HP Inc. to acquire Samsung's printer business and some printer-related patents for $1.05B; Samsung will invest $100-$300M in HP when the deal closes
Silicon Valley company sees deal with South Korean major as bid for expansion into high-volume printer-copier device business
Tesla announces Autopilot 8.0, which relies more on radar to avoid accidents like Model S crash, available soon for cars from 2014 and on via free OTA upgrade
Today, Tesla revealed Version 8 of its Autopilot software, going live in one to two weeks. Version 8. includes updates …
Two Israeli men alleged to be co-owners of the recently hacked DDoS service vDOS arrested in Israel on Thursday in connection with FBI investigation
Two young Israeli men alleged to be the co-owners of a popular online attack-for-hire service were reportedly arrested in Israel on Thursday.
Instagram now lets everyone filter comments using blocklists, will show friends' comments first
Sep 12, 2016, 8:00 amSep 12, 2016, 8:00 am — Instagram today is rolling out a feature to all its users that will allow everyone to decide for themselves how they want to moderate comments on the pho...
A week after “voluntary recall”, Galaxy Note7 owners still can't get info from Samsung or carriers about how and when their phones can be exchanged
Samsung's exchange program for Galaxy Note 7 has been a nightmare for customers so far. — A week after Samsung's “voluntary” …
Volvo Cars and auto safety group Autoliv are forming a joint venture to develop autonomous driving software, with about 200 initial staff from parent firms
Chinese-owned Volvo Car Group and auto safety group Autoliv said on Tuesday they would form a joint venture to develop autonomous driving software …
Interview with Shel Kaphan, Amazon's first employee, on deciding to join Jeff Bezos, developing and running the early website, building the company, IPO, more
A conversation with Shel Kaphan, Amazon's first employee. — Employee #1 is a series of interviews focused on sharing …
Teads begins consolidation of ad tech by acquiring Brainient's interactive video
Fresh off raising $47 million in debt financing, video ad tech leader Teads announced today that it has paid an undisclosed sum for interactive video startup Brainient. — New York-based Teads is kno...
Google's Project Sand Hill tracks hot startups, helps with Android apps, Google services, more, and now serves about 130 startups including Lyft and Eventbrite
Google calls it Project Sand Hill. — Since 2012, Suman Prasad and his team have worked with various Silicon Valley venture capital firms …
Mic publishes email from Apple, which began with “off the record”, that was in response to criticism of the lack of diversity at Apple's keynote last week
Get Mic daily: — O n Friday, I published an article about the gender divide in Apple's last two iPhone events. Tweets: @anthonyblsmith , @mekosoff , @mxmooney , @kevin_raposo , @sfsooz , @kimberly12...
HashiCorp raises $24M Series B led by GGV Capital for its DevOps infrastructure software
HashiCorp, which offers a number of tools that help developers write and deploy their applications (including the popular open-source Vagrant tool for setting up development environments) …
Sling TV launches Windows 10 app with Cortana-enabled voice search for shows or channels
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Report: Google to release 7-inch Huawei-built Android tablet with 4GB RAM this year
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Inside Microsoft's year-old program to hire autistic coders and a look at the challenges facing autistic hires and the company
Job interviews can be especially hard if you're autistic. A Microsoft effort aimed at a wider spectrum of the workforce wants to solve that.
Twitter partners with finance news startup Cheddar for its first daily streaming show, “Closing Bell”, which is a Twitter exclusive focusing on market analysis
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Israel-based Celeno Communications raises $38M for smart Wi-Fi chips and software designed for dense networks with high interference, has raised $106M to date
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Takeaway.com files for €175M IPO in Amsterdam to expand its mostly Europe-based food delivery platform
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Older workers laid off from Silicon Valley jobs are filing lawsuits or going to great lengths to appear younger for interviews
even surgery—to keep working. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Stefan Molyneux / @stefanmolyneux : Praise diversity. Discriminate based on age. Yep. http://www.bloomberg.com/... Rafat Ali / @rafat : Heart...
How online platforms such as WeChat, Jindong, and Alibaba's eBay-like Taobao have boosted Shenzhen's already-thriving hardware startup ecosystem
An Xiao Mina / Fusion : Tweets: @mvitazko Tweets: Mark Vitazko / @mvitazko : “Taobao, Jindong, WeChat and others are doing for hardware what platforms like YouTube and Vine did for video.” http://fus...
New startup Blackstorm raises $33.5M from Rakuten, others for its cross-platform app development and distribution infrastructure
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Zoho CRM Plus in 2025: A year of thoughtful CX improvements
2025 marked 11 years of building a customer experience platform designed to support organizations as customer expectations, channels …
Protecting your Cloud Applications Data
Backing up Office 365, Google Workspace, Dropbox & Box data is critical to preventing data loss or corruption, complying with laws and avoiding critical downtime in case of a disaster.