A first-grader, who in an online video was seen in tears when she heard President Obama would be leaving the White House, was granted her wish to meet him Tuesday. Photo: The White House. | Continue reading
Chinese President Xi Jinping and U.S. President Barack Obama, meeting at the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, called for the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. Photo: AP | Continue reading
At its Build 2016 developer conference in San Francisco today, Microsoft announced three improvements that help developers leverage Microsoft Office. Qi Lu, executive vice president at Microsoft, took the stage to show off what’s new with Microsoft Graph, Office for Mac 2016, Sky … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced a free public preview of Power BI Embedded, a version of the Power BI business intelligence (BI) service that can be tucked inside of other applications. “You can do this without requiring your users to buy or even be aware of what Power BI is,” said Sco … | Continue reading
BMW’s Vice President of Digital Life Services and Engineering Thom Brenner took the stage today at Microsoft Build to detail the first stage of its ambitious IoT project that aims to deliver “ultimate smart device connectivity that’s perfectly integrated into your digital lifesty … | Continue reading
Intel is introducing its new generation of Xeon E5-2600 v4 chips for enterprise cloud hardware today. And it’s going to make the cloud faster. Code-named Broadwell-EP, the new chips were introduced by Diane Bryant, senior vice president of the data center group at Intel, during a … | Continue reading
President Obama will meet with world leaders over a two-day summit aimed at stopping nuclear proliferation. WSJ's Jerry Seib discusses what to expect from the summit. | Continue reading
Virgin Hotels: Miami (ots/PRNewswire) - Alex Andjel übernimmt die Führung bei der europäischen Expansion Virgin Hotels (http://www.virginhotels.com/), die Lifestyle-Hotelkette von Richard Branson, begrüßt Alex Andjel als neuen Vice President of Development. Der in ... | Continue reading
Known for his outspoken and firm stance against bitcoin and cryptocurrencies, German Klimenko, Russian President Putin’s newly appointed counselor and advisor on the internet has now called the cryptocurrency an Internet meme that went viral. He further dismissed the acceptance … | Continue reading
Facebook will soon launch new universal apps for not only its core service, but also Instagram, and Messenger. In addition, the social networking company is extending its Facebook Audience Network and App Install SDK to developers on the Windows platform. On stage at the Build de … | Continue reading
During a talk at Microsoft’s Build conference, the company responded to criticism that it was moving to close down the open PC platform. Terry Myerson, executive vice president for Windows and Devices at Microsoft, said during the opening keynote that the platform has been open f … | Continue reading
Microsoft today announced that Windows 10 is now installed on over 270 million devices. It took the latest and greatest operating system from Microsoft about eight months to hit the new milestone. “Windows 10 is off to the fastest adoption of any release ever,” Terry Myerson, exe … | Continue reading
Task management software startup Asana is announcing today a $50 million round of funding. Several known entities in the technology industry are participating in the new round, which is led by Y Combinator president Sam Altman. Other investors in the round include Joe Lonsdale’s … | Continue reading
Tribeca Shortlist, the streaming movie service from Lionsgate and Tribeca Enterprises (the organization behind the Tribeca Film Festival), is releasing its Apple TV app today. Why does anyone need another movie subscription, even if it only costs $4.99 a month? Tribeca Shortlist … | Continue reading
Tim Cook, Jack Dorsey and Mark Zuckerberg have teamed up with over 80 CEOs, as well as the Human Rights Campaign (HRC) and Equality NC to add their signatures to a letter calling for the repeal of House Bill 2. Chad Griffin, president of the Human Rights Campaign identified some … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama discussed the problem of addiction in the U.S. and administration steps to help, at an appearance Tuesday at the National Prescription Drug Abuse and Heroin Summit in Atlanta. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Dating app Tinder has officially acquired contact management startup Humin today for an undisclosed amount. The technology behind Humin is the most attractive part of the deal, as well as some of its staff who will be offered new roles. Co-founders Ankur Jain and David Wyler will … | Continue reading
A recent article in International Business Times revealed just how committed IBM is to helping industries reinvent themselves using blockchain technology. Jerry Cuomo, IBM’s vice president of blockchain, favors a blockchain-enabled insurance plan for driverless cars. He also sees … | Continue reading
Sallie Krawcheck isn’t your typical startup founder. For one thing, she was the president of Global Wealth and Investment Management at Bank of America. And the CFO of Citigroup. And the CEO of Smith Barney and Sanford Bernstein before that. In fact, Krawcheck, who remains highly … | Continue reading
Sony has floated the possibility of PlayStation VR coming to PC. Masayasu Ito, Sony executive vice president, PlayStation project division manager and software design department head revealed in a Nikkei interview that the firm is looking to expand in a variety of areas.Ito noted … | Continue reading
Pandora's founder Tim Westergren is taking over the reins at the streaming service, the company announced today. Westergren replaces former CEO Brian McAndrews effective immediately, as the company installs a new management structure. Chief strategy officer Sara Clemens will take … | Continue reading
Pandora has appointed cofounder Tim Westergren as its new CEO, the company announced today, as part of a broader management makeover. Statin that it “remains 100% committed to growth strategy,” Pandora also announced that Mike Herring is the new President and Chief Financial Offi … | Continue reading
Microsoft today published an apology for its Twitter chatbot Tay, saying in a blog post that a subset of human users exploited a flaw in the program to transform it into a hate speech-spewing Hitler apologist. Author Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, … | Continue reading
Peter Lee, the corporate vice president of Microsoft Research, Microsoft’s research and development wing, today apologized for the behavior of Tay, the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot the company unveiled earlier this week and soon thereafter took offline. “We are deeply … | Continue reading
Are bitcoin transactions really frictionless compared to traditional currency? Alexander Kroeger, a research analyst at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Research and Startup Group, and Asani Sarkar, an assistant vice president at the bank’s Integrated Policy Analysis Group, … | Continue reading
Apple is making it’s own TV series — about apps. In a collaboration with Will.i.am and two veteran Hollywood producers, Apple is making a ‘nonscripted’ show about apps. It’s not clear just what the subject matter of the show may be outside of the very vague ‘apps.’ Speaking with … | Continue reading
People often misunderstand Y Combinator’s accelerator, with its broad range of startups that sometimes pivot before launch. That’s in part because YC’s president and spokeperson Sam Altman is too busy to tell its stories over and over, and he’s more of a techie type than a polish … | Continue reading
Video game giant Electronic Arts announced today that Laura Miele will be the company’s new executive vice president of global publishing. The job is a new position, but she takes over from former chief operating officer Peter Moore, who will start the new quarter as EA’s full-ti … | Continue reading
President Barack Obama spoke at a memorial honoring the victims of Argentina's military rule and said the U.S. will declassify related documents from the period, with a goal of confronting the past with transparency and honesty. Photo: AP | Continue reading
Tom Webster, Vice President at Edison Research, joins the Content Pros Podcast to share his unique perspective on political polling, our so-called shortening attention spans, friction, and his criteria for great content. | Continue reading
By opening up its application program interface to Bandsintown (the first of several planned integrations with different partners), Ticketmaster hopes to solve the industry’s nagging problem, which North American President, Jared Smith, said was ignorance about when an event is o … | Continue reading
The Department of Defense's office of inspector general has opened up an investigation into the United Launch Alliance over "assertions" made by a former executive of the private aerospace company last week, according to a memorandum released today. The comments, made by vice pre … | Continue reading
“You’ll notice we have many more startups that aren’t in the traditional software category,” said Y Combinator President Sam Altman at the start of its Winter 2016 Demo Day 1. While once upon a time YC was known for legions of social and marketplace apps no one needed, it’s branc … | Continue reading
Fallout 4's long-awaited extra hard Survival Mode will launch on Steam beta next week, developer Bethesda teased on Twitter."Once it's out of PC beta it'll go to Steam release and we can submit for consoles," tweeted Bethesda vice president of marketing and PR Pete Hines.We previ … | Continue reading
Huawei is currently running a very teasing ad campaign regarding the upcoming P9, which isn’t slated to be officially revealed until April 6. | Continue reading
Truebill, a startup that helps people track and cancel their subscriptions, is announcing that it has raised a small round of seed funding. The round includes $120,000 from Y Combinator (yes, the Y Combinator that’s having its Demo Day today), with additional funding from angel i … | Continue reading
Life is full of mysteries, but the naming convention for Apple's tiny iPhone is no longer one of them. Phil Schiller, Apple senior vice president of marketing, confirmed the name to journalist Jason Cipriani last night. The SE stands for "Special Edition" bringing an end to the g … | Continue reading
Mozilla is laying off a portion of its Connected Devices team, which worked on Firefox OS and Firefox phones before recently shifting over to more experimental products. When asked about layoffs by The Verge, Mozilla's senior vice president of Connected Devices, Ari Jaaksi, confi … | Continue reading
At today's announcement, Apple, as it sometimes does, gave prominent stage time to the future of the planet. After an interlude from CEO Tim Cook, Lisa Jackson, Apple vice president of environment, policy, and social issues, stepped on stage to make an announcement: 93 percent of … | Continue reading
If facts don’t matter, you can’t really be wrong. The Washington Post interviews Dilbert cartoonist Scott Adams on why he started predicting last year that Trump would be elected president — back when the rest of us were saying, no way. (I still say, no way.) Here are Adam’s reas … | Continue reading
ANALYSIS: At today’s product event, Apple stumbled backwards in time by trashing the computing devices used by hundreds of millions of would-be customers – 600 million in fact. “The majority of people who come to an iPad Pro are coming from a PC,” declared Philip Schiller, Apple’ … | Continue reading
Apple events often bring about their fair share of controversy – sometimes the lack of diversity, sometimes with unwanted free music – but today the company hit a new low: making fun of poor people. While presenting the new 9.7-inch iPad Pro today, Phil Schiller, Apple’s vice pre … | Continue reading
In an interview with ABC News, President Obama said Google had struck a deal to bring internet access to Cuba. The President said Google would build out broadband and Wi-Fi infrastructure on the island, which he said was “necessary for Cuba to enter the 21st century economically. … | Continue reading
Apple held a special event today, announcing the new iPhone SE, new iPad Pro, update to Apple TV, new Watch bands, ResearchKit and Carekit. Unlike its last event, where there was little diversity and a grand total of zero black people, this event prominently featured Apple Vice P … | Continue reading
Apple just announced a new, 9.7-inch version of the iPad Pro, which means the company also announced a new accessory: a smaller Smart Keyboard. Phil Schiller, Apple's senior vice president of marketing, announced the news during Apple's event this afternoon in Cupertino, CA.The V … | Continue reading
Stripe, a San Francisco, Calif.-based mobile payments startup that allows merchants to accept bitcoin, has announced that its Stripe Atlas service will be available to businesses in Cuba in conjunction with President Obama’s trip to Havana this week. Stripe users, including Atlas … | Continue reading
Huawei president spotted sporting a dual-camera phone while out and about. It's most likely the upcoming Huawei P9 flagship. | Continue reading
(Reuters) – China’s most valuable start-up Xiaomi is financially self-sufficient and has no plans to raise funds, its global vice-president said on Monday. Xiaomi, the world’s fifth-largest smartphone vendor, also has no plans for an initial public offering, Hugo Barra told Reute … | Continue reading