by The Editor | Mar 25, 2019 | News
NEW YORK (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co has awarded 47 financial grants to university faculty and PhD students for artificial intelligence research, ramping up its efforts in the emerging technology, the bank plans to announce later on Monday. A woman...
by Romain Dillet | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Apple is holding a keynote today on its campus in Cupertino, and the company is expected to talk about new services. Don’t expect any new device, today’s event should be all about content. At 10 AM PT (1 PM in New York, 5 PM in London, 6 PM in Paris), you’ll be able...
by Clive Thompson | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Something weird is happening around climate change. Republicans are deciding it’s real. Three years ago, only 49 percent of Republicans thought so, but by last December it was 64 percent, as a Monmouth University poll found. That’s a huge jump in a short time and is...
by Steve O'Hear | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Omers Ventures, the venture capital arm of Canadian pension fund Omers, is officially launching a new €300 million fund aimed at European technology startups. Headed up by Harry Briggs, who was previously at BGF Ventures, Omers Europe will back companies at Series A...
by Wired Staff | Mar 25, 2019 | News
On Monday, March 25, Apple is expected to debut some new media distribution services. Not expected: new hardware announcements. Apple got all of those out the way last week. We saw new iPads, an AirPods update, and new iMacs—you can read about all of those in one...
by Mike Butcher | Mar 25, 2019 | News
There’s nothing like a niche language to create a sort of lock-in for a startup, and that’s exactly what’s happened with e case of Gjirafa. Focusing exclusively on Albanian-speaking countries, co-founder and CEO Mergim Cahani started out developing an Albanian...
by The Editor | Mar 25, 2019 | News
SAN FRANCISCO/LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Apple Inc is expected to finally lift the curtain on Monday on a secretive, years-long effort to build a television and movie offering designed to compete with big media companies and boost digital services revenue as iPhone...
by The Editor | Mar 25, 2019 | News
HONG KONG/BEIJING (Reuters) – Chinese tech giants are in the hunt for young, energetic staff to take the place, in some cases, of veteran managers. FILE PHOTO: A man walks past a poster showing the QR codes for job-seeking information during an internet expo at...
by The Editor | Mar 25, 2019 | News
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – Naspers will float its e-commerce ventures on the Euronext stock exchange in Amsterdam, it said on Monday, the latest move by South Africa’s biggest company to address a hefty discount in its shares. Founded more than 100 years ago in...
by Catherine Shu | Mar 25, 2019 | News
Infinity Augmented Reality, an Israeli virtual reality startup, has been acquired by Alibaba, the companies announced this weekend. The deal’s terms were not disclosed. Alibaba and InfinityAR have had a strategic partnership since 2016, when Alibaba Group led...
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