Tesla Inc hires Snap Inc’s VP of Monetization Engineering

Tesla has hired Snap Inc’s Stuart Bowers who will now be its vice president of engineering. Electric carmaker Tesla Inc stated it has hired Stuart Bowers, Snap Inc’s vice president of monetization engineering, as its VP of engineering. He will work on Tesla’s Autopilot software and other projects. In recent days, several senior executives have…

Security researchers find more vulnerabilities in Intel’s, AMD’s and ARM Holdings’ chips

Known as Speculative Store Bypass or “Variant 4”, these new vulnerabilities have a low risk profile assigned to them partly due to the patches that were released earlier this month for the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities. Security researchers from Alphabet’s Google and from Microsoft Corp have unearthed new security vulnerabilities that impact a broad range…

Adobe Systems inc to acquire Magento Commerce for $1.68 billion in cash

The acquisition is aimed at bolstering Adobe’s Experience Cloud business. In what is stated to be Adobe Systems Inc’s biggest deal in a decade, the U.S. software company disclosed it would be acquiring Magento Commerce, an e-commerce services provider, from private equity firm Permira for $1.68 billion in cash. Following the news, shares of Adobe…

Grabs to collaborate with Malayan Banking Bhd for its e-wallet in Malaysia

Malaysia will be the second market in which Grab has launched its e-wallet service. On Monday, both Grab and Malaysia’s biggest bank, Malayan Banking Bhd stated, they will collaborate to boost the adoption of the ride-hailing firm’s GrabPay mobile wallet. In the coming weeks, Grab, which received its e-money license from Bank Negara Malaysia in…

Trump’s Iran decision unites Putin and Merkel on Nordstream 2 pipeline project

Any attempt by U.S. President Donald Trump at blocking a proposed gas pipeline project between Russia and Germany would be resisted strongly, said the Russian President Vladimir Putin to German Chancellor Angela Merkel during their meeting on Friday. While Germany has severely protested the Russian annexation of Crimea four years ago and the two countries…