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Reuters AnandTech, a publication known for its technical analyses, has put the device against Apple’s latest iPhones, Qualcomm’s Snapdragon 845, and Samsung’s own Galaxy S8 in a series of benchmark tests. The iPhone has won in virtually every test against the newer Galaxy S9, sometimes with huge margins, but the S9 has performed worse than […]
Manticore Games, a startup founded by former Zynga and Electronic Arts executives, has raised $ 15 million from Benchmark Capital. That’s a hefty amount to invest in a new studio, but the round was led by Mitch Lasky, a former Activision and Jamdat Mobile game maker, who is not a general partner at Benchmark, which […]
Enlarge / Shervin Pishevar speaking at the 2016 TechCrunch conference in San Francisco. Pishevar wrote a letter to Uber’s board urging Benchmark Capital to drop its lawsuit against ex-CEO Travis Kalanick. (credit: Photo by Steve Jennings/Getty Images for TechCrunch) Uber’s ex-CEO Travis Kalanick is under fire, but he’s hardly out of supporters. Kalanick, who resigned in […]
Upping the stakes in an already epic round of backbiting on Uber’s board, Benchmark today sent an open letter to Uber employees explaining why it decided to sue founder Travis Kalanick. The influential VC firm then posted the open letter on Google Docs and posted a link on Twitter. An open letter to Uber employees […]
In what is rapidly devolving into an all-out brawl on the board of the world’s highest-valued private company, a group of Uber shareholders have asked the venture capital firm Benchmark to step down from the board of directors. This move comes only a day after Benchmark took the aggressive step of filing suit against Uber’s […]
(Reuters) — Venture capital firm Benchmark Capital is suing former Uber Chief Executive Officer Travis Kalanick to force him off the board of the ride-services company and rescind his ability to fill three board seats, according to the lawsuit. The lawsuit filed Thursday accuses Kalanick of concealing a range of misdeeds from the board and […]
Venture-capital firm claims former CEO duped board into approving expansion plant to retain control of company. https://media.wired.com/photos/598cf4a1c55383299536b3b4/master/pass/UberHQHP_14983015.jpg Feed: All Latest
EVERY working day, shortly before noon, British time, the London Interbank Offered Rate, or LIBOR, is published. For five currencies and seven maturities, from overnight to 12 months, it is the average, trimmed of outliers, of up to 20 banks’ estimates of the interest rate at which they can borrow from other banks. It is […]
The Nintendo NES Classic was a huge success for the company but turned into a bit of a headache. While it managed to sell well and proved very popular with fans, it appears that the enthusiasm shown by fans caught Nintendo off guard. The Japanese games giant has said on several occasions that they were […]
Enlarge (credit: Natalie Maynor) Google has announced that its widely used Octane JavaScript benchmark is being retired, with Google saying that it’s no longer a useful way for browser developers to determine how best to optimize their JavaScript engines. Octane was developed for and by the developers of V8, the JavaScript engine used in Chrome. […]
