 20 Get a Dedicated App to Enhance Gaming Performance

Samsung Galaxy S20 and Galaxy Note 20 series have received a dedicated app called Samsung GameDriver that will allow standalone GPU driver updates. This will bring performance improvements and better graphics support for select games.

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Disney+ emerges as an early winner of streaming wars, expects up to 260 million subscribers by 2024

The company now expects 230 million to 260 million subscribers to Disney+ by 2024. 

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Why Apple TV+’s Wolfwalkers Was Seven Years in the Making

Inside Wolfwalkers, the Apple TV+ animated movie from Cartoon Saloon, as director Tomm Moore, co-director Ross Stewart, and writer Will Collins discuss how a bigger budget helped them with “wolfvision”, the story, and behind the scenes.

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Reliance Jio to tie-up with Realme, others to make 4G devices cheaper

Reliance Jio is working with Realme and other organisations to further lower the price of 4G handsets and other connected devices, a senior company official said on Wednesday. Sunil Dutt, Reliance Jio's president for devices and mobility, said there is a need to provide affordable devices so that people still using 2G handsets can upgrade to 4G and 5G.

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Google Assistant Can Read Out Your Notifications When Using Any Wired Headphone

Google Assistant has received new functionality allowing incoming notifications to be read aloud when using wired headphones. The feature was added earlier this month.

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Amazon Apple Days sale: Deals and discounts on iPhone 12 series, iPhone 11 and more

If you have been waiting to purchase an iPhone then this may be the right time to do so. Amazon has announced Apple Days sale during which the e-tailer is offering deals and discounts on iPhone 12 series, iPhone 11, iPhone 7,iPad mini,MacBook Pro and more.

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The Mandalorian Season 2 Episode 7 Recap: Pedro Pascal Shows Himself

The Mandalorian season 2 episode 7 review and recap: Pedro Pascal’s face is the star of Chapter 15: The Believer — written and directed by Rick Famuyiwa — which also features a very different score by composer Ludwig Göransson.

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Google Is Making It Easier to Use Microsoft Office Files in Workspace Apps

Google is rolling out some new features to make it easier to use Microsoft Office files with Workspace productive apps. Users will be able to open and edit Office files sent via Gmail directly in Docs, Sheets, or Slides without having to save them on Drive first.

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Twitter users can now share tweets to Snapchat

Twitter Inc launched a new feature on its mobile app on Thursday that would allow users to share tweets directly to Snap Inc's photo messaging app Snapchat, in a bid for cross-media engagement to get more users.

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Star Wars Spinoffs to New Marvel Series: Everything Disney Announced

Disney’s streaming plans shifted into hyper speed Thursday, as the studio unveiled a galaxy’s worth of new streaming offerings including plans for 10 Star Wars series spinoffs and 10 Marvel series that will debut on Disney+.

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PayPal-backed fintech start-up Tink valued at more than $800 million after fresh funding

Tink’s open banking platform aggregates data from thousands of banks, allowing developers to build new financial products.

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Patty Jenkins’ Rogue Squadron Movie, Four New Star Wars Series Announced

Rogue Squadron, from Patty Jenkins, is the next Star Wars movie. Ahsoka, Lando, Rangers of the New Republic, and Star Wars: Visions are four new Star Wars series. Hayden Christensen will return as Darth Vader on Obi-Wan Kenobi. Rogue One series is called Andor, and Leslye Headland’s Star Wars series is called The Acolyte.

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TikTok Viral Concept Celebrating Ratatouille Becomes Virtual Crowdsourced Musical

A crowdsourced musical based on the 2007-Pixar animated film Ratatouille is now set to hit the virtual stage, after thousands of TikTok creators posted original songs, dances, set designs, playbills, and puppets on the content-sharing app.

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Disney+ Surpasses 86 Million Subscribers, CEO Bob Chapek Says

Disney CEO Bob Chapek told investors that the company's year-old streaming TV service Disney+ had passed 86.8 million subscribers, beating its "wildest expectations."

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Flipkart, PhonePe Have Room for Other Investors: Walmart CEO Doug McMillon

Walmart's Indian e-commerce firm Flipkart and digital payments business PhonePe have room for other investors and could raise money in several ways including stock market listings, the US retail giant's CEO said.

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Google Drive App Receives New Features to Improve Search on Android, iOS

Google’s new search features for Google Drive app on Android and iOS include one that will enable users to see and re-run recent desktop and mobile searches. Users will also be able to see and select from ‘intelligent suggestions’ as they type in the search bar, including suggestions for people, past searches, and keywords.

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Google Drive App Receives New Features to Improve Search on Android, iOS

Google’s new search features for Google Drive app on Android and iOS include one that will enable users to see and re-run recent desktop and mobile searches. Users will also be able to see and select from ‘intelligent suggestions’ as they type in the search bar, including suggestions for people, past searches, and keywords.

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How to use the new Vanish mode feature on Messenger and Instagram

The Vanish mode in terms of functionality does almost the same thing as WhatsApp’s disappearing message, however, the approach between the two is entirely different. WhatsApp messages remain in the chat for around 7 days while the Vanish mode messages disappear instantaneously.

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Secret Invasion, Ironheart, Armor Wars, I Am Groot Marvel Disney+ Series Announced

Secret Invasion, Ironheart, Armor Wars, and I Am Groot Marvel series are coming to Disney+ and Disney+ Hotstar. And we have trailers for Loki, Ms. Marvel, The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, Marvel’s What If...?, and WandaVision. New cast members announced for Ms. Marvel, Hawkeye, and She-Hulk.

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Facebook Being Investigated Over Linking Oculus Quest 2 VR Headset to Its Platform in Germany

German regulators launched an investigation into Facebook over the company's decision to link its Oculus virtual reality products to the social network, authorities said.

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