Luxury watch maker TAG Heuer’s first entry into the smartwatch space has an unveiling date with the company launching a teaser site Monday. Unimaginatively called the TAG Heuer Connected, the watch will be revealed to the world November 9, 2015. Along with a teaser photo (see above), the description of the watch on the site ...

Soft drink maker PepsiCo. is branching out in a new direction with news Monday that it’s about to enter the smartphone business (note: we are not making this up). According to Reuters, the company is working with a licensing partner to market the Pepsi smartphone, however it won’t be manufacturing the phone itself; the phone will ...

Cybersecurity platform provider Cybereaon, Inc. has raised $59 million Series C in a round led surprisingly by Japan’s Softbank Group Corp. — surprising, as the company had previously announced that it was getting out of the venture capital business. Charles River Ventures and California-based Spark Capital are also reported to have participated in the round. ...

It’s official: Dell, Inc. has announced a formal takeover offer for rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. The deal has been described by Bloomberg Business as the largest technology acquisition ever, with a deal that values EMC at a staggering $67 billion. The deal is split into Dell paying $24.05 a share in cash, plus ...

Dell, Inc. is set to announce a formal takeover offer for rival cloud computing company EMC Corp. later today (Monday). Re/Code makes the claim on the timing of the announcement, first rumored last week, and puts the takeover figure at above $50 billion, with talks on the deal said to have been conducted directly between ...

When does the file extension .bro come with sexist, evil, female-hating misogynistic overtones? Apparently it does when you live in the social justice-obsessed world of Silicon Valley with Google being forced to replace the extension in its new Brotli file compression software. Google launched the Brotli lossless compression algorithm under an open-source Apache license on ...

Bitcoin to Amazon P2P service provider Purse.io (PurseIO, Inc.) has denied that a compromise over the weekend resulted in the theft of Bitcoin despite multiple users claiming to have had Bitcoin stolen from their accounts. Details of the theft first emerged on Reddit where users reported having unauthorized withdrawals from their Purse.io wallets, although fortunately ...

Kowtowing once again to the Government of the People’s Republic of China, tech giant Apple is reported to be blocking its news app in the Middle Kingdom. The New York Times reports that while the app is only currently available to download in the United States, with trials underway in both the United Kingdom and ...

Amazon.com, Inc. has entered the hand-crafted goods market with the launch of a new service Thursday. Called Handmade at Amazon, the service launched with a lineup of over 80,000 items from about 5,000 sellers in 60 countries. Listings in the service are filed under categories including Furniture, Jewelry, Home Décor, Artwork, and a number of ...

Apple has surprisingly confirmed reports that the battery life on its new iPhone 6s and 6s Plus varies depending on the manufacturer of the A9 chip that runs the phone, but claims that the variance is only very slight. Dubbed “batterygate” by some sites, the allegations about the iPhone’s stemmed from a test of the ...