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Didi Chuxing and oil giant BP team up to build electric vehicle charging infrastructure in ...
Ride-sharing and transportation platform Didi Chuxing announced today that it has formed a joint venture with BP, the British gas, oil and ... -
Smartphone sales expected to drop 2.5% globally this year
Smartphone sales have continued their global decline. New numbers from Gartner forecast a drop of 2.5 percent down to 1.5 billion. The ... -
Amazon-backed food delivery startup Deliveroo acquires Edinburgh software studio Cultivate
As two of the largest players in online-food ordering and delivery in Europe work on a $10 billion merger to expand ... -
Jamf acquires Digita Security to gain native Mac security
Jamf has been widely known as an enterprise Mac deployment and management tool company, but it has been looking for ways ... -
China’s Vivo is eyeing smartphone users in Africa and Middle East
Africa’s mobile phone industry has in recent times been dominated by Transsion, a Shenzhen-based company that is little known outside the African ... -
Report claims all three new iPhones planned for 2020 will support 5G
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo — sometimes described as “the most accurate Apple analyst in the world” — has written a new ... -
Huawei’s first 5G phone goes on sale in China next month
Huawei on Friday announced the upcoming release of its first 5G handset in its home market. Following on the heels of ... -
AWS revenue growth slips a bit, but remains Amazon’s golden goose
Like Azure last week, AWS reported some slippage in its cloud earnings growth numbers today, dropping from 49% growth last year ... -
Samsung readies Galaxy Fold for September release
When it was unveiled on stage, the Galaxy Fold was heralded as the next big thing. Samsung seeded units to ... -
Facebook ignored staff warnings about “sketchy” Cambridge Analytica in September 2015
Facebook employees tried to alert the company about the activity of Cambridge Analytica as early as September 2015, per the SEC’s complaintagainst ... -
Facebook ends friend data access for Microsoft and Sony, the last 2 of its legacy ...
One more consequence of the FTC’s investigation of Facebook, which culminated in a record $5 billion settlement announced today: it’s finally ... -
Apple’s latest Tesla hire specializes in car interiors
Another high-level Tesla engineering executive has hopped over to Apple. Steve MacManus, who was vice president of engineering at Tesla, is now ... -
Facebook fails to keep Messenger Kids’ safety promise
Facebook’s messaging app for under 13s, Messenger Kids — which launched two years ago pledging a “private” chat space for kids to talk with contacts ... -
With Chandrayaan-2 launch, India’s ISRO shoots for the Moon on a shoe-string budget
India took a giant leap in its space program on Monday after its space agency launched a spacecraft that is ... -
Huawei 5G indecision is hitting UK’s relations abroad, warns committee
The UK’s next prime minister must prioritize a decision on whether or not to allow Chinese tech giant Huawei to ... -
Tesla’s new V3 Supercharger can charge up to 1,500 electric vehicles a day
Tesla has opened a massive next-generation electric vehicle charging station in Las Vegas that combines the company’s core products into one ... -
Boeing set to take $4.9 billion Q2 charge on 737 Max grounding
Boeing’s 737 Max fiasco has cast a dark shadow over the company’s reputation and is impacting the company’s financials in ... -
Altitude Angel launches an API for safer drone flights
Altitude Angel, a U.K. startup that provides safety, data and traffic management systems for drones, is launching a de-confliction service ... -
FaceApp gets federal attention as Sen. Schumer raises alarm on data use
It’s been hard to get away from FaceApp over the last few days, whether it’s your friends posting weird selfies using the ... -
Elon Musk’s Neuralink looks to begin outfitting human brains with faster input and output starting ...
Neuralink, the Elon Musk-led startup that the multi-entrepreneur founded in 2017, is working on technology that’s based around ‘threads’ which it ... -
Sutro’s smart pool monitoring device arrives next month
Sutro’s device has changed a lot since the company appeared as a contestant in our Hardware Battlefield way back in 2015. But who ... -
The Dreamlight Zen uses lights and music to help wearers relax
Every time I’m back in Asia, it seems like I’m meeting with another sleep mask company. And every time, I ... -
Amazon said to be launch new Echo speaker with premium sound next year
Amazon is reportedly looking to offer an Echo that more directly competes with high-end speakers like the Sonos line of ... -
Amazon reportedly ramps development on Alexa-powered home robot on wheels
Bloomberg reported last April that Amazon was working on a home robot codenamed ‘Vesta’ (after the Roman goddess of the ... -
Signavio raises $177M at a $400M valuation for its business process automation solutions
Robotic Process Automation has been the name of the game in enterprise software lately — with organizations using advances in ... -
N26 launches its challenger bank in the U.S.
European fintech startup N26 is now accepting customers in the U.S. The company is launching a bank account with a debit card ... -
Amazon invests $700 million to retrain a third of its U.S. workforce by 2025
Amazon announced this morning a plan to invest over $700 million to retrain workers across the U.S. to allow them to move ... -
BMW unveils the first all-electric Mini with the Cooper SE
The all-electric Mini Cooper was once just a demonstration car and a dream for EV fans, but now it’s a ... -
BMW is making it easier to charge electric vehicles near America’s national parks
BMW has finished a nearly two-year project to bring 100 electric vehicle charging stations to America’s national parks. The automaker ... -
Apple stops selling the 12-inch MacBook, a computer you either loved or were confused by
Apple officially stopped selling the 12-inch MacBook today, a computer that hasn’t had an update since June 2017 and that is ... -
The News Project’s publishing platform goes live with its first customer, CALmatters
CEO Merrill Brown says he founded The News Project to address one of the big problems in the journalism business: “It costs ... -
UK’s ICO fines British Airways a record £183M over GDPR breach that leaked data from ...
The UK’s Information Commissioner is starting off the week with a GDPR bang: this morning, it announced that it has fined British Airways and ... -
Uber rival Bolt has closed another tranche of funding at a $1B+ valuation
Uber and Lyft going public may have put closer public scrutiny on the economics of ridesharing, but it hasn’t had ... -
Google debuts ‘Code with Google’ coding education resource for teachers
Google is offering a new coding resource for educators via ‘Code with Google,’which collects Google’s own free course curriculum on teaching ... -
Waresix hauls in $14.5M to advance its push to digitize logistics in Indonesia
Waresix, one of a handful of startups aiming to modernize logistics in Indonesia — the world’s fourth most populous country ... -
Smart scooter company Gogoro launches GoShare, an end-to-end vehicle sharing platform
Founded in 2011, Gogoro now makes the best-selling electric scooters in Taiwan, where it is headquartered. The startup has always seen itself ... -
Clever Cloud launches GPU-based instances
French startup Clever Cloud is a cloud hosting company that operates a Platform as a Service (or PaaS). The company just launched ... -
Sony’s new wireless earbuds pack great noise-canceling and battery life
I’ve got a 16 hour flight coming up in about a week, so I’m hoping our review units come through ... -
BMW and Daimler partner on autonomous driving, first results of team-up in market by 2024
Global automakers BMW and Daimler will join forces in a new long-term partnership to co-develop automated driving technologies, including levels of automation ... -
Europe moves closer to making VTOL air taxis a reality
The European Union Air Safety Agency (EASA), the regulatory body that provides the rules of the skies needed for commercial ... -
Facebook News Feed changes downrank misleading health info and dangerous ‘cures’
No, drinking bleach is not a miracle cure for diseases and other conditions — but that’s the sort of bogus ... -
Only 2% of genomic material available for research comes from Africa, 54gene wants to change ...
New advances in genetic mapping and manipulation hold the promise of reshaping medical treatments in the 21st century, but thanks ... -
Analysts think global 5G smartphone shipments will overtake 4G in 2023
After years of buildup, 5G is finally here — albeit more as a trickle than a deluge. These things take time, ... -
TCL Alto 7+ Review
It’s never been easier — or more affordable — to ditch your crappy TV speakers for something better. Over the ... -
The Honor 20 is a great phone, but it lives in the shadow of its ...
The Honor 20 is a great little phone. It’s lightweight, has a decent camera, comes in a shiny color, and ... -
Facebook announces Libra cryptocurrency: All you need to know
Facebook has finally revealed the details of its cryptocurrency, Libra, which will let you buy things or send money to ... -
Cloud-based design tool Figma launches plug-ins
Figma, the startup looking to put design tools in the cloud, has today announced new plugins for the platform that will ... -
Salesforce closes $15.7B Tableau deal
In an amazingly quick turn-around for a deal of this scope, Salesforce announced today that it has closed the $15.7 billion Tableau deal announced ... -
Snapchat launches ‘instant’ tool for creating vertical ads
Snapchat is hoping to attract new advertisers (and make advertising easier for the ones already on the platform) with the launch ... -
Apple’s revenue growth slows as iPhone sales dip 12% year-over-year
Apple just released its Q3 earnings and it had a solid June quarter, outperforming analyst expectations. The company reported $53.8 billion ... -
AWS follows Microsoft into the Middle East, opening new region in Bahrain
AWS, Amazon’s cloud arm, announced today that it has opened a Middle East Region in Bahrain. The Middle East is an emerging market for ... -
Truecaller pushes software fix after covertly signing up Indians to its payments service
Truecaller, a service that helps users screen robocalls, has rolled out an update to its app in India, its largest ...
