Venture Capitalists Are Raising Less Cash for Tech’s Next Big Thing
At least in Roofstock’s industry — housing and financial services technology — there’s no sign of a venture capital slowdown, Beasley said. “In our sector, I have the sense that they were going...
View ArticleAspen Technology Announces Date of First-Quarter Fiscal 2018 Financial...
Aspen Technology (News – Alert), Inc. (NASDAQ: AZPN), the asset optimization software company, today announced that it will release financial results for its first-quarter fiscal 2018, ended September...
View ArticleGains for Tech Help US Stocks Higher, but Insurers Skid
NEW YORK — U.S. stocks finished mostly higher Friday to wrap up a subdued week, and technology companies did most of the heavy lifting. Investors were also pleased to see that shoppers spent more money...
View ArticleFINASTRA DELIVERS NEXT-GENERATION PAYMENTS TECHNOLOGY ON MICROSOFT AZURE
Modern technology, running on modern architecture, gives not only means for greater performance at much lower running costs, but also the potential for new business models altogether, for all...
View ArticleMarkets Right Now: Technology companies lead US stock gains
The latest on developments in financial markets (All times local): 4 p.m. Stock indexes closed slightly higher on Wall Street, driven by solid gains in technology companies. HP rose 6.4 percent Friday...
View ArticleChina now rivals U.S. in VC investments
Twenty years ago, China’s manufacturing-based economy was one-ninth the size of the U.S. economy. The gap has closed tremendously, driven in large part by the explosive growth in the nation’s...
View ArticleAn intern at the Trump campaign data firm, Cambridge Analytica, appears to...
President Donald Trump boards Air Force One after saluting the Air Force members, as he departs Wednesday, Oct. 11, 2017, at Andrews Air Force Base, Md. AP Photo/Alex Brandon An intern at the data...
View ArticleFCC Chief Is ‘Complicit’ in Trump’s NBC Threat, Ex-Chairman Says
U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai is “complicit” in Donald Trump’s threat to revoke broadcast licenses of news stations by not speaking out against the president, the former...
View ArticleAndroid’s ‘instant’ apps are now leaner and faster
Also, you stand a better chance of keeping that instant app data if you decide to install the full thing. Where you previously needed Android Oreo to preserve that content, it now applies to phones...
View ArticleChorus: 70 percent of fibre connections on 100Mbps speeds
New Zealand incumbent telecommunications provider Chorus has announced that a majority of its fibre broadband connections are now on plans of 100Mbps or higher, with 309,000 connections now made within...
View ArticleSingapore F&B booking site raises another $13M, looks to dine deeper
Singapore’s restaurant booking site, Chope, has secured S$18 million (US$13 million) in another round of funding that it says will go towards product development and growing its salesforce. The latest...
View ArticleElon Musk banters and answers rocketry questions on Reddit
Elon Musk did an AMA on Reddit yesterday, and while he didn’t provide every missing detail on SpaceX’s ambitious BFR program, he was (as always) engaging and informative in a more general way. Here are...
View Article‘The sins of Silicon Valley’: Backlash mounts against Google, Facebook, Amazon
The populist backlash against the tone-deaf and arguably harmful actions of certain players in Silicon Valley has increased in recent months. A new essay in The New York Times takes the argument a step...
View ArticleFacebook’s ‘Like’ button creator has second thoughts, calls it a time-waster
The creator of Facebook’s Like button creator doesn’t “like” it much anymore. Justin Rosenstein, an early Facebook engineer, now considers his invention as a contributor to “time poorly spent,” as he...
View ArticleVolkswagen wants to fill the roads with heavy-duty electric trucks and busses
Volkswagen’s commitment to electric vehicles just got even larger, both in its scope and the size of the vehicles. Volkswagen Group, the parent company of big-name automakers like VW, Audi, and...
View ArticleFounder of $110 million startup CrowdFlower: I’m forever grateful to Travis...
If you’ve bought something on eBay, searched a home improvement store’s website, listened to music on Spotify, or watched a video on YouTube, you’ve come in contact with CrowdFlower. “People don’t...
View ArticleApple CEO Tim Cook reflects on the lesson from Steve Jobs’ biggest flop: ‘Be...
As Apple CEO Tim Cook made clear at the company’s recent iPhone launch event in Cupertino, he’s still guided by Steve Jobs. Justin Sullivan/Getty Images Back in 2000, Apple released the Power Mac G4...
View ArticleNetflix to Plow Billions More Into Original Content
Netflix said Monday that it would spend as much as $8 billion on content next year to continue growing its giant subscriber base and outpace its competitors. Last year, when Netflix predicted that it...
View ArticleAustralia Appoints New ASIC Chair, FinTech Australia Welcomes Him Aboard
Today, the Minister for Revenue and Financial Services, Kelly O’Dwyer, announced the appointment of James Shipton as the new Chair of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC). A...
View ArticleRussia tried to use Pokemon Go to stoke racial tensions in the US
The Kremlin-backed campaign of so-called fake news employed targeted Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Google ads to sow division and exacerbate political and racial tensions in the country. While the...
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