LG has announced plans to sell televisions that incorporate both 4K ultra-high definition resolutions and OLED panels. The firm said a curved 65in (165cm) set would go on sale in Europe, South Korea and North America in September.
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Microsoft's XBox Live, Blizzard's Battle.net, and Grinding Gear Games are among others to have reported being disrupted over the weekend. The attacks coincided with a bomb scare involving a flight carrying a Sony executive.
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The phone is only for sale on India's online shopping site, Snapdeal. The Intex Cloud FX runs on Mozilla's Firefox operating system and as such it will be the first low-cost device running that system available in Asia. India's emerging market is regarded as the world's fastest growing for low-cost smartphones.
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Earlier in the year, Google's YouTube had been reported to be in late-stage acquisition talks for a similar amount. Founded in 2011, Twitch - formerly known as Twitch.tv - allows users to watch other people play video games. As of July of this year, the service had over 55 million unique monthly viewers.
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The ceremonies have ended. The husband has already taken his wife home. And, whatever anybody says or feels, the process of increasing Nigeria’s population must have begun in the confine of the new couple’s home. However, the wedding of Katsina State Governor, Ibrahim Shehu Shema and Maryam Yar’Adua, who is a daughter of the late President Umaru Yar’Adua, penultimate Saturday at Usman Dan Fodio Mosque, continues to come up in national discourses. Pray, what is bad in a man marrying another wife when his religion permits as much as four so far he could take care of them? But, like the cliché goes, there is always another side to a coin. Shema already had wives before adding Maryam to his harem. Besides, there was no rumour of a romance between them before the sudden wedding.
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In 14 years of marriage and 18 years of acting, few things compare to the excitement of being a pathfinder. Even though famous Nollywood actress, Omoni Oboli, does not regard her having a foothold in The Presidency as a personal advantage, she would rather see it as a collective advancement for the industry she is so passionate about. With the recent screening of her directorial debut, ‘Being Mrs. Elliot’ in the Banquet Hall of The Presidential Villa in Abuja, Omoni scored an enviable feat for being able to have President Goodluck Jonathan and his top aides watch the movie. The idea of showing the movie at the State House was a random thought that became real. At the point they sent a letter to The Presidency, they were still doubtful that their request would be considered, but they went ahead, anyway. To their greatest surprise, the President approved the request.
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The majority owner of Bulgaria’s troubled Corporate Commercial Bank (Corpbank) said on Monday it was working with Oman’s sovereign wealth fund and other interested investors to restructure the lender. Corpbank’s fate has been in limbo since June, when a run on deposits prompted the central bank to seize control of it and close its operations, sparking the worst banking crisis in the poor Black Sea state since 1990s.
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Saudi Arabia’s main stock index rose above the psychologically important level of 11,000 points on Monday for the first time since January 2008, continuing an uptrend triggered by plans to open the market to foreign investors. The Kingdom’s stock market regulator said last month that it would allow direct investment by foreigners in the first half of next year. It published draft regulations for the reform last Thursday.
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Oil edged higher above $102 a barrel on Monday with support from geopolitical tensions in Ukraine and Libya, although ample supply limited the rebound from last week’s 14-month low. Libyan exports have risen in the past few weeks although a further recovery looks uncertain, analysts say. Rockets hit an airport in eastern Libya on Monday, a day after fire destroyed the terminal at Tripoli’s main airport.
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A prototype of a high-tech loudspeaker designed by a group of college students may end the quarrels between square-dancing grannies and their neighbors who are irritated by loud music. At a design workshop at the Sony Explora Science Museum in Beijing at the end of July, Zhu Liya, a student from the School of Media and Design at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, stood next to a tripod-like device topped by a projector and explained how it came to be.
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