Machine-Learning, (Home) Automation, Robotics, and Space Exploration. Those four areas were the focus of the MARS conference that Amazon hosted at a resort in Florida over the weekend, and if this is your first time hearing about such a conference, that’s because Amazon was keeping it on
Remember a few weeks back when Sidecar announced that it’ll no longer be competing with the likes of Lyft and Uber, and will be exiting the ride-sharing market? Well, most of the assets and technology that belonged to the company has apparently been acquired by General Motors, which has expres
You don’t even need to use Netflix to feel the effect it’s having on traditional television anymore. In order to combat the ever-growing number of people cutting their cords and switching to online streaming services like Netflix, a number of television networks have decided to start cut
It looks like one the most-hated cable companies in the United States is about to join forces with one of the country’s most-hated wireless carriers. We’ve been hearing rumors about Comcast’s expansion into the wireless service market for a while, and now it looks like the company
Everyone had high hopes for Marissa Mayer when she was became the CEO of Yahoo a few years back, but not only is the company still losing market share to the likes of Facebook and Google, it’s losing executives as well. The latest executive to abandon Yahoo is Jacqueline Reses, the companyR
I honestly wasn’t expecting much from Swatch’s answer to the Apple Watch, but the Swiss watchmaker still managed to disappoint me. Rather than equipping its smartwatch with all the bells and whistles (and sensors) that other companies use as the selling point for their smartwatches, Swat
The New York Times released an in-depth report a couple of months about how much it sucks to work at Amazon, and with how much attention the report got, the company has been forced to do some serious damage control in the weeks that followed. Fortunately, the company is also making an effort to actu
We all saw it coming, and every rumor we’ve heard this past week has indicated as much, but Twitter made it official today: Jack Dorsey is returning as the company’s permanent CEO. Dorsey has been serving as Twitter’s interim CEO ever since Dick Costolo stepped down from the positi
It looks like investors are still very, very interested in online lenders. For proof of this, you need look no further than San Francisco, where a local startup by the name of Social Finance just completed a $1 billion round of funding led by Japan’s SoftBank, which brings its lifetime funding
Berlin-based Rocket Internet can add a multi-billion dollar company to the list of startups that it’s helped to create. HelloFresh, a clever food-delivery startup that also happens to be based in Berlin, just raised €75 million ($85 million) in funding, which was led by Scottish investment fir
Samsung is currently the undisputed king of the smartphone market, but Apple’s seemingly unstoppable growth and the burgeoning smartphone makers coming out of China are really starting to take their toll on the South Korean company. Not even the Galaxy S6 and Galaxy S6 Edge were able to sell a
ZTE isn’t exactly a household name in the United States, but that hasn’t stopped the Chinese handset maker from taking an 8% share of the American smartphone market in the second quarter of this year. According to IDC, ZTE’s market share in the United States has increased from 4.2%