Amazon to buy Whole Foods Market for $13.7B in all-cash deal; John Mackey will remain CEO of Whole Foods Market, which will continue to operate stores
Whole Foods Market ranked #28 and Amazon ranked #2 on Fortune's 2017 list of World's Most Admired Companies
Microsoft unveils Modern Keyboard with a fingerprint sensor, which works either wired or via Bluetooth 4.0, compatible with Windows 8-10, Android, and macOS
Microsoft has quietly unveiled the Modern Mouse and Modern Keyboard, its next generation of Windows 10 input devices that match the latest Surface models in design and finish.
Walmart to buy menswear company Bonobos for $310M; Bonobos' CEO Andy Dunn will oversee Walmart's digital brands
Walmart has agreed to acquire the men's clothing company Bonobos for $310 million. — The purchase is part of a sweeping effort by the world's largest retailer to revamp …
Apple hires Sony TV execs Jamie Erlicht and Zack Van Amburg as heads of video programming worldwide reporting to Eddy Cue, to lead push into original content
Jamie Ehrlicht and Zack Van Amburg will join Apple as co-heads of video programming world-wide — Apple Inc. has poached …
Canada's telecom regulator CRTC orders all new devices be unlocked, bans unlocking fees, effective Dec. 1
Wireless providers will no longer be allowed to sell locked mobile devices or charge Canadians to unlock their phones for use on rival's networks, according to new rules that will erase millions in an...
Sources: EU to fine Google for abusing its search market dominance in the coming weeks; fine could top the €1B EU fined Intel in 2009
Search giant is braced for a fine that could top €1bn with decision expected shortly — Read next … Google is braced for a fine of potentially …
Amazon wants to become Walmart before Walmart can become Amazon
The future of retail will be a combination of both online e-commerce and a brick-and-mortar retail presence - as recent moves from both Walmart and Amazon have shown, including today's back-to-back an...
Microsoft updates its AI-powered photo editing app Pix with new styles and effects
Microsoft is rolling out an update to its AI-powered photo editing app, Microsoft Pix, that aims to give Prisma and others like it some new competition. While the app was originally designed to enhan...
UK defense company BAE made large-scale sales of sophisticated cyber-surveillance tools to repressive governments across the Middle East
A year-long investigation by BBC Arabic and a Danish newspaper has uncovered evidence that the UK defence giant BAE Systems has made large-scale sales across …
After teasing Ataribox, Atari CEO confirms company is working an a game console
EXCLUSIVE: — Atari CEO Fred Chesnais told GamesBeat in an exclusive interview that his fabled video game company is working on a new game console. — In doing so, the New York company might be cash...
DOE awards $258M to be shared among AMD, Cray, HPE, IBM, Intel, and Nvidia over next three years for R&D into exascale computers to better compete with China
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Facebook details its process to fight terrorism: AI including image matching, increased human intervention to flag posts and remove accounts, partnerships, more
Oath unveils Bullet, an open source general-purpose query engine for streaming data
Yahoo Inc. probably hasn't been given enough credit for its contributions to the open-source software community over the last couple of decades. The company, which famously developed the Apache Hadoo...
Chinese bike-sharing company Mobike announces $600M round led by Tencent to fuel global expansion, plans to be in 200 cities this year, up from current 100
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Musical.ly partners with Viacom, NBCUniversal, Hearst to launch series of original interactive shows
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Changing course, Netflix says it'll “never outgrow” fight for net neutrality, after CEO Hastings said company was big enough that issue didn't pose a big risk
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Snap closes at $17, a 4.9% drop from opening price, as it sinks to its IPO price amid investor concerns about future growth and profit
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VoiceLabs discontinues its Sponsored Messages ad product for Alexa Skills following Amazon's policy changes, shifts focus to its analytics product
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As Amazon claims a former AWS VP violated his non-compete agreement, former employees say AWS' non-compete enforcement is selective and opaque
Career decisions are always stressful, but employees at Amazon Web Services face an additional source of anxiety when evaluating new opportunities: am I about to get sued?
French President Macron announces a tech-focused visa open to founders, employees, and investors with intention of making France a “country of unicorns”
Things are heating up in the tech industry. Associated Press : Macron woos tech world, pledges French ‘startup nation’ Stephen Lepitak / The Drum : ‘Entrepreneur is the new France’: Emmanuel Macron in...
Sources: Slack is raising $500M at a $5B post-money valuation, leading to acquisition interest from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Salesforce
here's why it would be a smart move Bill Roberson / Digital Trends : Microsoft's newest Surface Pro 2-in-1 portable gets almost everything right Ali Breland / The Hill : Amazon considering acquisition...
House Freedom Caucus says it will oppose reauthorization of FISA law without “substantial reforms” to data collection, breaking with Trump and some senators
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Justin Kan's Atrium LTS legal technology services startup raises $10.5M led by General Catalyst, with nearly 100 institutional and angel investors participating
Ryan Lawler / TechCrunch : Tweets: @amittm and @rrhoover Tweets: Amitt Mahajan / @amittm : This is a product that should exist and is built by a team that deeply understands the problems they are sol...
Facebook's implementation of Safety Check is poor, inviting unnecessary worry about unaffected users who don't mark themselves as “safe”
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Conviva raises $40M from Time Warner Investments, others, to continue building machine learning-powered video analytics service; source says valuation is ~$300M
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