Walmart partners with smart lock maker August to test in-home delivery of packages and groceries in Silicon Valley
Walmart announced today it will begin testing a new service that will allow customers with August smart home devices, like the August doorbell and security cameras …
EU Commission draft report urges EU to proceed with tax overhaul to prevent digital firms from paying less tax in Europe by routing profits to low-tax countries
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission said the EU should proceed with an overhaul of taxes on digital firms even if the rest …
Backlash against the push for gender equality in tech grows among some men who see it as “a witch hunt”
After revelations of harassment and bias in Silicon Valley, a backlash is growing against the women in tech movement. “It's a witch hunt,” they say.
UK-based food delivery startup Deliveroo raises $385M led by Fidelity and T Rowe Price, now valued at $2B+
Deliveroo has raised $385 million (£285 million) from investors in a huge funding round that values it at over $2 billion (£1.48 billion) and makes it one of the most valuable tech companies in the UK...
Inside Mark Zuckerberg's political awakening, which led to his current US tour and significant changes in Facebook features, especially Groups
Technically speaking, Mark Zuckerberg has been on paternity leave. In late August his wife, Priscilla Chan, gave birth to their second child, a girl.
Department of Homeland Security notified 21 states that their election systems were targeted by Russian government hackers during 2016 election
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DxOMark gives the iPhone 8 Plus camera a score of 94, the highest ever, 4 points above the Google Pixel and HTC U11; video score of 89 is below Pixel's 91
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How shady exchange and ICO practices, conflicts of interest in journalism, and other serious issues in cryptocurrencies are largely ignored by the media
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Aeva exits stealth, is developing a sensor for self-driving cars that is a cross between lidar, good for measuring distance, and radar, good for measuring speed
PALO ALTO, Calif. — Soroush Salehian raised both arms and spun in circles as if celebrating a touchdown.
Twitter is testing a Twitter Lite Android app, first in the Philippines
Twitter today has nearly four times as many monthly active users outside the U.S. as it does in its home market — 260 million versus 68 million — and this week it quietly launched a new app in an effo...
Reacting to dissatisfaction in the open source community, Facebook moves React, Jest, Flow, and Immutable.js from BSD + Patents license to the MIT license
Hybrid BSD pact will be replaced by MIT deal for some projects — Faced with growing dissatisfaction about licensing requirements …
Amazon partners with Olo, ordering platform for 200 restaurant brands with about 40K US locations, in an effort to boost Amazon Restaurants delivery service
Company teams up with mobile-ordering and pay platform Olo — Amazon.com Inc. may soon bring Shake Shack burgers and Chipotle burritos …
London transport authority says Uber not “fit and proper” to hold license, cites “Greyball” software, will not renew on Sept. 30; Uber can operate during appeal
As if Uber's new CEO … Eric David / SiliconANGLE : Uber kicked out of London for not being a ‘fit and proper’ service Carl Velasco / Tech Times : It's Over For Uber In London: City Declares Ride-Haili...
Imagination Technologies agrees to sell to China-backed private equity firm Canyon Bridge for £550M; its US-based MIPS unit sold to Tallwood VC for $65M
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In an interview, Lightspeed's Jeremy Liew and Blockchain's Peter Smith claim a big driver of ICOs are early bitcoin millionaires who want to diversify
- A large portion of ICOs are funded by people who got rich buying Bitcoin. — They need to diversify their exposure to the volatile cryptocurrency. Tweets: @pt Tweets: Parker Thompson / @pt : I think...
Chinese bike-sharing giant Mobike enters US with Washington DC launch, a month after rival Ofo launched in Seattle
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RIAA: 30M+ pay for streaming, which now accounts for 62% of US music biz; streaming revenue up 48% in first half of 2017 to $2.5B, digital downloads down 24%
Spotify, Apple Music and other services have 30 million U.S. subscribers, and streaming revenue is up 48 percent so far this year.
UberEats has become a surprise standout for Uber; the company says the food delivery service is profitable in 27 of the 108 cities where it's offered
SAN FRANCISCO — For years, Bob Gordon, the owner of Footprints Cafe in Brooklyn, handled the delivery of his restaurant's meals …
Facebook settles with shareholders, abandons the plan to issue non-voting shares
Alex Heath / Business Insider :
W3C's approval of DRM for video gives the impression that the standards consortium has been captured by corporations, a view the group's CEO rejects
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