Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced his company’s first foray into the smartphone market at a special unveiling this morning in Seattle, confirming recent speculation among the technology community. Bezos will hope the…
Weapons tech company TrackingPoint raises $29m – Investment Round Up
Series B Cloud-based data management company Krux has raised $35 million in Series B funding, led by SAP Ventures. Time Warner Investments, Visionnaire Ventures and Temasek also participated, as did existing investors…
Optio Labs raises $10 million – Investment Round Up
Series A Tips and tutorials app Trusper has gained $6.17 million in a Series A investment led by DCM. Charles Schwab and other backers contributed to the round. The Los Altos Hills-based…
Apple looks to bring iOS into vehicles with CarPlay
Apple’s plans to integrate its devices in cars have ramped up from first to second gear. The company announced three car brands will soon sell vehicles equipped with CarPlay, which transforms vehicles…
Robots continue to take baby steps at CES
In 2013, Google acquired no fewer than eight robotics companies. The internet behemoth clearly sees huge potential in an industry which, to outsiders, appears to have been stuck in first gear for…
Krehbiel Family Leaves 75-year-old Molex to Koch Industries at $7.2 Billion
Last Monday, Wichita-based Koch Industries acquired Molex, the 75-year-old connector company and Apple parts supplier. Both companies look to close the deal by the end of this year, which depends on both…
California Officially Legalizes the Robot Car
by MATT GALLAGHER, Red Herring California became the third state to legalize self driving cars, thanks to a special visit to Google’s Mountainview headquarters by Governor Jerry Brown, who signed the legislation…
A Dozen times Around the Globe: Google’s Robot Car
Google’s self-driving robot cars have now clocked over 300,000 miles, the equivalent of driving 12 times around the world’s 25,000 mile equator circumference. And they’ve done it without an accident, or at…
Nevada Approves Google’s Self Driving Robot Cars
Perhaps the flying car is next. Nevada recently passed regulations for self driving cars that were approved by insurance companies, police, car companies, and others, making Google’s computer driven robot car one…
Chinese Technology Company Accuses Apple of iPad Patent Rip Off
Proview Shenzhen Technology, a Chinese company based in the city Shenzhen, has accused Apple of patent infringement over the iPad. “We ask the court to stop selling and marketing for Apple’s iPad…