Salesforce Beats In Its FQ1 With Revenue Of $1.23B, Up 37%

Israel’s startup ecosystem raised record amounts of funding and produced 19 IPOs in 2020, despite the pandemic. Now tech companies across industries are poised for an even better year, according to more than a dozen investors we talked to in the country.

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This week kicked off with a report of a GitHub worker who was fired after cautioning his coworkers in the DC area to stay safe from Nazis during the assault on the U.S. Capitol. Meanwhile,

A failed acquisition usually triggers the same series of questions: What does this mean for early-stage startups in the sector? Will a chilling effect occur and hurt valuations? Will VCs stop funding this category? How will the exit environment look going forward?

Last CES was a time of reckoning for lidar companies, many of which were cratering due to a lack of demand from a (still) non-existent autonomous vehicle industry. The few that excelled did so by specializing, and this year the trend has pushed beyond lidar,

Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app industry is as hot as ever, with a record 218 billion downloads and $143 billion in global consumer spend in 2020.

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Fresh off the heels of another massive $200 million funding round which values the company at $5 billion, Pinterest is preparing to announce a new initiative that will allow businesses to gain a better understanding of Pinterest trends,

Earlier today Rep. Doris Matsui called for a Congressional hearing on the proposed deals between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, and AT&T and DirecTV. The massive deals would further consolidate the pay-TV and broadband industries. The proposed transactions are quite controversial.

Autopilot, the marketing automation platform formerly known as Bislr, today announced that it has raised a $10 million Series B funding round led by Rembrandt Venture Partners, with participation from Southern Cross Venture Partners, Blackbird and personal investments from Tim Draper,

幸福靠勤劳双手创造，梦想靠自强不息成真，中华复兴靠全中国的劳动者艰苦奋斗！吉祥物以我们的双手为原形设计。双手承载着梦想与希望。代表了创造力，携手奋斗的精神，吉祥物整体简洁，生动，亲和可爱。

Amazon has poured $20 million in Yummy77, a food delivery site based in Shanghai. Yummy77 confirmed the funding in a post on Weibo and said it will use the capital to expand into new markets and help Amazon's China site expand its selection of goods.

三星旗舰Galaxy S5的变种机型Mini今天终于彻底出现在我们面前，两张清晰的泄露图完整揭露了它的全貌，GS5 Mini配备了4.5英寸720p Super AMOLED屏幕，800万像素摄像头，未经宣布的Exynos 3 1.4GHz四核处理器，目标市场为中端主流。

今日，58同城与新鸿基旗下小额贷款公司亚洲联合财务有限公司（下称“亚洲联合财务”）达成战略合作，共同进军互联网金融。

There will probably never be such a thing as "the perfect" lock, but a new Bluetooth padlock seems to come pretty closeNoke (pronounced "no key") is a padlock that, once paired with your iOS or Android device, automatically unlocks when it senses you're nearSee also:

Katana是微软对OWIN（基于.NET的开放Web接口）标准自行开发的一套实现方案，随着版本3的发布，Kanata目前已经完整地支持了.NET 4.5中新加入的异步编程模型。 By Jonathan Allen Translated by 邵思华

Blindly agreeing to a jargon-filled Terms of Service without reading it is a fairly common occurrence. But one security firm's latest experiment might make you reconsider that decision.In Canada Square, London,

Apple found its smile again. After a year without breaching a single new product category, a year when product rollout events began to feel like dour requirements instead of tech entertainment, Apple turned it around in 2014. Like the Apple of old,

10日凌晨，美国知名科技博客网站GigaOm在其官方网站发出公告，称因资金告罄，公司运营活动全面停止，资产将由债权人全权处理。

进入 2015 年，人类从陆地出击向天空进发的脚步似乎越来越快。除了越来越逆天的无人机，个人飞行器产品也突然爆发。