Oculus founder Palmer Luckey working on a defense startup; sources: it's focused on bringing lidar to border surveillance, Thiel's Founders Fund plans to invest
Palmer Freeman Luckey was the kind of wunderkind Silicon Valley venerates. When he was just 21, he made an overnight fortune selling …
Microsoft leak reveals Windows 10 Pro for Advanced PCs, a workstation edition supporting the new ReFS file system, large data transfers, and expanded hardware
It's been more than 20 years since Microsoft used the Workstation branding in its Windows 4.0 Workstation edition, but it appears the company is ready to bring it back.
IBM unveils world's first 5nm chip, claims 40% performance boost at the same power compared to today's 10nm chips
Built with a new type of gate-all-around transistor, plus extreme ultraviolet lithography. — IBM, working with Samsung and GlobalFoundries, has unveiled the world's first 5nm silicon chip.
Riot Games announces franchising of North American League of Legends Championship Series, with $10M buy-in per team
Price of a League of Legends team is up tenfold in 18 months — New ten-team structure designed to create financial stability — Over the last several years …
GitHub survey of 5,500 open source users and developers finds only 3% identify as female
Today's world runs on open source software. The web, smartphones, the Amazon Echo, your car—everything high-tech depends on open source these days. Where free, collaborative software projects …
Apple should make new features like iMessage apps and 3D Touch more discoverable to aid mass adoption
SAN FRANCISCO — As Apple prepares to show off new features for the iPhone and other devices at its developer conference on Monday, the company is grappling with an uncomfortable issue …
Chinese online tutor service Yuanfudao raises $120M at $1B+ valuation from Warburg Pincus and Tencent
Online tutor Yuanfudao's latest round of financing from Tencent and other investors, has boosted its valuation to US$1 billion — Tencent Holdings has joined hands with other investors …
Intel details the specs of Compute Card: CPUs like Celeron N3450 and Core i5-7Y57, 4GB of RAM, 64GB to 128GB of storage, ships in August for $140- $450
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Lob, an online service for businesses sending snail mail to customers, raises $20M Series B from Y Combinator's Continuity Fund
The postage business may seem antiquated in the year 2017, but physical mail is still kicking. In fact, it's a $1.4 trillion dollar industry, according to the USPS.
How Microsoft's desire to build a bigger moat led to the over-engineered, poorly executed Windows Vista release and led to Microsoft's mobile irrelevance
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How Marissa Mayer made $239M in her time at Yahoo: stock-heavy compensation buoyed by Yahoo's increasingly valuable Alibaba and Yahoo Japan investments
SAN FRANCISCO — When a withered Yahoo is absorbed by Verizon Communications in the next week or so, it will be the end of an era … Tweets: @profpadfield , @karaswisher , @markpinc , @dealbook , and @n...
Q&A with Android execs about Project Treble, which will make future OS upgrades easier by separating OEM implementations from higher level software updates
Q&A: We talk details with Android execs Dave Burke and Stephanie Saad Cuthbertson. — Google I/O doesn't need skydivers …
A look at market cap changes among biggest chipmakers: Nvidia and Broadcom surge, Intel and Qualcomm decline, and TSMC surpasses Intel with highest valuation
The rally in semiconductor stocks has been surprising for two reasons: It has been longer than expected, and it has changed the pecking order among the biggest chip makers.
Profile of Margaux Avedisian, bitcoin investor and startup founder who also performs as stand-up comedian at cryptocurrency conventions
Ryan Vlastelica / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @billpowerwsj Tweets: Bill Power / @billpowerwsj : 'I'm very honored to be here, ‘cause this may be the last comedy show some of you see before you are...
How Panera increased ordering efficiency and growth with in-store touch screens, mobile ordering, and delivery
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To compete with tech firms like Google and Facebook for data and computer science talent, hedge funds offer lavish perks
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Most US tech giants could handle the expense and logistics of on-site day care but don't offer it
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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 …
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