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Pinterest Inc. may not hit the stock market at the valuation its executives and investors had hoped for. The company, whose scrapbooking-focused social network has more than 250 million users worldwide, will debut on the New York Stock Exchange next week. Pinterest …
Report: Apple Music has vaulted past Spotify in US with 28M paid subscribers
Apple Inc.’s big bet on services seems to be paying off in the music streaming market. The Wall Street Journal today reported that Apple Music has overtaken rival Spotify Technology AB in U.S. subscriber count. According to the sources who spoke with the …
Amazon reportedly developing Alexa-powered wireless earbuds
Amazon.com Inc.’s Lab126 hardware division is reportedly working on voice-powered wireless earbuds that will come with Alexa built-in. The information comes by way of a Bloomberg piece from Thursday afternoon. Citing sources with knowledge of Amazon’s hardware roadmap, the publication said the …
Amazon goes to space: ‘Project Kuiper’ aims to put 3,200 satellites in orbit
Amazon.com Inc. has been stocking up on delivery vans, cargo plans and internally developed courier robots to support its increasingly ambitious growth plans. Now, the online retail giant is adding satellites to its shopping list. Regulatory filings uncovered today by GeekWire reveal that Amazon is …
Google releases its human-sounding Duplex AI to iOS, most Android devices
Consumers and restaurant operators in the U.S. are about to get their first big taste of Google LLC’s Duplex artificial intelligence. The search giant today said it has started broadly rolling out the service, which uses an almost frighteningly realistic synthetic voice to …
Pure Storage acquires file storage provider Compuverde
Six months after picking up StorReduce Inc. to gain a bigger presence in the backup market, Pure Storage Inc. has made another strategic acquisition to extend its capabilities. The company on Tuesday announced that it’s buying Compuverde AB, a Sweden-based provider of …
Intel refreshes data center portfolio with new server CPUs, Agilex chips
Intel Corp. today launched a new version of its market-leading Xeon Scalable processor series for servers, along with a pair of more specialized products designed to power other parts of enterprises’ technology infrastructure. The new Xeons account for the bulk of the additions, with …
Segment raises $175M for its customer data platform
Companies collect data about customers via their websites, apps and a variety of other channels, but they often can’t combine the information into a meaningful whole due to integration challenges. Segment Inc., a startup working to ease the task, today announced that …
Walmart and Google team up for Google Assistant-powered grocery shopping
One of the most novel concepts that Amazon.com Inc. introduced with its Alexa voice assistant is the ability for consumers to purchase goods from its marketplace by simply saying the names of products. Today, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. announced that it’s teaming up …
Intel quietly lays off ‘hundreds’ of IT staffers in new cuts
Intel Corp. has quietly carried out a round of layoffs being described as one of its biggest in three years. According to a report that appeared in The Oregonian today, the chipmaker has let go of “hundreds” of people from its internal information technology …