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When in April of last year, the photo hosting service SmugMug  acquired the photo-hosting service Flickr from Verizon’s digital media subsidiary,…

IBM has revealed that it has created a new battery design that uses materials extracted from seawater as opposed to cobalt as the mineral is in now…

Speechly, a startup out of Helsinki that boasts an experienced team of speech recognition and “natural language understanding” experts, has raised €2…

Uber Technologies will establish a $4.4 million fund to settle a federal investigation into allegations that the San Francisco company allowed a…

European on-demand delivery startup Glovo has raised €150 million ($167 million) in a series E round of funding led by UAE-based investment firm…

If you use an old magnetic stripe (magstripe) credit card, you may want to avoid doing so the next time you’re at a gas pump. A recent report from…

Bytedance’s short-video app TikTok, along with its Chinese version Douyin, is projected to be the fourth most-downloaded non-gaming app in 2019,…

Governments around the world are pressing Uber Technologies Inc to give employment benefits to its army of gig drivers. Uber, meanwhile, is pursuing…

It had an estimated 1.5 billion monthly users worldwide as of 2017. It’s been banned in China, where the government issued a copycat app, WeChat.…

SYDNEY: Google agreed to pay Australian tax authorities A$482 million to settle a long-running dispute over the tech giant’s multibillion-dollar…