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Intel will be powering over 130 new tablets this year

Jun 3, 2014

It's obvious Intel wants to be inside your next tablet. But odds are, it isn't: Revenue for the company's mobile division was down an...

A German home automation hub called Qivicon is coming to the US

May 31, 2014

The smart home space is getting more competition, with Qivicon spreading its multi-provider home automation and security system to the US and...

Sequoia Capital has raised $530 million to invest in Indian startups

May 29, 2014

India’s growing tech scene now has access to an even huger pile of money. Venture-capital heavyweight Sequoia Capital raised $530 million for...

Swipely has raised $20 million to expand its cloud-based payments system

May 29, 2014

Angus Davis, founder and CEO of a fast-growing Providence technology company, said Thursday a $20-million venture-capital investment in his firm...

Acquia has managed to raise over $50 million in funding

May 27, 2014

Acquia, a digital services company based in Burlington, announced Tuesday it has closed a $50 million financing round led by...

Yahoo’s former CTO talks about Hadoop

May 25, 2014

Raymie Stata has been a champion of Hadoop since its early days, helping to bring the technology into Yahoo and then drive...

F5 Networks has acquired a DDoS prevention startup called Defense.net

May 23, 2014

F5 Networks has acquired Defense.net, an 18-month-old startup that helps customers prevent distributed denial-of-service attacks to servers with a cloud-based security product. The deal...

LiveOak has raised over $100 million to back Texas-based startups

May 22, 2014

Texas has the second-largest state economy in the U.S. but, when it comes to venture capital investment, the Lone Star...

The Dota 2 championship now has a prize pool of over $6 million

May 21, 2014

This July, gamers from all over the world will fly into Seattle to partake in and watch one of the...

SpaceIL turns to Indiegogo to fund Israel’s first lunar mission

May 18, 2014

SpaceIL, a nonprofit organization aiming to land the first Israeli spacecraft on the Moon and a leading contestant in the...

Online courses may boost college completion but they hinder learning

May 18, 2014

More California community college students are taking online courses than a decade ago, but fewer are completing and passing those...

The U.K. is looking to invest $850 million into electric vehicles by 2020

May 9, 2014

Despite hefty incentives, electric vehicle sales have remained stagnant in the United Kingdom. While sales doubled in 2013 compared to 2012,...