EQT agrees to sell Japanese automotive electronics manufacturer Pioneer for $1.1B to CarUX, a unit of Taiwan-listed Innolux specializing in smart cockpit tech
EQT AB agreed to sell Pioneer Corp. for $1.1 billion, marking the biggest exit in Japan for the Swedish buyout firm that sees Japan …
Plaid raised $575M at a $6.1B valuation, below its peak $13B+ valuation in 2021, mostly to cover employees' tax bills for those converting RSUs to common stock
Pioneer of open banking will use $575mn raised from BlackRock and others to cover employee taxes and share buybacks
A profile of Joseph Firmage, who co-founded USWeb, which went public with a $2.5B market cap in 1997, and is now being sued by “antigravity machine” investors
Joseph Firmage helped create today's digital economy. These days, he's being sued by antigravity-machine investors … X: @bradstone and @bw . Forums: Slashdot X: Brad Stone / @bradstone : Wild, out-of...
Arvind Mithal, a prolific computer scientist and longtime MIT professor who led the Computation Structures Group in MIT CSAIL, died on June 17 at age 77
A prolific researcher who led the Computation Structures Group in the Computer Science … Mastodon: Andrej Bauer / @andrejbauer@mathstodon.xyz : I was saddened today to learn that Arvind Mithral passed...
Molly Holzschlag, aka “mollydotcom”, a longtime advocate for the open web and accessible, inclusive online design standards, died at 60 on September 5
Pioneer of online design & accessibility — Molly Holzschlag, whose pioneering work in online design standards led to her being dubbed …
Twitter appoints Kathy Chen as managing director in China as number of Chinese advertisers grows over 340%
Twitter appoints new Greater China head as number of Chinese advertisers balloons over 300 per cent — Pioneer microblogging service Twitter has named a new head for its Greater China operations …
Marvin Minsky, Pioneer in Artificial Intelligence, Dies at 88
Marvin Minsky, who combined a scientist's thirst for knowledge with a philosopher's quest for truth as a pioneering explorer of artificial intelligence, work that helped inspire the creation of the pe...
Pioneer finally brings CarPlay equipment to mass market, Spotify app update adds CarPlay support
The CarPlay situation has been murky. Since being announced in the spring, most manufacturers have been quiet on when CarPlay equipment will actually be available to purchase.
Scoop: Microsoft closes consumer skunkworks unit
A little more than three years after opening Pioneer Studios, a skunkworks operation to develop consumer electronics and experiences, Microsoft has closed the unit, CNET has learned. — Pioneer was t...
Another Manufacturer Drops Plasma
Whether the rumors that Pioneer plans to pull out of the plasma TV business prove true or not, one other maker of flat panel TVs has left plasma behind: Vizio. — The five-year-old company, which ori...