SoftBank agrees to acquire ARM Holdings for £24.3B at £17 per share, a 43% premium over last week's closing price
Japan's SoftBank has agreed to acquire Arm Holdings, the UK's pre-eminent technology company, for £24.3bn in an enormous bet by the Japanese telecoms group …
Samsung will announce the Galaxy Note 7 on August 2nd
Samsung has today revealed plans for an event on August 2nd in New York City where it will officially announce the Galaxy Note 7 smartphone. The Note 7, which has been rumored for months, is expected...
Sources: Google is working on a headset with a display that will offer AR features and does not require a phone or computer to power it
Yesterday Recode published an article suggesting Google has killed a VR project that would have directly competed with high-end headsets like the Oculus Rift.
Chinese consortium to acquire Opera's browser and other businesses for $600M, except for ad, marketing, TV, and game-related operations
A $1.2 billion takeover of Opera Software by a group of Chinese internet firms fell through on Monday after failing to get regulatory approval in time …
GlaxoSmithKline starts using Apple's ResearchKit for a rheumatoid arthritis study, becoming the first drugmaker to use the framework for clinical research
Glaxo is the first drugmaker to use Apple's ResearchKit — Success of the trial will determine Glaxo's future adoption
Facebook shows little progress in diversity report, blames lack of available talent
Many observers say talent pipeline isn't primary factor — Facebook Inc. said Thursday that it made meager increases in the number of women and minorities working at the social-network giant …
Google's diverse emoji for women at work approved by Unicode Consortium
Back in May, Google proposed 13 new emoji meant to better represent women in professional fields, and now 11 of those emoji have been approved by the Unicode Consortium. The new emoji, including a ch...
New lawsuit claims DOJ intentionally conducts inadequate searches for FOIA requests with 21-year-old computer system, refuses to use new $425M Sentinel software
A new lawsuit alleges that the US Department of Justice (DoJ) intentionally conducts inadequate searches of its records using … See also Mediagazer
Attempted coup's failure to block internet in Turkey allowed President Erdogan and civilians to organize resistance through FaceTime, Periscope, Facebook Live
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Civil Maps, a startup that uses AI software to convert data from sensors on self-driving cars into detailed 3D maps, raises $6.6M seed from Ford and others
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IBM launches platform to let companies test using blockchain technology for supply chain record-keeping
IBM's new service will help companies experiment with using the online ledger technology to track high-value goods as they move through supply chains. Among the first users: a firm that tracks diamon...
Clinton has assembled a tech team of over 50 engineers and developers for her presidential campaign, while Trump just focuses on using social media
Giving up Google wasn't easy for Stephanie Hannon, if it's easy for anyone. A person can get used to the big salary, cushy perks … Tweets: @davidgaliel . See also Mediagazer Tweets: @davidgaliel : Th...
Rocket Internet, known for incubating copycat startups, struggles to find a path to profitability as its stock price hovers at a third of its peak, hit in 2014
German tech company has created 100 startups, many of which remain unprofitable — BERLIN—In 2011, German tech company Rocket … Tweets: @jonrussell and @extradotph Tweets: Jon Russell / @jonrussell :...
How ingrained hiring practices at companies like Microsoft, Google, and Facebook hinder their efforts to diversify their workforces
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Inside the small teams at Spotify, Google, and Apple that make tens of thousands of playlists listened to by tens of millions of people around the world
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As Yahoo puts itself up for sale, early employees known as “surfers” recall building the company's directory
a yoga lover, an ex-banker, a college grad — all hired by a start-up called Yahoo http://www.nytimes.com/... NYTimes Bits / @nytimesbits : About 10 of the “surfers” who built Yahoo's original director...
VC at FirstMark on the history of NYC tech ecosystem and why he thinks the ecosystem is slowly catching up to the hype and maturing
I'm fascinated by tech ecosystems, and the network effects behind them. I wrote about Berlin (here) and about Paris (here) But of course …
US is working with some foreign govts to let them serve US firms with warrants for email searches and wiretaps on non-US citizens if foreign govts reciprocate
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Profile of Airbnb's Chief Business Affairs and Legal Officer Belinda Johnson, second in command at the company
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Interview with users and creator of Ohlala, a Berlin based casual dating app, often referred to as “Uber for escorts”
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2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
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