Cloud communications firm Twilio Inc. today announced it has agreed to acquire SendGrid Inc., a cloud email services provider, for about $2 billion. Twilio offered 0.485 shares for each share of SendGrid stock, valuing it as $36.92 per share, a 19 percent premium over its closing price today. Founded in 2009, SendGrid last made headlines ...

Software container pioneer Docker Inc. has apparently raised $92 million in new funding, according to a U.S. Securities and Exchange filing. The round, first spotted by TechCrunch, is the partial fulfillment of a round in which Docker is seeking to raise $192 million, the first time it has raised funding since a round of $61.8 million in October ...

Google LLC has opened up the real-time translation feature to outside devices, seemingly giving up on trying to get people to buy its high-priced Pixel Bud earphones. The feature, built into Pixel Buds (pictured) and launched alongside the Pixel 2 range last year, offers real-time translation from one language to another. For example, people visiting ...

Cryptocurrency prices plunged into Thursday as a plunge in the stock markets Wednesday spread to digital assets. Bitcoin led the red ink, dropping by as much as 7 percent to trade at its lowest price since Aug. 10. As of 8:45 p.m. EDT, the cryptocurrency was trading at $6,188.19, slightly up from a low of $6,128.24 ...

China’s two largest mobile payment service providers said today that customer funds have been taken by hackers using stolen Apple Inc. account details and that the computing giant so far has failed to act on the matter. The first accusation came from Ant Financial Services Group’s Alipay, which according to Reuters took to social media to warn users ...

There’s money to be made in short-form mobile streaming video, at least according to former Walt Disney Co. Chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg and former Hewlett Packard Enterprise Inc. head Meg Whitman (pictured), who today unveiled the name of their new company that aims to do exactly that. Called Quibi, short for “quick bites,” the service aims at 25- ...

In a day of red ink as markets retreated from record highs, tech stocks took a massive hammering Wednesday, in some cases more so than the rest of the market. CNBC claimed this was the worst day for tech stocks since August 2011. The plunge was led, at least among the broad tech giants, by Amazon.com ...

Troubled phone maker Essential Technologies Inc., the company founded by Android creator Andy Rubin, is apparently taking another stab at producing something people want to buy in the form of an artificially intelligent smartphone. Having canceled plans for a second smartphone release in May, a report from Bloomberg claimed, Essential is now all-in on a “new ...

Apple Inc.’s long-rumored Netflix-like video subscription service is closer to fruition with a surprising twist, as a new report claimed the core service will be free for Apple device owners. CNBC, quoting people familiar with the matter, claimed the digital video service will marry original content and subscription services from legacy media companies with owners of ...

Bloomberg made fresh claims in its ongoing China spy chips story today, while others continued to cast doubt on the veracity of the claims. Bloomberg first published a report on Oct. 4 that claimed China had inserted tiny spying devices in various forms of technology such as data center servers, including those used by Amazon.com Inc. and ...