Google said it would build 10,000 units of desperately needed housing in...
An artistic rendering shows the new Google campus in Mountain View’s North Bayshore area. City of Mountain View Google seems to be as much a real-estate developer as a search engine these days. The...
View ArticleTwitter suspends Russia-linked accounts, but U.S. senator says response...
WASHINGTON/SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Twitter said on Thursday it had suspended about 200 Russian-linked accounts as it probes online efforts to meddle with the 2016 U.S. election, but an influential...
View ArticleInnovations In Healthcare For Entrepreneurs
If you ask any entrepreneur what keeps them awake at night, one of the responses is sure to be health coverage for their employees. For large or small companies, the rising cost and complexity of...
View ArticleRoku IPO: Shares jump 68% as investors bet the firm can fend off Amazon,...
Investors brushed aside concerns about Roku’s stiff competition in the video streaming business, sending the company’s shares up 68% on its stock market debut Thursday. Roku stock closed at $23.50...
View ArticleCinnober Financial Technology : Boat Services strengthens team for...
Boat Services today announced the addition of Matt Jones and Bert Kerr as consultants to further develop the company’s fast growing catastrophe risk modelling business. Together they bring 30 years of...
View ArticleGV leads $10 million investment in audio broadcasting platform Anchor
A recent spate of investments in the podcast space continues today with news that Anchor has raised $10 million in a series A round of funding led by Google’s venture capital arm, GV. Additional...
View ArticleSnoop Dogg’s venture capital firm is leading an investment in a cannabis tech...
Snoop Dogg’s fund is making big moves in the cannabis space. Richard Shotwell/AP A cannabis-specific venture capital firm that counts Snoop Dogg among its partners is investing in a Toronto-based...
View ArticleAmazon’s Echo devices can now call mobile numbers and landlines for free
In case you missed the announcement during Amazon’s very busy hardware event earlier this week, the Echo, Echo Dot, and Echo Show have all gained the ability to place voice calls to numbers in the...
View ArticleCRET Innovation Center Opens at WVU School of Dentistry
The West Virginia University (WVU) School of Dentistry and the Center for Research and Education in Technology (CRET) celebrated the opening of the Dr. W. Robert Biddington Center for Dental Innovation...
View ArticleWill Artificial Intelligence Solve Cybersecurity—And Put Experts Out Of Work?
It seems like everyone from Elon Musk to Stephen Hawking have warned about allowing artificial intelligence to run wild at the risk that it eventually turns on its creators and wipes out all of...
View ArticleDisney merges its kid-friendly streaming options into a single app
DisneyNOW has full episodes, games and Disney Channel movies. Disney has combined four of its kid-friendly streaming apps into one all-encompassing one called DisneyNOW. It has everything that the...
View Article‘Dirty Chinese Restaurant’ mobile game called ‘racist’ and ‘disgusting’ ahead...
A mobile game developer in Toronto, Ontario, is seeing a wave of backlash after announcing a new app called “Dirty Chinese Restaurant.” The game, developed by a company called Big-O-Tree Games, tasks...
View ArticleCongress just blew a chance to save healthcare for 9 million children
Advocates for children’s health started worrying months ago that congressional incompetence would jeopardize the nation’s one indisputable healthcare success — the Children’s Health Insurance Program,...
View ArticleUber’s Kalanick reignites power struggle, names two to board
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Uber Technologies Inc [UBER.UL] co-founder Travis Kalanick on Friday said he had appointed two new directors, a surprise move that publicly reignited a board battle over the...
View ArticleMark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook employees to work on his philanthropy...
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan. Scott Olson / Getty Mark Zuckerberg wanted Facebook employees to work on projects for his philanthropic fund, The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, but was...
View ArticleAllgood Family Dentistry Offers Custom Cosmetic Dentistry and Teeth Whitening...
Drs. Ashlyn Price and Autumn Mayers with Allgood Family Dentistry, are pleased to announce that they now welcome new patients from Richmond, VA for cosmetic dentistry treatment, with or without a...
View ArticleWatch Elon Musk reveal ‘something special’ during Mars talk tonight
SpaceX CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he “Will be announcing something really special at today’s talk” and you can watch the live stream on YouTube. Musk is speaking at the 68th International Astronautical...
View ArticleGoogle Prepares to Brief Congress on Its Role in Election
SAN FRANCISCO — Google has become the latest Silicon Valley giant to become entangled in a widening investigation into how online social networks and technology products may have played a role in...
View ArticleDara Khosrowshahi has called Travis Kalanick’s board move “disappointing” and...
As Recode noted last night, Uber and its board slapped back at ousted CEO Travis Kalanick after he appointed two directors — former Xerox CEO Ursula Burns and former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain — to...
View ArticleBehind the glare of recent hacks, some companies actually paying homage to...
While more stories on corporate hacks rolled into the bad news bin last week, the good news was some executives and enterprises have been paying attention – and taking action. Among this news and its...
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