During the early days of the pandemic, I had to have a document notarized. I met the notary at my local bank office. She took my document and my ID through a crack in the door. She looked it over as I...
Virgin Orbit, the satellite-launching subsidiary of Richard Branson's Virgin Group, has announced that it will lay off 85 percent of its workforce and is ceasing operations "for the foreseeable future...
[photo1]Morgan MeakerAs soon as Lars Ruiter steps out of his car, he is confronted by a Microsoft security guard, who is already seething with anger. Ruiter, a local councillor, has parked in the rain...
Twitter intends to impose a $1,000 monthly verification fee on organizations but will exempt its top 500 advertisers and the 10,000 most-followed organizations with prior verification, as per an inter...
Green Labs, a Seoul-based agritech startup, has secured $38.4 million (50 billion won) in debt financing from existing investors BRV Capital Management and Skylake Incuvest. The new funding comes just...
Effy is at a crossroads. The energy renovation company based in France is doing well, but it is addressing a market that is much bigger than anticipated. That's why it is making a bet. The company jus...
Millennials and Gen Zers are set to dominate B2B buying committees this year, so keeping up with them is a must.More than knowing the latest trends, we must continually assess:Where this target audien...
[photo1]Parth M.N.Manish Kumar runs a car rental service in the city of Jalandhar in India's northern state of Punjab. For the past two weeks, his business has been struggling--starting on March 18, w...
Alexa, how can you continue to be relevant and stop sucking money from Amazon?That's not an easy question to answer, and the future of Amazon Alexa has never felt so uncertain. In November, Business I...
Jack Ma's whereabouts are making headlines again, roughly a year after the billionaire founder of Alibaba disappeared from the public eye.Ma had chosen to stay abroad despite China's efforts to restor...
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[photo1]Eric RavenscraftIn 2022, I attended my first SXSW, and I couldn't escape the suffocating atmosphere of crypto evangelism. A convention that touts itself as the nexus of art and technology, it ...
[photo1]David NieldChatGPT and tools like it have made AI available to the masses. We can now get all sorts of responses back on almost any topic imaginable. These bots can come up with sonnets, code,...
As the sun begins to set on Google Analytics Universal Analytics (UA), businesses are (or should be) gearing up for the transition to Google Analytics 4 (GA4).With just 100 days left until UA is offic...
The collapses of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Signature Bank earlier this month were the second- and third-biggest bank failures in U.S. history. While those institutions catered mostly to the tech i...
Khari Johnson[photo1]In June 2021, Dave Zvenyach, director of a group tasked with improving digital access to US government services, sent a Slack message to his team. He'd decided that Login.gov, whi...
The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) expressed concern today that the $61 billion Broadcom-VMware deal announced last year could result in more expensive servers for U.K. businesses."We ar...
The funding landscape in Southeast Asia is still wintery, but one fintech managed to land a major round. Kredivo Holdings, which offers credit services to underbanked consumers in Indonesia and Vietna...
Domino's pizza is about a week late with their "Pi Day" deals, but better late than never when it comes to pizza: They are now offering 50% off all pizzas on their website until Sunday, March 26. The ...
Maybe you had to unexpectedly foot the bill at dinner, or you had to fill your gas tank before your paycheck hit this week. If you aren't keeping a close eye on your checking account, you may find you...