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The Wall Street Journal – Financial news and analysis

AI Medical Scribe Startup Abridge Achieves $5.3 Billion Valuation in Latest Funding Round

Abridge's 93% valuation jump in four months tells us that something bigger than typical startup growth is cooking. It's a case study in how to build the ‘pick and shovel’...

AT&T's CEO claims corporations have no say in the encryption debate

When it comes to respecting the privacy of its users and rejecting profligate government surveillance, few companies have as bad of a track record as AT&T, which seems to go...

Theranos may have deleted data to make its tech look more accurate

There was a time when Theranos was one of the most-promising startups in the world, but now it's having to fight off wave after wave of accusations that, should they...

Samsung might add 3D touch and an iris scanner to the Galaxy S7

Pressure-sensitive displays are practically essential for new flagships nowadays, so it's not at all surprising to hear that Samsung will be adding the technology to the Galaxy S7, but what...

NextVR has raised $30.5 million to live-stream content in virtual reality

Live streaming and virtual reality are seen as the future of entertainment, and NextVR wants to cash in on both of the trends at the same time. The startup just finished...

Tinder's parent company is about to go public

It's a little known fact that OKCupid, Match.com, and Tinder are all owned by the same company, and that company is going public. Known as Match Group, the Dallas-based company...

Toyota is establishing a $1 billion research institute in Silicon Valley

Toyota announced this morning that it plans to invest somewhere around $1 billion over the next five years to establish a new, Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence and robotics research company. The company...

Nintendo will reveal more info on its first mobile game tomorrow

Aside from confirming that it's working on a handful of games for smartphones and tablets, Nintendo has remained annoyingly silent regarding its long-awaited entrance into the mobile market, but it's finally going...

Xiaomi has reaffirmed its plans to expand to the United States

Xiaomi is already dominating the smartphone market in its home country, and now has a 14% share of the Indian market, which means the Chinese company already has two of the...

Samsung has another Tizen-powered smartphone on the way

Tizen hasn't exactly risen to challenge Android's dominance in the mobile market. In fact, it hasn't really done anything at all, aside from powering a few lackluster smartphones and a handful...