Samuel Axon 2021-06-23 16:04:37 arstechnica.com Enlarge / The iPhone 12 mini.Samuel Axon Facing calls from regulators to open the gates to alternative app stores and sideloaded apps on the iPhone, Apple has launched a substantial public-relations push this week…
2021-06-16 18:13:00 www.techspot.com In brief: Starfield got a new teaser trailer during Bethesda's E3 press event. It was a cinematic affair without any actual gameplay footage, but the video was created using the game's alpha build. However, the real…
Juli Clover 2021-06-10 16:06:23 www.macrumors.com Former BMW senior executive and self-driving vehicle startup founder Ulrich Kranz has taken on a role at Apple working on the company's autonomous car project, reports Bloomberg. Kranz founded Canoo, a self-driving car startup…
John Cook 2021-05-07 12:59:15 www.geekwire.com Former Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn speaks at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, in 2015. (Dartmouth/Eli Burakian Photo, used with permission.) When Jeff Blackburn announced his retirement from Amazon in February after 22 years, the…
Ben Bergman 2021-05-04 10:00:56 www.geekwire.com Jeff Wilke, the former CEO of Amazon’s Worldwide Consumer Business, shows off the company’s delivery drone at an Amazon conference in Las Vegas in June 2019. (Amazon Photo / Jordan Stead) When Jeff Wilke,…
Jon Porter 2021-05-04 07:05:17 www.theverge.com Phil Schiller, the Apple executive in charge of the App Store, raised the possibility of the company cutting its 30 percent commission rate to 25 or even 20 percent back in 2011 in response…
Cointelegraph By Osato Avan-Nomayo 2021-04-28 14:45:00 cointelegraph.com John Whelan, the head of Banco Santander’s blockchain lab in Madrid, recently touted the potential for increased decentralized ledger technology adoption in mainstream finance.Speaking during a webinar organized by Fintech Surge and…
Cointelegraph By Helen Partz 2021-04-16 12:07:39 cointelegraph.com The European Central Bank will put itself in jeopardy if it waits around a digital euro too long, according to an executive at major cryptocurrency firm ConsenSys.ConsenSys South Africa lead Monica Singer…
Taylor Soper 2021-04-07 10:00:51 www.geekwire.com Vijaye Raji (left) and the Statsig team. (Statsig Photo) New startup: Vijaye Raji, a tech vet who previously led Facebook’s 5,000-person engineering outpost in Seattle, is CEO and founder of Statsig, a Seattle-area company…
2021-04-02 01:03:01 www.gsmarena.com Following Xiaomi’s announcement of several Mi devices earlier this week including the Mi 11 Pro, Mi 11 Ultra, Mi 11 Lite 5G, Mi Smart Band 6, and Mi Mix Fold. Despite this announcement late in March,…
Cointelegraph By Greg Thomson 2021-03-26 08:01:53 cointelegraph.com Soros Fund Management chief information officer Dawn Fitzpatrick said Bitcoin (BTC) may once have been considered a fringe asset, but the inflation of the United States dollar has changed that.Speaking to Bloomberg,…
Taylor Soper 2021-03-25 07:00:19 www.geekwire.com Bob Azelby. (Eliem Photo) New funding: Eliem Therapeutics, a new Seattle biotech startup led by former Juno Therapeutics exec Bob Azelby, raised $80 million to develop clinically-validated therapies for pain and depression. The pipeline:…
Manish Singh 2021-02-25 11:41:34 feedproxy.google.com The executive who built the financial services boutique for Paytm, India’s most valuable startup, is ready to do something similar all over again. Pravin Jadhav, the former chief executive of Paytm Money, revealed on…
Taylor Soper 2021-02-25 18:44:38 www.geekwire.com Amazon executive Jeff Blackburn speaks at his alma mater, Dartmouth College, in 2015. (Dartmouth/Eli Burakian Photo, used with permission.) Longtime Amazon exec Jeff Blackburn has joined venture capital firm Bessemer Venture Partners after stepping…
Thomas Wilde 2021-02-25 17:50:41 www.geekwire.com Marc Whitten. (GeekWire Photo / Nat Levy) Amazon exec Marc Whitten has left the company to take a position at Unity Technologies in Bellevue, Wash. Whitten joined Amazon in 2016 and oversaw projects such…
Cara Kuhlman 2021-02-18 17:54:45 www.geekwire.com Francis Lee. (Wyze Labs Photo) — Smart home startup Wyze Labs named Francis Lee as its first chief financial officer. A longtime Nike exec, Lee was most recently head of Global Marketing Finance for…
Taylor Soper 2021-02-18 14:44:23 www.geekwire.com (Amazon and Facebook Photos) A passion for product. Constant curiosity. And a great sense of humor. These are some of the leadership qualities exhibited by two of the “greatest founders in history”: Jeff Bezos…
Rae Hodge 2021-02-10 13:34:00 www.cnet.com James Martin/CNET Whether he ever runs for office again, it looks like former President Donald Trump will remain perma-banned from Twitter. In a Wednesday appearance on CNBC's Squawk Box, Twitter Chief Financial Officer Ned…
Luke Dormehl 2021-02-03 17:45:23 www.makeuseof.com Apple has hired Manfred Harrer, formerly the head of chassis development at Porsche. Apple, more than any other big tech company, is associated with great design. Dating all the way back to the original…
2021-01-29 06:14:26 www.zdnet.com Sophisticated attacks could put more tech suppliers at risk. Image: Getty Images/iStockphoto If you were hoping the SolarWinds hack was going to be a one-off, you're out of luck. Expect more sophisticated and complicated attacks of…
Kurt Schlosser 2021-01-16 10:55:29 www.geekwire.com President Donald Trump in Texas on Tuesday, boarding Air Force One en route to Maryland. (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead, via Flickr.) Twitter didn’t set out to ban Donald Trump. The president…
Ron Miller 2020-12-29 10:09:57 feedproxy.google.com Earlier this month, when Nutanix announced it was hiring former VMware COO Rajiv Ramaswami as CEO, it looked like a good match. What’s more, it pulled a key player from a market rival. Well,…
Maria Merano 2020-12-13 20:15:50 www.teslarati.com Tesla Gigafactory Shanghai’s focus on manufacturing quality products and innovation was recently emphasized by Vice President of External Affairs Grace Tao. One of Tao’s recent Weibo posts hinted that Giga Shanghai valued product manufacturing…
Ron Miller 2020-12-09 11:46:47 feedproxy.google.com Nutanix announced today that it was bringing in former VMware executive Rajiv Ramaswami as president and CEO. Ramaswami replaces co-founderr Dheeraj Pandey, who previously announced his plans to retire in August. The new CEO…
Simon Alvarez 2020-12-03 07:28:06 www.teslarati.com Tesla Chief of Design Franz von Holzhausen’s recent talk with select members of the Chinese media showcased several key insights from the esteemed executive. During his conversation, von Holzhausen touched on topics such as…
Taylor Soper 2020-12-02 10:30:16 www.geekwire.com ZeroWall founder Joan Pepin. (ZeroWall Photo) Longtime cybersecurity leader Joan Pepin just raised $2 million for a new Portland, Ore.-based startup that aims to rethink how chief information security officers secure their companies. Pepin…
Matthew Beedham 2020-12-02 10:39:31 thenextweb.com Strap yourselves in folks, because we’ve got a wild one for you. It’s perhaps the wildest story since General Motors decided it would be a good idea to acquire hydrogen truck startup Nikola —…
Michael Crider 2020-11-25 06:06:57 www.reviewgeek.com Subscribers to the Xbox Game Pass Ultimate can play the collection on an Xbox One, Xbox Series S or X, or stream them to Android phones. That capability is soon coming to iOS, and…
Jonathan Shieber 2020-11-19 20:17:45 feedproxy.google.com Greg Leung had worked at Apple for years and was coming off of a stint at the smart lock company Otto, when he got the call to interview with Connect Homes. The pitch —…
Todd Bishop 2020-11-10 20:20:29 www.geekwire.com Silverback Therapeutics CEO Laura Shawver. (Silverback Photo) Silverback Therapeutics filed for an initial public offering on Tuesday, seeking additional capital as it develops targeted therapeutics for cancer, viral infections and other diseases, led by…
Kyle Orland 2020-10-29 11:55:15 arstechnica.com Enlarge / Seriously, about all we really know about The Elder Scrolls VI at this point is that it will have mountains. It has been over a month now since Microsoft announced it was…
2020-10-08 15:19:00 www.techspot.com A hot potato: A former Apple executive says the Cupertino tech giant uses its "arbitrary" App Store policies "as a weapon" to restrict competition. He points to Apple Arcade as just one example of how the…
Dean Takahashi 2020-09-17 09:00:52 venturebeat.com SiFive has hired former Qualcomm executive Patrick Little as its new CEO. His job will be to help establish the company’s RISC-V processors as an alternative to Arm in the wake of Nvidia’s $40…
