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Swiss watchmakers go ‘smart’ to attract young shoppers

  Bloomberg Swiss watchmakers are diving further into the unproven smartwatch market, with Montblanc, TAG Heuer and Tissot seeking to attract younger shoppers with a technology the industry largely snubbed until consumers began turning away from traditional timepieces. TAG Heuer recently unveiled the new generation of a $1,650 smartwatch it makes with partners Google and Intel. Montblanc followed with the ...

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Lessons from Yahoo hack

  NEW YORK / AP Many people are still not taking routine precautions to safeguard their email accounts — and hackers are exploiting that. According to US officials who filed charges in a massive Yahoo break-in, Russian hackers didn’t have to work very hard to break into people’s email accounts, even those belonging to government officials or powerful executives. You ...

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Oppo, Vivo founder reveals how he toppled Apple in China

  Bloomberg Duan Yongping is convinced Tim Cook didn’t have a clue who he was when they first met a couple years ago. The Apple boss probably does now. Duan is the reclusive billionaire who founded Oppo and Vivo, the twin smartphone brands that dealt the world’s largest company a stinging defeat in China last year. Once derided as cheap ...

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