China’s JD.com teams up with Intel to develop ‘smart’ retail experiences
Months after it landed a major $550 million investment from Google, China’s JD.com — the country’s second highest-profile investor behind Alibaba — has teamed up with...
Weekly round-up: Kubernetes flaw, Flutter Hummingbird, Linkerd 2.1 & more
Honorable mentions Linkerd gets a makeover with a fancy new UI in version 2.1 It is time for a major makeover for Linkerd and it comes...
Geek Trivia: What Iconic Children’s Show Character Got His Start In An IBM Training Film?
What Iconic Children’s Show Character Got His Start In An IBM Training Film? Cookie Monster George Jetson Alvin Papa Smurf Think you know the answer? Source...
Tencent Music sued by investor ahead of $1.2 billion US IPO
China’s largest music streaming service has had a whirlwind year. With 800 million monthly users across multiple apps and a profitable business, Tencent Music Entertainment is...
Africa Roundup: Terragon’s Asia acquisition, Twiga Foods’ $10M raise, SimbaPay’s China payment service
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor...
New EU Piracy Watchlist Targets Key Pirate Sites and Cloudflare
In recent years the Office of the US Trade Representative (USTR) has released several reports detailing “notorious markets” that contribute to large volumes of copyright infringement...
Some things Jack Dorsey didn’t mention in his Myanmar meditation travelogue
Twitter co-founder and chief executive officer Jack Dorsey recently went on a birthday trip to Myanmar. As Dorsey recounted in a series of tweets to his...
Robot Dogs, Space Gardening, and Tumblr’s Porn Ban: Best Gizmodo Stories of the Week
It hasn’t been a great week for tech giants, a few of whom were taken to task for all manner of questionable ethics or decision-making. Facebook,...
Tencent-backed fleet manager G7 racks up $320M in funding
A sizable funding round is poised to heat up a race to automate China’s logistics infrastructure. Beijing-based fleet management company G7 announced on Monday that it has...
Alibaba Group takes majority control of loss-making movie unit Alibaba Pictures with $160M share purchase
Alibaba Group announced today that it will increase its stake in Alibaba Pictures from 49% to 50.92%, making it the loss-making movie production company’s controlling shareholder....
