Crypto efforts of banks like Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays are in limbo after bitcoin's months-long fall and weak demand from institutional clients
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and many more built it. But they didn't come. — Limbo—that's where to find Wall Street when it comes to cryptocurrencies.
Congress passes the Open Government Data Act, which requires public information to be open to the public by default in a machine readable format
On December 21, 2018, the United States House of Representatives voted to enact H.R. 4174, the Foundations for Evidence-Based Policymaking Act of 2017 …
How a US shutdown affects its cybersecurity workforce: NIST among worst-hit agencies with 85% staff furloughed, DNI's analysis and operations staff cut by 60%
America's federal cybersecurity workforce will see sharp reductions if Congress fails to pass a spending bill to keep the government open …
As Snap's stock hovers near its all-time low, sources describe Spiegel's instinctual and imperious style that can stifle dissent and led to the redesign debacle
Snap, once seen as a viable competitor to Facebook, is struggling after the CEO ignored warnings about a redesign that proved unpopular
Despite challenges in penetrating the US market, Huawei says it has shipped over 200M smartphones in 2018 globally, up from last year's 153M units
Huawei has set a record for itself by shipping more than 200 million smartphones in 2018, the company said in a statement Sunday.
A look at Joel Kaplan's growing sway at Facebook as he pushed against News Feed changes designed to reduce polarization, promoted The Daily Caller partnership
Joel Kaplan has emerged as the social-media site's protector against allegations of political bias
WeChat adds a Snapchat-like Stories feature called Time Capsule that lets users upload videos of up to 15 seconds that disappear after 24 hours
WeChat, the Chinese messaging giant with over 1 billion monthly active users around the world, just added a Snap-like ephemeral video feature as part of its biggest overhaul since 2014.
As Huawei comes under government scrutiny worldwide, a look at the company's aggressive culture that encouraged employees to bend the rules, up to a point
SHENZHEN, China — Earthquakes, terrorist attacks and low oxygen levels on Mount Everest could not hold them back.
Rakuten: Amazon's share of US online sales can dip to ~20% around Thanksgiving only to soar to ~50% before Christmas, as users trust Amazon to deliver on time
SEATTLE — Olivia Zimmermann started her holiday shopping early this year, buying a Bluetooth speaker from Best Buy for her sister.
Cloud Imperium, the developer of a yet-to-be fully launched space sim Star Citizen, raises $46M at a $460M valuation after crowdfunding $211M over six years
The story of the game Star Citizen and Cloud Imperium, the company developing it, is almost too ludicrous to believe …
HQ Trivia launches HQ Words, a Wheel of Fortune-style game that's been in closed beta for months, and reinstalls Rus Yusupov as CEO
HQ's expansion beyond trivia is emerging from beta, but the question is whether it's different and accessible enough to revive the startup's growth.
Artificial general intelligence is far from being a reality because AI systems of today do not use intrinsic knowledge about the world to predict and plan
Forecasting musical taste. Detecting metastatic tumors. Generating synthetic scans of brain cancer. Creating virtual environments from real-world videos. Tweets: @bgurley Tweets: Bill Gurley / @bgu...
France, Germany, Italy, and UK secure EU approval to grant €1.75B in state aid to a joint microelectronics project, expecting €6B more from private investors
Foo Yun Chee / Reuters :
The First Step Act, which seeks to reform the federal criminal justice system, risks perpetuating racial and class disparities due to its reliance on algorithms
Bärí a. Williams / Fast Company : Tweets: @nrookie Tweets: Noliwe / @nrookie : The widespread use of tech in policing and immigration is about to spread. This is scary stuff.The prison-reforming Firs...
A history of Google's relationship with China from its first foray in 2006 to Project Dragonfly, and how Google hopes to reenter China in the era of AI
Matt Sheehan / MIT Technology Review :
A look at the state of crypto at the end of 2018 and a list of questions to consider as the ecosystem evolves in 2019 and beyond
Kyle Samani / Multicoin Capital :
How Alexa has used machine learning to get smarter over the last year, with a 25% error rate reduction, carrying over context from one query to the next, more
Brian Barrett / Wired :
Sources: Uber has offered to pay 11 cents for every mile driven for Uber to drivers who have been in individual arbitration over their employment classification
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Temi, a startup that plans to officially launch its telepresence robot in January, raises a $21M Series B led by Alibaba's ex-CTO, bringing total raised to $83M
Kyle Wiggers / VentureBeat :
Although the functionality of digital books has largely remained the same for 10 years, technology has improved everything that goes into publishing a book
also common thread, Word :-)) Kevin Kelly / @kevin2kelly : The future of books never quite happened, at least the way we expected. In Wired @craigmod dissects their prospects with practical advice for...
Fourth Paradigm, a Chinese provider of AI-driven data analysis software founded by Huawei veterans, raises $150M at a ~$1.2B valuation
Mark Bergen / Bloomberg : Tweets: @mhbergen Tweets: Mark Bergen / @mhbergen : Some news for China tech watchers: newest startup unicorn is Fourth Paradigm, which sells a package of AI tools mostly to...
Crew, a chat app targeting businesses that employ shift workers like multi-store retailers and fast-food chains, raises $35M Series C
Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch :
Profile of Epic Systems, a privately held healthcare software company based in Wisconsin that claims to hold medical records for more than 50% of US patients
@nytimes http://www.nytimes.com/... Jess Shull / @jgshull : Epic is poorly designed. Full stop. It still carries code from 1979?? And seeing an open heart surgery is NOT the same as using the EHR soft...
AI-powered law for startups
Soxton automates startup legal so founders can move faster and sleep better. We handle incorporation, advisor, employment and commercial contracts. Join the waitlist for early access!
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.