Across Southeast Asia, rising tech startups and firms are vying for glory in 2018. While artificial intelligence (AI) and augmented reality (AR) may be touted as the next big things in Silicon…
NetNumber CEO Doug Ranalli: Build the Story, then Get The Finance
Doug Ranalli often tells people he’s never held a proper job. That’s not really the truth – though regular office life clearly wasn’t his deal. Ranalli’s first taste of entrepreneurialism came aged…
Bitcoin Value Drops, as Coinbase Freezes Cash Deals Amid Insider Trading Row
The value of bitcoin has fallen over $2,000 this morning, spreading worry across its investment base. The drop, which appears to confirm expert opinion last week that the cryptocurrency was in a…
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…
Apple AI Chief Unveils Self-Drive Tech Progress
Apple has shown a little more of what it’s getting done in the self-driving tech world. This week Ruslan Salakhutidinov, the company’s director of artificial intelligence (AI), made a presentation in California…
This Twitter Bot is Showing How Big Bitcoin’s Nazi Problem Is
Bitcoin has a political problem. In its early days the cryptocurrency was hailed as a utopian tool: a way for regular Joes to avoid the oppressive glare of governments and live in…
St Petersburg’s Startups Must Continue to Bootstrap, as Russia’s Economy Limits Investors to Moscow
St Petersburg is Europe’s fourth largest city, with 5.3 million inhabitants. It dwarfs other continental hubs like Berlin, Barcelona, Lisbon and Stockholm. But one of the three that outweighs it is Moscow.…
The Top Politicians on Social Media
Barely a day passes without another Twitter storm courtesy of Donald Trump. Whether it’s haranguing news media or issuing self-congratulatory missives, the US President is surely aware that his tweets do not…
China’s Bike-Share Market a Failure of Transparency and Tech
Bluegogo, one of China’s largest bike-share companies, appears on the edge of ruin, with its office empty, debts unpaid and its CEO suddenly absent. The firm, which has raised $58 million and…
Transparency and Diversity Key for SpotMe’s Software Success
When SpotMe was founded it had a bold vision: to develop a handheld device of its own. It was 2001, and the Lausanne, Switzerland-based firm had just spun out of the Swiss…