The San Francisco brokerage is bringing its financial firepower and sizeable client base to one of the hottest investment trends.

Lime landed a $170 million investment round led by Uber and also promoted one of its top executives as CEO, Lime said Thursday. Under the deal, Lime will take over ownership of Uber’s scooter and bike business JUMP and the two companies will feature each other’s app on their respective service, Lime said.  San Francisco-based Lime also promoted its global head of operations and strategy Wayne Ting as CEO. Ting joined Lime in 2018 and previously spent five years at Uber as its Northern California…

Omada Health founder and CEO Sean Duffy had an a-ha moment about digital health when he saw his mother start asking her doctor for FaceTime appointments. “That’s when I realized we are in a different world right now,” he said.

A publicly traded San Jose video data storage company with a market value of almost $171 million is one of five companies that were ordered Friday to return loans they received through the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Paycheck Protection Program.

A group of area executives who helped bring 50,000 Covid-19 test kits to the area have been searching the world for the best ideas in contact tracing. The search led back to Kansas City.

Pinterest is continuing its push to be a major online shopping destination through a new partnership with Shopify, which will make it easier for merchants to attract new customers and boost sales. Through a new app, Shopify merchants can now upload c...

Over the last few years, social networks have instituted slightly stiffer policies against misinformation, but those systems are being pressed to their limit by a fast-spreading new video. The ‘Plandemic’ clip “spreads debunked conspiracy theories ab...

It’s a Microsoft heavy week! This week, Devindra and Cherlynn are joined by Alex Cranz, Gizmodo’s Senior Consumer Tech Editor, to chat about the bevy of new Surface devices. In particular, they explore why the Surface Go 2 and Book 3 are a bit disapp...

Last year, Google launched an augmented reality feature within Search that lets you put virtual animals in the real world. Now, it’s adding more 3D objects you can view right from your Search results page on mobile, including Neil Armstrong’s spacesu...

The Department of Defense needs technology experts to migrate its roughly 500 disparate cloud environments into a unified system to help the military work better and faster. The Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) contract -- which has bee...

After it launched on Tuesday and nailed a series of maneuvers, China’s future crewed spacecraft has made a successful desert touchdown. Built by China’s main space contractor, the China Aerospace Science and Technology Corp. (CASC), the uncrewed prot...

Robots today generally come in one of two varieties: rigid and soft. When most people imagine a robot, they think of the rigid variety, like Boston Dynamics’ Spot or those found on auto assembly lines. Soft robots, on the other hand, tend to mimic bi...

The offices of major tech companies are likely to be pretty quiet until the end of the year, as Google and Facebook join Amazon and Microsoft in allowing their employees to work from home for the foreseeable (where feasible). Last week Amazon announc...

The first full week of May brought a number of deals on home tech and mobile devices. Those on the market for a smaller Echo device with a screen can still snag the Echo Show 5 for $50 and the Show 8 for $80. Star Wars fans with a soft spot for slow...

Google isn’t done making Duo video calls more accommodating in the pandemic era. It’s introducing a handful of updates that make chats livelier, including a family mode. Fire it up and you can add cute AR effects or doodle while you keep in touch. Th...

Until now, the size of 3D-printed objects has been limited by the size of 3D printers. In most cases, in order to produce large items used in, say, aerospace, manufactures have had to fasten, weld or glue smaller 3D-printed substructures together. Bu...

An Angus Reid online survey conducted May 1-4 asked a randomized sample of 1,527 Canadians how they felt about sports during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The former Bulls star saw himself as a basketball player. The current Lakers star sees himself as something more. “I have a responsibility to lead,” James says.

Borucki and catcher Jansen, who usually work out together in the winter, both stayed in the Dunedin area while most of their teammates went home.

“My family and I have made the decision to return to Oregon,” the 36-year-old said in a video address posted Thursday on the Lions website.

There’s a culture around the way men at their worst treat women, Dave Feschuk writes. It’s not just a problem in sports, but in society, and it requires attention.

This plan for the $150 million in aid, presented by commissioner Randy Ambrosie, comes off as so half-baked, so riddled with holes and obfuscation that it’s impossible to rally behind it in its current incarnation.

With the NFL heading into its next round of broadcasting negotiations, it could not afford to release a schedule full of unsightly seams and untenable sacrifices.

The former Leafs forward commented on the physical appearances of Vancouver forward Tanner Pearson’s wife and Edmonton captain Connor McDavid’s girlfriend. He also called Capitals linemates Garnet Hathaway and Nick Dowd losers.

The legendary athlete has returned to the spotlight following the recent release of “The Last Dance” documentary series.

The 34-year-old from Richmond Hill returns to Kingston, where he spent three seasons as coach of the OHL’s Frontenacs.

The money earmarked for sports will go to national and provincial organizations, Canadian sport institutes and Indigenous sport groups.

CFL commissioner Randy Ambrosie said the CFL lost collectively about $20 million last year and its future is “very much in jeopardy.”

The Palo Alto company doesn't charge for its cash advances. But tips are appreciated.

Factory workers at Proterra, a Silicon Valley e-bus startup, have joined a union that also represents L.A. oil refinery workers.

Tinder's parent company says Sean Rad, the dating app's co-founder and former CEO, illegally recorded conversations with executives.

Sundar Pichai is ascending at Google's parent, Alphabet, becoming CEO of the entire tech giant as co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin take a step back.

Open source developers, GitHub's power users, are joining the software platform's employees in calling for the company to cancel its contract with ICE. A boycott could be next.

Uber's first-ever safety transparency report establishes a baseline from which the ride-hailing giant must improve.

"Extended warranties are generally a bad value," says one consumer advocate. "Rarely do they pay off."

A new study from market researcher NPD Group reveals that fewer than 10% of consumers are willing to shell out more than a thousand bucks for a phone.