Eric David

Eric David is a staff writer for SiliconANGLE, covering the latest trends in social media and gaming. He is an avid gamer and enjoys writing about innovations in the video game industry and gaming culture in general. Eric graduated from the University of Texas at Dallas, receiving major honors for his thesis "A Culture of Heresy: Explaining the Resiliency of Catharism and the Church's Response," which is every bit as exciting as it sounds. Eric lives in Dallas, Texas with his wife, dog and gaming PC.

Latest from Eric David

Toshiba finally picks preferred bidder for its chip business, and it’s not Foxconn

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Japanese electronics company Toshiba Corp. has been looking to sell its lucrative flash memory business for more than half a year, and interested businesses included some of the biggest companies in the tech industry. Today, Toshiba finally announced its preferred bidder for …

Cybersecurity firm Cybereason scores $100M investment from Softbank

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Several high-profile cyberattacks this year have shown businesses that cybersecurity is as vital as ever. That’s good news for security startups such as Cybereason Inc., which today announced an unusually large $100 million late-stage funding round from SoftBank Corp. SoftBank has invested in …

Amazon Prime Wardrobe is a new ‘try before you buy’ clothes service

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. has come a long way since its days as a simple online bookseller, which it demonstrated last week when it bought upscale grocery chain Whole Foods Market Inc. for $13.7 billion. Today, the ecommerce giant once again branched out into new …

Keypr raises $12.8M to build cloud-based mobile services for hotels

CLOUD By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Cloud startup Keypr wants to make it easy for hotels to build mobile experiences for their guests, and today the Los Angeles-based company announced that it has just closed a $12.8 million funding round to expand its platform. Founded in 2013, Keypr provides a …

Voter records for 200M Americans leaked in ‘largest known data exposure of its kind’

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

The voter records of more than 198 million Americans have been compromised in what some security experts are calling “the largest known data exposure of its kind.” Deep Root Analytics, a data firm working for the Republican National Committee, had stored 1.1 terabytes of …

Buy Slack? Pffft. Instead, Amazon gobbles up Whole Foods in $13.7B deal

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

It looks like Amazon.com Inc. is even more serious about getting into the grocery business than anyone thought, as the e-commerce giant has just swallowed up Whole Foods Market Inc. in a deal that cements Amazon’s intention to apply its fearsome technology and …

Facebook asks help to answer the ‘hard questions’ of running a global community

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. turned 13 years old this year, and the social media giant is still coming to grips with the fact that its platform now includes nearly 2 billion people, more than a quarter of the Earth’s population. Saying it does not …

Amazon’s forgotten Dash Wand gets Alexa and Prime users get it virtually free

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Amazon.com Inc. is giving another shot to the Dash Wand, a small, connected gadget with a barcode scanner that is supposed to make it easy to reorder groceries and other household items. The Dash Wand never seemed to enjoy the same popularity …

Facebook made an almost sneaky AI that negotiates better deals for itself

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Can we use artificial intelligence to solve our everyday disagreements? Facebook Inc. thinks so, and today the social media giant published a paper that shows how an AI could be used to negotiate like a human. The paper was published by researchers from the …

Privacy-focused voice AI startup Snips raises $13M

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Artificial intelligence startup Snips announced today that it has raised $13 million for its privacy-focused voice AI platform, which gives app makers an alternative to first-party services such as Amazon.com Inc.’s smart assistant Alexa. The funding round was led by Korelya Capital …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Toshiba finally picks preferred bidder for its chip business, and it’s not Foxconn

Cybersecurity firm Cybereason scores $100M investment from Softbank

Amazon Prime Wardrobe is a new ‘try before you buy’ clothes service

Keypr raises $12.8M to build cloud-based mobile services for hotels

Voter records for 200M Americans leaked in ‘largest known data exposure of its kind’

Buy Slack? Pffft. Instead, Amazon gobbles up Whole Foods in $13.7B deal

Amazon’s forgotten Dash Wand gets Alexa and Prime users get it virtually free

Privacy-focused voice AI startup Snips raises $13M

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