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Google pushes Apple to adopt a new kind of text messaging, criticizes ‘green bubbles’
Android mascots are lined up in the demonstration area at the Google I/O Developers Conference in the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Beck Diefenbach | Reuters Google, the developer of the Android, is increasing the pressure on Apple to adopt RCS, a next-generation standard for text messaging. It argues that Apple’s support of RCS would […]
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Sam Bankman-Fried’s crypto firms had deep ties to Voyager Digital and its bankruptcy wipeout
Sam Bankman-Fried, co-founder and chief executive officer of FTX, in Hong Kong, China, on Tuesday, May 11, 2021. Lam Yik | Bloomberg | Getty Images Sam Bankman-Fried became a crypto billionaire and one of the most famous players in the industry by building cryptocurrency exchange FTX into a top site used by traders and investors. […]
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Coinbase shares drop on billion-dollar loss in second quarter and revenue miss
Brian Armstrong, CEO and Co-Founder, Coinbase, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference on May 2, 2022. in Beverly Hills, California. Patrick T. Fallon | AFP | Getty Images Coinbase shares dropped in extended trading on Tuesday after the crypto exchange reported a loss of over $1 billion in the second quarter and missed analysts’ […]
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Northrop Grumman moves Antares rocket work to U.S. from Russia & Ukraine with Firefly partnership
Northrop Grumman’s Antares rocket lifts off from NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia on Aug. 10, 2021 carrying a Cygnus spacecraft with cargo for the International Space Station. Terry Zaperach / NASA Wallops Northrop Grumman is moving production of the engines and structures for its Antares rockets to the U.S. from Russia and Ukraine, a […]
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SoftBank posts a $21.6 billion quarterly loss on its Vision Fund, one of the highest in its history
SoftBank’s Vision Fund, the brainchild of the company’s founder Masayoshi Son, has faced a number of headwinds including a slump in technology stocks as a result of rising interest rates, a tough China market and geopolitics. Kentaro Takahash | Bloomberg | Getty Images SoftBank posted one of its biggest losses at its Vision Fund investment […]
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SpaceX raises another $250 million in equity, totaling $2 billion so far this year
A Starship prototype stands on the company’s launchpad in Boca Chica, Texas on March 16, 2022. SpaceX Elon Musk’s SpaceX raised $250 million in a July equity round, the company disclosed in a securities filing on Friday. The venture has now raised $2 billion so far in 2022. The filing doesn’t specify the sources of […]
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Cloudflare soars after beating on revenue and raising annual forecast
Cloudflare Co-Founder and CEO Matthew Prince speaks on stage at TechCrunch Disrupt Berlin on December 12, 2019 in Berlin, Germany. Noam Galai | Getty Images Entertainment | Getty Images Cloudflare shares jumped as much as 27% on Friday, after the content distribution network and security provider announced second-quarter results and full-year guidance that exceeded analysts’ […]
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Tech industry’s critical policy issues likely tabled as Congress heads for recess
U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi shakes hands with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer at the start of a discussion with historians on how to “establish and preserve the narrative of January 6th” on the one-year anniversary of the attack on the Capitol in Washington, January 6, 2022. Al Drago | Pool | Reuters Congress is […]
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Space factory startup Varda secures NASA partnerships ahead of demo flight next year
Varda co-founders Varda Space Industries Early stage Varda Space Industries has signed a pair of agreements with NASA, the company announced Friday, securing access to key technologies the company will need for the first demonstration of its space factory system. Varda’s goal is to develop a new method for manufacturing materials in space, an opportunity […]
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Amazon to acquire maker of Roomba vacuum for roughly $1.7 billion
A vacuuming Roomba model robot is displayed at iRobot headquarters in Bedford, Massachusetts Scott Eells | Bloomberg | Getty Images Amazon is acquiring iRobot for $61 a share, an all-cash deal that values the Roomba maker at $1.7 billion, the companies announced Friday. The deal will deepen Amazon’s presence in consumer robotics. Amazon made a […]
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