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At South by Southwest, fewer startups, more marketers and media

August 24, 2021 at 12:45 a.m.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Has "South-by" lost its direction? For several years running, that question has hovered over the iPhone-clutching tech cogniscenti who made the annual springtime pilgrimage to the...

Musk extends Times feud, calls Model S review “ethics violation”

August 24, 2021 at 12:43 a.m.

AUSTIN, Texas (Reuters) - Elon Musk, the Silicon Valley entrepreneur, took yet another swipe at The New York Times on Saturday, calling the newspaper's critical review of his Tesla Model...

Salesforce’s $835 million quarterly revenue tops forecasts

August 24, 2021 at 12:10 a.m.

(Reuters) - Salesforce.com Inc reported better-than-expected quarterly sales of $835 million on Thursday, as its cloud-based services continued to sell well despite an uncertain macroeconomic picture. Its shares gained 4.9...

Gates, Zuckerberg champion computer programming in new nonprofit video

August 24, 2021 at 12:00 a.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - When Hadi and Ali Partovi immigrated to America from Iran in 1984, they slept in the same cramped bedroom as their parents, who exhausted their life...

Inmates go high-tech as startup mania hits San Quentin

August 23, 2021 at 11:58 p.m.

SAN QUENTIN, California (Reuters) - One by one, the entrepreneurs, clad in crisp blue jeans and armed with PowerPoint presentations, stood before a roomful of investors and tech bloggers to...

Jazzed-up Microsoft is cooler than before: Reuters/Ipsos

August 23, 2021 at 11:39 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp is cooler than you might think. A Reuters/Ipsos poll found that just under half of 853 respondents between the age of 18 and 29...

Dropbox chases corporate customers and revenue

August 23, 2021 at 11:11 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - The battle between two of Silicon Valley's most richly valued private Internet companies ratcheted up on Tuesday as Dropbox unveiled the first comprehensive upgrade to its...

Xx Flipboard hires former Hulu CTO and Kleiner Perkins exec

August 23, 2021 at 10:56 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Flipboard, the high-profile tablet app-maker, has hired Hulu's former chief technology officer to be Chief Executive Mike McCue's No. 2. Eric Feng, currently an executive at...

LinkedIn beats Street, outstrips social media rivals

August 23, 2021 at 10:55 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - LinkedIn Corp extended its hot streak on Thursday, announcing both blow-out quarterly profits and a bullish forecast for the new year that exceeded Wall Street's already...

Zynga profit tops views, but it forecasts lower revenue

August 23, 2021 at 10:42 p.m.

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Zynga Inc, the one-time Silicon Valley darling that has been wrestling with a months-long exodus of online gamers, reported an unexpected fourth-quarter profit on Tuesday after...

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