Which leads to another potential problem: wouldn't 10x's nascent business be crushed if some major Hollywood agents decided to open a tech division in San Francisco?
If the acquisition goes as planned, the Sanyo consumer tech division, which is losing money, will likely be scrapped or cannibalized.
Toyota said today it will invest 7.5 billion JPY — $68 million — in taxi firm Nihon Kotsu's tech division to develop an on-demand service for passengers and drivers.
TechCrunch's Verizon-owned parent, Oath, an ad tech division made from the merging of AOL and Yahoo, has agreed to pay around $5 million to settle charges that it violated a federal children's privacy law.
Despite Asus' industry heft, analysts says college students probably will buy mainstream computers to handle their prodigious photo uploading, game playing and video watching, rather than "netbooks" like the Eee PC. "College kids tend to be pretty heavy-duty computer users," says Steve Baker, director of industry analysis for the NPD Group's tech division.
The Internet.org Connectivity team that tests apps under weak connections, the Oculus VR squad, Facebook's mysterious new Building 8 pioneer tech division, and its Infrastructure teams that build servers and data center can now bounce ideas off each other in a shared home.
As part of the settlement the ad tech division of Verizon has agreed to create a COPPA compliance program, to be overseen by a dedicated executive or officer; and to provide annual training on COPPA compliance to account managers and other employees who work with ads on kids' websites.
Walmart probably isn't the first company that comes to mind when you think about open-source software (or the second or third, really), but WalmartLabs, Walmart's innovation-focused tech division, has already launched a number of open-source projects into the wild.
Colonel Oscar González of the high tech division of the Peruvian police stated that the U.S. federal investigation was interested in information related to Holloway's disappearance and the alleged extortion of her family.
According to the AOL press release, Kline will focus on the company's corporate marketing, as well as its advertising and ad-tech divisions (in other words, not on its consumer brands).
