Last week, Amazon.com bought the Santa Monica, California-based smart home equipment maker Ring for an estimated $1bn in cash. Though filled with less import than the company’s $13.4bn acquisition of Whole Foods
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A Chinese company that dominates the African smartphone market is preparing for a backdoor listing that will make it one of the Asian country’s biggest publicly traded mobile device makers. Shenzhen Transsion Holdings
During the dot-com-crazed 1990s, Cisco Systems became the world’s most valuable company. Widely expected to become the first company to hit a trillion-dollar capitalisation, it made it barely halfway there. When the
After four days, thousands of stalls, 2 300 companies exhibiting, and more than 100 000 square metres of floor space to traverse, here are some of the more interesting gadgets from this year’s Mobile World Congress in
When Elon Musk’s SpaceX heaved two communications satellites aloft last week, he joined a space race that’s foiled plenty of other dreamers. Billions of dollars have vanished in the quest to provide Internet service from low-earth
There’s Netflix, and then there’s everyone else in 2018. The stock is up more than 50% in the first two months of the year after shattering subscription-growth expectations. It’s market capitalisation has soared to $126bn
Sigfox’s co-founder is eyeing a listing in 2019 and pondering a pre-IPO round later this year, after reassuring investors about the future of the French start-up. With money from backers including Salesforce.com and
Amazon.com is embracing open-source software in the race to get its voice-based Alexa digital assistant into cars ahead of Google. Amazon engineers are working with Nuance Communications and Voicebox
In four years, Lenovo Group went from would-be Apple challenger to an also-ran in smartphones and data centre servers. Now it’s got a comeback plan, but some investors don’t buy it. China’s erstwhile tech darling
The US’s two biggest mobile network operators, AT&T and Verizon Communications, have conceding that phones won’t be available in time for the launch of fifth-generation mobile service this year, plan instead