Author: CXM Editorial

Metro Bank Completes £596m Acquisition of UK Mortgage Portfolio

Challenger bank Metro Bank plc has announced it has completed the acquisition of a portfolio of majority buy-to-let mortgages from Cerberus European Residential Holdings B.V. The deal, which sees Metro acquire the entire portfolio for £596.7m, has been funded through existing...

Adobe Scan Turns Documents Into Editable PDFs

It’s now available for iOS and Android devices. Adobe has launched a new way to turn your physical documents into PDFs with editable text, and it’s completely free. The company has released a new mobile app simply called “Scan” for both...

Bitcoin Is at Risk of No Longer Being the Biggest Digital Currency

Step aside, bitcoin. There’s another digital token in town that’s winning over the hearts and wallets of cryptocurrency enthusiasts across the globe. The value of either, the digital currency linked to the ethereum blockchain, could surpass that of bitcoin by the...

AWS Slashes Reserved Instances Prices

Price reductions are less common for computer resources than they were in the early days of cloud computing. But AWS customers can still find value in occasional Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) price cuts. In May, AWS reduced prices on a slew...

Apple and Google’s Smartphone Duopoly Has No End in Sight

In just a decade’s time, the smartphone has become the anchor for millions of people’s daily lives. And in that same time, the entire market for those devices has coalesced around two companies. While the the race among companies that make...

Breaking: Lloyds Completes £1.9bn Takeover of Chester Credit Card Business MBNA

Lloyds Banking Group has this morning (June 1) announced the completion of its £1.9bn takeover of credit card business MBNA Ltd. Following the receipt of regulatory and competition approval, Lloyds has now acquired Chester-headquartered MBNA from Bank of America subsidiary FIA...

WWDC 2017: What to Expect from Apple’s Big Developer Conference

Apple’s WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) 2017 is just days away, and as well as the announcement of iOS 11, we’re likely to hear about a variety of other new software – such as watchOS 4 – and even potentially some...

An Introduction to Kotlin for Android Development

At the latest Google I/O conference, Google announced that Android development would now fully support Kotlin. This is big news as it opens up an entirely new avenue for those that want to start creating their own Android applications. And...

Leaks Suggest Apple’s New Handset Will Have an Edge-to-edge Display

Home Button will probably be replaced by Touch ID fingerprint scanner Might have dual camera system with one on top of the other and a flash between Leak suggests dual speakers at the bottom edge with a Lightening port Designer Benjamin Geskin uploaded...

Computex 2017: All the News From This Year’s Biggest Computing How

Big reveals from AMD, Intel, Nvidia and more. Computex 2017 runs all this week, with the biggest brands present at the huge event in Taipei, Taiwan. It’s arguably the most important show of the year for the desktop, laptop and components...