Big Data
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Add Oscar to awards for Snowden reports
At the Academy Awards last night, Hollywood’s finest gave an Oscar to Laura Poitras for “Citizenfour,” her documentary about Edward Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor.
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White House taps Silicon Valley’s DJ Patil as data chief
The White House has hired DJ Patil, formerly of LinkedIn, RelateIQ, Skype, PayPal, eBay, Greylock and other Silicon Valley tech firms, as its first chief data scientist and deputy chief […]
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Ford grows Silicon Valley research office
Ford announced Thursday that it is opening a new research center in Palo Alto.
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Amazon debuts Siri-like assistant for the home
Amazon is turning the virtual personal assistant into a physical product. The e-commerce giant on Thursday unveiled Echo, a cylindrical gadget that has a Siri clone built into it. Like […]
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Twitter, Google veteran Nicole Wong leaving White House post
Nicole Wong, a former executive at Google and Twitter, is leaving her post as a deputy chief technology officer at the White House.
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Wal-Mart gets serious about taking on Amazon on the Internet
Maybe the biggest question around the news that Wal-Mart Stores is dramatically upgrading its e-commerce site is, why did they wait so long to make such a serious run at […]
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Tech-driven ZipRealty acquired by Realogy
ZipRealty, the Emeryville-based tech-driven real estate company, has agreed to be acquired by Realogy for $166 million in cash. The acquisition includes ZipRealty’s software platform and data analytics and customer […]
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Samsung makes play for wearables and digital health
The Korean electronics giant announced that it is trying to spur the development of wearable devices by creating a prototype device that could be customized with a wide variety of sensors and a cloud-based service intended to bring together and help make sense of the data collected by those sensors.
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Netflix takes stand against Comcast-Time Warner deal
Netflix opposes the Comcast-Time Warner Cable merger, Reed Hastings and David Wells, Netflix’s chief executive and chief financial officers, said in a letter to shareholders on Monday, explaining that they feared that the combination would give Comcast even more power than it already has.
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Elevator Pitch: Mike Volpi of Index Ventures talks Cisco, Apple and the coming Google-Samsung wars
During much of the previous decade, Mike Volpi was rumored to be CEO-in-waiting at Cisco Systems. But when it became clear John Chambers wasn’t going anywhere, Volpi left the networking […]
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