Amazon.com Inc.’s Alexa everywhere strategy is paying off. The company said Saturday that its smart assistant now works with more than 20,000 different devices. Daniel Rausch, vice president of Amazon’s Smart Home group, revealed the number to an audience at the IFA tech show in Berlin Saturday along with a number of other insights into just ...

Richard Liu, the chief executive officer of JD.com, China’s second-largest e-commerce firm after Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., was arrested by police in Minneapolis Friday on suspicion of criminal sexual conduct and later released. The details of the alleged conduct have not been disclosed but police have confirmed that Liu (left) was arrested Friday evening, then ...

Despite being knocked back on its application to offer electric scooters in San Francisco, Uber Technologies Inc. has committed itself to engineer its own scooter to compete in the burgeoning e-scooter market. The San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency issued two permits for e-scooter companies Thursday, bringing back scooters to the streets of a city which is ...

People who live in multilingual homes (the author included) understand the frustration with apps and software that only support one language or the other. Typing a search query isn’t a major bother in different languages and scripts, but using voice queries involves having to change the language settings. That is, until now. Google LLC announced today ...

Palo Alto-based artificial intelligence startup Diffbot Inc. today launched what it claims is the world’s largest structured, enterprise-ready database of human knowledge ever created. According to the company, the Diffbot Knowledge Graph is 500 times larger than Google LLC’s own Knowledge Graph and growing autonomously every day. It’s launching with more than 1 trillion facts and ...

Singapore-based cryptocurrency startup Terra is the latest to attempt to establish a tradable “stablecoin,” raising $32 million today from a number of leading exchanges in an attempt to bring its white paper to reality. Leading the investment were Binance Labs, OKEx, Huobi Capital and Dunamu, representing a spectrum of very large Asian cryptocurrency firms and, as ...

Air Canada Inc. is advising customers of their mobile app to reset their passwords after the company said it detected a potential data breach. The airline said in a notice to customers Tuesday that it detected “unusual login behavior” between Aug. 22 and 24. “We immediately took action to block these attempts and implemented additional protocols ...

Police in China are investigating the theft of data from a major hotel group after 130 million customer records were discovered for sale on the shady part of the web called the darknet. The data pertains to the Chinese hotel group Huazhu Hotels Group Ltd., a Nasdaq-listed company with 3,903 hotels run under a range ...

Seeking to raise at least $100 million and probably more, SurveyMonkey Inc. today formally filed to go public following the submission a S1 draft registration statement in June. Founded in 2009, the company offers a cloud-based online survey and questionnaire tool that has become synonymous with online surveys in the same way as Google with search. ...

Investment firm Morgan Creek Digital today teamed up with Bitwise Asset Management Fund Inc. to create a new cryptocurrency fund designed for institutional investors. Called The Digital Asset Index Fund, the fund holds investments in the top ten cryptocurrencies based on their market share. At launch, bitcoin holds nearly 70 percent of the index’s shares, followed by ...