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AI STARTUP APPIER HIRES SEAN CHU FROM MICROSOFT TO HEAD ITS ASIA GROWTH STRATEGY

Appier, the artificial intelligence startup that recently raised a $33 million Series C from three of Asia's biggest Internet companies,...

TWITTER SAYS IT HASN'T DELETED TRUMP'S PROVOCATIVE NORTH KOREA TWEET BECAUSE OF “NEWSWORTHINESS”

After North Korea's top diplomat described President Donald Trump's recent tweets about the country as a “declaration of war,” Twitter...

NVIDIA PICKS UP ALIBABA AND HUAWEI AS PARTNERS FOR SMART CITY PLATFORM

Nvidia's Metropolis AI smart cities platform sounds like a story arc for DC's superman comics, but it's actually a GPU-based intelligent...

CRUNCH REPORT | APPLE'S SIRI EMBRACES GOOGLE

Looking at Instagram's growth numbers, SAP is buying Gigya for $350 million, Apple's Siri switches from Bing to Google for web searches...

JD X TAPS NVIDIA FOR DRONE DELIVERIES, RESCUE AND AGRICULTURAL USE

GPU maker Nvidia has announced that it will work with retail giant JD.com to help with an outdoor robotics initiative that sprung out...

PACKAGE DELIVERY STARTUP DOORMAN IS SHUTTING DOWN

Doorman, a startup delivering packages when you schedule them will be no more after October 6th, 2017. The startup sent a letter over...

ZUCK AND BEZOS BACK SEED STAGE SCOUT FUND VILLAGE GLOBAL

Product Hunt's first employee Erik Torenberg is ready to fund fresh new startups, not just reveal them to the world. Today is the soft...

GROUPON'S BILLIONAIRE COFOUNDER ERIC LEFKOFSKY JUST RAISED $70 MILLION FOR HIS NEW COMPANY

Chicago billionaire Eric Lefkofsky has started five companies, none of which would seem to lead him to found a company that's trying...

MICROSOFT PLACES ITS BETS ON QUANTUM COMPUTING

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today put its stake in the ground and discussed its progress in building a quantum computer and...

EXPOSURE OF YOUR SENSITIVE DATA ISN'T A BUG, IT'S A FEATURE

Another day, another breach. Equifax, SEC, Deloitte and the next one is coming soon. Nothing surprising there any more, not for customers,...

‘STAR TREK: DISCOVERY' PRESENTS A MURKIER VISION OF THE CLASSIC FRANCHISE

Star Trek: Discovery has a lot riding on it, both for CBS executives (who are counting on the show to help them launch their paid streaming...

LYFT ADDS 24/7 LIVE DRIVER PHONE SUPPORT

Lyft has added a few new driver-centric features to its app today, some of which are direct answers to things implemented by rival...

MICROSOFT CEO SATYA NADELLA'S NEW BOOK IS MORE BUSINESS TEXT THAN MEMOIR

Any sitting CEO's book about his own company is likely to be a bit of a disappointment. It's no surprise then that Satya Nadella's...

WHATSAPP BLOCKED IN CHINA, THOUGH PAST BANS PROVED TEMPORARY

WhatsApp has been widely blocked in mainland China by the country's government, with text messaging as well as photo and video sharing...

A HISTORY OF HTC IN 12 DEVICES

HTC on Friday basically sold a huge portion of itself to Google, which is clearly hoping to use the company's talent for hardware in...

DISRUPT BERLIN EXTENDS THE STARTUP BATTLEFIELD APPLICATION DEADLINE

Zögern sich. Roughly translated , that's procrastinators rejoice. Why all the excitement? Early stage startup entrepreneurs now have...

FULL COVERAGE FROM MICROSOFT IGNITE 2017

TRUMP WANTS THE DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION TO COMMIT $200 MILLION PER YEAR TO COMPUTER SCIENCE EDUCATION

President Donald Trump will soon direct the Department of Education to commit $200 million every year to K-12 computer science education,...

WAYMO CLARIFIES IT ACTUALLY WANTS $1.8 BILLION FROM UBER

Last week, Uber's legal team told Judge William Alsup that Waymo was seeking $2.6 billion for an allegedly stolen trade secret related...

TRAVELER WHO REFUSED TO GIVE DEVICE PASSWORDS TO POLICE FOUND GUILTY OF OBSTRUCTION IN UK COURT

A UK court has reaffirmed the power for state agents to use sweeping counterterrorism legislation to require travelers hand over the...