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…
Ex-Catalan Leaders Says Tech Will Help Him Govern from Belgium
Carles Puigdemont, the fired former leader of want-away Spanish region Catalonia, has announced his intentions to return to power. The politician, who faces charges of sedition and rebellion over an independence declaration…
Entrepreneur First to Search Berlin for “Anti-Establishment” Talent
London-based “pre-team, pre-idea” company-builder Entrepreneur First is expanding to Berlin, as it looks for tech workers who buck establishment trends. The 2011-founded firm, which opened its second office in Singapore in 2016,…
CES Showcases Gadgetry, AI and How Tech’s Power Map is Changing
As if 2017 wasn’t the year that confirmed anything could be hooked up to the net, CES – traditionally the season opener for the year in tech – went into IoT overload…
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…
Canva Becomes Australia’s Second Tech Unicorn
Australian graphic design firm Canva has become Australia’s first tech unicorn. The Sydney-based company, which currently employs 250 people, received a funding round of $40 million from China’s arm of Sequoia Capital,…
CES Gets Underway in Las Vegas – But Not Without Controversy
CES, the world’s largest tech show, opened today in Las Vegas yesterday. But even before its first day had drawn to a close, the event’s organizers were under fire for a total…
As VC and Talent Base Show, West Bank’s Tech Sector is Well Poised
Palestine’s tech sector is not a new phenomenon. Its universities are among the most prestigious in the Arab world, and multinationals have flocked to its history-rich, rolling landscape for years. In the…
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…
Gym, or Something Else? Tech Aims to Keep You Fit in 2018
The likelihood is you’re reading this article with a pretty full belly, having blown through Christmas dinner, evening cheese and enough chocolate to be transported via rail. Next comes self-loathing and a…