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

Claiming it’s ‘double the scale’ of Apple Music, Spotify files to go public

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Music streaming company Spotify Technology SA officially announced its plans to go public today, and the company’s paperwork confirmed last month’s rumors that Spotify is not taking the usual initial public offering route. Rather than raising funds through an IPO, Spotify will instead public through what is …

Facebook rolls out job search to more than 40 new countries

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. added its first job search features more than a year ago, but so far they have been available only in the U.S. and Canada. That changed today, as Facebook announced that it is rolling its job search tools out to more …

Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $90M to work with, not against, big automakers

EMERGING TECH By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Silicon Valley has almost as many self-driving cars companies as it does actual self-driving cars, but there still seems to be plenty of funding to go around — at least for now. Palo Alto-based startup Aurora Innovation Inc. is the latest autonomous vehicle company to woo investors, and it announced …

Facebook launches $3M accelerator to help newspapers sell more digital subscriptions

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. announced today that it has launched the Facebook Journalism Project: Local News Subscriptions Accelerator, a $3 million pilot program that will teach local news outlets how to grow their digital subscriber numbers. Campbell Brown, Facebook’s head of news partnerships, said in a …

Why Google rejects half of all ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Google LLC has received more than 2.4 million “Right to be Forgotten” requests since the EU passed the digital privacy laws in 2014, but the search giant revealed today that it has denied more than half of them. The Right to be Forgotten laws …

Cybersecurity firm PhishMe acquired at $400M valuation, rebrands as Cofense

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

PhishMe Inc., a security startup that protects businesses from phishing attacks and other cyberthreats, announced today that it has been acquired by private equity consortium at a valuation of $400 million. According to Fortune, the equity group includes Pamplona Capital Management, which bought …

Airbnb Plus targets wealthy guests with higher standards

APPS By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Airbnb Inc. celebrated its 10-year anniversary today by announcing some new changes coming to its vacation rental platform. The company is adding a few new property types like bed-and-breakfasts and vacation homes, and it is also launching Airbnb Plus, a new tier of hosts that must …

Facebook mentors seven UK startups at its first in-house incubator

PEOPLE By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Facebook Inc. announced in December that it would be launching its own in-house incubator to help mentor promising U.K.-based tech startups, and now the company’s LDN_LAB has officially opened its doors for its first cohort. LDN_LAB is part of Facebook’s new London office, which …

Worried about shortages, Apple may buy battery minerals directly from miners

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

Apple Inc. is in talks with mining companies to secure a direct supply of minerals before demand from the booming electric car industry causes a shortage. According to sources familiar with the matter, Bloomberg reported today, Apple is hoping to buy cobalt directly from miners in a deal that …

Samsung crammed 30TB of storage into a palm-sized SSD

INFRA By ERIC DAVID9 YEARS AGO

It has been a little over two years since Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. bragged about having the world’s highest-capacity solid-state drive, which had an impressive 15.36 terabytes of storage. The company seems intent on keeping that record, as it unveiled a new SSD today that …

Eric David

Latest from Eric David

Claiming it’s ‘double the scale’ of Apple Music, Spotify files to go public

Self-driving car startup Aurora raises $90M to work with, not against, big automakers

Facebook launches $3M accelerator to help newspapers sell more digital subscriptions

Why Google rejects half of all ‘right to be forgotten’ requests

Cybersecurity firm PhishMe acquired at $400M valuation, rebrands as Cofense

Airbnb Plus targets wealthy guests with higher standards

Worried about shortages, Apple may buy battery minerals directly from miners

Samsung crammed 30TB of storage into a palm-sized SSD

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