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Enlarge / Jess Cliffe in 2017, talking about the development of the original version of the video game Counter-Strike. (credit: Valve Software) Following an arrest in Seattle last week, the co-creator of the video game series Counter-Strike has now been formally charged with the crime of commercial sexual abuse of a minor. The King County […]
Dropbox, the cloud computing storage company valued at $ 10 billion, has confidentially filed the paperwork for an IPO, according to a Bloomberg report citing anonymous sources. The San Francisco-based company had been expected to list shares in an offering this year, after news surfaced last year that it had retained investment bank Goldman Sachs. […]
(Reuters) — Music streaming service Spotify has filed confidentially with U.S. regulators for an initial public offering and is targeting a direct listing in the first half of 2018 that would allow some longtime investors to cash out, a source familiar with the matter said on Wednesday. If Spotify, which was valued at as much […]
(credit: Flickr) According to Friday court filings, Uber has settled a lawsuit filed by an unnamed woman who said her medical records were improperly accessed by an Uber executive after she was raped by her driver in India in 2014. That driver, Shiv Kumar Yadav, was sentenced to life in prison in 2015. That same […]
Published time: 9 Dec, 2017 10:35 Uber has agreed to settle a US lawsuit filed by an Indian woman who accused the company’s executives of illegally obtaining her medical records from Delhi police. Terms of the settlement have not been disclosed, but what is known is that the woman alleged in the lawsuit that Uber […]
By Joel Stocksdale It seems that we’re on the cusp of a solid-state battery revolution. The latest company to announce progress in developing the new type of battery is Fisker. It has filed patents for solid-state lithium-ion batteries and it expects the batteries to be produced on a mass scale around 2023. Though Fisker is […]
It seems that we’re on the cusp of a solid-state battery revolution. The latest company to announce progress in developing the new type of battery is Fisker. It has filed patents for solid-state lithium-ion batteries and it expects the batteries to be produced on a mass scale around 2023. Though Fisker is a very small […]
AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite Special counsel Robert Mueller has filed the first charges in the Russia investigation, CNN reported Friday. Mueller is investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, as well as whether anyone in President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Moscow. Veteran journalist Carl Bernstein told CNN Friday that Mueller’s latest move could be a […]
Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | designer491) The Federal Communications Commission has ignored a public records request for information that might shed light on the legitimacy of comments on Chairman Ajit Pai’s anti-net neutrality plan, according to a lawsuit filed against the FCC. Freelance writer Jason Prechtel filed a Freedom of Information Act (FoIA) request on […]
(credit: flickr / deltamike) The engineer whose blog post kicked off an internal storm at Uber isn’t done speaking up about her former employer. Ex-Uber engineer Susan Fowler has filed an amicus brief (PDF) with the Supreme Court, weighing in on a case about arbitration and an employee’s rights to file a class-action lawsuit. Fowler’s […]
