Didi Chuxing acquires Uber China; Uber China investors get a 20% stake of the combined business, which sources say has a $35B valuation
Uber Technologies Inc. will merge its China business with Didi Chuxing, the dominant ride-hailing service in the country, according to people familiar with the matter.
Didi Chuxing to acquire UberChina
Combined resources to promote healthy development of the rideshare industry — Didi Chuxing today announced a strategic agreement with Uber under which Didi Chuxing will acquire all assets of UberChi...
Source: Uber to invest $500M into its own global mapping project
Uber is preparing to pour $500m into an ambitious global mapping project as it seeks to wean itself off dependence on Google Maps and pave the way for driverless cars. — The San Francisco-based tran...
Google has shipped 30M Chromecasts since launch in 2013, 5M in the past two months
On an earnings call earlier this week where Alphabet announced $21.6 billion of revenue in Q2 2016, Google CEO Sundar Pichai responded to questions regarding Google's own strategies, including hardwar...
Verizon buys Fleetmatics, provider of SaaS GPS and logistics products, for $2.4B in cash
Hot off the heels of its acquisition of Yahoo last week for $4.8 billion, today Verizon announced another huge purchase: it's buying Fleetmatics, a telematics company based out of Dublin, Ireland …
Study: Kickstarter has created 8.8K companies, 29.6K full-time jobs, and $5.3B for project owners and their communities
A new study by the University of Pennsylvania provides the first comprehensive look at how the Kickstarter community impacts the creative economy. The study finds that Kickstarter projects have:
How LeEco differentiates itself from other Chinese manufacturers like Xiaomi through its focus on entertainment media, drawing from its streaming video origins
Chinese tech firm LeEco made its biggest splash on American soil yet yesterday with the announcement that it's acquiring Vizio, the biggest US maker of TVs, for $2 billion.
Cybersecurity startup PhishMe, which helps employees spot phishing attacks, raises $42.5M Series C from Paladin Capital Group and Bessemer Venture Partners
PhishMe, a cybersecurity startup that helps companies thwart phishing attacks among other targeted malware, has closed …
Axon 7 review: ZTE's best phone to date with good build quality, fast performance, and a useful and clean MiFavor 4.0 UI, but OnePlus 3 offers more for $399
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Brave Raises $4.5 Million to Fuel Growth of Ad-Blocking Browser
The company has raised $7 million in the last year — Brave Software announced Monday that it has raised $4.5 million to help grow its ad-blocking, privacy-centric web browser, which aims to nullify ...
Alabama-based Shipt raises $20M Series A to challenge Instacart, Amazon, and Google in fresh food delivery, after becoming profitable in most of its markets
Nestled in a valley between the two tailing ends of the Appalachian foothills, the southern city of Birmingham …
Polycom's co-founder Jeffrey Rodman recounts the early days of his $2B company
Polycom's co-founder on the best investment he ever made, and why thinking small is a big idea … was March of 1991 and Polycom co-founder Brian Hinman and I were on yet another urgent trip to buy comp...
Blockchain technology and crypto-tokens enable new business models for creating open protocols, financed by the tokens protocol creators retain at launch
Protocols are a geeky topic. It's way more interesting to talk about applications. People will go on and on about why they like gmail or some other email application. Tweets: @arnaudcapdupuy , @nave...
European Commission is preparing export regulations on cyber-surveillance technologies that could lead to human rights violations, leaked document shows
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How the rise of the Internet of Things threatens to make it much easier for cyberattacks to cause damage in the real world
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Walgreens to shutter Drugstore.com and Beauty.com, which were a part of a $429M acquisition in 2011, to focus on its own website
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Cisco cybersecurity report: 9.5K ransomware victims pay ransoms each month, the average ransom is about $300, generating up to $34M a year for hackers
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Google has issued patches for 115 Android Stagefright-related flaws since vulnerability was made public a year ago
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Chinese consortium led by Giant to buy Playtika, a virtual goods social casino game company, for $4.4B
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Verizon's goal with Yahoo and AOL: compete with Google and Facebook in digital advertising by sharing data on its wireless customers with advertisers
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