The most valuable US public company in the world surpassed its all-time top closing share price, closing at $133.29 today (Feb. 13). It just edged out its previous high, $133, from February 2, 2015.
One of the most annoying things about smartphones is that they never last as long as we need them to, which is why so many of us have been forced to ask a bartender if we could “just charge this back there for a few minutes?” With the iPhone at least, that may finally be changing.
The past few years have seen the emergence of giant fighting robot leagues, drone-racing leagues, and electric-car racing leagues. Now a group of inspired Australians have managed to merge all three burgeoning trends into a new supersport: giant, electric, racing drones.
Ford has been building cars for over a century, and even invented the way that every company builds cars. It’s also been working on self-driving cars for the better part of a decade, and aims to have its first fleet of autonomous vehicles on the road by 2021. But making software is still a relatively new beast for automakers, and to help hit that four-year goal, Ford today said it would invest $1 billion over five years in a new startup called Argo AI.
In a world where engineers are trying to disrupt delivery with drones and coolers on wheels, one company believes there’s another way: robots shaped like the world’s largest flightless birds.
In the next few weeks, Snapchat parent company Snap will start trading on the New York Stock Exchange and there are… concerns. Snap’s operations are expensive, it’s losing heaps of money, and competitors like Instagram are launching rival services as quickly as Snapchat can come up with them. In its IPO filing, Snap noted that it “may never achieve or maintain profitability.”
At some point this year, Apple will move roughly 14,000 employees into its brand new spaceship-shaped headquarters in Cupertino, California. The campus, which reportedly took 13,000 contractors and $5 billion to build, was one of the last major projects that Apple founder Steve Jobs worked on, and its construction has apparently has been held to the same high standards as any other Apple product. According to a report from Reuters yesterday, Apple Campus 2, as the company is calling it, has had a level of corporate oversight that very few architectural projects receive, with the company requiring sign-off on just about every aspect of the design and construction.
Go rummage around your junk drawers, garages, or wherever else you put the old technology that you haven’t thrown out because you don’t know how to dispose of it. Then come back here.
If you own a Vizio television that can connect to the internet, chances are it’s been recording every movie, show, and documentary that you’ve ever watched on it, and selling that information to advertisers.
During last night’s Super Bowl, a bedazzled Lady Gaga sang atop the NRG stadium in Houston, Texas, as a backdrop of what seemed like stars suddenly formed the American flag. Unlike the opening to the Beijing Olympics, however, this wasn’t movie magic—a swarm of drones was flying behind Gaga, controlled by one computer, to form shapes in time with the music. At the end of her performance, the drones reappeared, this time to form the name of the company that sponsored the halftime show: Pepsi.
In case you didn’t have enough dongles in your life, it looks like Apple is adding another type of cable to its devices in the future.
If you’re getting ready to watch “the big game” this weekend, well, this is not the guide for you. This one is about owls.
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, revealed its plans to become a public company today. And although Evan Spiegel and Bobby Murphy founded Snapchat together, it seems that Speigel had been making double what Murphy was. From the filing:
When Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, revealed its paperwork to become a public company, it provided a detailed breakdown of how Snapchat actually works—something that users have wanted for years, as critics have decried how difficult they have found the app’s minimalist interface.
Snap, the parent company of ephemeral-messaging app Snapchat, publicly filed to become a public company today. As most companies do when they file with US Securities and Exchange Commission, Snap outlined a series of risks to its future that potential investors should consider before buying shares in the company. But some of Snap’s concerns are rather existential, including the relative stability of the European Union in the future.
Snap, the parent company of Snapchat, revealed its filings with the US Securities and Exchange Commission today to become a public company.
Once written off as a sexting app for teens, the parent company of ephemeral messaging service Snapchat, Snap, just revealed its filings with the US Securities and Exchange commission to become a public company.
In 2011, a group of Stanford students thought it would be a great idea to make a messaging app whose messages disappeared. At some point this week, the company they founded, which was originally brushed off as an ephemeral sexting app for teens, will reveal its filings to become a public company.
Snapchat parent company Snap filed to become a public company today, and arguably the largest threat to its future, Facebook, had its quarterly earnings call yesterday. One topic that kept popping up throughout the call was Instagram, the Facebook-owned photo- and video-sharing service which could well undermine Snap’s chances of becoming a profitable publicly traded company. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg tried to buy Snapchat for $3 billion back in 2013, and was rebuffed. Since then, Facebook has tried to copy multiple features from Snapchat’s app for standalone Facebook apps, and recently inserted what’s more or less a clone of Snapchat into Instagram, on top of its original features.
Soon, there won’t be any internet users left to join Mark Zuckerberg’s club.
At some point this week, Snap, the parent company of the ephemeral messaging app Snapchat, is expected to publicly file paperwork to become a public company, having reportedly already filed in private with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
Boston Dynamics now has a long history of viral videos showing off its latest terrifying robots. Apparently its latest creation takes things even a step further. Onstage at the Abundance360 conference in Los Angeles yesterday, the company’s founder, Marc Raibert, showed the audience a video, prefacing it by saying: “This is the debut presentation of what I think will be a nightmare-inducing robot, if you’re anything like me.”
For the first seven-or-so years of its existence, the iPhone was a reasonably sized smartphone that fit relatively easily into most people’s hands. Then it started to get taller, and then wider, and finally Apple decided that there should be a second, larger, model called the Plus. Even before it was released, it was mocked as a “phablet”—a device somewhere between a phone and a tablet in size, wasn’t exactly either device.
The dongles must not have been much of an issue.
