Category: business

Justice Department charges Huawei with stealing trade secrets, again

Post author By Randall
Post date February 13, 2020
Categories In business, cfo, charges, fbi, gear, Huawei, indictment, intellectual property, Internet, justice department, Politics, Security, Tech, theft, trade secrets, wanzhou meng

[ad_1] These new charges allege that Huawei has run a decades-long attempt to steal intellectual property from six specific but unnamed US companies. Huawei allegedly got its hands on trade secrets and copyrighted work by entering into and then breaking confidentiality agreements, recruiting employees from competitors and using professors as proxies. Huawei even offered bonuses […]

SiriusXM invests $75 million to play a bigger role in SoundCloud

Post author By Randall
Post date February 11, 2020
Categories In business, Entertainment, Internet, investment, music streaming, pandora, services, sirius xm, soundcloud, Tech

[ad_1] The circumstances surrounding this latest investment couldn’t be more different than the last time SoundCloud raised money. By its own admission, the company was close to running out of runway in 2017. That July, it cut 40 percent of its workforce, laying off 173 people and closing down its San Francisco and London offices […]

Watch Samsung’s Galaxy Unpacked event right here at 2PM ET!

Post author By Randall
Post date February 11, 2020
Categories In business, gadgetry, Gadgets, galaxy, galaxy s20, gear, live stream, Mobile, s20event, Samsung, Samsung Galaxy, Tech, Unpacked

[ad_1] If you haven’t been keeping up with the leaks, the Galaxy S20 lineup has pretty much been revealed. We’ve already seen its design, and we have a pretty good idea what its camera setup will look like. Still, Samsung is expected to make plenty of big announcements, and we can bet that there are […]

Activists form nonprofit to fight gig worker exploitation

Post author By Randall
Post date February 10, 2020
Categories In business, gear, gig economy, gig workers, gigeconomy, gigworkers, instacart, non-profit, nonprofit, Tech

[ad_1] The pair are well-known activists in the gig worker community. They were among the leaders of a six-day protest against Instacart in December, and held a 72-hour strike in the hopes of persuading Instacart to give all tips to its shoppers and to revamp how fees work. Earlier this month, a group of Instacart […]

Judge will reportedly approve Sprint / T-Mobile merger tomorrow

Post author By Randall
Post date February 10, 2020
Categories In business, gear, Mobile, Sprint, t-mobile, Tech

[ad_1] A push by several state attorneys general will reportedly not be enough to stand in the way of a merger between T-Mobile and Sprint. The Wall Street Journal and New York Times cite sources saying that tomorrow a US district judge is expected to rule in the companies favor, allowing them to go through […]

Fiat Chrysler and AutoX confirm plans to work on robotaxis

Post author By Randall
Post date February 10, 2020
Categories In autonomous, autox, business, China, fca, fiat chrysler, gear, robotaxi, Robots, self-driving, services, shanghai, shenzhen, Tech, tomorrow, Transportation

[ad_1] “The AutoX Driver has adopted local driving styles in China to navigate in complex and dynamic urban conditions,” AutoX wrote in a blog post. For FCA, this is another way to break into the self-driving vehicle field. The company lags behind some of its competitors when it comes to electric- and autonomous-vehicle tech. So […]

Amazon wants to question Trump over his role in the $10 billion DoD contract

Post author By Randall
Post date February 10, 2020
Categories In Amazon, aws, bias, business, contract, department of defense, depose, gear, Internet, jedi, lawsuit, pentagon, Politics, president trump, Security, Tech, trump administration

[ad_1] In court documents unsealed Monday, Amazon said it is looking to depose “individuals who were instrumental” in the JEDI selection process, including Dana Deasy, the Defense Department’s chief information officer, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and former Defense Secretary James Mattis. The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded the $10 billion JEDI contract to Microsoft last […]

The Morning After: A Samsung Galaxy Z Flip sneak peek

Post author By Randall
Post date February 8, 2020
Categories In av, business, Entertainment, gadgetry, Gadgets, gear, Internet, medicine, Mobile, personal computing, personalcomputing, services, Tech, themorningafter, Transportation

[ad_1] It’s not just an app problem.The Engadget Podcast: How tech (and humans) failed the Iowa caucus This week on the Engadget Podcast, Devindra and Cherlynn chat about what exactly went wrong for Iowa’s Democratic Party. The mysterious app from an unknown progressive tech firm was mostly to blame, but it was also helped by […]

NVIDIA will skip MWC 2020 due to concerns about coronavirus

Post author By Randall
Post date February 7, 2020
Categories In business, coronavirus, gear, mwc 2020, nvidia, Tech

[ad_1] As the reported number of coronavirus infections in China grew beyond 34,000, NVIDIA announced that it will not send employees to the Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona, Spain this year. According to the company, “Given public health risks around the coronavirus, ensuring the safety of our colleagues, partners and customers is our highest […]

Netflix says it’s only obeyed nine government takedown requests

Post author By Randall
Post date February 7, 2020
Categories In business, Entertainment, full metal jacket, fullmetaljacket, government takedown request, governmenttakedownrequest, Netflix, patriot act with hasan minhaj, patriotactwithhasanminhaj, takedown, takedown request, takedownrequest, takedowns, Tech

[ad_1] It has done so most often in Singapore, removing five items including The Last Temptation of Christ (which is banned in the country), Brazilian comedy The Last Hangover and a trio of weed-related shows, because cannabis is illegal there. Netflix has also pulled The Bridge in New Zealand (which deems the Scandanavian series “objectionable”), […]