August 30th, 2019Uber, Lyft and DoorDash threatened to spend $90 million on a California ballot measure if they can't reach a deal over the rights of their drivers and other so-called gig workers.
November 19th, 2018The phone maker BlackBerry has raised its bets on artificial intelligence and cyber-security. The company has acquired a California-based machine-learning specialist known as Cylance. The deal has been finalised for $1.4 billion (roughly Rs. 10,063 crores).
Blackberry, the Canadian technology company which dominated the smartphone...
November 15th, 2018California based service management software company ServiceTitan that helps leading home services businesses generate more leads and close more sales has secured funds amounting to $165 million in Series D funding round.
This round was led by Index Ventures. Fresh investors such as New backers Dragoneer and T. Rowe Price also...
September 25th, 2018California-based peer-to-peer car-sharing platform Turo is reportedly expanding its services to the UK, and his time, everyday car owners can actually use it.
It was in 2016 that the company earlier expanded to the UK once but the services were only offered to small rental car companies under its commercial host program. However,...
September 6th, 2018Health technology company Theranos based in California that was once known as a high flying blood-testing start-up accused of cheating and betraying its investors is reportedly shutting down.
It is being stated that the company was not able to sell itself and is now looking to pay unsecured creditors its remaining cash of about $5...
July 3rd, 2018
The automotive and energy storage company, Tesla has confirmed that the head of Model 3 production, who went on leave after chief executive Elon Musk took over his duties, will not be coming back.
The departure of engineering senior vice president Doug Field came as California-based Tesla appeared to have finally hit a...
June 22nd, 2018China’s search engine major, Baidu Inc. on Thursday tested its two self-driving cars on an unused expressway in north China's Tianjin City.
As informed by the company, this was the very first time for Baidu's automated cars to be tested on the Tangshan-Langfang expressway which is scheduled to open later this year. The trial run...
June 6th, 2018A Chennai-based app developer Raja Vijayaraman has been awarded the reputable Apple’s Design Award yesterday for his iOS app 'Calzy' on the very first day of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) 2018, which is being hosted in San Jose, California. The WWDC offers prestigious awards to the best iOS app developers across the...
May 9th, 2018Recruit Holdings, a Japan-based HR services provider announced on Wednesday that it reach an agreement with California-based job site operator Glassdoor to acquire the company for $1.2 billion to get access to the database of company reviews and salary data.
Glassdoor is a private company founded in 2007 that allows its employees and...
October 23rd, 2017Electric car maker Tesla Inc reaffirmed on Sunday it is talking with the Shanghai municipal government to set up a factory in the region and expects to agree on a plan by the end of the year, but declined to comment on a report that a deal has been reached.
China levies a 25 percent duty on sales of imported vehicles and has not...
September 15th, 2017Three female former employees of Alphabet Inc’s Google filed a lawsuit on Thursday accusing the tech company of discriminating against women in pay and promotions.
The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in California state court in San Francisco, comes as Google faces an investigation by the U.S. Department of Labor into sex bias...
