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Bitcoin price suddenly plunges as Chinese yuan strengthens in value

By Duncan Riley Jan 5, 2017

What China giveth, China taketh away. Thanks to a rise in the value of the Chinese yuan, the price of bitcoin plunged Thursday from recent near-record highs. Bitcoin breached the $1,000 mark on Jan.…

Infra

FBI allegedly hacked as agents’ details get published online

By Duncan Riley Jan 5, 2017

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation has allegedly been hacked by a group or person with links to the Anonymous cyber collective. CyberZeist claims to have gained access to the Plone content management system…

Apps

Google acquires Limes Audio for improved sound quality in G Suite

By Duncan Riley Jan 5, 2017

Google Inc. has acquired Swedish sound company Limes Audio AB to improve the quality of sound in its G Suite of products. Founded in 2007, Limes Audio offers professional audio signal processing for speech enhancement…

Infra

Samsung sees Q4 profits rise 50% as it shakes off Galaxy Note 7 fiasco

By Mike Wheatley Jan 5, 2017

Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. revealed on Friday that its fourth-quarter profits for 2016 jumped by 50 percent to the highest level in over three years, in what looks likely to be a rapid recovery…

Emerging Tech

Nvidia teams with Audi in promise to deliver fully self-driving car by 2020

By Duncan Riley Jan 5, 2017

When most people think about Nvidia Corp., they likely think of graphics cards, or maybe its newer foray into artificial intelligence. That could soon change as the chip maker this week jumped much deeper than…

Apps

Snapchat ex-employee accuses company of faking growth numbers

By Eric David Jan 5, 2017

Disposable-messaging app Snapchat has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last few years, but a former employee claims Snap Inc. has been lying about its growth figures in order to attract investors.…

Apps

Apple App Store broke $240M in sales on New Year’s Day

By Eric David Jan 5, 2017

Apple Inc. started 2017 off with a bang with an impressive $240 million in App Store sales on New Year’s Day alone, the highest-earning single day the App Store has ever seen. According to Apple,…

Apps

HTC announces VR app subscriptions for consumers, app store for enterprise

By Kyt Dotson Jan 5, 2017

HTC Corp., maker of the Vive virtual reality headset, will add a subscription service to its Viveport VR app store to make it easier to find VR content. The company announced the upcoming change…

Big Data

Cognitive weather: the surprising profits of IBM Watson markets | #WomenInTech

By Marlene Den Bleyker Jan 5, 2017

It takes a powerful cloud to process all the data owned by The Weather Company, and IBM Corp. aims to show it’s up to the challenge. Having acquired the weather forecasting platform, IBM has applied its…

Apps

Namely closes $50M round to streamline HR for midsized companies

By Maria Deutscher Jan 5, 2017

The investor enthusiasm around human relations startups that showed itself last year appears to have carried over to 2017. Namely Inc., a four-year-old provider of workforce management services, today revealed that it has closed…

explore news

Bitcoin price suddenly plunges as Chinese yuan strengthens in value

FBI allegedly hacked as agents’ details get published online

Google acquires Limes Audio for improved sound quality in G Suite

Samsung sees Q4 profits rise 50% as it shakes off Galaxy Note 7 fiasco

Nvidia teams with Audi in promise to deliver fully self-driving car by 2020

Snapchat ex-employee accuses company of faking growth numbers

Apple App Store broke $240M in sales on New Year’s Day

HTC announces VR app subscriptions for consumers, app store for enterprise

Cognitive weather: the surprising profits of IBM Watson markets | #WomenInTech

Namely closes $50M round to streamline HR for midsized companies

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