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T. Rowe Price marks down investment in Apptio and other private tech companies, yet another sign of a cooling market

Posted on January 23, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Apptio CEO Sunny Gupta at the company's HQ in Bellevue

T. Rowe Price sunk gobs of money into companies such as Cloudera, Dropbox, Apptio and Evernote in recent years, oftentimes at lofty valuations. Now, the giant mutual fund manager is resetting some of those bets. According...

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Boeing will ratchet down 747 production in Everett to one every two months

Posted on January 22, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

The Boeing Co. says it will cut back the production rate for its 747 jets to one every two months and report an $ 885 million pre-tax charge against earnings, due to the slower-than-expected recovery of the air...

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SoCal city cracks down on drones after one downed power lines

Posted on January 22, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

(credit: Richard Cabrera)

Hollywood as an industry may be excited about drones but the Southern California city of West Hollywood is not. Three months ago, an errant drone in West Hollywood crashed into some electrical wires, cutting one to the ground. The collision caused almost 700 residents to lose power for three hours, according to the Los...

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GM buys Uber rival Sidecar, which shut down in December

Posted on January 20, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

(credit: Photo illustration by Aurich Lawson)

General Motors has acquired the technology and most of the employees behind the now-defunct ride-hailing startup Sidecar, according to Bloomberg. Sidecar Co-founder and CEO Sunil Paul will apparently not be joining the company, but no explanation was given as to why.

The deal bolsters GM’s move into the driverless quasi-taxi space—earlier...

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Bernie Sanders lawyers to Wikipedia: Take down our logo, you’re violating DMCA [Updated]

Posted on January 17, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

(credit: berniesanders.com)

A lawyer representing Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders has demanded that several of the campaign's logos be removed from Wikipedia, saying that reproducing the logos violate copyright law. The Wikimedia Foundation has complied with the DMCA takedown notice and removed the notices.

It's fairly surprising that the campaign would seek to ban wide distribution of its logos, which are...

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Netflix cracks down on customers using VPNs, proxies, and unblockers

Posted on January 15, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

Netflix is aiming to block unblocking services like this one. (credit: TVUnblock)

Netflix says it will step up enforcement against subscribers who use VPNs, proxies, and unblocking services to mask their locations. This will help Netflix prevent customers from watching video that isn't licensed for viewing in their country, but it may also affect people who use location-spoofing services...

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After neighbor shot down his drone, Kentucky man files federal lawsuit

Posted on January 6, 2016 by verx in Science & patent news

(credit: William Merideth)

The Kentucky man whose drone was shot down by his neighbor last year has now filed a federal lawsuit, asking the court to make a legal determination as to whether his drone’s July 2015 flight constituted trespass. In the case, plaintiff David Boggs also wants the court to rule that he is entitled to...

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Uber, Lyft competitor Sidecar shuts down to “work on strategic alternatives”

Posted on December 30, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

Sidecar and its rivals, Lyft and Tickengo, hope to make carsharing in San Francisco more social and more efficient. (credit: Sidecar)

Rideshare and delivery company Sidecar announced on Tuesday that it would be shuttering its services at 2pm Pacific Time, December 31, 2015.

Sidecar was one of the pioneering rideshare services, along with Lyft and Uber, but...

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Judge, siding with Google, refuses to shut down Waze in wake of alleged theft

Posted on December 22, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

(credit: Kārlis Dambrāns)

Google, the owner of the traffic app Waze, has managed to beat back a copyright lawsuit filed by lesser-known rival PhantomAlert.

Back in September 2015 PhantomAlert sued Google over allegations of copyright infringement. Google purchased Waze in June 2013 for over $ 1 billion. PhantomAlert alleged that after a failed data-sharing deal between...

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Martin Shkreli steps down as CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals

Posted on December 18, 2015 by verx in Science & patent news

Martin Shkreli, chief executive officer of Turing Pharmaceuticals LLC, exits federal court in New York, US, on Thursday, December 17, 2015. Shkreli was arrested on alleged securities fraud related to Retrophin Inc., a biotech firm he founded in 2011. (credit: Louis Lanzano/Bloomberg via Getty Images)

Martin Shkreli, founder of Turing Pharmaceuticals, has resigned as chief...

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