Since its Australian launch in March, Indian ride-sharing company Ola has expanded into seven major cities, signed up 50,000 drivers, recruited former eBay managing director Simon Smith, hired Starcom and The Royals and launched a new marketing campaign led by ex-P&G marketer Natasha Daly.

The founder of WhatsApp has revealed that he left the Facebook-owned messaging platform over plans to introduce targeted ads to its 1.5 billion users.

Tim Cook has a pretty simple explanation for why Apple removed most of the podcasts and an app from Infowars founder and hatemonger Alex Jones from its directories, setting in motion a chain of events that ended in the conspiracy theorist being fully or partially banned from virtually every major web platform: Everyone can agree Jones is terrible.

Iridium is partnering with AWS to develop a satellite-based network called CloudConnect for Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

For the last several years Berners-Lee has been secretly toiling away alongside colleagues at MIT on a new open-source project called Solid, a decentralized privacy-focused ecosystem that will reshape the web and "restore the power and agency of the individuals" using it.

AMD's steady climb in CPU market share thanks to its second-generation Ryzen processors is becoming even more apparent as we head into the closing months of 2018. We've been following this trend via sales data from Mindfactory (as compiled by Redditor Ingebor), which showed AMD with a 45 percent share in June, at parity with Intel in July, and slightly overtaking the company in August with a 51 percent share.

With the reveal of AMD's next-generation Zen 2 CPU core soon approaching, the latest rumors have revealed that Radeon Technologies Group already received one sample for optimizations. The rumor comes from a forum member at HardOCP who's known to have some reputation on the forums when it comes to AMD related leaks.

Jack Ma has quietly relinquished his ownership of the legal entities at the heart of Alibaba, symbolically handing back the keys to the Chinese technology giant he founded 19 years ago.

Only three weeks after the partnership with Huawei, Monaco Telecom unveiled its nationwide 5G mobile network at the Monaco Yacht Show. Monaco Telecom and Huawei finalized the agreement early September.

Elon Musk has agreed to step down as chairman of Tesla. But Musk, the exuberant, relentless billionaire chief executive of Tesla, shows no immediate signs of changing his style.

The US and Canada are reported to have reached a deal to reform the North American Free Trade Agreement (Nafta) after last minute negotiations. The deal is said to involve more US access to Canada's dairy market and a cap on Canada's car exports to the US.

The US Securities and Exchange Commission accused Tesla chief executive Elon Musk on Thursday of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the electric car company, saying he made a series of "false and misleading" tweets about potentially taking Tesla private last month.

Nichia has today announced that an LED-related patent shared by Nichia, Citizen Electronics, Mitsubishi Chemical, and National Institute for Materials Science has been granted in the US.

Google has finally admitted that a "Project Dragonfly" is indeed in the works. But that's about all a Google executive was willing to divulge Wednesday about the codenamed plan, which has been widely reported to be a search product the company is developing for China - one that would need to comply with government censorship.

The US Federal Reserve raised interest rates on Wednesday and left intact its plans to steadily tighten monetary policy, as it forecast that the US economy would enjoy at least three more years of growth.

"To put it simply, our outcomes share the same goals as the GDPR principles, but our approach is different,"

That pricing is for the 256GB model, which retails for $1,249 off contract and therefore gives Apple around $800 of profit margin to play with. This is why Apple is a trillion dollar company.

The company announced Monday at the European Conference on Optical Communications (ECOC) that samples of its silicon photonics transceivers targeting 5G wireless infrastructure and data centers are available now, with production set to start in the first quarter of 2019

This fair experience of keyboard and mouse vs. Controller will be key for developers to get right in the console world.

The filing is the latest salvo in that dispute, designed to put pressure on Apple to settle.

In line with the general performance progression for the GeForce RTX family, the RTX 2070 is slated to deliver around 75% of the RTX 2080's performance.

The phone is perhaps best described as a photography-oriented mid-ranger. It's got a 6-inch, 2,220x1,080 Super AMOLED screen, an unnamed octa-core processor (which will differ by market and mobile operator), 4/6GB of RAM and 64/128GB of storage (again, depending on market and operator), a 3,300mAh battery and Android 8.0.

Alexa-driven products Amazon launched Thursday include an anticipated AmazonBasics Microwave to a small cassette-sized gadget, Echo Auto, that will let Alexa hang out with you in the car.

Micron Technology shares swung from a gain to a loss in the extended session Thursday after the memory chip maker's outlook fell short of Wall Street estimates.

Adobe on Thursday announced that it's acquiring Marketo, a company that sells marketing software, from Vista Equity Partners for US$4.75 billion. The move could have implications for other competitors like HubSpot, Oracle, SAP and Salesforce.

On Thursday, HMD Global sent out invites for an event on Oct 4,saying it's welcoming "the latest addition to the Nokia smartphone family." It could be the Nokia 7.1 Plus.

Google recently gave its Google Fit software an overhaul that awards users "heart points." Based on an acquisition made last year, it seems Nest also has ambitious plans for the health sector.

SK ynix, a South Korean resident company of the Hi-Tech Park in Minsk, has opened an R&D software center using its own brand. The Belarusian R&D software development center is the company's only representative office in Eastern Europe. It is the first considerable investment on the part of the Korean company in the Belarusian IT market.

China on Wednesday urged India to provide a "level playing field" to Chinese telecom companies Huawei and ZTE that have been barred from testing 5G network in the country. The Indian government has reportedly excluded ZTE and Huawei from the list of telecom companies for developing 5G network in the country.

Elon Musk is one of the world's most prominent business figures. But this year, things seem to have turned sour for the tech entrepreneur.

NXP Semiconductors and Hitachi Solutions have announced a partnership to develop a new V2X solution targeted at the Japanese market. The solution will employ an NXP-developed V2X modem and processor and a full Hitachi Solutions V2X software stack.

The turnover of Vietnam's top 50 IT companies topped US$16 billion last year, according to the Vietnam Software Association.

Ampere, a developer of Arm-based server platform led by former Intel President Renee James, is rolling out this week the company's first product called eMAG.

Google Maps, Google Play and more coming to connected cars.

"Well well well, looks like Tim Cook's glad-handing has paid off."

Samsung Electro-Mechanics will add its multi-layer ceramic capacitors (MLCC) production line for automotive electronic devices in China.

The Chinese smartphone maker is soon to add smart television maker to its title with the launch of the OnePlus TV.

A New York woman claims the new Samsung Galaxy Note 9 phone "spontaneously combusted" in her purse, calling back to the Galaxy Note 7 debacle.

The US is imposing new tariffs on US$200 billion worth of Chinese goods as it escalates its trade war with Beijing. The higher import taxes will apply to almost 6,000 items, marking the biggest round of US tariffs so far.