Salesforce to invest $1B in Singapore to boost adoption of AI
Salesforce plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years as it seeks to fuel the adoption of its AI agent development platform, Agentforce.
Salesforce claimed that Agentforce can help alleviate Singapore’s ongoing labor issues and augment the country’s workforce and
North Korean government hackers snuck spyware on Android app store
A group of hackers with links to the North Korean regime uploaded Android spyware onto the Google Play app store and were able to trick some people into downloading it, according to cybersecurity firm Lookout.
In a report published on Wednesday, and exclusively shared with technewss ahead of time
Elea AI is chasing the healthcare productivity opportunity by targeting pathology labs' legacy systems
VC funding into AI tools for healthcare was projected to hit $11 billion last year — a headline figure that speaks to the widespread conviction that artificial intelligence will prove transformative in a critical sector.
Many startups applying AI in healthcare are seeking to drive efficienc
Uber terminates Foodpanda Taiwan acquisition, citing regulatory hurdles
Uber Technologies has ended its acquisition of Delivery Hero's Foodpanda in Taiwan, the Germany-based tech firm said on Tuesday.
The announcement comes roughly three months after Taiwan’s antitrust regulator blocked the deal, citing competitive issues. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) sai
Jio announces deal to bring Starlink to India just hours after similar Airtel partnership
Jio Platforms, the subsidiary of India’s conglomerate Reliance Industries and the country’s largest telecom operator, Wednesday announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to offer Starlink’s satellite broadband internet services to its customers in India.
Under the ag
Tata Technologies’ data leaked by ransomware gang
A ransomware group called Hunters International has published some of the data it claims to have stolen from Tata Technologies, just over a month after the Indian company confirmed a ransomware attack that resulted in the suspension of some services.
The leaked data, published on the gang’s
Spotify says its payouts are getting better, but artists still disagree
Spotify on Tuesday released its annual Loud & Clear report, detailing information about the music streaming service’s royalty payments. While Spotify revealed earlier this year that it paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024, the new report offers more in-depth numbers abo
Bolt CEO Ryan Breslow explains his troubled $30M personal loan, announces new 'super app'
Bolt's controversial co-founder Ryan Breslow, who returned as CEO earlier this month, spoke on Monday about the $30 million personal loan he took out of his company that sparked legal battles and contributed to his (temporary) ouster.
Breslow also announced that Bolt will launch an “everythi
Trump says he will label violence against Tesla as domestic terrorism
President Donald Trump said he will label violence against Tesla dealerships as domestic terrorism, per a transcript shared by the White House pool reporters, a sign of deepening ties with Elon Musk.
“Tesla Takeovers” have been breaking out across the globe at Tesla dealerships as people prote
The New Yorker has finally embraced modernity
When the first email was sent in 1971, Richard Nixon was president. The video game “Pong” was still in development. The Pittsburgh Pirates was a good baseball team.
This is to say, technological achievements like the email have lived long enough to have their own grandchildren. And yet
IBM’s CEO doesn’t think AI will replace programmers anytime soon
IBM CEO Arvind Krishna says that, despite the Trump administration’s attacks on globalism, global trade isn’t dead. In fact, he thinks that the U.S.’s key to growth will be embracing an international exchange of goods.
“So, I actually am a firm believer — I think it goes
Y Combinator founders raising less money signals a 'vibe shift,' VC says
Silicon Valley has been captivated by the prospect of AI, not only as a productivity enhancer but also as a catalyst for creating successful companies with much leaner teams than in the past.
Stories abound of AI startups quickly reaching tens of millions in revenue with headcount as low as 20 peo
DOGE axes CISA 'red team' staffers amid ongoing federal cuts
Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has fired more than a hundred employees working for the U.S. government's cybersecurity agency CISA, including “red team” staffers, two people affected by the layoffs told technewss.
The people, who asked not to be n
Podcast app Pocket Casts makes its web player free
Pocket Casts, the podcast app acquired by Automattic in 2021, is now making its web player free. The company says the move offers an alternative to the big platforms’ closed ecosystems, where algorithmic-driven content is prioritized and podcasts are kept behind paywalls.
Podcasts were built