Twitter has added another longtime Google executive to its board of directors: Patrick Pichette, who served as Google’s CFO from 2008 until summer of 2015. Pichette will replace Hugh Johnston, the CFO of Pepsi, who joined Twitter’s board just a little over one year ago. According to a Twitter press release, Johnston has taken a […]

Amazon expanded its partnership with Kohl’s on Tuesday with the launch of a new service that lets Amazon.com customers return their purchases through select Kohl’s stores in the U.S. The partnership is the latest in Amazon’s retail expansion efforts. The e-commerce company has been aggressively growing its physical presence in recent years, which now spans […]

We are constantly bombarded with stimuli fighting for our attention. So it’s not surprising that traditional media is feeling the incursion of the new media for that attention. In the last 10 years, Fox’s broadcast ratings are down 50% from an average 4.0 rating for its prime-time shows to 2.0 last year. They’re not alone. […]

Earlier this month, my friend and industry colleague Rob Coppedge wrote a thoughtful post on the death of digital health, a space associated with too much hype and too little substance. We agree that health care is really broken. It bankrupts our families, exhausts government discretionary spending, and leaves American industry at a global disadvantage. […]

Two of Apple’s latest iPhones, the iPhone 8 and iPhone 8 Plus, hit stores this week, and many technology journalists have already posted their reviews ahead of the release. Apple’s new software also rolled out on Tuesday. TechCrunch editor-in-chief Matthew Panzarino had some fun with Udacity co-founder Sebastian Thrun, testing out the new camera features […]

JPMorgan shared with its clients the firm’s best software stock picks with the biggest profit margin expansion potential. The firm cited how the average software stock in its coverage universe is up around 30 percent this year compared to the S&P 500’s 12 percent return. “Current valuations in our space tell us we either need […]

Google seems likely to introduce a smaller version of the Google Home next week. Images of the device first appeared on blog Droid-Life on Tuesday, showing what appears to be a small pebble-shaped speaker with a single wire for plugging into the wall. Three colors appear on the blog, including black, gray and the coral […]

Getty Images A prototype of Apple’s new HomePod is displayed during the 2017 Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) at the San Jose Convention Center on June 5, 2017 in San Jose, California. Apple says it’s using local AI to power Siri. While some data like your name, your contacts, the names of your photo albums […]

President Donald Trump was elected on an anti-immigration platform that included building a wall between the southern border of the United States and Mexico. His polarizing stance on immigration has been met with particularly vehement resistance from the entrepreneurship sector. That’s because many top founders hail from abroad. Tesla and SpaceX chief Elon Musk is […]

One possible interesting feature of Google‘s upcoming Pixel 2 smartphone: You might be able to squeeze it to open apps. Lines of code spotted by blog 9to5Google reference a new “Active Edge” setting that, with a squeeze gesture, can launch Google Assistant. The thought of squeezing your smartphone might sound outlandish, but it shouldn’t. Rumor […]