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Apple continues Asia expansion with its first retail store in Taiwan

July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Apple has continued to expand its retail footprint in Asia after the iPhone-maker opened its first store in Taiwan this weekend. The inaugural Apple Store is located in Taipei 101, a landmark skyscraper in Taipei, and it is [...]

How this year’s tech IPOs have fared so far

July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Blue Apron has finally gone public, and we’re at about the halfway point of the year. We’ve seen a lot of IPOs for the first half of 2017, which followed a huge drought last year. All this started [...]

Microsoft is laying off ‘thousands’ of staff in a major global sales reorganization

July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Microsoft is poised to layoff thousands of employees worldwide in a move to reorganize its salesforce. A source with knowledge of the planned downsizing told TechCrunch that the U.S. firm would lay off “thousands” of staff across the [...]

The Silicon Valley blacklist

July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

What a year (life?) it’s been for white women, people of color and nonbinary people in tech. First, engineer Susan Fowler came forward about her time at Uber, where she says the company ignored her numerous reports of [...]

Cry ‘Havoc!’, and let slip the dogs of lulz

July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Well, why not? I mean, you know, what the hell. Dave Aitel’s proposal over at The Hill for “a cyber investigatory setup funded by private industry” to react to hacks into the American government may not be a [...]

Someone just bought R2-D2 for over $2 million

July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Sorry, Luke — but it looks like both your lightsaber and R2-D2 have new owners. In an auction that I’d like to pretend took place in front of a Sandcrawler in the middle of a desert, someone reportedly [...]

500 Startups’ Dave McClure apologizes for ‘multiple’ advances toward women and being a ‘creep’

July 2nd, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Taking an alternative approach to Chris Sacca’s pre-publication statement on the New York Times’ story of his alleged misconduct, Dave McClure waited a day to respond to the allegations made in yesterday’s article. In a Medium post published [...]

Someone just bought R2-D2 for over $2 million dollars

July 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Sorry, Luke — but it looks like both your lightsaber and R2-D2 have new owners. In an auction that I’d like to pretend took place in front of a Sandcrawler in the middle of a desert, someone reportedly [...]

Gaming firm Razer seeks to raise over $600M in Hong Kong IPO

July 1st, 2017|Categories: Gizmo News|

Gaming firm Razer has filed to go public through an IPO in Hong Kong as it looks to raise more than $600 million to go after growth opportunities. The U.S.-based company, which traces its origins back to Singapore, [...]