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Gloom falls over Samsung amid lost bonuses, jobs

  Bloomberg The people who make Samsung phones are an elite bunch. They hold the most coveted jobs at the most valuable company within Samsung Group, the largest and most prestigious conglomerate in South Korea. But the sense of exceptionalism was smashed last week as Samsung Electronics Co. took the unprecedented step of killing off an entire generation of its ...

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Google rolls out Chrome Canary to Android

  Relaxnews An unstable and experimental version of the Chrome web browser, going by the name of Chrome Canary, is now available for Android. This latest Chrome edition is destined to give users an idea of what’s in store from future versions of the browser for smartphone and tablet. Already available for Windows and macOS, Google Chrome Canary has now ...

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Toiling to tap the honey buzz

  Ilan / AFP Under a shady starfruit tree Taiwanese beekeeper Jiang Hwan-bin tends his hives, pumping out pure honey for a rapidly growing market of health-conscious consumers. Jiang’s family has been keeping bees for 80 years and he now manages 500 hives in the northwest county of Hsinchu. In total his family run around 2,000 across northern Taiwan. A ...

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