Stories by Chris O'Brien
Elon Musk’s pity party: ‘This past year has been the most difficult and painful year of my career’
This journalist’s Twitter dilemma: Does my participation condone a cesspool of hatred and racism?
Turkey’s president urges citizens to buy local Vestel Venus smartphones over iPhones as part of U.S. gadget boycott
Elon Musk’s bid to take Tesla private triggers new round of WTF epicness
Elon Musk reveals Saudi fund will back his $72 billion plan to take Tesla private
Spotify added 8 million paid subscribers in Q2 as battle with Apple Music intensifies
Qualcomm kills NXP bid after China misses deadline to rule on the deal
Daily horrors of cybersecurity detailed in California’s data breach reports
Hawaii’s Elemental Excelerator raises $30 million, expands its sustainable accelerator to California
Boston’s ezCater acquires Paris’ GoCater to fuel international expansion
Yelp will expand health ratings to its restaurant pages across the U.S.
Volta raises $35 million to fuel expansion of its electric vehicle charging network
Facebook to double London offices amid Brexit and ongoing U.K. data investigations
Global fintech boom continued in Q2, with 383 startups raising a record $20 billion
Watch Airbus’ massive new cargo plane BelugaXL take its maiden flight
Google CEO on $5 billion EU antitrust fine: ‘Android has created more choice, not less’
Google adds Kubernetes apps to GCP Marketplace
EU’s antitrust chief details Google’s Android abuses, including killing Amazon’s Fire OS
Google hit with record $5 billion EU fine in Android antitrust case
Netflix’s subscriber ‘miss’ just a blip as epic battle with HBO looms
5 things to know as EU readies massive Android antritrust fine against Google
U.S. ranks No. 1 for ICOs, followed by Switzerland and Singapore
Mobile cybersecurity is a hellish nightmare that’s getting worse by the day
Meero raises $45 million to take its AI-driven photography platform global
Pointy raises $12 million to help brick-and-mortar retailers battle Amazon
U.K. data watchdog’s report on Facebook shenanigans is far more shocking than $664,000 fine
Google will let marketers tap its machine learning tools to create more targeted ads
Lime raises $335 million, including from Uber, whose app will now offer scooters
Smart speaker adoption expected to grow 6 times by 2022, with Apple trailing
Sonos files for IPO, highlighting profitability but also risks it faces with Apple, Google, Amazon
Lyft reportedly in talks to buy Spain’s Cabify for $3 billion (Updated)
EU Parliament set to vote on copyright bill that’s causing a massive freak-out across the web
ISAI raises $175 million fund to help French entrepreneurs scale up
Beijing on track to eclipse Silicon Valley as world’s top startup hub
Lime VP on company’s meteoric rise to $1 billion valuation
Tech IPOs remain ‘white-hot’ in Q2 thanks to Spotify, DocuSign, Pivotal Software
Atomico leads $21 million investment in Oh BiBi for mobile versions of popular PC and console games
Google leads $22 million investment in KaiOS to develop smart feature phone OS
