Yahoo reportedly letting go of 10 per cent of its workforce

Yahoo is reportedly preparing to slash 10 per cent of it s workforce. A report from Business Insider states that up to 1,000 jobs affecting Yahoo’s media business, European operations, and platforms-technology group would be cut.

Yahoo had appointed management consulting firm McKinsey & Co, in November, to help with the reorganization of its core businesses. Yahoo lost one-third of their value last year as it become clear that a spinoff of its lucrative Alibaba stake, this is despite various acquisitions and plans to reinvent itself as a media company and mobile app provider.

Source: USA Today

New video gets us primed and ready for NAIAS 2016 in Detroit

The automotive industry is undergoing a period of massive change and as evidenced by the big news of the past year including the viability of EV and hybrid vehicles, the Dieselgate scandal, integration of mobile and smartphone technology with cars as well as the advent of innovative automarkers like Tesla, Faraday Future, Google and others, makes the 2016 North American International Autoshow an important one in setting the tone for the automotive industry in the years to come. Canadian Reviewer will be on hand in Detroit next week to witness and cover the anticipated launches and news from the trade floor show.

CES 2016: Ford's in tune with Apple CarPlay, Android Auto in its 2016 vehicles with Sync 3

2016 might make the International CES seem more like the Car Electronics Show with various announcements coming from car manufacturers eager to show off their latest vehicles featuring cutting edge technologies, electric vehicles and autonomous driving features.

Ford has already made a big splash by backing both Apple CarPlay and Android Auto functionality in its Ford Sync 3 powered vehicles coming to market this year. Aside from its own apps, 4G-LTE connectivity and new connectivity options, Sync 3 is compatible with either iOS or Android devices.

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Canadians can now buy an unlocked Lumia 550 Windows 10 smartphone for $189.00

Microsoft's cheapest handset ever is the Lumia 550 which can now be purchased unlocked for CAD $189.00. Featuring a 4.7-inch display (1280 x 720 resolution), all-plastic body, 8GB of storage (expandable to 128GB), 1GB of RAM, 4G-LTE connectivity and Windows 10 (without the 'run your PC  OS from your phone' Continuum feature). The Lumia 550 does offer the Cortana voice assistant, access to Office Mobile and OneDrive plus various Windows 10 Universal apps.

Microsoft seems to have given up on Windows Phone, which now has 1.7 per cent of the global mobile market share. A telling sing is that the company didn't even bother to properly launch or promote the higher end and pricey Lumia 950 and Lumia 950 XL devices and accessories in Canada.

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