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Silicon Valley's sovereign wealth problem
Oct 29, 12:30AM
John Vrionis Contributor Share on Twitter John Vrionis is the founder of Unusual Ventures. It's time to bring the conversation about where Silicon Valley gets its money from out into the open. Following recent revelations into Saudi Arabia's extensive reach and influence in the US technology sector, the willful ignorance that has defined the relationship […]
Forget Watson, the Red Hat acquisition may be the thing that saves IBM
Oct 28, 11:21PM
With its latest $34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, IBM may have found something more elementary than “Watson” to save its flagging business. Though the acquisition of Red Hat is by no means a guaranteed victory for the Armonk, N.Y.-based computing company that has had more downs than ups over the five years, it seems […]
These 14 startups — endorsed by the seed-stage investment firm Pear — just hit the fundraising trail
Oct 28, 11:14PM
Earlier this week, in a beautiful garden in Woodside, Ca., the team at the five-year-old, seed-stage venture firm Pear hosted it fifth annual demo day. It’s an event that’s limited to roughly 100 VCs who year after year happily fill the space to see what Pear — which has written early checks to the “unicorn” […]
The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Oct 28, 8:47PM
At a price typically reserved for semiconductor companies, telecoms, and pharmaceutical giants, IBM announced today it would pay a record $34 billion in cash and debt to acquire enterprise open source provider Red Hat. Eclipsing Microsoft’s $26.2 billion acquisition of LinkedIn, this is the biggest software acquisition in history. It’s not the biggest tech acquisition […]
Original Content podcast: There's spooky fun in Netflix's 'Haunting of Hill House'
Oct 28, 8:00PM
The new Netflix series “The Haunting of Hill House” is based on the classic Shirley Jackson novel of the same name, but fans will probably have a better time if they put the book out of their mind. Yes, the show opens with the same famous passage that begins the novel, and show and book […]
IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B in cash and debt, taking a bigger leap into hybrid cloud
Oct 28, 7:15PM
After rumours flew around this weekend, IBM today confirmed that it would acquire open source, cloud software business Red Hat for $190 per share in cash, working out to a total value of $34 billion. IBM said the deal has already been approved by the boards of directors of both IBM and Red Hat but is […]
Translating startup-speak for the corporate buyer
Oct 28, 5:16PM
Perry Hewitt Contributor Share on Twitter Perry Hewitt works at the intersection of marketing, technology, and mission-driven organizations. Startups salivate at the prospect of entering the enterprise – and for good reason. The enterprise is rife with legacy systems and circuitous processes that frustrate employees and hinder results — and the startup has just the […]
The tools, they are a-changing
Oct 28, 1:00PM
Building web services and smartphone apps, which is most of what I’ve been doing professionally at HappyFunCorp1 for the last decade or so, used to be pretty straightforward. Not easy, but straightforward, especially when the client was a consumer startup, which so many of them were. The more we did the better we got at […]
Facial recognition startup Kairos founder continues to fight attempted takeover
Oct 27, 8:33PM
There’s some turmoil brewing over at Miami-based facial recognition startup Kairos . Late last month, New World Angels President and Kairos board chairperson Steve O’Hara sent a letter to Kairos founder Brian Brackeen notifying him of his termination from the role of chief executive officer. The termination letter cited willful misconduct as the cause for […]
The SaaS VC gap: China & other markets trail the US
Oct 27, 5:09PM
Chinese startups rule the roost when it comes to total reported venture dollars raised so far in 2018. That is, mostly. In one key category at least — software-as-a-service, better known as SaaS — they do not.
Big tech must not reframe digital ethics in its image
Oct 27, 4:00PM
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg’s visage loomed large over the European parliament this week, both literally and figuratively, as global privacy regulators gathered in Brussels to interrogate the human impacts of technologies that derive their power and persuasiveness from our data. The eponymous social network has been at the center of a privacy storm this year. And […]
The Venture Twins
Oct 27, 4:00PM
Justine and Olivia Moore like to introduce themselves together, otherwise, it can be a little confusing. They live together in an apartment in Menlo Park. They share clothes. They both wear Rothy’s sustainable ballet flats and are big fans of Glossier. Their desks are only inches apart, because yes, they work together too — and […]
Should cash-strapped Snapchat sell out? To Netflix?
Oct 27, 3:05PM
Snapchat needs a sugar daddy. Its cash reserves are dwindling from giant quarterly losses. Morale is poor from a battered share price and cost-cutting measures sap momentum. And intense competition from Facebook is preventing rapid growth. With just $1.4 billion in assets remaining at the end of a brutal Q3 2018 and analyst MoffetNathanson estimating it […]
Here are 25 of the most innovative new projects using tech to help refugees and NGOs
Oct 27, 2:07PM
What's fascinating about the project as it's developed is that, at the time, it was considered quite radical, perhaps even odd, to bring tech people into the equation. But simply watching the footage of refugees clutching smartphones as they fled war-torn regions and natural disasters made the tech world realize it can be part of […]
Tesla is rolling out its Navigate on Autopilot feature
Oct 27, 5:18AM
Some Tesla owners in North America will wake up to a new driver assistance feature that had been delayed for testing, according to a tweet sent Friday evening by CEO Elon Musk. “Tesla Autopilot Drive on Navigation going to wide release in North America tonight,” Musk tweeted. Tesla Autopilot Drive on Navigation is described by […]
Texas has a long history of problems with Hart eSlate voting machines
Oct 27, 4:02AM
During early voting in some Texas counties, a handful of voters reported seeing their straight-ticket votes changed to endorse the opposing party. Others reported that an issue with the voting machines appeared to remove any selection for U.S. Senate altogether. The Texas Secretary of State’s office told TechCrunch that it has received “15-20 calls” from […]
Waymo is testing what it should charge for its robotaxi service
Oct 27, 12:26AM
Self-driving startup Waymo, a Google spin -off owned by parent company Alphabet, has started to test pricing models for rides in its autonomous vehicles in Phoenix, the latest indication that the company is preparing to launch a commercial robotaxi service. Waymo has not launched a wide-scale commercial robotaxi service in Phoenix — or anywhere — just yet. But it is […]
Twitter suspends accounts linked to mail bomb suspect
Oct 26, 10:22PM
At least two Twitter accounts linked to the man suspected of sending explosive devices to more than a dozen prominent Democrats were suspended on Friday afternoon. Cesar Sayoc Jr., 56, was apprehended by federal law enforcement officers in Florida on Friday morning. “Though we're still analyzing the devices in our laboratory, these are not hoax […]
Expedia acquires Pillow and ApartmentJet to conquer the short-term rental market
Oct 26, 9:59PM
Travel booking site Expedia wants to better compete with Airbnb.
Eerie AI-generated portrait fetches $432,500 at auction
Oct 26, 9:16PM
The question of whether a machine can create art, or anything at all, is at the heart of many a philosophical debate and has been for decades. But whether it's worth something on the market? That point has been settled definitively today as a portrait-like image issuing from an AI sold for nearly half a million dollars at auction.
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