XtalPi uses quantum physics, AI and cloud computing to improve drug design processes. China’s Tencent Holdings Ltd along with Sequoia Capital China and Alphabet Inc’s Google have joined a $15 million series B funding round for XtalPi Inc, a Boston and Shenzhen-based artificial intelligence (AI) pharmaceutical firm. A statement by Google and XtalPi confirmed that…
Tesla stated that its Chief Executive’s pay, including salary, cash bonuses is tied to the firm’s operational milestones. On Tuesday, Tesla Inc stated that the renumeration of its CEO, Elon Musk will be paid if the firm and its shareholders do extraordinarily well. Musk’s compensation will be based on a combination of market capitalization and…
South Korea’s regulators are pushing cryptocurrency traders and exchanges to follow Know-Your-Customer (KYC) procedures to curtail money laundering and other crimes. In a significant development surrounding bitcoins and such cryptocurrencies, from January 30, South Korea will ban the use of anonymous bank accounts for trading in cryptocurrencies. The move is designed to bring to bring…
Here is how this France-based house of haute couture aims to make, a subtle and yet distinct statement, in tomorrow’s launch of the Paris’ Spring/Summer Haute Couture Week. French haute couturier Julien Fournie is one of those new age designers who effortlessly bridge the ancient art form of hand-stitched silk gowns with modern cutting-edge 3D…
The profit guideline, for the fourth quarter, by the Britain-based IT services firm beat analysts’ expectation despite being hurt by weaknesses in the domestic market because of Brexit. On Monday, Computacenter Plc, an IT services firm, stated that its adjusted pretax results are likely to beat analysts’ expectations. This latest raising of its earning guidance…
The roller-coaster ride that Toshiba is going through with its memory business, that is inextricably linked to its U.S. nuclear power business, could eventually result in the launch of an IPO for Toshiba Memory, if it fails to win regulatory approval for its sale to the Bain Capital0-led consortium before March 2018. On Monday, the…
Vista Equity Partners Management has hired UBS to explore its options. According to sources familiar with the matter at hand, Vista Equity Partners Management LLC, a private equity firm, is exploring options for two software companies it owns, PeopleAdmin and PowerSchool, which include their merger in a deal worth in the range of $2 billion…
U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas sentenced, Jiaqiang Xu, 32 to prison for the theft of a trade secret and economic espionage. U.S prosecutors disclosed that a former software engineer for IBM, has been sentenced to 5 years in prison following his guilty plea of stealing proprietary source code from the software giant. On Thursday, U.S.…
Nokia and DoCoMo will collaborate closely for the transition from 4G to 5G, which DoCoMo is expected to launch by 2020, in time for the Tokyo Olympics, in 2020. On Friday, Nokia signed its first agreement to supply next generation 5G wireless radio base stations to Japanese telecom operator NTT DoCoMo, which boasts of having…
Majority stock owners of Xerox Corp, Carl Icahn and Darwin Deason, have called on the firm to renegotiate the terms of agreement with Fujifilm in Fuji Xerox, a joint venture between the two which they say appear to be lopsided towards Fujifilm. In an open letter addressed ti shareholders of Xerox Corp, activist investor Carl…
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