Google reveals growing dietary movement: ‘functional’ foods
Ask not whether your food tastes good – ask, rather, what your food can do for you. And if you do, you’ll be well positioned to join the expanding movement […]
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Biz Break: IDC says smartphone sales facing flat times
Top Of The Order: Smartphones Go Flat: According to technology research firm IDC, the market for smartphones during the first three months of the year barely budged from a year […]
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Google helps create ‘Web crawler’ for fighting child sexual abuse
An organization that works with police worldwide to remove images of child sexual abuse from the Internet has credited Google with helping it develop a “Web crawler” that finds child […]
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Bay Area biotech: AbbVie buying Stemcentrx for $5.8B; Sanofi bids $9.3B for Medivation
Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie is buying Stemcentrx, a cancer drug startup in South San Francisco, for $5.8 billion, plus a potential additional $4 billion. AbbVie is gaining Stemcentx’s experimental treatment for small […]
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Dianne Feinstein, in an op-ed, defends her encryption proposal
The battle over encryption heated up Thursday with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr. Under the headline “Encryption without tears,” the lawmakers argued […]
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Google reveals growing dietary movement: ‘functional’ foods
Ask not whether your food tastes good – ask, rather, what your food can do for you. And if you do, you’ll be well positioned to join the expanding movement […]
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Biz Break: IDC says smartphone sales facing flat times
Top Of The Order: Smartphones Go Flat: According to technology research firm IDC, the market for smartphones during the first three months of the year barely budged from a year […]
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Google helps create ‘Web crawler’ for fighting child sexual abuse
An organization that works with police worldwide to remove images of child sexual abuse from the Internet has credited Google with helping it develop a “Web crawler” that finds child […]
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Bay Area biotech: AbbVie buying Stemcentrx for $5.8B; Sanofi bids $9.3B for Medivation
Pharmaceutical giant AbbVie is buying Stemcentrx, a cancer drug startup in South San Francisco, for $5.8 billion, plus a potential additional $4 billion. AbbVie is gaining Stemcentx’s experimental treatment for small […]
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Dianne Feinstein, in an op-ed, defends her encryption proposal
The battle over encryption heated up Thursday with an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal by Sens. Dianne Feinstein and Richard Burr. Under the headline “Encryption without tears,” the lawmakers argued […]
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SpaceX scores Air Force contract, launches into new territory
SpaceX has won an $82.7 million contract from the U.S. Air Force, signalling a victory in the private company’s hard-fought battle to break into military launches. SpaceX, which plans to revolutionize space travel […]
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Cypress Semiconductor icon T.J. Rodgers steps down as CEO
Call it the changing of the guard. Call it an end of an era. Call it retirement, if you want. One of the last of the Old Guard tech pioneers […]
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On topic: Tech news to know now
Here’s what’s on Thursday’s menu. Alphabet is in late-stage talks about a self-driving car partnership with Fiat Chrysler, the Wall Street Journal reports. Key tidbit in this BuzzFeed article about […]
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Exec security costs: Is Mark Zuckerberg safer than Sheryl Sandberg and Jack Dorsey?
Facebook pays $8.18 a minute to keep CEO Mark Zuckerberg safe, according to an amended annual report released this week. Wait, that doesn’t sound like much. Let’s try that again: […]
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Construction and the cloud: Oracle buying Textura for $663 million
Oracle is buying Textura, a maker of cloud software used to manage construction projects, in a $663 million cash deal. Textura, which is based in Illinois, processes $3.4 billion of […]
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