Dell announces it will become a public company again by subsuming its tracking stock DVMT in a cash and share-swap deal worth $21.7B
- Dell to offer DVMT shareholders Dell stock or cash buyout — Total deal size comes to $21.7 billion, Dell to list on NYSE
500px stops allowing licensing of photos under Creative Commons, closes 500px Marketplace in favor of licensed pics from Getty and its owner Visual China Group
The photo-sharing site is also closing down 500px Marketplace, its stock photo platform — Photography platform 500px …
HTC plans to cut around a quarter of its global workforce, or 1,500 jobs, at its manufacturing unit in Taiwan; layoffs will be completed by the end of September
TAIPEI (Reuters) - Smartphone maker HTC plans to slash around a quarter of its global workforce through job cuts at its manufacturing unit …
UK's Micro Focus sells its Germany-based Linux distribution vendor SUSE to investment firm EQT Partners for $2.535B
NEWS ANALYSIS: SUSE is set to become an independent business once again, as growth investment firm EQT acquires the Linux vendor from Micro Focus.
The moment when Intel lost mobile happened around 2008, when it gave up on producing low-power chipset for phones and refocused on Atom SoC and netbooks
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Sources: Facebook is buying London-based NLP startup Bloomsbury AI whose team and tech it plans to deploy to combat fake news and other content issues
Perhaps rightly, there has long been a perception that Google-owned Deepmind has been the most aggressive in hoovering up a lot …
Oden Technologies, an Industrial IoT startup that lets manufacturers analyze and optimize factory production via the cloud, raises $10M Series A
Oden Technologies, the Industrial IoT startup that provides manufacturing data analytics, has closed $10 million in Series A funding.
Sources: Airbnb aims for IPO between July 2019 and late 2020, as it tweaks staff compensation and adds a cash bonus program
Airbnb, the accommodation rental business, has been building up a larger profile as a travel services powerhouse to fill out its $31 billion valuation …
Everlaw, a cloud-based e-discovery platform for lawyers, raises $25M Series B led by Menlo Ventures with a16z participating
- Legal tech startup Everlaw has raised $25 million in a series B funding round led by new investor Menlo Ventures, with participation from existing investor …
How a growing political awakening among some tech employees has driven the recent wave of protests at tech companies against controversial government contracts
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Second Life creator's blockchain-powered social VR platform High Fidelity raises $35M Series D led by Galaxy Digital Ventures, bringing total funding to $70M+
Philip Rosedale, the CEO of virtual reality maker High Fidelity, believes blockchain—a new tamper-proof ledger technology …
Tech giants see partnerships with community colleges via apprenticeships, certifications, and degrees as a way to attract a skilled and more diverse workforce
As student debt mounts and a shortage of skilled workers persists, students find their local two-year institution could be a lower-cost shortcut to a good job. Tweets: @elenaholodny , @valaafshar , @m...
TaTaTu has raised $575M in an ICO via a private sale to further develop its blockchain-based social entertainment platform and finance the production of movies
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French mobile gaming studio Oh BiBi raises $21M Series B led by Atomico, bringing total raised to date to $25M
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