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Central Cee has topped the winners at the 2024 Mobo awards, winning best male for the second year in a row, and best song for Sprinter, his collaborative track with Dave, that dominated the summer months with a 10-week run at No 1.Elsewhere the awards, which celebrate black musical artistry in the UK and globally, spread the garlands across a diverse range of music, with no one artist dominating.Raye, who recently scored a record seven Brit nominations in a single year, was named best female act after the success of her…

Nintendo has revealed that two of its biggest franchises have hit major sales milestones with the end of the company's third quarter for fiscal year 2024 (October 1-December 31, 2023). The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom now sits at 20.28 million copies sold, while Super Mario Bros. Wonder has moved past 10 million with 11.96 million copies sold.With the best start ever for the series, The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom sold 10 million copies in just three days back in May 2023. Meanwhile,…

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India topped Snapchat's Digital Well-Being Index for the second year in a row. At least 60 per cent of Indian parents are well aware of online safety issues and routinely check in on their children and their online activities…

Counterpoint Research posted an interesting analysis of the Chinese smartphone market. Putting together the numbers for the first two weeks of the year shows that Huawei shipped more devices than anyone, effectively making it the best-selling company currently. According to the report, the three reasons behind Huawei's success were the Mate 60 sales with China-developed Kirin 9000 chipset, brand loyalty among consumers and the quick progress of in-house Harmony OS 4.0. Counterpoint Research usually gives a glimpse…

Consumer Reports is out with its annual owner satisfaction survey, showing Rivian to be far and away the most-loved car brand according to owners. The rating comes soon after Consumer Reports strangely listed the R1S as one of its “least favorite cars we tested in 2023.” Consumer Reports does an annual survey of its readers, with 330,000 responses from owners of all sorts of vehicles in the 2021-2024 model years. In the past, electric vehicles have ranked well in the survey, and this year is no…

Meta continues to buck the industry trend and improve its advertising revenue as it makes a pivot to focus more on AI development initiatives, reporting a higher-than-expected revenue for the fourth quarter of 2023.  Here are the top-line results: Revenues: $40.11 billion, rose 25% from the year-ago period Net income: $14.02 billion, a 201% increase over $4.7 billion in Q4 of 2022 Daily active users: Grew by 8% to 3.19 billion on average Meta reported net income of $14.02 billion, or diluted…

Palworld is more on fire than Charizard, as developer Pocketpair has revealed that the survival game has seen over 19 million players since launching January 19. Of that number, 12 million have bought the Early Access survival game on Steam.The other 7 million players are on Xbox--which includes Windows Store PC, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X|S. In fact, Palworld now holds the title of biggest third-party launch on Xbox Game Pass ever. Pocketpair added that this Xbox version of the game has seen almost 3…

For the first time since 2001, Kia surpassed Hyundai in market value with new affordable EVs rolling out this year. Kia is now South Korea’s fifth most-valued stock at $31 billion (41.3 trillion won). Kia surpasses Hyundai in market value Hyundai, which saved Kia from bankruptcy in 1998, owns around a third of the South Korean automaker. The Hyundai Motor Group was formed in 2000 after buying out Kia. In 2003, the first Hyundai Genesis arrived, and in 2015, the luxury brand became a…

iPhone-maker Apple…