Few people know artificial intelligence better than Xabi Uribe-Etxebarria. The Spanish entrepreneur has engineering degrees and diplomas from MIT, Harvard Business School and the Universidad de Deusto in Bilbao, the largest city…
Kodak is Showing How Cryptocurrency is Like a New Soccer Coach
There’s a popular phenomenon in soccer known as the “new manager bump”, which essentially says that a team can expect a short but sharp increase in fortunes when hiring a new head…
2018 Must Be the Year Tech Reinvents Itself
In the world of tech, communication can fall far below innovation or investment. Some of the industry’s leading lights are lousy communicators, and issues that alarm the general public are often met…
The Biggest Tech Court Battles of 2017
Last Wednesday it was announced that Mozilla and Oath would be fighting it out in court, following Mozilla’s decision to switch from Yahoo! to Google for searches. What seems like small fry…
Social Media Giants Face a Public Backlash – But is it Too Late to Change?
So, it’s official: Russia meddled in the US election, and Big Social Media helped it. Exhaustive Washington hearings his week have dragged heads from the world’s largest social media companies–Facebook, Twitter and…
Could Nielsen’s Streaming Announcement Shift Netflix’s Soaring Fortunes?
This August Nielsen celebrated its 94th birthday. The ratings firm has, somehow, managed to keep alive and (just about) relevant upon a fast-moving media landscape. The announcement, made yesterday, that it can…
Las Vegas Shooting: Social Media Has Failed America Again
As information about Sunday’s massacre in Las Vegas emerges, the United States has reverted to its usual polarized self, forcing voices on either side of the gun control debate into ever-decreasing circles…
In #TakeAKnee, Donald Trump Has Found a Worthy Web Opponent
Colin Kaepernick, the NFL free agent quarterback, surely did not imagine that his taking a knee for the American national anthem, before a 2016 pre-season game for the San Francisco 49ers, would still…
Khosrowshahi vs London: Uber’s CEO Faces Biggest Challenge Yet
“There is a high cost to a bad reputation”: that was new Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi’s response to his employees, as British capital London became the highest profile city to refuse to…
Is the iPhone X Opening a Global Door to Chinese Competition?
So, finally, it’s here. Apple’s iPhone X has arrived with all the pomp and grandiosity of a Persian emperor. But is the Cupertino company’s latest offering–which marks a decade, improbably, since the first…