Here s what s going on in tech.
Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and others form Breakthrough Energy Coalition to invest in clean energy. (Joe Rodriguez s story in the Mercury News.) Other tech bigwigs involved include Jeff Bezos, Meg Whitman, Reid Hoffman, Marc Benioff, Vinod Khosla.
Educational toy maker VTech hacked. Personal information of 5 million customers, including kids, affected.
In 2015, Apple spent 3.5 percent of its revenue on R&D, compared with Google s 15 percent and Facebook s 21 percent.
BlackBerry shutting down its Pakistan operations after country wanted to monitor all business enterprise server and email messages.
Swatch and Visa team up on payments by smartwatch.
A couple of ICYMI items:
- Facebook expanded parental leave benefits (to four months paid time off) after CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced last week that he d be taking two months off after his baby is born. ()
- . The suit claimed the company misled users about the authenticity of its reviews, and that Yelp reviews favored advertisers.
Photo: Bill Gates, philanthropist and co-founder of Microsoft, attends a conference at the COP21, United Nations Climate Change Conference, in Le Bourget, outside Paris, Monday, Nov. 30, 2015. (Christophe Ena/Associated Press)
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