Google finally ready to dive into the Indian market with a formal strategy in place to face the competition. On the one hand, they will be entering Amazon’s domain with Alphabet, Google’s parent company, launching their smart speakers and other intelligent home automation products. Whereas, […]
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Watch SpaceX Launch Its Resupply Mission to the ISS
Another day, another SpaceX launch. On Monday at 4:30 pm ET, the commercial space company is slated to propel a previously-flown Dragon cargo ship into low Earth orbit aboard a used Falcon 9 rocket. The Dragon spacecraft, which is carrying food and supplies for the […]
New story in Business from Time: It’s Not Just China’s Retaliatory Tariffs That Should Worry U.S. Businesses
On Monday, China hit back at the Trump administration’s decision to raise duties on steel and aluminum imports, imposing tariffs of up to 25% on 128 American goods — including pork, wine and fruit — worth an estimated $3 billion. Beijing said the hike was […]
New story in Business from Time: It’s Not Just China’s Retaliatory Tariffs That Should Worry U.S. Businesses
On Monday, China hit back at the Trump administration’s decision to raise duties on steel and aluminum imports, imposing tariffs of up to 25% on 128 American goods — including pork, wine and fruit — worth an estimated $3 billion. Beijing said the hike was […]
LineageOS 15.1 allows Xiaomi Mi Max 2 to run Android 8.1 Oreo
The Xiaomi Mi Max 2 runs on Android 7.1 Nougat, which is a let down for users since Android Oreo is already in the market and the Android P roll-out seems to be around the corner. The company has said they’ll be rolling a new […]
Alibaba to buy all remaining outstanding shares of local delivery service Ele.me
As expected since February, Alibaba will buy all outstanding shares of Ele.me that it doesn’t already own. Best-known for food deliveries, Ele.me claims to be China’s biggest online delivery and local services platform. In an announcement, Alibaba said the deal values Ele.me at $9.5 billion. […]
Alibaba will buy Chinese food delivery app in implied $9.5 billion deal
Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba Group said on Sunday it would buy all shares that it does not already own in food delivery platform Ele.me. The deal implies an enterprise value of $9.5 billion for Ele.me, Alibaba said in a statement. Ele.me, which roughly translates as […]
Krablr’s ICO is cookin’ on gas
How many second acts can a startup have before its procession of unlikely pirouettes must raise more than a quizzical eyebrow? It depends where you’re asking the question of course. And as we sit here, contemplating the smooth-faced Krablr founder, Wilson Poney, gazing out at […]
Crispr’d Food, Coming Soon to a Supermarket Near You
For years now, the US Department of Agriculture has been flirting with the latest and greatest DNA manipulation technologies. Since 2016, it has given free passes to at least a dozen gene-edited crops, ruling that they fall outside its regulatory purview. But on Wednesday, March […]
Facebook plans crackdown on ad targeting by email without consent
Facebook is scrambling to add safeguards against abuse of user data as it reels from backlash over the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Now TechCrunch has learned Facebook will launch a certification tool that demands that marketers guarantee email addresses used for ad targeting were rightfully attained. This […]
