TiVo CEO Enrique Rodriguez is leaving the company, effective immediately, after less than a year in the role, the company said Thursday. Rodriguez is also stepping down as a member of TiVo’s board, and will become Chief Technology Officer at Liberty Global in Europe. Board member Raghu Rau will step in as interim president and […]
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Tom Lee, the only major Wall Street strategist to issue bitcoin price targets, told CNBC on Thursday he sees the world’s largest cryptocurrency by the end of the year at more than $20,000 per unit — 20 percent less than his previous estimate. “Bitcoin has historically traded at 2.5 times its mining costs. It’s not […]
Read moreChina will succeed in building a powerful technology industry that will rival the United States, even if President Trump starts a trade war to stop it. The reason can be found on the fourth floor of a nondescript factory in a city once famous for cheap manufacturing and prostitution. This factory floor, in the southern […]
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Apple’s Face ID makes it easy to unlock your iPhone just by looking at it. But you might notice sometimes that it doesn’t recognize you. Maybe you’re wearing glasses or a lot of makeup. With a new function called “alternate appearance,” you can improve Face ID’s recognition. The feature is part of iOS 12, which […]
Read moreFour years ago, Alexandra Van Houtte was a fashion assistant in Paris. She would sit in the back offices of magazines like Grazia, Glamour or international editions of Vogue for countless hours researching and cataloging looks for fashion shoots. The monotony and inefficiency of scrolling for a particular look through sites like Style.com or Women’s […]
Read moreMicron confirmed on Thursday a court in China has granted a preliminary junction that bans its Chinese subsidiaries from manufacturing and selling some of its products in the Asian country. The company said the affected products represent “slightly more than 1 percent” of the company’s annual sales. Micron added the injunction will hurt its current […]
Read moreSingapore’s competition watchdog on Thursday proposed fines on Uber and Grab and said they may have to unwind their merger because of “substantially lessened competition” in the market. Uber sold its Southeast Asia business to ride-hailing rival Grab in March. The move saw the San Francisco-based company acquiring a 27.5 percent stake in Grab and […]
Read moreWhen Nadiem Makarim launched Indonesian ride-hailing service Go-Jek back in 2010, he couldn’t have anticipated its runaway success. For him, it was simply a way of improving his country’s flailing motorcycle taxi industry. But, within six short years, Makarim had gone down in the history books as the founder of Indonesia’s first unicorn — a […]
Read moreCAMBRIDGE, England — When you step off the train here and walk into the city square outside the railway station, you will not see the spires of King’s College Chapel or the turrets atop the Trinity Great Court. The University of Cambridge is still a cab ride away. But you will see a stone and […]
Read moreFacebook’s reputation is under pressure from a data leak affecting up to 87 million users, calculated foreign manipulation of its advertising platform, and reports out of Myanmar and Sri Lanka that its services were weaponized for ethnic cleansing and genocide among other things. To address these scandals, Facebook has crafted a careful message: “We were […]
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