• Microsoft said to acquire calendar app Sunrise for north of $100 million

    Microsoft said to acquire calendar app Sunrise for north of $100 million
    Microsoft is said to be acquiring Sunrise Atelier, maker of a hip calendar application that could aid in jazzing up Microsoft’s own software.Microsoft is acquiring the company for at least $100 million, TechCrunch reported Wednesday. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment. Sunrise did not immediately respond to a request for comment.Sunrise’s calendar app runs on desktop browsers, iPhones, iPads and Android devices. It pulls information from people’s local calendar apps as well as
  • Microsoft Said to Acquire Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M

    Microsoft Said to Acquire Calendar App Sunrise for North of $100M
    Microsoft is said to be acquiring Sunrise Atelier, maker of a hip calendar application that could aid in jazzing up Microsoft’s own software.
    Microsoft is acquiring the company for at least $100 million, TechCrunch reported Wednesday. A Microsoft spokeswoman declined to comment. Sunrise did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
    Sunrise’s calendar app runs on desktop browsers, iPhones, iPads and Android devices. It pulls information from people’s local calendar apps as well
  • FCC Says Net Neutrality Plan is on a 'Firm Legal Foundation'

    FCC Says Net Neutrality Plan is on a 'Firm Legal Foundation'
    Lawsuits are widely expected that would attack the sweeping net neutrality reforms proposed Wednesday by Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Tom Wheeler.
    A major concern of many wireless carriers and other Internet providers is that Wheeler's proposal would create a disincentive for future investment in services and infrastructure. Internet providers believe they would have to pass their proposals through a time-consuming and costly FCC review similar to a standard utility, effe
  • Ulbricht found guilty of all charges in Silk Road case

    Ulbricht found guilty of all charges in Silk Road case
    After little over three hours of deliberation, a Manhattan jury found Ross Ulbricht guilty on all counts of conspiracy related to running the notorious Silk Road underground online marketplace.For his work on the Silk Road website, Ulbricht has been found guilty of narcotics conspiracy, engaging in a continuing criminal enterprise, conspiracy to commit computer hacking and money laundering. The narcotics and criminal enterprise charges carry maximum penalties of life in prison. Ulbricht had p
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  • Next iPhone chip will reportedly be made by Samsung

    Next iPhone chip will reportedly be made by Samsung
    Samsung may be one of its biggest competitors, but Apple is again turning to the South Korean company to get chips made for the iPhone, according to a report.Samsung will make Apple’s next chip, which will likely be called the A9, in its newest factories running on the 14-nanometer manufacturing process, according to a news report in Re/code, which cited anonymous sources familiar with the matter.Apple designs its mobile chips in-house, but gets them made through contract manufacturers. In
  • Dell, EMC, VMware and Others Get Giddy Over Converged Infrastructure

    Dell, EMC, VMware and Others Get Giddy Over Converged Infrastructure
    IT can be complicated, so during the past few years the idea of an easy to deploy, all-in-one compute network and storage appliance has taken hold and been dubbed converged infrastructure. What started as a niche market a few years ago has blossomed into a multi-billion dollar business with many of technology’s biggest players involved.
    Some of those players, including EMC, Dell and VMware are making big moves this week to solidify their position in this fast-growing market. Gartner predic
  • A Lot of Private-Sector Data is Also Used for Public Good

    A Lot of Private-Sector Data is Also Used for Public Good
    As the private sector continues to invest in data-driven innovation, the capacity for society to benefit from this data collection grows as well. Much has been said about how the private sector is using the data it collects to improve corporate bottom lines, but positive stories about how that data contributes to the greater public good are largely unknown.
    This is unfortunate, because data collected by the private sector is being used in a variety of important ways, including to advance med
  • Microsoft Kicks Off Preview of Office for Windows 10

    Microsoft Kicks Off Preview of Office for Windows 10
    Microsoft today released previews of its touch-centric Excel, Word and PowerPoint apps for Windows 10, making good on the pledge two weeks ago to give customers an early look this month.
    However, shortly after the launch, Microsoft noted that customers were having trouble "accessing and downloading" the apps. The company said it was working on a fix. As of 12:30 p.m. PT, Microsoft had not updated its blog with new information about availability.
    The previews are available only on PCs and lar
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  • New spyware targets iOS devices, steals pictures and data

    New spyware targets iOS devices, steals pictures and data
    A team of hackers that target governments, the military and journalists has turned its attention to the iPhone, according to Trend Micro.The computer security company says it has discovered new spyware that infects iPhones, gathers large amounts of personal information and sends it to a remote server.The spyware, called XAgent, is delivered via a phishing attack using a technique called island hopping. In that, the phones of friends and associates of the true target are first infected and the
  • Back to the Future: Toshiba Touts a USB Flash Drive with Keypad Passkey

    Back to the Future: Toshiba Touts a USB Flash Drive with Keypad Passkey
    Toshiba this week announced a secure USB flash stick that uses a 10-number mini-keypad to authenticate access to data stored on the device.
    Toshiba's new Encrypted USB Flash Drive uses a similar style numeric keypad to Corsair's Flash Padlock.
    Like earlier model USB drives, Toshiba's new device uses USB 2.0 (480Mbps), not the latest USB 3.0 (4.8Gbps) interface.
    Users simply enter a PIN and plug the drive into any USB 2.0 port on a compatible device. Once access is granted, the drive "unlocks
  • BrandPost: Weather the Migration Storm

    On July 14, 2015, Microsoft will end support for Windows Server 2003. There are still an estimated 22 million Windows Server 2003 instances deployed worldwide. In the not-so-distant future, those 22 million Server 2003 deployments will be in jeopardy, and IT departments across the globe must prepare their entire technology infrastructure for migration.Remember what happened earlier this year when Windows XP reached its ultimate demise? Widespread pandemonium instilled fear into enterprise IT.
  • Southern California Edison IT Workers 'Beyond Furious' Over H-1B Replacements

    Southern California Edison IT Workers 'Beyond Furious' Over H-1B Replacements
    Information technology workers at Southern California Edison (SCE) are being laid off and replaced by workers from India. Some employees are training their H-1B visa holding replacements, and many have already lost their jobs.
    The employees are upset and say they can't understand how H-1B guest workers can be used to replace them.
    The IT organization's "transition effort" is expected to result in about 400 layoffs, with "another 100 or so employees leaving voluntarily," SCE said in a stateme
  • Russian hackers have a foothold in Sony Pictures' network, security firm says

    Russian hackers have a foothold in Sony Pictures' network, security firm says
    Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE) might have a second security breach on its hands, or maybe the hackers from November’s scandalous attack are still inside the company systems, according to a security firm that claims to have seen evidence of Russian hackers having access to SPE internal data.The hackers accessed SPE’s Culver City, California network in late 2014 by sending spear phishing emails to Sony employees in Russia, India and other parts of Asia, U.S. security intelligence firm Ta
  • Now the FTC Has its Say on Hotel Wi-Fi

    Now the FTC Has its Say on Hotel Wi-Fi
    First the FCC slapped Marriott International with a $600K fine for Wi-Fi blocking and issued a follow-up enforcement warning to the masses. Now the FTC has issued a hotel Wi-Fi warning of its own.
    This one, however, is aimed more at would-be Wi-Fi users rather than establishments offering or blocking Wi-Fi access. The warning begins:


    When you travel, have you used your hotel’s Wi-Fi – maybe to pay a few bills or catch up on a report you need to read? You may want to think twice before
  • App for business users lets you share sensitive documents -- then they disappear

    App for business users lets you share sensitive documents -- then they disappear
    Sharing secrets is nothing new in the business world, but a young startup is hoping to change how professionals do it.Emails and most other digital communications have a nasty habit of lingering, as the Sony hacks recently proved, leaving little besides face-to-face conversations as an untraceable alternative. Confide, however, has created a Snapchat-style app for the enterprise world, and the technology just got a key update.The latest version of the company’s namesake app, released on Wed
  • 12 Different Companies IBM Has Been

    12 Different Companies IBM Has Been
    IBM CEO Ginni Rometty may be readying the axImage by REUTERS/Albert GeaWith massive layoffs rumored to be in the works at IBM, it looks like the storied company is about to go through a profound transformation. But Big Blue has seen this before, going through boom-bust cycles and different focuses. IBM has in fact tried on a lot of different identities over the past hundred-plus years. You could say it's been a lot of different companies over the years -- some of them overlapping, to be sure, bu
  • Backblaze Releases Raw Data on All 41,000 HDDs in its Data Center

    Backblaze Releases Raw Data on All 41,000 HDDs in its Data Center
    Cloud data backup provider Backblaze has popped the cork on files containing raw data collected over three years on the reliability of more than 41,000 hard disk drives (HDDs) in its data center.
    Over the past 16 months, Backblaze has offered up studies and observations on the  drives. The studies include information such as failure rates and the effect of temperature on drive performance.
    Today, the company offered links to downloads of the raw data files, allowing anyone to pore over the
  • Cisco Offers ACI Alternative for Nexus 9000 Switches

    Cisco Offers ACI Alternative for Nexus 9000 Switches
    Cisco is adding a new control plane capability to its Nexus 9000 switches for customers not yet opting for or needing a full-blown application policy infrastructure.
    Cisco’s BGP Control Plane for VXLAN is designed to appeal to operators of multitenant clouds looking for familiar BGP routing protocol features with which to scale their networks and make them more flexible for the demands of cloud networking. VXLAN, which scales VLAN segmentation to 16 million endpoints, does not specify a co
  • FCC chairman says broadband should be treated as utility for net neutrality

    FCC chairman says broadband should be treated as utility for net neutrality
    The chairman of the U.S. Federal Communications Commission has proposed net neutrality rules based on reclassifying broadband as a regulated public utility and will ask fellow commissioners to approve that approach later this month.FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler, as expected, will offer net neutrality rules that reverse a long-standing agency practice of treating broadband as a lightly regulated information service, instead reclassifying it as a regulated common carrier under Title II of the Teleco
  • Turning Data into Food

    Turning Data into Food
    Monsanto
    Monsanto, the $15.8B sustainable agriculture company, develops products that allow farmers to produce more with less. In addition to providing seeds for fruits, vegetables and other key crops, Monsanto helps farmers improve soil health, farming practices and farmers’ ability to conserve natural resources. “To meet the world’s population needs in 2050, farmers will need to be producing double their yields,” says Jim Swanson, CIO.  “As part of the solution, we are using inf
  • FCC Chairman Outlines Strong Internet Protections

    FCC Chairman Outlines Strong Internet Protections
    Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler today laid out an ambitious net neutrality plan that calls for the "strongest open Internet protections ever proposed by the FCC."
    In a description of his plan posted on Wired, Wheeler said he would propose that the full commission use its Title II authority in the Telecommunications Act of 1996 to regulate Internet service providers in ways that ban payments for priority treatment of traffic or allow blocking or throttling of lawful con
  • Windows 10 Forecast: On Almost a Quarter of All PCs Within a Year

    Windows 10 Forecast: On Almost a Quarter of All PCs Within a Year
    Microsoft's decision to make Windows 10 a free upgrade could put the new OS on more than 350 million PCs within its first year, an analysis of user share data shows.
    About two-thirds of all personal computers running Windows 8.1 will take the upgrade bait in the first 12 months. A smaller but still significant percentage of Windows 7 PCs will add millions more to the Windows 10 tally, even though nearly half of those systems are in commercial or government settings, where upgrading is not le
  • Scareware found hidden in Google Play apps downloaded by millions

    Scareware found hidden in Google Play apps downloaded by millions
    Google has done a good job at keeping data-stealing Trojan apps out of Google Play, but attackers still find ways to monetize rogue apps through the store.Avast Software researchers recently found three apps on Google Play with hidden adware functionality that was designed to activate days after the apps were installed. The rogue applications—a game called Durak, an IQ test and a history app—had been downloaded millions of times.When people first install Durak, it looks and acts like a no
  • Faster mobile uploads on the way, with video apps big winners

    Faster mobile uploads on the way, with video apps big winners
    Video uploads will get a performance boost with the help of LTE technology tested by Huawei Technologies and China Mobile.So far, LTE has mainly been used to increase download speeds, but going forward more attention will be paid to letting users send data at higher speeds. A test in China showed that a 180 percent increase in upload bandwidth is possible, according to Huawei. On paper, today’s LTE networks offer upload speeds of up to 50Mbps.The improvement in LTE uplink speeds will make i
  • China demands use of real names in social media accounts

    China demands use of real names in social media accounts
    To eliminate fake social media accounts that impersonate public figures, the Chinese government has issued new rules that go much further and outlaw anonymity in blogs, social networks, discussion forums and IM services.The move, announced Wednesday, is the latest in a recent string of Chinese government actions that have increased online censorship in the country.To justify the new rules, the government said that fake accounts have been used to impersonate real groups or well-known people to
  • Microsoft Reimagined: The 10 Most Momentous Moments of Satya Nadella's First Year as CEO

    There's a new sheriff in townThe Microsoft of today is not the Microsoft of yesterday. Embrace, extend, extinguish? That's all gone, replaced by a new era of openness and collaboration. The Windows 8 debacle? It’s quickly being forgotten thanks to the far more palatable Windows 10.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
  • Samsung (probably) dethroned in India by local rival Micromax

    Samsung (probably) dethroned in India by local rival Micromax
    Samsung Electronics has lost its top position in the Indian smartphone market to local player Micromax, according to research firm Canalys, but the South Korean company is contesting the figures.The dispute comes in the wake of reports that Samsung lost its number-one ranking in China’s smartphone market. Six months ago, Canalys announced that Xiaomi had beaten Samsung to the top spot in China, while IDC put Lenovo first, Xiaomi second, and Samsung third.Micromax had a 22 percent share of t
  • BrandPost: 6 Reasons Why You Can't Use A Services Grid To Make All Your IT Outsourcing Decisions

    BrandPost: 6 Reasons Why You Can't Use A Services Grid To Make All Your IT Outsourcing Decisions
    I’ve been on the buyer side of the information technology (IT) outsourcing equation, so I know how it works. The majority of the time, companies reduce selection criteria to a commoditized IT services grid. In such a grid, services are put along one axis and potential vendors along the other. Services are checked off, and the vendor with the most checks (and the best price) wins.The assumption, of course, is that packaged or pre-defined services are all that matter. Unfortunately, falling p
  • The Definitive Fitbit Buying Guide

    The Definitive Fitbit Buying Guide
    Do you have your eye on the new Fitbit Charge? Or would you rather a Surge, Flex or Zip?You can now choose from a total of six different Fitbit activity tracking devices. As a longtime Fitbit user, I've tested all the available models, along with two trackers that were discontinued (Ultra and Force), as well as the company's Aria Wi-Fi-connected scale. If you're thinking about joining the sweaty ranks of Fitbit users, here's a guide to help choose the right device for you.Fitbit Zip
    Fitbit
  • It’s Time For the Chip-and-PIN’ing of America

    It’s Time For the Chip-and-PIN’ing of America
    Thank goodness for that signature on the back of my credit card. If it weren’t for that smudged scrawl, a thief might steal my card (or card number) and make fraudulent purchases. Or steal my identity. Right. 
    Each month, it seems, we learn of another large-scale data breach at a major retailer or financial house — Target, JPMorgan, Home Depot. On a smaller scale, most of us have probably received a call from our credit card company or bank reporting “suspicious activity.” But have
  • 5 Top Enterprise-Grade Business Gadgets

    5 Top Enterprise-Grade Business Gadgets
    As we roll further into 2015, it’s time to look back at the business gadgets that changed how we stay productive. These are the top picks for business professionals who travel frequently, who run presentations at work, who need to connect with colleagues, or who have to focus on getting work done before closing time.[ Related: The 10 Greatest and Goofiest Gadgets of 2014 ][ Related: Forecast 2015: IT Spending on an Upswing ] To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click h
  • Quick and Dirty Is a Sure Way to Fail at Social CRM

    Quick and Dirty Is a Sure Way to Fail at Social CRM
    Social media and user-generated content (UGC) are so effective because they don’t come from the vendor. Customers and users of your product/service are much more credible than your best salesman and clearest marketing campaign. This better not be news for your executives.The problem is that effectively leveraging social media and UGC requires a lot of sophistication of your staff and some pretty elaborate IT infrastructure. Too many firms go on a social media binge without making the necess
  • BrandPost: Please Don't Pass the Hash: Five Steps to Mitigate Attacks

    BrandPost: Please Don't Pass the Hash: Five Steps to Mitigate Attacks
    Hackers have been launching credential-stealing “pass-the-hash” PtH attacks for at least 15 years, and not just against Windows systems. Today, these devastating attacks can be successfully mounted against any operating system or authentication protocol. In these attacks, an intruder – or employee – steals the logon credentials from a compromised computer and acquires the user’s password hash from the computer’s memory or file system. With this authentication token, the attacker c
  • IDG Contributor Network: Microsoft Surface Hub Could Solve Enterprise Collaboration Problems

    IDG Contributor Network: Microsoft Surface Hub Could Solve Enterprise Collaboration Problems
    At boutique analyst firm Moor Insights & Strategy, we do a lot of work predicting the future of the workplace and its related technologies. Our view of the workplace of the future has more employees on the move and who work remotely for different companies at the same time. Microsoft's most recent foray into solving some of the challenges of that workplace future is hardware called the Microsoft Surface Hub.The Surface Hub surprised me and others when Microsoft announced it alongside the
  • EU data protection authorities get serious about Facebook's privacy policy

    EU data protection authorities get serious about Facebook's privacy policy
    The European Union’s data protection authorities are getting serious about issues with Facebook’s new privacy policy. They have formed a task force which will deal with part of the policy that could very well violate EU privacy laws.The task force was formed on Tuesday during a meeting of European data protection authorities and will be led by Belgium, the Netherlands, Germany and perhaps Italy, said the spokeswoman for Bart Tommelein, Belgium’s state secretary for privacy.The move was
  • The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, February 4

    The Upload: Your tech news briefing for Wednesday, February 4
    ARM introduces its most powerful smartphone chip yetThe company that powers your smartphones and tablets has introduced its most powerful chip design, the Cortex-A72, which should find its way into gadgets early next year. ARM Holdings says the A72 will provide 3.5 times the performance of its current Cortex-A15 design, and will help to enable continued improvements in areas such as mobile gaming, voice control and video streaming.SAP’s new enterprise suite runs on HanaTo read this article
  • IDG Contributor Network: Have Zombies Attacked Your Organization?

    IDG Contributor Network: Have Zombies Attacked Your Organization?
    Does it feel like zombies have attacked your organization? Is there a population of walking dead holding you back and causing poor performance?For quite some time, I have advocated and observed that among most work teams with any size, there will be a distribution of talent that looks something like this:1. The top 20 percent – the folks you can always count on, and the ones you tend to turn to most often.2. The bottom 20 percent - employees who have developed behavior patterns that are rep
  • Is Social Media Recruiting Dead?

    Is Social Media Recruiting Dead?
    Last November, Facebook announced in a blog post a "significant decrease in distribution" of marketing and promotional posts from large brands.

    Earlier in the year, research firm Ogilvy reported that these large brands' Facebook posts reached just 2 percent of their fans (a number that was falling by .5 percent per month). And earlier this year a Forrester study showed that on average, only .07 percent of top brands' Facebook fans interact with each of their posts.

    Forrester analyst Nate
  • ARM taps China to bring chip designs to emerging markets

    ARM taps China to bring chip designs to emerging markets
    To bring its microprocessor designs to emerging markets, ARM Holdings is looking to China and its growing number of electronics vendors to help pave the way.“The Greater China region is becoming a key market to ARM, not just in terms of market share,” said Allen Wu, ARM’s Greater China president.The U.K. chip designer has already been riding high on demand for consumer gadgets in the country. Its microprocessor cores, incorporated into the processors designed by companies including Appl
  • How to Create an Effective Data Security Communication Plan

    How to Create an Effective Data Security Communication Plan
    In today’s global office, IT security leadership spends a great deal of time and resources creating a defense-in-depth approach to data security. This often includes layering on both logical and physical solutions as well as detailing out policies and procedures for accessing company data in a secure manner.
    However, at the end of the day, this information is regularly being retrieved and used by the workforce at large and only including an overview on data security in an employee handbook
  • APT Developers Not as Smart as They're Made Out to Be

    APT Developers Not as Smart as They're Made Out to Be
    Criminal hackers aren't as smart as those portrayed in the movies and on TV, according to a new report from Sophos Ltd. -- but those behind advanced persistent threats are even dumber.
    To measure hackers intelligence, SophosLabs' principal researcher Gabor Szappanos picked a particular exploit that went after a vulnerability in Microsoft Office. The exploit only targeted a specific version of Microsoft Office, but could have been modified to infect other versions, as well.
    Then he looked at
  • 9 Typing Tips Every Android and iOS User Should Know

    9 Typing Tips Every Android and iOS User Should Know
    Wish it were a little easier to type in ALL CAPS on your Android or iPhone, or ever get stumped while looking for the em dash? What about typing letters with accent marks, or dealing with cumbersome URLs? Or maybe you’re just hankering for an alternative to tapping on a slippery glass screen.
    Read on for 9 ways to make typing on your iPhone, iPad, or Android device a little easier, from how to turn on “caps lock” to a simple shortcut to the exclamation mark.1. “.com” made easy (iOS
  • 8 Ways to Master Change Management

    8 Ways to Master Change Management
    Tech Data CIO John Tonnison doesn't mince words about change management. "The CIO's job is change management," he says. "To do it poorly is fatal."To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here(Insider Story)
  • Satya Nadella at One Year: Grading Microsoft's CEO

    Satya Nadella at One Year: Grading Microsoft's CEO
    Make no mistake: A year after he succeeded Steve Ballmer in the job, CEO Satya Nadella firmly controls Microsoft's fate.
    Nadella took office on Feb. 4, 2014, and his early reign was handcuffed by Ballmer-era inertia -- and Ballmer-era flubs, particularly around mobile devices.[ Find out what Windows 10 means for enterprises and take a first look at Microsoft's new OS. | Stay up on key Microsoft technologies with InfoWorld's Enterprise Windows blog and Microsoft newsletter. ]

    By about the si
  • Microsoft .Net's Execution Engine Goes Open Source

    Microsoft .Net's Execution Engine Goes Open Source
    Continuing with plans to open up its software development technologies, Microsoft this week open-sourced CoreCLR, the .Net execution engine in the .Net Core platform.
    CoreCLR performs functions such as garbage collection and compilation to machine code, providing a modular implementation of .Net that can be used as the base stack for a variety of scenarios, the Microsoft .Net team said in a blog post on Tuesday. In turn, .Net Core can scale from console utilities to Web apps to the cloud. �
  • Ford Drives Scheduling with Artificial Intelligence

    Ford Drives Scheduling with Artificial Intelligence
    At Ford Motor Co., managers were struggling to work out a schedule for the growing number of people in a three-year program for new hires fresh out of college.
    They were caught in a quagmire of employee requests, the need for rotational assignments and a growing number of participants and jobs. Even with a group of people working on the schedule, the project was taking too much time and effort -- and getting worse.
    For Ford, the answer came from a new hire in the very program that needed fix
  • Sony hack cost $15 million, but earnings unaffected

    Sony hack cost $15 million, but earnings unaffected
    Sony has put an estimate to the damage caused by the massive cyberattack against Sony Pictures Entertainment last year—US$15 million.In an earnings report for the quarter to Dec. 31, Sony said that the sum involved “investigation and remediation costs” related to the cyberattack that began in late November.The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation held North Korea responsible for the attack, which came ahead of the planned release by Sony of a comedy movie about a plot to assassinate the
  • US backs IEEE move to modify rules for standards patents

    US backs IEEE move to modify rules for standards patents
    The U.S. Department of Justice has backed a move by the IEEE Standards Association to modify the rules governing patents that go into making standards, so as to curb excessive royalties and attempts to ban rival products that implement the patents.The proposed rules, for example, exclude any benefits from the inclusion of the technology of an essential patent claim in a standard of the IEEE in the calculation of a “reasonable rate” of compensation to the patent holder.The update would als
  • MobileIron seeks to secure corporate data on personal clouds

    MobileIron seeks to secure corporate data on personal clouds
    When restrictive IT policies push employees to personal smartphone apps to share corporate data, the security of that information is at risk. On Wednesday, MobileIron will release an update to its Content Security Service that seeks to plug that hole.One report suggests two out of every five U.S. workers turns to consumer apps on their phones when doing business, partly because of familiarity and partly because they often are a quick way to get work done. But that can mean corporate data ends
  • Buying Uber might give Google a ride into the future

    Buying Uber might give Google a ride into the future
    Google CEO Larry Page likes to talk about taking “big bets” into new areas like driverless cars and delivery services. An acquisition of Uber might be a gamble that could pay off for both companies.The companies are heading in some of the same directions. Both Uber and Google are now working on driverless car technology and transportation and delivery services. On Monday, Uber announced the creation of the “Uber Advanced Technologies Center” in Pittsburgh through a partnership with Ca

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