Google Buying Fitbit for $7.35 Per Share
SAN FRANCISCO — Fitbit, Inc. maker of smartwatches and fitness devices, said it will be acquired by Google LLC...
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Fitbit to Move Production From China
SAN FRANCISCO — Fitbit, maker of fitness trackers and smartwatches, announced a plan to shift its manufacturing operations outside...
DoorDash Offering One Million Dollars and One Million Big Macs
SAN FRANCISCO — Delivery service DoorDash is promoting the nationwide rollout of McDelivery with McDonald’s by offering 1 million...
Outback Steakhouse Teams Up With Doordash for Delivery
Bloomin’ Brands, parent company of restaurant chains Outback Steakhouse and Carrabba’s Italian Grill, is expanding its delivery platform through...
Roku to Sell Smart Soundbar, Wireless Subwoofer
LOS GATOS –Looking to expand beyond streaming media devices for TVs, Roku unveiled a new portfolio of premium audio...
Panera Signs Deal With Major Delivery Apps
Panera Bread, the national sandwich and salad chain with over 2,100 cafes, has inked a deal for a presence...
Uber Hires New Marketing VP
Ridesharing giant Uber has hired Thomas Ranese as its new Vice President of Global Marketing. The move comes after...
Plug and Play Teams Up With Amazon
SUNNYVALE — Tech accelerator Plug and Play has formed their newest innovation program focused on Media & Advertising with...
Blackmagic Unveils 6K Camera
FREMONT – Blackmagic Design has unveiled the Pocket Cinema Camera 6K, a new handheld digital film camera with a...
Broadcam Buys Symantec Name, Security Business for $10.7 Billion
MOUNTAIN VIEW — Cyber security company Symantec Corp. is selling its Enterprise Security assets, which include the Symantec name,...
Doordash Gobbles Up Caviar for $410 Million
SAN FRANCISCO — DoorDash, the nation’s largest food-delivery service, has struck a deal with Square to acquire its Caviar...
Microsoft to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI
SAN FRANCISCO — Microsoft Corp. has formed a partnership with research firm OpenAI where it will invest $1 billion...
Apple to Buy Intel’s Smartphone Modem Business
Apple has agreed to acquire the majority of Intel’s smartphone modem business for $1 billion. Approximately 2,200 Intel employees...
Facebook to Pay $5 Billion FTC Fine
The Federal Trade Commission has hit Facebook, Inc. with a record-breaking $5 billion penalty, and will require the social...
Apple Updates Laptops, Gets Rid of Macbook
CUPERTINO — Apple has updated its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro laptops just in time for back-to-school season. The...
Google to Invest $1 Billion in Building 20,000 Homes
Google is one of the Bay Area’s largest employers. It has headquarters in Mountain View and is looking to...
Cisco Paying $2.6 Billion Cash for Acacia
Cisco has agreed to buy Acacia Communications for about $2.6 billion. An existing Cisco supplier, Maynard, MA-based Acacia designs...
Doordash Beats Grubhub in Delivery Sales
Doordash has eclipsed Grubhub in the month of May to become the leading food delivery service in the nation...
HP Buys Oneflow Systems
PALO ALTO — HP said it has agreed to acquire OneFlow Systems, a leading provider of cloud-based print workflow...
Dishcraft Bringing Robots to Commercial Kitchens
SAN CARLOS — Restaurants may no longer need human dishwashers in the future. Dishcraft has unveiled the first automated...
Rockwell Opens New Electric Vehicle Center in Silicon Valley
SAN JOSE –Rockwell Automation, a provider of solutions and services to the automotive industry, has opened a new 8,000...
Facebook to Launch New Currency in 2020
Facebook said it plans to launch its own currency in 2020. Calibra is a newly formed Facebook subsidiary that...
Doordash Wins Chili’s Delivery Business
Chili’s Grill & Bar, one of the nation’s largest sit-down restaurant chains, has chosen DoorDash as its exclusive delivery...
Target Stores Go Down
Target, the nation’s second-largest discount retailer, has suffered a systems outage affecting all stores and making it impossible to...