Apple Pay and Android Pay may be best known as Apple and Google’s mobile wallets, designed…
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Sirin, maker of the Solarin $14K smartphone, cuts 30 staff and weighs pivot
So much for super-private, high-end phones for the super-rich? Sirin Labs, the startup that makes the…
Teams, Microsoft’s Slack rival, opens to all Office 365 users
After unveiling a limited preview of Teams in November last year, Microsoft is now rolling out its collaboration and communication…
Spotify and Waze partner to play music and navigate seamlessly
Driving in a car and listening to music go hand in hand, and now a new…
Yahoo’s Excalibur IP search, mobile and other patents valued at $740M
The slow progression of the sale of Yahoo to Verizon — first announced in July 2016…
Reports: Intel buying Mobileye for up to $16B to expand in self-driving tech
First they partnered, and now comes the acquisition: media in Israel are reporting that the computing giant Intel…
Airbnb closes $1B round at $31B valuation, profitable as of 2H 2016, no plans for IPO
After the vacation marketplace Airbnb last year filed SEC forms raising $555.5 million, today the company filed a…
CurrencyCloud, maker of APIs for remittance startups, raises £20M led by GV
Another fintech startup has raised a growth round to tap into the estimated $25 trillion dollar market for…