HTC says it remains committed to Vive and its own smartphones after $1.1B deal with Google

Mario Queiroz and Rick Osterloh of Google, HTC CEO Cher Wang and CFO Peter Shen at today’s press conference in HTC’s New Taipei City headquarters. The $1.1 billion cooperation deal announced today between HTC and Google ended months of speculation, but prompted new questions. Chief […]

DogBuddy, the European dog sitting marketplace, scores €5M Series A

DogBuddy, a pan-European online marketplace for dog sitting, has closed €5 million in Series A funding, money it plans for further expansion. Backing the London-headquartered startup in this round is existing investor Sweet Capital, the investment fund started by the founders of King.com, and a […]

Twitter Will Meet With Senate Intelligence Committee on Russia

Twitter has confirmed it will meet with the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. The company tells WIRED that it will speak with Senators next Wednesday about the prevalence of bot accounts, as well as the widespread dissemination of fake news […]