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After a months-long bidding process and many layoffs, Yahoo has finally found a buyer.[9] Verizon ( which owns AOL, which owns TechCrunch ) is officially acquiring Yahoo’s core business for $4.83 billion in cash, which includes Yahoo’s advertising, content, search and mobile activities.[4] Check also: Microsoft To Acquire LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion “Just over a year ago we acquired AOL to ...

If you’re a Samsung Galaxy S7 Active owner and the handset’s recent failed Consumer Reports water resistance test has been giving you sleepless nights, then this piece of news should make you feel better.[9] Check also: Samsung Foldable Smartphone Just Around The Corner Samsung claims to have fixed a manufacturing defect in the Galaxy S7 Active that made some handsets ...

City Pilot has taken a key early step towards fully autonomous public transportation:[9] The Mercedes-Benz self-driving bus program saw one of its Future Bus vehicles drive 20 km (or around 12.4 miles) in the Netherlands, [6]on a route that connected Amsterdam’s Schiphol airport with the nearby town of Haarlem. Check also: Google’s self-driving cars are being crashed by human driven cars ...

Just in case the public wasn’t sufficiently convinced by a journalist smashing the world’s longest and highest glass bridge with a sledgehammer ( and surviving ),[9]the owners of the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon bridge in China decided to prove its safety by upping the ante over the weekend.[4] Check also: India’s Bullet Train To Travel Under The Sea In its latest media-directed “safety ...

Smacc, which uses AI to automate accounting,[9] has secured a $3.5 million Series A round from Cherry Ventures, Rocket Internet, Dieter von Holtzbrinck Ventures,[4] Grazia Equity and business angels. Check also: Microsoft To Acquire LinkedIn For $26.2 Billion Smacc offers small and medium-sized enterprises a platform to digitize and automate accounting and financial processes.[12] The founding trio Uli Erxleben,[1] Janosch ...