Major world powers, including the US and Russia, have agreed to a nationwide “cessation of hostilities” in Syria and to permit the immediate delivery of humanitarian aid, US Secretary of State John Kerry.
Finding romance on the internet has really taken off since Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan gave it a whirl.
Well, that was unexpected.
As Slack’s founder and CEO, Stewart Butterfield has been the face of the enterprise chat app.
While Jack Dorsey prepares for his first quarterly earnings call at Twitter since his permanent reinstatement as CEO, shareholders are on edge.
It starts with the seemingly impossible: a claim to “disrupt” a tightly regulated industry with a new model of doing things, typically centered around software. But under closer inspection, their businesses start to fall apart.
That was it?
Yahoo’s fourth quarter results are out, and lumped into them is a whopping $4.5 billion write down.
It’s make or break time.
For the first time in Google’s history, we finally have an idea of how those side projects—self-driving cars, Nest thermostats, attempts at defeating death, etc.—actually perform. And unsurprisingly, they’re bleeding a lot of money.
The big idea behind coding bootcamps is that you don’t need a degree to learn how to code—or to get hired by a company like Google, for that matter.
Today (Feb. 1) is the day we finally get a clearer view of what Alphabet, Google’s new parent company, is really made of. After the US market closes, Alphabet will announce its fourth-quarter results, its first earnings report since the company underwent an elaborate restructuring last year.
When markets closed in the US on Jan. 29, just $13 billion separated Alphabet from Apple, the world’s most valuable company.
The tech industry often points to a pipeline problem when talking about its gender gap. There simply aren’t enough women studying computer science, some argue, and as a result, many companies suffer from a gender imbalance, especially in technical departments.
For months, we’ve known that Facebook was testing a set of emoji responses to supplement its ubiquitous “like” button. When Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg disclosed the development in September, he said that “what [users] really want is the ability to express empathy.”
The story of Facebook right now is its mobile dominance—all the more interesting because four years ago investors were wary of the company for its seeming lack of a mobile strategy.
Feel like Uber is taking over the world?
Maybe Steve Jobs was right after all.
Android has generated $31 billion in revenue since Google acquired the mobile operating system in 2005, a lawyer for Oracle said in federal court amid an ongoing suit between the two tech giants.
Apple has been considered the world’s most valuable company since 2013 when it surpassed Exxon Mobil in market capitalization, but that status is now threatened by Alphabet, Google’s new parent company.
In the tech industry, where companies pride themselves on solving problems quickly, it can be frustrating for projects to hit a standstill because of decisions that need to be made.
Track Palin, the elder son of former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, was arrested on Jan. 18 in a domestic violence case. The arrest happened hours before his mother, a Tea Party conservative who was John McCain’s running mate in the 2008 presidential elections, formally endorsed Donald Trump for president in Iowa.
When Apple released its diversity report last August, CEO Tim Cook noted that ”we know there is a lot more work to be done.”
In her landmark gender-discrimination case against Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Ellen Pao recalled being left out of company events because of her gender, criticized by colleagues for being too aggressive, and retaliated against after ending an affair with a married partner.
