Waymo, the autonomous car unit of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said John Krafcik is stepping down as chief executive after five and a half years at the helm. In a statement, Waymo said the chief executive duties will be divided between two current company executives — Tekedra Mawakana and Dmitri Dolgov. Ms. Mawakana was Waymo’s […]
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Tesla stock spiraled in Friday’s trading, shedding 3.4 percent by market close following a flurry of news about chief executive Elon Musk’s Twitter activity. Musk boasted early Friday to his nearly 50 million Twitter followers that his company could be “the biggest” in a few months. It came less than a day after the National […]
SAN FRANCISCO — The founder and former CEO of right-leaning social media site Parler is suing the company he created and its controlling owner, political megadonor Rebekah Mercer, alleging his ownership stake was taken from him. John Matze, who founded Parler in 2018 with funding from Mercer, filed the suit in Nevada district court on […]
The maker of a fever-scanning system used in a dozen NFL stadiums across the United States said Friday it is pulling one of its other devices off the market after the Food and Drug Administration warned that the company had not been approved to market the device to scan multiple people at once. The company, […]
Enlarge Getty Images A former phone company worker has been charged with conspiracy to commit fraud for allegedly using his access to customer account data to take over the phone numbers of 19 customers, including at least one cryptocurrency holder. Stephen Daniel DeFiore of Brandon, Florida, received about $ 2,325 between October 20, 2018, and […]
Coca-Cola Coca-Cola is to test a paper bottle as part of a longer-term bid to eliminate plastic from its packaging entirely. The prototype is made by a Danish company from an extra-strong paper shell that still contains a thin plastic liner. But the goal is to create a 100% recyclable, plastic-free bottle capable of preventing […]
Enlarge / The Xiaomi Mi 11. Xiaomi The latest shot in the US Government’s war on leading Chinese smartphone vendors is directed at Xiaomi, which today has landed on the US government’s list of “Communist Chinese Military Companies” via a new executive order. The declaration makes it illegal for US citizens to own Xiaomi stock. […]
Enlarge / A splash image for Nuvia from the company’s blog. Nuvia Chipmaker Qualcomm announced a major acquisition today: it will buy Santa Clara-based silicon company Nuvia for $ 1.4 billion. Qualcomm intends to use Nuvia’s technology in future chip designs for a wide range of devices, from phones to cars. Nuvia was founded in […]
Pentax has gone long enough between camera announcements that “Do they still make Pentax cameras?” is an actual Google search suggestion. But as Pentax prepares to announce the development of a new flagship crop-sensor DSLR next week, the company shared an evolving brand philosophy and published an interview with President Shinobu Takahashi discussing the future […]
Enlarge / This isn’t the relationship you want to see between a company with access to your private data and its affiliates. Camerique / Getty Images When we covered subscription-based search engine startup Neeva in June, most reader focus wasn’t on the search engine itself so much as its privacy policy, which left much to be […]
VB Transform The AI event for business leaders Hosted Online July 15 – 17 Learn More Take the latest VB Survey to share how your company is implementing AI today. After rumors surfaced that Sony was considering acquiring Hong Kong gaming company Leyou Technologies, the focus is now shifting to Tencent. In a note to […]
The image of Pinterest as a kinder, gentler social media juggernaut grew out of the site’s predominantly female user base and soft-spoken CEO — a reputation held aloft in recent years by the company’s commitments to racial and gender diversity. This made Pinterest an outlier among its generation of multibillion-dollar start-ups, where Uber’s unbridled aggression […]
OAKLAND, Calif. — By the end of his 15 years at Google, Sridhar Ramaswamy, then the executive in charge of the company’s $ 115 billion advertising arm, had grown disillusioned with the business he had helped build. The relentless pressure to maintain Google’s growth, he said, had come at a heavy cost to the company’s […]
The Nokia 9, with five cameras. Ron Amadeo Not enough lenses for you? How about the L16 camera, which has 16 lenses? Light Light’s Lux Capacitor. Light This is Light’s prototype smartphone with nine lenses. Light Remember Light? Light was a company with the wild idea of improving smartphone and other compact cameras by using […]