TOKYO, JAPAN – TAIYO YUDEN CO., LTD. and GE Ventures announced today that GE Ventures has licensed intellectual property (IP) to TAIYO YUDEN for fabricating substrates embedded with electronic circuits in late 2014. With this technology transfer, TAIYO YUDEN and GE will construct a joint development framework toward the commercialization of next-generation wirebondless, embedded electronics […]
San Jose, CA and Irvine, CA — LeEco and VIZIO, Inc. announced today a definitive agreement under which LeEco would acquire VIZIO, Inc. for $2 billion USD. The VIZIO hardware and software businesses will be owned and operated as a wholly owned subsidiary of LeEco, while the VIZIO data business, Inscape, will spin out and […]
Today is a big day for Yahoo! This is the email that I sent to Yahoos around the world today. Given the interest around our journey to this point, I wanted to share more about today’s announcement. –Marissa Dear Yahoos, Moments ago, we announced an agreement with Verizon to acquire Yahoo’s operating business. This culminates […]
Machine learning is increasingly at the core of everything we build at Twitter. It’s powering much of the work we’re doing to make it easier to create, share, and discover the very best content so that every time you open Twitter you’re immersed in the most relevant news, stories, and events for you. Today, we’re […]
Dell Boomi and Tech Mahindra today announced an alliance that enables organizations to more easily implement digital strategies and drive business transformation. As a “Dell Boomi Certified System Integrator”, Tech Mahindra, provider of innovative and customer-centric information technology services and solutions, is now able to offer its customers a platform that integrates any combination of […]
LOS ANGELES, KIND Financial, the leader in technology for cannabis compliance, today announced the launch of KIND Government Solutions with Microsoft Corp. to acquire government-facing contracts for seed to sale tracking. Microsoft selected KIND to participate in its newly created Microsoft Health and Human Services Pod for Managed Service Providers. The goal of this relationship […]
REDMOND, Wash., and MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — June 13, 2016 — Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) and LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE: LNKD) on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement under which Microsoft will acquire LinkedIn for $196 per share in an all-cash transaction valued at $26.2 billion, inclusive of LinkedIn’s net cash. LinkedIn will […]
BELLEVUE, Wash.- In a nationwide simulcast to millions of Un-carrier customers today via the web and social media, T-Mobile (NASDAQ: TMUS) president and CEO John Legere unveiled the company’s eleventh iconic Un-carrier move—#GetThanked, a set of initiatives dedicated exclusively to thanking T-Mobile customers. This Smart News Release features multimedia. View the full release here: http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160606006153/en/ […]
Today at Computex, I joined Nick Parker and Alex Kipman on stage to celebrate incredible devices from across the Windows ecosystem – from PCs to gaming to IoT and beyond – and to share how the upcoming Windows 10 Anniversary Update will bring all new innovation, creating opportunities for modern computing devices. We’ve been on […]
Shanghai/ Los Angeles. While the digital world increasingly merges with our physical habitat the demand for sophisticated, integrative devices grows. However, for many businesses the true integration of the physical and digital worlds in their products still remains a key challenge. An industry that stands out in this respect certainly is telecommunications, with smart phones […]