By Julia Fioretti BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Facebook Inc on Monday requested the chance to voice its opinion in a legal challenge mounted by an Austrian law student against the Irish privacy regulator for refusing to investigate the U.S. company’s transfers of data to the United States. Major U.S. tech companies such as Microsoft Corp and Apple Inc as well as Facebook came under fire after revelations in 2013 of the
By Julia Love SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Apple Inc’s aggressive recruitment of auto experts as it explores building a car has left a promising, if financially troubled, electric motorcycle startup in the dust. Mission Motors, whose sleek electric bikes drew comparisons to Tesla’s cars, ceased operations in May after losing some of its top engineering talent to Apple, according to sources close to Mission. Although it has never openly acknowledged
By Deborah Todd SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Google Inc announced on Monday that it will offer its Apps for Work suite free to businesses currently locked into agreements with other office software vendors. Normally, businesses pay $5 per user per month for a basic version of Apps for Work or $10 per user per month for one with more advanced features, such as increased storage and an email archive. Google
Facebook has the Oculus Rift, Microsoft has the HoloLens, and Google still has Google Glass (just about) – most of the big names in technology are working on an augmented or virtual reality headset of some kind, and it looks like Amazon wants in on the action too. A filing just published by the US Patent and Trademark Office shows Jeff Bezos and his team are at least thinking about
Dolby doesn’t make TVs, but if it did they’d probably be the best in the world. Well, at dealing with its Dolby Vision HDR tech anyways. Until then, though, Dolby is working quietly away signing up the TV silicon manufacturers to use its impressive, though proprietary, high dynamic range technology. The latest is Chinese chipset maker, MStar. Dolby has though already signed up Realtek and MediaTek – y’know, the most
The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s patent licensing body will not be able to extract triple damages from Apple as a jury weighs how much the iPhone maker must pay for using its microchip technology without permission, a U.S. judge ruled on Thursday. On Tuesday, a federal jury in Madison, Wisconsin said Apple Inc infringed a Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) patent which helps improve the performance of computer processors. With a
Last year, many tech IPOs enjoyed soaring valuations in their Wall Street debut, raining cash on the companies and their investors and boosting concerns about another Silicon Valley bubble. Now, the party is winding down, according to data analyzed by Reuters: Five of the 12 U.S.-based tech companies that went public this year, or 42 percent, priced their shares at a valuation below or nearly the same as their private
(Reuters) – Twitter Inc said it would pay new Executive Chairman Omid Kordestani an annual base salary of $50,000 and a one-time grant of options to buy 800,000 shares of the microblogging website operator. Kordestani’s appointment was a move by Twitter to allay concerns about Dorsey’s dual role as head of mobile payments company Square Inc. On Wednesday, Square filed for its long-expected initial public offering. Kordestani, 51, joined Google
Flicking between a range of devices and inputs on your TV is the modern equivalent of getting off the couch to turn the dial on the old box. Nobody wants to do it, and we’ll often wind up watching something awful just to avoid the hassle. Telstra’s hoping it can to do away with this annoyance with the launch of its Telstra TV streaming device on October 27. The Telstra
By Alexandria Sage PALO ALTO, Calif. (Reuters) – Newer Tesla Motors Model S sedans will be able to steer and park themselves under certain conditions starting Thursday, the carmaker said, although Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk cautioned that drivers should keep holding the steering wheel. New “autopilot” features, designed for cars built after September 2014, will be available for customers in the United States, Tesla said. Tesla will provide the
