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Samsung’s Increasing Interest in Autonomous Driving Technology

The Samsung Electronics Company has announced its intention to invest 75 million euros in a Vienna (Austria) based company, called TTTech.  TTTech create and develop autonomous driving technologies along with safety controls for various car companies, including Audi.  Samsung is showing an increased interest in this technology. Samsung has recently completed the purchase of Harman.  …

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Brazil: Vice President of Facebook freed from jail

Vice President of Facebook freed from jail The Vice President of Facebook (Latin America) was arrested but after spending one night in jail, the decision was overturned by a higher court.  The charges related to a criminal investigation into drug trafficking, and the investigators requested access to Facebook’s Messenger program, and WhatsApp in order to …

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China’s New Satellite and its Global Impact…

What is China’s New Satellite? China’s new satellite will be able to use space as a medium for experiments involving quantum science.  Some believe this will initiate another space race.  If the experiments are successful, once the satellite is launched this year, china will no doubt continue to attempt to build a network, using an …

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Why Has Verizon Purchased a Company such as Yahoo?

Yahoo is not the most successful internet company, so its purchase of Yahoo for more than $4 billion dollars has left many in the technology community wondering why.  What are the plans for Yahoo? Various executives and journalists have suggested that, in the past, the amalgamation of telecommunications and content companies has not proved to …

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Yahoo ‘For Sale’

As the struggling internet company formed a committee to oversee the options, investors saw it as a positive move, while a hedge fund started a proxy battle with the company.  The shares jumped as it was announced that investment banks and a law firm would oversee the process. Recently, various shareholders, including Starboard Value (a …

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