Amazon offers employees $10K and 3 months’ pay to start their...
Following news of Amazon’s plans to reduce Prime shipping down to one day, the company this morning announced an expansion of its Delivery Service Partner program, which now includes a new incentive that encourages existing Amazon employees to start their own package delivery company. The partner program, first announced last year, includes access to Amazon’s...
GoPro will move production of most U.S.-bound cameras out of China...
China and the United States have been slapping each other with massive tariffs and more may come if the trade war continues to escalate, prompting some companies to move manufacturing out of China. One of the latest is GoPro, which announced it will move production of most U.S.-bound cameras out of…
Spotify says it’s time to play fair, but Apple is
Earlier today, Spotify launched a new website called It’s Time to Play Fair, where it proceeded to lay out a timeline and “facts” about how Apple mistreats companies like Spotify. I saw a few snipp…
UPS Unveils Equity Investment and Partnership With Blockchain B2B Firm Inxeption
An undisclosed investment from UPS reveals a commitment to blockchain profitability after cautionary statements from the logistics giant.
DroneBase raises capital and partners with FLIR Systems to train pilots...
Publicly traded sensor technology developer FLIR Systems is investing in a strategic round of funding for the outsourced drone imaging company, DroneBase. The two companies are also partnering to provide FLIR’s thermal imaging technology and training services to DroneBase’s stable of pi…
Trump’s Trade Policies Could Soak The U.S. Oil And Natural Gas...
The U.S. trade war with China has one principal victim: American business and specially oil and gas producers that have found China to a lucrative market. If the dispute is not immediately resolved, China will find new newer and more reliable suppliers of those fuels.
IBM Partnership Uses Blockchain, IoT to Combat Drought in California
A major new collaborative IBM project using blockchain and IoT tech to tackle drought is underway in the U.S. state of California.
Microsoft previews decentralized identity network based on blockchain agnostic protocol
Microsoft is making a breakthrough with its year-long effort to bring major infrastructure change to how internet users’ identities are stored and verified. The tech giant announced on Monday that it is test running its decentralized identifier (DID) network running atop the Bitcoin blockchain. The decentralized identifier network, dabbed ION (Identity Overlay Network), is based...
Dell Technologies Stockholders Approve Class V Transaction
ROUND ROCK, Texas, Dec. 11, 2018 /PRNewswire/ -- News summary Stockholders vote in favor of Class V transaction Holders of more than 61% of Del
U.S. federal court jury finds Apple infringed three Qualcomm patents –
Mobile chipmaker Qualcomm has chalked up another small legal victory against Apple in another patent litigation suit. A jury in a U.S. federal court in San Diego found Friday that Apple owes Qualcomm about $31M for infringing three patents, per Reuters. As we reported earlier the San Diego patent s…
