By certain metrics, it’s quite easily done… for all 7.5 billion of us, even if it may seem facetious to reduce human beings to a series of investment characteristics. And raising new questions about what the future of investment might look like are a growing number of new start-ups seem to think that that’s possible.…
A flood of new international content entering their feeds would soon benefit Chinese social media users. In order to bring selected content, primarily from the United States and Russia, into the Chinese market, there has recently been a number of tie-ups between local social media platforms and digital content distributor network Yoola. These agreements would…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX, Richard Branson’s Virgin Galactic and Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin are among the Western heavyweights that dominate the commercial space industry. But the competition is not deterring players in Asia. Japan’s PD Aerospace and China’s Kuang-Chi Science are among Asia’s homegrown private firms planning to offer spaceflight services to civilians as corporate spending eclipses government activity throughout the…
Utah-based Qualtrics is valued at $2.5 billion in its latest funding round. In a funding round, software company Qualtrics, has managed to raise $180 million from venture capital firms and in the process it has given rise to hopes that it will be able to sustain itself so as to launch its IPO. In the…
The allegations and the counter allegations make for a brief interesting read. Qualcomm Inc has hit back hard at Apple Inc’s charges that were made in its January lawsuit, stating that the U.S. company had breached multiple agreements and had encouraged regulatory attacks on its business in various jurisdictions around the world by making false…
Now that there is more clarity on the quality of information gleaned from users, the deal is likely to result in an agreement by summer. In a significant development, Facebook’s European regulator has disclosed that it has reached a deal with the U.S. company which allows for the collection of data from WhatsApp, a messaging…
In recent years, LeEco has grown so fantastically that it faced financial issues. Its founder termed these issues as the “big company disease.” LeEco, a recent Chinese tech company with global ambition whose businesses have ranged from electric vehicles to smartphones, has been forced to abandon its proposed $2 billion acquisition of Vizio, a U.S.…
Although the Kelihos botnet has grown resilient after every strike, in this attempt the DoJ may have stumbled upon on a critical weakness from which it may never recover. The U.S Justice Department has disclosed, it has launched an effort to take down the Kelihos, a global network of infected computers numbering into tens of…
Of the 270,000 accounts that have been compromised, 245,000 belong to Britons. Wonga, a UK-based lender has warned its customers in Poland and in Britain that their personal data may have been stolen in the latest major breach in the company’s security. Recent cyber-attacks have of late targeted British institutions, business, and banks, including, Talk-Talk,…
This is the largest known breach of Dallas’ warning system. The city is investigating the incident. Officials from Dallas have disclosed that a computer hack had set off all of the emergency sirens in the city for around 90 minutes. This is one of the largest known breach of the warning system. The 156 sirens…
