Renowned futurist and global think-tank leader Lucie Greene has spent years honing her expertise on the tech industry. In Silicon States, she examines the players, promises and potential problems of Big Tech, speaking…
Sequoia Closes India and SE Asia Fund at $695m
Sequoia Capital has closed its latest fund for India and southeast Asia at $695 million. It is the Californian VC’s sixth in India since it expanded into the country in 2012, which…
Elon Musk: Down, Not Yet Out
Is Elon Musk really, as Wired posited yesterday, “broken”? Sure, the Tesla and SpaceX chief may have come across even more unhinged than usual these past months, missing deadlines, making grand statements and…
South Korean Government Sets Aside $880m for Blockchain
South Korea’s government has ringfenced $880 million in its annual budget next year, to invest in high-innovation technology – particularly the blockchain. In a release issued on Tuesday, the country’s deputy prime…
Twitter’s Refusal to Axe Alex Jones is Evidence of its Western Bias
Infowars, the bonkers, conspiracy-littered website owned by Texas-based diet pill salesman Alex Jones, has for years peddled falsehoods, paranoia and outright lies. A recent gutter-scraping controversy, for example, was in calling the…
5 Japanese Startups You Should Check Out Now
Japan’s economy stands at a precarious crossroads. Still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis, its central bank refused on Tuesday to print more money – or do anything really – to crawl…
Qnext Corp President and CEO DeCristofaro: “On-Premises Data is Back”
Anthony DeCristofaro is president and CEO of Qnext Corp a Greater Toronto-based firm that has developed FileFlex, a hybrid point-to-point, software-only service based on Edge technology that allows remote access to, share, stream, manage…
Formlabs Becomes Unicorn with $15m Funding Round
Massachusetts-based 3D printing company Formlabs is the latest tech startup to join the unicorn crowd, with the news it has raised $15 million. The injection is the Greater Boston-based firm’s sixth since…
Tech Stock Plunge Wipes $10bn From Giants’ Value
The ten most valuable US tech companies have suffered a combined $82.7 billion value loss today, led by Facebook’s continued slide. The social media firm, whose value plummeted by a record $124bn…
Why Does Tech Still Struggle with Nazis?
Last Friday Maggie Haberman, a New York Times reporter who has covered Donald Trump since 2016, announced via an op-ed that she was heavily cutting down on her Twitter usage. “Twitter has stopped being…