Pakistan bat against Sri Lanka in decider

#GNN - #DAMBULLA: #Pakistan captain Misbah-ul Haq won the toss and elected to bat in the third and decisive one-day international against Sri Lanka in Dambulla on Saturday. With the series level at 1-1, Pakistan welc

Nokia’s Here Maps Its Future On Samsung With Its First Android And Tizen Apps

#GNN Tech - Opera may have taken some of the wind out of the Nokia brand’s sails with the news that its browser will be replacing Nokia’s on the now-Microsoft-owned, winding down, feature handset business. But today

PM discusses political situation with leaders of various opposition parties

#GNN - #ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif held a consultative meeting with the leaders of various opposition parties in the Parliament House Islamabad on Wednesday. They discussed overall political situation of

Ybrain Raises $3.5M To Fund Trials Of Its Wearable For Alzheimer’s Patients

 #GNN Team - Ybrain, a Korean startup that makes wearables for Alzheimer’s patients, announced today that it has raised $3.5 million in Series A funding led by Stonebridge Capital, bringing its total raised so f

Samsung’s New Gear S Smartwatch Features A Curved Screen And 3G Connectivity

#GNN Tech - #Samsung officially takes the cake when it comes to launching smartwatches: It just announced the Samsung Gear S, its billionth smartwatch device launching this year. The Gear S has a few hallmarks that

Taiwan-Based Streaming Music Service KKBOX Raises $104M To Expand Overseas

#GNN Tech - KKBOX, a Taiwan-based company that has provided streaming music services in Asia since before Spotify was founded, announced (link in Chinese) that it has raised $104 million from Singapore GIC (formerly

SWAT Team Detains Popular Gamer Who Was Live-Streaming ‘Counter-Strike’

#GNN Tech - An incredible video showing the apparent swatting of a video game player who operates under the moniker ‘Kootra‘ was published today. Swatting is a prank that involves falsely telling the police of a dan

Microsoft Promises To Remove Scammy Apps From The Windows Store, Kills Off 1,500 Apps To Start

#GNN Tech - The Windows app store has a problem: it’s full of garbage. For every popular app, there’s a dozen-plus apps trying their damnedest to trick the user into buying it. No app store is without its shady app

Hardware Crowdfunding: Where The Venture Dollars Flow

#GNN Tecm - Editor’s note: Matt Witheiler is a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners. You can follow him on his blog. $211,290. That was the magic number that the data suggested was the “success” threshold i

Broad Range Of Public Tech Firms Trade For Record Prices

#GNN Tech - All the talk of a bubble isn’t slowing down public interest in technology shares. Today, Apple, TubeMogul and Arista Networks set new record highs. TubeMogul and Arista both recently went public. Other f

Japan could offer unapproved Ebola drug under certain criteria: #government

#GNN - #Japan could offer an unapproved drug under certain circumstances to help treat the deadly Ebola virus even before the World Health Organization has decided to make a request for the drug, the country's top gove

Sony says Playstation users' information safe after hackers target #game sites

#GNN Tech - #Sony Corp (6758.T) said hackers had taken down its #PlayStation Network without compromising its 53 million users' personal data, while the FBI was investigating a bomb scare on a flight carrying a top Son

Thai king endorses junta leader as prime minister

#GNN - Thai #military leader General Prayuth Chan-ocha was endorsed as prime minister by Thailand's king on Monday, four days after he was elected by his own hand-picked parliament, although critics called his appointm

Burger King in merger talks with Canada's Tim Hortons

#GNN - Burger King (BKW.N) is in talks to combine with Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons Inc (THI.TO) in a deal that would create a fast food powerhouse with a market capitalization of roughly $18 billio

Market leaders seen taking S&P 500 to 2,000

#GNN - U.S. stocks have been on a roll of late, with the S&P 500 hitting the latest in a series of records on Thursday, and investors expect the index's momentum to soon carry it to - if not far past - the 2,000 mi

Deepening rivalries test German luxury car dominance

#GNN - Berlin-based PR executive Herbert Franz should be a soft target for German luxury automakers - his last car was a BMW (BMWG.DE) X3 - but he can't wait to leave them behind. "This car is hip," said Franz, 52, a

PlayStation Network Suffers DDOS Attack, Hackers Claim To Have Grounded SOE President’s Plane

#GNN Tech - #PlayStation Network is currently experiencing mass outages for North American users, and the reason behind the downtime is a DDOS attack for which hacker group Lizard Squad has claimed responsibility. S

E-Businesses In Africa Have A Responsibility To Help Alleviate Internet Poverty

#GNN Tech- Editor’s note: Johan Nel is the country manager of Gumtree South Africa. In Soshanguve, a township just north of Pretoria in South Africa, there was a small kiosk that sold fruit, cigarettes and snacks to