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Addison Lee and Oxbotica ink self-driving deal, will offer autonomous car services in London by 2021
After undertaking a year-long investigation with Ford and four other mobility specialists on how to build self-driving systems that integrate with London’s existing transport infrastructure, Add
TrackR is rebranding to Adero as it looks beyond small devices to track lost items
When TrackR raised $50 million from investors that included Amazon a year ago, the Santa Barbara startup made a big splash in the growing market for small connected dongles that you could attach to
Amazon says it will add 1,000 more employees in the UK, bringing the total to 28,500, bucking the Brexit chill
A lot of uncertainty hangs over the U.K. as it continues its slow march out of the European Union, but today one of the world’s biggest companies announced plans to expand its presence in the co
Stripe hires Niels Provos away from Google to be its new head of security
On the heels of raising new funding on a $20 billion valuation, payments and financial services startup Stripe is making a key hire to reinforce its message to the world that it’s taking securit
Twitter opens archive of 4,500 accounts related to Russia and Iran’s political propaganda
After getting hauled into Washington to be grilled over how its social media platform was exploited to influence public opinion around elections and politics in the US and elsewhere, Twitter vowed tha
WhiteSource nabs $35M to track open source code for security vulnerabilities
Open source software — a $14 billion market — has become a cornerstone for building apps and other IT services, with some 97 percent of developers today using open source components of o
Temasek acquires Sygnia, an Israeli cybersecurity startup, for $250M
Temasek, the Singaporean government-controlled company that is one of the world’s biggest investors, is today announcing an acquisition to beef up its cybersecurity business. It is acquiring Syg
No, Apple didn’t acquire music analytics startup Asaii, it hired the founders to work on Apple Music
On the heels of news of not one but two acquisitions from Apple last week, a report surfaced yesterday that Apple had picked up yet another company, the music analytics startup Asaii, for under $100 m
Zimmer Biomet and Apple launch clinical study using Apple Watch and iPhone for 10K knee and hip replacement patients
Apple has made health — and helping people keep tabs on theirs — a cornerstone of how it is presenting the benefits of its newest Apple Watch, and today comes news of another way that this
Truphone, an eSIM mobile carrier that works with Apple, raises another $71M, now valued at $507M
Truphone — a UK startup that provides global mobile voice and data services by way of an eSIM model for phones, tablets and IoT devices — said that it has raised another £18 million ($23.
G2 Crowd, a business software marketplace, raises another $55M at just under a $500M valuation
G2 Crowd, a platform that lets businesses search for, compare reviews and pricing for, and then buy software and other IT services — it likes to refer to itself as the “Amazon of business
New Relic acquires Belgium’s CoScale to expand its monitoring of Kubernetes containers and microservices
New Relic, a provider of analytics and monitoring around a company’s internal and external facing apps and services to help optimise their performance, is making an acquisition today as it conti
GoFundMe partners with Michelle Obama on the Global Girls Alliance Fund, to back charities helping adolescent girls
GoFundMe, the social fundraising platform that has raised over $5 billion from over 50 million donors for causes, today is taking a big step into fundraising for charities and other non-profit organiz
Apple confirms it has acquired Spektral, a Danish computer vision startup, for augmented reality technology
On the heels of Apple this morning inking a $600 million deal to acquire IP, talent and licenses from Dialog Semiconductor in Europe, it has also confirmed another acquisition of a smaller startup in
Apple inks $600M deal to license IP, acquire assets and talent from Dialog to expand chipmaking in Europe
Apple has quietly been putting considerable effort into building faster and more efficient chips that can help differentiate its hardware from the rest of the consumer electronics pack, and today it&#
Kahoot, the educational gaming startup, has raised another $15M, now at a $300M valuation
School’s back in session and a startup that’s building games to help students learn has moved to the top of the class. Kahoot — the educational gaming startup out of Norway that has
LinkedIn rebuilds its Recruiter platform, launches tracking system and gender ‘insights’ in diversity push
We’ve been chronicling how LinkedIn, now owned by Microsoft, has built out tools and services it provides on its platform to capitalise on the fact that it now has nearly 600 million registered
Facebook Workplace adds algorithmic feed, Safety Check and enhanced chat
Workplace, the version of Facebook tailored to enterprises that has over 30,000 organizations as paying customers, is ramping up the service today with a rush of new features to help it competes with
Google’s Home Hub has a screen but no camera ‘so that it is comfortable in private spaces’
Is Google finally taking consumers’ privacy concerns to heart? Today, the search and Android giant took the wraps off its $149 Home Hub, a new screen-based smart home device that lets you intera
Pitch, from the founders of Wunderlist, raises $19M to take on PowerPoint in presentations
Microsoft’s PowerPoint today has over 1 billion installs, 500 million users, and some 95 percent market share, making it the most ubiquitous presentation software in the world. But that doesn&