It’s been about a year since we got the new AMD Vega cards, which gave the GTX 1080 and GTX 1070 a run for their money. However, the rest of AMD’s product line is still running on Polaris, and may continue to do so until […]
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Denver, Austin & Miami are the top upcoming tech startup markets, says Sound Ventures
Ashton Kutcher’s VC firm, Sound Ventures, believes there’s opportunity for investment outside of Silicon Valley. Specifically, the firm pegs Denver, Austin and Miami as the most promising U.S. markets for tech startups and investing, outside of the large markets like Silicon Valley and New York, of […]
Bitcoin and the crypto market is crashing after Goldman reportedly aborted trading plans
The crypto market is down significantly today, practically across the board of all coins, following a report that claims Goldman Sachs has backed down on plans to start a dedicated cryptocurrency trading desk. Bitcoin is down over five percent in the last 24 hours, but […]
AnchorFree, maker of Hotspot Shield, raises $295 million in new funding
AnchorFree, a maker of a popular virtual private networking app, has raised $275 million in a new round of funding, the company announced Wednesday. The Redwood City, Calif.-based app maker’s flagship app Hotspot Shield ranks as one of the most popular VPN apps on the market. […]
Amazon.com Briefly Hits $1 Trillion in Market Value
Amazon had approximately 487.7 million shares as of its latest Form 10-Q, which puts the per-share price threshold to $1 trillion in market cap at … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit
Amazon joins Apple in the $1 trillion valuation club
Not one to be left out, online retail megalith Amazon is now worth $1 trillion total market value, crossing the threshold during early afternoon on September 4. Amazon has achieved the milestone just weeks following Apple’s $1 trillion valuation. We’d say that this valuation has […]
HTC leans on Facebook’s Oculus as it tries to sell a VR subscription product
HTC is cozying up to its main competitor in the VR space, Facebook-owned Oculus as it looks to find a business model that will wrestle it out of the VR market doldrums. Today, the Taiwanese hardware company announced that its Viveport VR subscription service has […]
Amazon strikes $1 trillion market cap, 4 weeks after Apple did the same
Amazon just joined the exclusive $1 trillion club (briefly). The e-commerce behemoth jumped above a trillion dollar market cap on Tuesday during intraday trading. It’s share price hit an all-time high of $2,050.27 earlier this morning bringing its value above the massive, yet meaningless, milestone. The […]
Meituan reportedly targets $55B valuation for Hong Kong IPO, leading to concerns that may be too high
Meituan-Dianping is reportedly aiming for a $55 billion valuation in its upcoming initial public offering in Hong Kong, but the company’s net losses and increasing competition from Alibaba are already raising questions about whether that is too ambitious, despite the company’s market leadership in China. […]
August’s Best Gear: From Tiny Laptops to Big Phones
Finally, your Google Home speaker gets a screen. With Lenovo’s stationary HD touchscreen, you can now ask your Google Assistant to display the weather, show family photos, pull up recipes, and more. The Smart Display is powerful, too, with a Qualcomm Snapdragon 624 processor, 2 […]
