Google is testing a new way to make its mobile search more effective and convenient. Google chose a set of applications to support the mobile search.

When the users search on Google mobile search, all the typing contents will be searched and able to browse.

For example, when users type ” Chicago hotels”, Google Now will offer the hotel reservation app HotelTonight for searching and display the hotels. Google could only display the application contents that were match with webpage contents in the past.

In addition to this, users can browse the application contents via streaming media right now. They have no need to download the app before they check the search contents. Users will be able to locate and book the hotel from the searching result. It is new and convenient to apply.

Google is pursuading the application publishers to allow Google mobile search obtains the application contents via Google deep links. If they deny Google’s reqeust, Google mobile search won’t be work effectively.

So far, there are 1,000 applications create the over 100 billion deep links, including Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram.

The updated Google mobile search will be more effective and powerful. It displays the application contents via searching and allows users to browse the contents without downloading the app.

Google updates this app in the hope of helping its mobile search engine to be the major channel for users to visit the websites.

Singaporean officer has confirmed that Apple will set up its first Apple Store there. It will be the first retail store that is supplied with solar power in South Asia.

The solar power developer Sunseap Group claimed that it will install solar energy facilities on the roofs of 800 buildings to store such renewable energy so that to meet Apple’s demand from January of 2017.

Until now, Apple doesn’t reveal the location and commencement date of business for first Apple Store in Singapore. It is said that it will be supposed to start business in 2016. In the meanwhile, Apple doesn’t confirm whether it will fully apply solar power in its first Apple Store either.

“Sunseap and Apple teamed up as strategic partners which means Singapore is in a vantage point to use more competitive renewable energy,” said Goh Chee Kiong, the executive director of Economic Development of Board of Singapore.

” We start recruiting the work team for the first Apple Store in Singapore now, that is what we can tell so far,” announced Angela Ahrendts, retail director of Apple firm.

Apple will be the first company that fully relies on renewable energy in Singapore after it signed the agreements with Sunseap Group. Apple listed 14 job opportunities for Singaporean retail store on its official website, including store manager, business manager and technical assistant.

There was sign for the above rumor dated back to late October. Pure Fitness notified its clients that it would close 4-store shopping mall which locates in Orchard Road in order to offer convenience for first Apple Store.

Apple authorized two distributors to sell its products via their brick-and-mortar stores in Singapore. These two distributors have 18 brick-and -mortar stores altogether there. In addition to this, Apple also sell its products to Singaporeans via online stores.

Snapchat works hard to make more profit from its activate users. It reported that it obtains 100 million activate users each day. Snapchat keeps launching new functions to attract users and tries to charge subscription for the favorite features from its users.

Snapchat launched the Lens Store last Friday. The subscribers can add more social elements or doodle on their snapshots by paying $0.99. It offers 30 lens options on the lens stores, including 7 free options.

Snapchat had offered the free lens service in the past few months. It teamed up with Fox to test the fist sponsored lens for Snoopy last month. Some popular lens might be disappeared after Snapchat release the lens store.

Those lens might not be so popular when it begins charging. Lens store is the second subscribed feature launched by Snapchat since September.

It created the mode of burn after reading and it started not saving the communications between friends. To make more profit, it allows users to spend $0.99 since September to check three deleted chatting records of the day.

It is so important for Snapchat to release the subscribed functions. Under some circumstances, it costs Snapchat $500,000 for its products’ ads on a single day. Its payment services are positive for its development. It might launch more subscribed services in the feature.

Many of its users are not satisfied with the subscription of lens store. They complained on Twitter. They felt that they are forced to use some lens features once they buy it. It is necessary to buy such lens.

Snapchat hasn’t make any official announcement concerns subscribed lens store yet.

John Gruber has been reporting Apple’s news for more than 10 years via his blog Daring Fireball. He admitted that it was the turning point for Apple as well as the whole computing industry for iPad Pro’s release.

He felt that it meant the end of Intel x86 . Intel x86 has been the PC core since 1980s.

The price for top configuration of iPad Pro is $1097, it is $50 cheaper than the cheapest MacBook even purchase with the Smart Keyboard.

Gruber tested the performance of iPad Pro and found it works better and has higher definition screen. In addition, iPad Pro’s battery life can last longer than MacBook.

There are also advantages to use Mac, such as expansibility and more ports. iPad Pro uses the iOS 9.1 system, if you try to use iPad Pro as laptop, you might be disappointed.

Gruber assumes that the future for computer will be based on the ARM processor, instead of using x86 which is mostly applied by Mac and Windows PC. ARM processors are used in iPad and most of the smartphones.

He added that the life of x86 won’t last long. The application of x86 is declining. There will be more chances for ARM, and Apple A SoC will be one of the leader in the future.

Microsoft’s Surface Pro 4 falls in between laptop and iPad and it is similar to iPad Pro. Surface series products has developed to generation 4, and the experience of using its keyboard is nearly the same as the traditional one. Surface Pro runs Windows 10 operating system and it supports the common PC software.

Surface Pro 4 employs the Intel Core processor on the basis of x86. Its price is the same with iPad Pro in the condition that they use they set the same configuration.

The photo sharing website Pinterest is considered as a social network site which is similar to Facebook. Pinterest even more wishes create more profit via the search Ads business as Google does.

Its head quarter locals in San Francisco, Pinterest plans to launch a new technology on Monday. Such technology will allow users to search the related photos without typing any characters. For example, this new technology will help users to search the similar styles or colors for user for the lamps of a restaurant that he loves.

Pinterest claims that the new technology applies “a discovery engine”feature. Its senior manager addresses that it allows users to find those new things they have never met. Michael Lopp said this feature was launched by accidentally.

It is said that ” a discovery engine”feature will help Pinterest to sell its ads. This is why some investor evaluated Pinterest at $11 billion for its market value. Pinterest was founded 5 years ago and received over 100 million users and stored 50 billion photos. The spokesman indicates the company has added 1 billion photos into the new search engine. It will add all of its stored photos in the near future.

Pinterest introduced the Promoted Pins ads this May. The advertisers can pay subscriptions to have their pins in visible locations of the website. It announced to test a new project in June that any one or enterprises can promote their pins by paying subscriptions so that more and more people access to their ads.

Debrorah Aho-Williamson, analyst of eMarketer suggested if Pinterest plans to attract more search advertising budget, it must have an excellent search product. There are still many problems unsolved despite of Pinterest’s search products are doing better.

Pinterest shows that the visual search will be the major part for its development. Visual search is one of the difficulties that IT enterprises meet. Google has spent years to study to launch the visual search. It released Google Goggles in 2009. Users can search by taking photos or the information of objects without typing.

It considered developing visual search since last year. Pinterest also purchased VisualGraph. Kevin Jing and David Liu will join Pinterest engineering team when the acquisition is done.

According to Engadget report, Microsoft’s Windows Store do not attract much attention by the public, reports NetEase.

Microsoft realizes it and works on new ways to attract developers. In the past, Microsoft transplants the applications made for iOS and Android to Windows tools and built a general app system to collect all the Windows applications on the same platform.

At present, Microsoft updated its App Studio that allows users to build applications, application templates and submit the applications that launched on networking browsers. Users have no need to install Visual Studio or write code.

The Windows App Studio might not help you to create the amazing and unique application without the code, but it could help you to create a functional application in a short time. Users can choose some basic modules in the new application can, but most of them do not display the webpages. It provides API management for YouTube and Flickr services.

Users can also inset HTML to make their own video that will damage the entry point if they don’t have a code. It seems that it doesn’t work well on checking Twitter’s latest update among the friends. However, it is a functional application. App Studio helps users to create applications with easy steps.

App Studio might not be able to create promising business applications or games, but it could made simple and effective auxiliary applications.

App Studio is able to use on WP device, iPad, desktop, laptop and common applications that connect to network.

As reported, Alphabet has been working on introducing its high-speed fiber internet access service to another three cities in US. Google fiber had been accessed in six cities in US.

Google fiber claims that is currently negotiating with the officers from Oklahoma city,Jacksonville and Tampa city to see if it could provide google fiber service there.

Google regrouped the company as Alphabet in order to allow the independence for its subsidiary business. Google fiber is one of the most important business for Alphabet, it offers broad band at 1Gbps. It reaches 100 times than its average broadband speed in US.

Google fiber is available in six cities, such as Kansas city, Austin, Provo, San Diego, Louisville and Irvine.

According to the statistics from Google fiber’s official website, the reason why Google Fiber choose Oklahoma city,Jacksonville and Tampa city as its next move is they belong to the technical centers in US.

“Those developing technical centers have strong enterprise spirit and they promised to offer favors for those small business,”said Jill Szuchmacher, director of launching department of Google fiber.

She added :” Jacksonville becomes one of the top ten technical centers, and Oklahoma city has been considered as the favorite city for starting a business.”

Google fiber costs a lot to explore. Google needs to dig routes and bury the fibers or lay the fibers on telegraph poles. The analyst estimated that it might the average expense for residents to join Google fiber will be $ 500.

Google fiber will estimate to see if the local governments wish to limit cost and simplify the administrative licensing before it promises to offer Google fiber service.

SHARP released its business performance prediction today. It claimed that the company earnings in the first half of the year is in deficit at $215 million.

As the intense competition increasing concern prices in smartphone screen business, SHARP predicted that the company may loss $215 million earnings till September. Its earnings are $ 82.7 million fewer than its prediction.

In the meanwhile, SHARP adjusted its 2015 annual earnings from $662 million to $82.7 million. SHARP will release its earnings in the first half of 2015 later this week.

It was once the provider of top class screen for Apple. Its leading position was replaced by its rival LG Display. The Critics pointed out SHARP was over investing on its factories’ producing capacity in the past 10 years.

There was performance prediction reported last month from SHARP. It suggested that competition in smartphone LED panels became intense and it might fail to reach the performance goal for the first half of the year.

In this May, SHARP reported its earnings in 2014. The net loss was $1.86 billion that exceeded its prediction. Soon, SHARP announced its plans to survive from the deficit.

On the one hand, it carried out the staff reduction plan, laying off 3,500 employees in Japan. On the other hand, it sold its headquarter buildings in Osaka and the authorization of LED TV in Mexico color tv plants and some American regions.

Microsoft released positive earnings on Thursday. Its revenue and profit performed well than expected. But Microsoft claimed that it will cut some more jobs. It did not reveal how many employees will lose their jobs. New York Times reported that Microsoft will lay off about 1,000 employees.

Microsoft spokesman stated that the staff reduction plan will be carried out in more departments and countries to fix its business demand. The plan will be taken effect with their deep consideration. To those who get affected by this plan, the company will give them utmost respect.

The firm announced the staff reduction plan early this year. It mainly involved in mobile business.

Microsoft confirmed the news in the statement gave to New York Times. It admitted that the plan involved in many departments. Microsoft is yet to confirm the exact number of employees that it will lay off.

Satya Nadella announced in July,2014 that Microsoft would optimize its service operation and cut 18,000 jobs, accounting for 14% of its total workforce. Then Microsoft laid off some employees unscheduled from 2014 to 2015.

Despite of Microsoft obtained well performance in last quarter, the economic recession in PC market brought adverse effect to Microsoft business. PC market is the important resource of profit for Microsoft for a long time. It adjusted the way of reporting its financial performance in last quarter.

Meizu releases its metal handsets in Beijing today, coming with 16GB and 32GB versions.

The prices for metal series come respectively as ￥1099 and ￥1299. Metal handsets will be on pre-orders at 16: 30 Beijing time on Meizu website,Tmall flagship store, Qzone and Momo platforms.

The 5.5-inch metal has 1080P display screen, 403PPI resolution,Octa-Core Helio X10 processor, 2GB RAM, Flyme 5 OS and 3140mAh. Its camera comes 13 megapixel.

Metal supports TF card slot and its storage space can be expanded to 128GB. It supports DSDS and fingerprint identification. Surfing smooth, electricity saved and unheated are its major features.

Meizu introduces mobile power pack alongside with metal. It charges ￥149 for its quick charge version and ￥99 for the regular version. The mobile power pack will be on sale at 10 am on October 26 via Meizu official website and Tmall.

Meizu applied cost-effective marketing strategy as MIUI did to explore its market share. It gradually marches to high end smartphone market. This is Meizu’s ninth press conference this year. It launched several types of handsets in the past year.

The sales volume of Meizu was 5 million units last year. It sold out 8.9 million units in the first half year of the year. Its sales growth increased by 540%.

Meizu is anxious to show off. It shortens the release period of new products. The public doubts that Meizu and Alibaba come to Valuation Adjustment Mechanism. Concerning the doubt from the public, Meizu denies this.