Western Digital says JV partner Toshiba's complaints harmful
Western Digital Corp. lashed back against its joint venture partner Toshiba on Thursday in a deepening feud over the Japanese company's plan to sell its computer memory business.
View ArticleSilicon-on-Seine: world's biggest tech incubator opens in Paris
French President Emmanuel Macron inaugurated the world's largest start-up incubator in central Paris on Thursday, taking the city a step closer to fulfilling its ambition of becoming Europe's...
View ArticleSilicon Valley investors taking heat over sexual harassment
Sexism in Silicon Valley may be coming in for a reckoning, prompted by women coming forward with stories of sexual harassment by industry bigshots. Apologies, resignations and self-reflection have...
View ArticleSilicon Valley's sexism problem: Could the tide be turning?
Sexism in Silicon Valley has been an open secret for years. What's changing: A growing number of women are coming forward with personal stories of sexual harassment and discrimination, prompting...
View ArticleSilicon Valley reeling in wake of sexual harassment storm
It started with a few women speaking up, reporting a suggestive text message, an invitation to a hotel room, an unwanted touch under a table.
View ArticleWomen entrepreneurs still lag behind men in accessing new business funding
Women entrepreneurs are finding it increasingly difficult to access venture capital funding for start-up businesses and remain much less likely to attract funding than male entrepreneurs, according to...
View ArticleA big hurdle do-good companies face
Have you ever wondered who collects the clothes you stuff into that donation drop box in your neighborhood? Chances are, you assumed it was a nonprofit, but that box actually may instead belong to a...
View ArticleRow over Google employee's defense of tech gender gap
Google found itself at the center of controversy Sunday after an employee in a leaked internal document claimed "biological causes" explained the lack of women in tech industry leadership roles.
View ArticleCan a venture capital blacklist stop sexual harassment in Silicon Valley?
Badly shaken over a flood of female founders accusing investors of sexual harassment, Silicon Valley's venture capital community is searching for a new kind of pitch - one that will end unwanted...
View ArticleGoogle memo completely misses how implicit biases harm women
Workplace biases are back in the national conversation, thanks to the recent memo by a Google employee. The memo's author challenges the company's diversity policies, arguing that psychological...
View ArticleVideo streaming player pioneer Roku seeks $100M in IPO
Video streaming player pioneer Roku is going public, hoping to raise money to expand into more households and fend off competitive threats from bigger technology companies.
View ArticleWhy US battery startups fail—and how to fix it
Better batteries are critical to the world's clean energy future. More economical and efficient batteries would help to solve many of our planet's energy challenges, paving the way towards long-range...
View ArticleIn Namibia, 1533 Portuguese shipwreck's relics hidden away
Diamond prospectors in Namibia nearly a decade ago stumbled upon remnants of a shipwrecked Portuguese vessel whose trading journey to India was cut violently short by a storm in 1533.
View ArticleIf Google invests in Lyft, what does that mean for Uber?
Uber was the indisputable No. 1 player in the domestic on-demand transportation industry. And by its workforce size, passenger count and capital raised, it still is.
View ArticleToshiba board decides on chip sale to Bain Capital group
Toshiba's board signed off Wednesday on selling its computer chip business to a group led by Bain Capital Private Equity, but the deal's future remains unclear as Toshiba's U.S. joint venture partner...
View ArticleClassified US spy satellite launched from California
A spy satellite for the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office has been launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
View ArticleSiemens and Alstom on brink of rail merger: report
France's Alstom and Germany's Siemens have a deal ready to sign that would merge their rail businesses in the face of Chinese competition, German business daily Handelsblatt reported Monday.
View ArticleGlobal firms join rush to bet on Indonesia as next start-up frontier
Big-name investors including Expedia and Alibaba are pumping billions of dollars into Indonesian tech start-ups in a bid to capitalise on the country's burgeoning digital economy and potential as...
View ArticleMicrosoft sets up $3.5 million competition for artificial-intelligence startups
Microsoft is looking for a few good artificial-intelligence startups.
View ArticleToshiba, Bain executives join in push for memory-chips sale
At Toshiba's flash-memory chip plant in Yokkaichi, the orderly quiet of the clean room, with its metal boxes zipping around on overhead rails, contrasts sharply with the messy feud between its owners...
View ArticleIsrael Aerospace Industries, Hankuk Carbon, to make drones
Israel Aerospace Industries says it has formed a joint venture with Korean company Hankuk Carbon to make unmanned aircraft together.
View ArticleSurf's up for startups at Web Summit 2017
The next generation of Internet giants gather this week in Portugal for four days of tech-fuelled networking, nights out and—for the first time this year—surfing of the offline variety.
View ArticleFord, Chinese partner form electric car venture
Ford Motor Co. announced Wednesday that it is launching a venture with a Chinese partner to develop electric vehicles for sale in China, the biggest market for the technology.
View ArticleColossal SoftBank fund could shake up tech world
Japan-based SoftBank is sending tremors through the tech world with a massive new venture capital fund for investing in startups that's expected to dominate the industry so thoroughly it's playfully...
View ArticleWomen-run start-ups hampered by bias among male investors: study
A new study is highlighting one possible reason women aren't making more headway in Silicon Valley: men prefer to invest in companies run by other men. With men making up 90 percent of venture...
View ArticleMasayoshi Son: From chicken feed to Japan's richest tycoon
Once asked on Twitter about his receding hairline, Masayoshi Son, founder of Japanese telecoms giant SoftBank, retorted: "My hair is not receding. I'm advancing."
View ArticleState of US science enterprise report shows US leads in S&E as China rapidly...
According to the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Science and Engineering Indicators2018 report released today, the United States is the global leader in science and technology (S&T). However,...
View ArticleVenture fund invests in startups to improve labor practices
Companies like Apple and Walt Disney as well as Walmart's philanthropic foundation are investors in a $23 million venture fund aiming to use tools like artificial intelligence and blockchain technology...
View ArticleIsraeli firm takes venture world with crowdfunding approach
When Israeli venture capitalist Jonathan Medved launched his OurCrowd funding platform five years ago, he billed it as a novel way to give individual investors a piece of the action on the country's...
View ArticleGoogle Brain founder Andrew Ng creates $175 million AI Fund
Silicon Valley is increasingly betting that artificial intelligence will be the next breakthrough technology, and its latest stake is a new venture fund led by a respected AI expert.
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