Articles by Richard Adhikari

Microsoft last week closed its US$26 billion acquisition of LinkedIn LinkedIn will remain a separate company and Jeff Weiner will continue as its CEO, but he now reports to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella....

Fitbit on Wednesday announced an acquisition deal with smartwatch maker Pebble The company clearly has been struggling, having laid off 25 percent of its staff earlier this year, when CEO Eric Migicovsky acknowledged that money was tight....

United States lawmakers last week introduced legislation to stop Wells Fargo from enforcing arbitration agreements with victims of fraud it perpetrated against them Sen. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, the ranking member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs, and Rep. Brad Sherman, D-Calif., a member of the House Financial Services C...

Facebook has teamed up with Twitter, YouTube and Microsoft to fight the proliferation of terrorist content on the Web. The tech giants will create a shared industry database of hashes for violent terrorist imagery, terrorist recruitment videos, or images they have removed from their services They may use these shared hashes to help identify potenti...

Samsung's desire to match the iPhone 7 Plus led it to implement an aggressive design and manufacturing approach that led to problems with its Galaxy Note7 -- including some instances of the smartphones bursting into flames -- and eventually its global recall, Instrumental reported last week Instrumental engineers tore down a Galaxy Note7, and found...

Twitter last week purchased Yes and named the mobile app startup's CEO, Keith Coleman, as its new VP of product -- a challenging post. Coleman will be Twitter's third VP of product this year and the fifth since 2014 Twitter's main problems are monetization, which has plagued it since its founding; slowing user growth; and stiff competition....

Facebook last week released six videos to educate people about artificial intelligence AI will bring major changes to society, and will be the backbone of many of the most innovative apps and services of the future, but it remains mysterious, noted Yann LeCun, Facebook's director of AI research, and Joaquin Candela, the company's director of applie...

More than 1 million Google accounts have been breached by Android malware dubbed "Gooligan," Check Point reported Wednesday The malware roots infected devices and steals authentication tokens that can be used to access data from various Google apps including Gmail, Google Docs, G Suite and Google Drive....

The California Department of Insurance this week announced fines totaling US$7 million against startup Zenefits, a provider of cloud-based human resources services The company's former leadership "created an anything goes culture at the Internet startup, resulting in numerous violations of licensing requirements to protect consumers," said Insuran...

Samsung on Tuesday announced road map for a corporate restructuring that might include splitting itself into two firms The company has retained external advisors to review the optimal corporate structure for its activities. The review is expected to take six months. Depending on the findings, Samsung may create a holding company structure and might...

The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Authority, or SF MTA, was hacked on Friday "You Hacked, All Data Encrypted," was the message reportedly displayed on computer screens at the authority's stations throughout the city. "Contact for Key ([email protected])ID:681 , Enter."

Sites that repeatedly violate Google's safe browsing policies will be classified as repeat offenders, the company said last week A small number of websites take corrective actions after Google displays alerts on their landing pages warning visitors that they're harmful. However, they typically revert to violating the policies after Google goes thro...

A LinkedIn block in Russia could be imminent, in light of last week's court ruling that the company broke a law requiring personal data on Russian citizens to be stored on servers within the country Roskomnadzor, Russia's telecommunications and media authority, is waiting until it has the full text of the ruling before acting on it....

Hyperloop One, which aims to fulfill the vision of high-speed transportation promoted by Elon Musk, has signed a deal to develop a line between Dubai and UAE capital Abu Dhabi, Dubai reportedly announced this week No financial terms have been disclosed, but the project reportedly will have several stations throughout Dubai connecting the hyperloop ...

Hackers last week launched DDoS attacks against both presidential candidates' campaign websites. The attacks were routed through HTTP Layer 7 of the OSI protocol There were at least four 30-second attacks reported....

Salesforce last week launched the Lightning Partner Community, which lets business customers extend the features they provide their sales reps to channel partners Lightning Partner Community gives channel partners a single place to identify opportunities, track progress and close deals....

Google last week filed a response in a 6-year-old antitrust battle with the European Union, which has charged that its search ads unfairly promoted its own shopping service and blocked rivals. The response addresses a supplementary statement of objections the European Commission sent to Google this summer....

Facebook on Wednesday reported a record Q3, beating analysts' expectations for the fourth straight quarter, but concerns among investors about increased expenditures and the company's future prospects drove down share prices They closed Thursday at US$119.95, down more than $7 from Wednesday's closing price of $127.17. Friday saw little movement, ...

Chip manufacturer Broadcom on Wednesday announced that it would buy Brocade Communications, a major supplier of fiber channel storage area networking technology to data centers, for US$5.5 billion in cash and the assumption of Brocade's $400 million debt That represents a 47 percent premium over Brocade's closing share price last week, said Brocad...

Lenovo's recently unveiled 2-in-1, the Yoga Book, is available in Android Marshmallow and Windows 10 Home versions Reviews have been mixed, with some praising its look and feel, but some considering its capabilities not up to scratch. Its Intel Atom processor doesn't provide enough power for a workhorse device, they have argued....