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25/05/2019

Water on Mars!

Using ground-penetrating radar, scientists detected a massive reservoir of frozen water sandwiched by layers of sand beneath the northern polar ice cap on Mars. This reservoir contains so much ice that, if melted and brought to the surface, it would submerge the entire planet.

19/05/2019

Don't underestimate your children!

Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, the co-founders of Brex, have raised $125 million at a $1.1 billion valuation just four months after the startup's public launch.

18/05/2019

Translatotron converts one spoken language to another with the tone of your voice

Every day we creep a little closer to Douglas Adams' famous and prescient babelfish. A new research project from Google takes spoken sentences in one language and outputs spoken words in another — but unlike most translation techniques, it uses no intermediate text, working solely with the audio. ...

17/05/2019

Uber’s IPO : A big flop?

The ridesharing giant isn't out of the woods after a forgettable stock market debut.

11/03/2019

Entrepreneur basic success rules

What is a 'productive' business? This contributor's ideas of what that means may differ from the traditional view.

18/02/2019

Is it Start-ups or incumbents who are leading disruption?

Business leaders globally believe that innovation isn’t ...

17/02/2019

What qualities should you have Mr. Entrepreneur?

Entrepreneurship begins with a dream but succeeds with the motivation to back it up.

16/02/2019

What's the difference? VC vs. PE

With increasing coverage and interest in startups, fundraising and venture capital, many terms have become more ambiguous than ever. That can leave entrepreneurs pretty foggy on how they should really be approaching raising money. So, who is funding what?

28/01/2019

It's never too late to create your Start-up.
Mid-career entrepreneurs are more successful

Many people think that entrepreneurship is a young person’s game. The reality is that becoming a mid-career entrepreneur could put you at a distinct advantage.

27/01/2019

Is this the beginning of the end for Apple?

If you looked at Apple’s sales numbers, you wouldn’t see anything wrong. But the company's strong revenue growth hides a dirty secret that Apple management tries to hide from investors.

26/01/2019

Competition is every company's nightmare

Starbucks worst nightmare in China—competition from fast-growing start-ups like Luckin Coffee—is coming true. That’s expected to put pressure on Starbucks’ market shares, sales growth and profit margins, especially as the Chinese economy slows down.

24/01/2019

Some Start-ups make it and some don't. That's how the game goes. Keep walking

On-demand food delivery startup Munchery is shutting down, the startup announced in an e-mail to customers on Monday.

06/01/2019

Some good ideas that can come in handy for Entrepreneurs

29/12/2018

What about India ecosystem?

IdeaSpring Capital Founder Naganand Doraswamy gives an investor's perspective on the year that was for the Indian startup ecosystem and the trends he expects will dominate in 2019.The year 2018 was a ...

28/12/2018

Do you agree?

Your startup may have the coolest tech, be in the biggest market and have the smartest team, but no matter what your board says, revenue is not the primary indicator.

08/12/2018

Apple and the future of self medical monitoring...

22/11/2018

There is Plastic and then there is Plastiq!

“I wasn’t asking to pay in Bitcoin!” Plastiq CEO and co-founder Eliot Buchanan recalls with a laugh. “I went to pay part of my tuition at Harvard and I was told that they didn’t (and never would) accept credit cards. It was inconvenient and seemed odd. Credit cards had been around for 50 y...

11/11/2018

6 seconds is all it takes :)

Looking nothing like a traditional toothbrush, the Unobrush device uses an ergonomic, patent-pending medical-grade sponge-like mouthpiece and pulsing sonic vibrations to clean all of your teeth simultaneously in just 6 seconds! Think of this innovative tech as a hyperactive mouthguard.

01/11/2018

You Can do it!

With multibillion-dollar tech companies and growth startups making headlines left and right, it’s natural to want to get a piece of the action.

07/10/2018

Amazing youth story

Henrique Dubugras and Pedro Franceschi, the co-founders of Brex, have raised $125 million at a $1.1 billion valuation just four months after the startup's public launch.

27/09/2018

Google Maps’ group planning feature rolls out for Android and iOS

Google is launching a new "group planning" feature for Google Maps on Android and iOS today.

19/04/2018

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15/04/2018

Ant Financial, the Alibaba affiliate that looks after the firm’s hugely popular Alipay service, is reportedly gearing up for an enormous funding round that could take its valuation to $100-$1…

12/04/2018

Siri-powered smart speaker stumbles

02/04/2018

US retail is at a crossroads—E-commerce is killing traditional brick-and-mortar business, but you may have a hard time finding a company whose future growth strategy doesn’t rest on developing its …

01/04/2018

Four years after popular Tokyo-based bitcoin exchange Mt.

31/03/2018

One of the most critical tasks startups face, is creating a killer elevator pitch — a short, verbal description of who they are, what they do, and how they are going to succeed as a business. There are countless blog posts and listicles that have been created to guide founders through this process...