In San Francisco, there’s all-out battle for the mayor’s office, and tech leaders are pouring money into the race. Eight candidates are vying in Tuesday’s special election, which resulted from the sudden death in December of 65-year-old Mayor Ed Lee, who had deep ties with the tech community. Most of the heavy-hitters in tech are […]
Read moreRussian President Vladimir Putin and President Donald Trump talk “regularly,” the Russian president told an Austrian news outlet ahead of his visit to Vienna Tuesday. The Russian leader was responding to a question about special counsel Robert Mueller‘s February indictment of 13 Russians and three Russian organizations when he brought up his relationship with the […]
Read moreWhatsApp co-founders reportedly gave up $1.3 billion as Facebook merger devolved to 'low class' spat
New details have emerged about the long-standing tension between Facebook and its biggest acquisition, WhatsApp, according to The Wall Street Journal. The Journal reported on Tuesday that WhatsApp co-founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum gave up $900 million and $400 million, respectively, by leaving Facebook before they were eligible for stock awards. Their departure followed […]
Read moreEarlier this year Apple reported that the Apple Watch sold more in the last quarter of 2017 than the entire Swiss watch industry combined, surpassing legacy giants such as Rolex and Swatch. This came as a pleasant surprise for the makers of a gadget heavily criticized in the beginning for not performing well in sales […]
Read moreThe U.S. Senate Commerce Committee demanded that Facebook‘s chief executive officer respond to a report that user data was shared with at least 60 device manufacturers, weeks after the social media company said it would change its practices after a political firm got access to data from millions of users. Senators John Thune, the Republican […]
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One of the world’s largest digital currency exchanges shut down briefly Tuesday morning due to a cyber attack. Bitfinex was targeted in what’s known as a DDoS, or a distributed denial-of-service attack, which overwhelms a system with multiple virus-infected servers. “The previous outage was caused by issues with one of our infrastructure providers,” the company […]
Read moreMicrosoft was not alone in chasing GitHub, which it agreed to acquire for $7.5 billion on Monday. Representatives from Alphabet‘s Google were also talking to the company about an acquisition in recent weeks, according to people familiar with the deal talks. The talks for GitHub went on for several weeks, according to several other people […]
Read moreApple CEO Tim Cook doesn’t expect the company’s flagship handset to get caught up in growing trade tensions with China. “I don’t think that [the] iPhone will get a tariff on it,” Cook told CNN in an interview Monday. “Based on what I’ve been told and what I see, I just don’t see that.” The […]
Read moreSophia the robot has become a cultural icon. The animatronic robot has made its way across late night stages, graced the cover of magazines, headlined major tech conferences and even delivered a speech to the United Nations. Sophia been touted as the future of AI, but it may be more of a social experiment masquerading […]
Read moreAmerican entrepreneurship has always pushed the boundaries of invention and ingenuity. It’s what spurred Henry Ford, in Dearborn, Michigan, to introduce the Model T, revolutionizing the automobile industry and the trajectory of what’s possible in transportation technology. A hundred years from now, when our great-grandkids are zipping around town in self-driving cars, we want them […]
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