Silicon Valley celebrates the massive exits and the brilliant entrepreneurs behind them. There’s Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Snap’s Evan Spiegel, Salesforce’s Marc Benioff and Twitter’s Evan Williams, just to name a few. But the overwhelming majority of start-up founders are a lot more like Paul Edmondson than any of the aforementioned celebrities. Edmondson poured 12 years […]
Read moreHere’s a roundup of the most important deals in venture capital from the past week. Apple is acquiring Vancouver-based Buddybuild for an undisclosed sum, the start-up announced on Tuesday. Buddybuild makes tools that help programmers avoid and fix bugs in their software, and to generally keep each other apprised about changes made to code they’re […]
Read moreQualcomm on Friday said it’s working on updates for products that are affected by recently announced chip-level security vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, first disclosed earlier this week by security researchers from Google and other organizations, have already wiped billions in value from Intel, whose chips are among those affected. They have also forced many software and […]
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Digital currency ripple has blown past its cryptocurrency rivals largely because it is working with large institutions, which give it an aura of legitimacy and practicality. However, cryptocurrency enthusiasts say that centralization is the exact opposite of what the technology of the digital currencies should be about. “The reason ripple is surging so much is […]
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