Mary Altaffer/AP The Houston Rockets appear to be going all-in in their efforts to become the NBA’s next super-team, and now they have their sights clearly set on adding one more All-Star: Carmelo Anthony. After the Rockets previously traded for point guard Chris Paul and on Saturday signed MVP-runner-up James Harden to the richest extension in NBA history, […]
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Verizon to slash over 2K jobs after acquiring Yahoo for $4.5B – reports
Published time: 8 Jun, 2017 23:06 Verizon is expected to lay off around 2,100 workers after concluding its acquisition of Yahoo. The cuts will come from duplicate jobs in its AOL unit which will be combined with Yahoo to form a new company called Oath. Verizon is expected to cut more than 2,000 jobs as […]
Tesla ousts executive Klaus Grohmann months after acquiring his firm
(Reuters) — Tesla executive Klaus Grohmann was ousted last month after a clash with Chief Executive Elon Musk over the strategy of Grohmann’s firm, which Tesla had acquired in November, a source familiar with the matter told Reuters. The Silicon Valley luxury electric carmaker is counting on Grohmann Engineering’s automation and engineering expertise to help […]
Intel acquiring Mobileye’s self-driving car technology in $15 billion deal
Intel is acquiring Mobileye, a company that specializes in chips for vision-based autonomous vehicles. The Marker and Axios first reported the deal, valued at $ 15.3 billion, and it will see Intel take over some key technology for its ambitions to lead autonomous cars. BMW, Intel, and Mobileye have all partnered to deploy 40 autonomous […]
Google is reportedly acquiring a data science community called Kaggle (GOOG)
Reuters/Beck Diefenbach Google is planning to acquire a coding competition platform called Kaggle, TechCrunch reports. Founded in 2010, Kaggle allows developers and data scientists to run machine learning contests, host datasets, and to write and share code. The platform reportedly has half a million data scientists that Google would try to capitalise on in some […]
Airbnb in “Late Stages” of Acquiring High-End Rental Platform Luxury Retreats
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