Twitter acquires Magic Pony Technology, a machine-learning startup in visual processing
Machine learning is increasingly at the core of everything we build at Twitter. It's powering much of the work we're doing to make it easier to create, share, and discover the very best content …
Microsoft kicks off campaign touting battery savings of Windows 10's Edge browser
Microsoft is going on the browser offensive with new test results showing Windows 10 Edge bests Google, Opera and Firefox on battery life. — Microsoft is kicking off a campaign touting the power-sav...
Dell sells software unit to Francisco Partners and Elliott Management for undisclosed sum
TechCrunch has confirmed that Francisco Partners and Elliott Management have agreed to acquire Dell's software division. — Elliott Management and Francisco Partners issued a joint press release conf...
Boxee founder Avner Ronen launches Public, an iOS app for broadcasting group text chats; chats can be embedded on websites and shared on social media
For eight long years, Avner Ronen tried to reinvent television with his consumer electronics startup Boxee.
Chattanooga mayor credits municipal gigabit broadband for driving city's economic revival over the past few years
When Chattanooga Mayor Andy Berke describes his city's economic renewal, he points to the city's fiber network as a significant source of its new vibrancy.
Twilio sets price range for 10M shares at $12 to $14 for its IPO, valuing company at around $1B, close to its latest private round
SAN FRANCISCO — Cloud communications company Twilio is poised to end Silicon Valley's tech IPO drought next week with a $130 million market debut.
Sources: Twitter pays $150M for Magic Pony Technology, which uses neural networks to improve images
Twitter today is taking another step to build up its machine learning muscle, and also potentially to improve how it delivers photos and videos across its apps: the company …
Nexar AI dashcam app raises $10.5M, has profiled driving behavior of over 7M cars
If you've been out on the streets of Silicon Valley or New York City in the past nine months, there's a good chance that your bad driving habits have already been profiled by Nexar.
After success of Hack the Pentagon pilot, Department of Defense is expanding the program to include more DoD systems and networks
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Profile of Diane Greene, who is retooling all Google's cloud services to work for business customers and compete with AWS
The first thing to understand about Diane Greene, the woman Google acqui-hired in November to transform its fragmented cloud business, is that she has the mind of an engineer.
A look at Ola CEO and co-founder Bhavish Aggarwal's tactics in competing with Uber in India
Bhavish Aggarwal, co-founder of the ride-hailing service Ola, is in a pitched battle with Uber Technologies Inc. for domination of India's streets. But late last year, the streets of Chennai disappea...
Head of Nokia Technologies Ramzi Haidamus on phone IP and brand licensing to HMD, entering digital health via Withings acquisition, plans for the VR space, more
Nokia's hardware chief reveals what to expect in health, virtual reality, and the Internet of Things
BitTorrent refocuses on consumer media, spins off Sync into a stand-alone enterprise focused company Resilio, headed by former BitTorrent CEO Eric Klinker
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Plaid, which provides other fintech firms access to their users' banking data, raises $44M led by Goldman Sachs Investment Partners
The company's software allows a variety of financial-technology startups to access their customers' bank-account information
By creating a market for on-demand TV, Netflix spawned its own competitors and is struggling to survive, with a negative cash flow of nearly $1B
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Xavier Niel, founder of French coding school 42, now with campus in Silicon Valley, explains how a school without teachers, lectures, or tuition fees works
Arthur Scheuer / VentureBeat : Tweets: @xdamman and @paulp Tweets: Xavier Damman / @xdamman : The most important skills we can teach our children are adaptability, collaboration and perseverance. Gre...
Gear Fit 2 review: Samsung's $179 fitness band/smartwatch improves upon the original with built-in GPS, makes top-tier Fitbits look outdated
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VC Aileen Lee, who coined the term “unicorn”, on diversity in tech, the startup downturn, and how the current wave of unicorns is peaking
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The history of Napster from rebel file-sharing software in 1999 to a legal music service in 2016
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