The Buy now, pay later (BNPL) phenomenon has grown in popularity in recent years as customers seek alternative methods of financing. BNPL is a new payment option that allows consumers to receive their purchase right away (Buy Now), either online […]
FundGuard, a New York-based tech startup, has raised $40 million in a Series B funding round to accelerate the growth of its AI-powered SaaS investment management and asset servicing enterprise platform. The latest investment round included strategic investors Citi and State Street […]
A French court has found U.K.-based food delivery platform Deliveroo guilty of abusing the freelance status of its riders. As part of the ruling, two former bosses of Deliveroo were also given suspended one-year prison sentences and fined 30,000 euros […]
Did you know that Asian American professionals are among the least likely demographic in the U.S. to be promoted into management? Although Asian Americans account for ~30% of the total workforce in the technology space, less than 14% of executive ranks and single […]
Just last week, we wrote about Laiye after the Chinese automation giant acquired French AI tech startup Mindsay to lead the market shift to intelligent automation. The acquisition enables the company to provide its clients with low-code, and no-code technology required […]
Banking and financial institutions have rapidly digitized all their operations, especially since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, fraudulent activities have kept pace too. According to a report from LexisNexis, the cost of fraud for U.S. financial services and lending firms […]
SpaceX successfully launched another spy satellite into orbit on Sunday. For the first time, the launch was conducted on a previously used rocket out of the Vandenberg Air Force Base Sunday afternoon after its initially scheduled launch on Friday was delayed […]
DataRails, the world-leading FP&A solution for Excel users, has released their findings from a survey of hundreds of CFOs, challenging conventional wisdom about how cushy life in the C-suite is. The report finds an excessive amount of manual work by […]
Albert Einstein, one of the greatest scientists ever lived, once said, “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it earns it; he who doesn’t pay it.” If Einstein were alive today, he probably would say […]
Another day, another phishing attack. Just last week, we warned about new phishing tactics disguised as fun. Now, a user of crypto wallet Metamask has become the latest victim of non-fungible token (NFT) phishing attacks. In an announcement on Monday, MetaMask asked […]
The hype around the metaverse continues to grow as more and more companies jump into the bandwagon looking to explore new use cases for the nascent technology. Metaverse can be used in many fields including, education, gaming, medicine, finance, and […]
Twitter founder and former CEO Jack Dorsey criticized the company’s board of directors in a series of tweets on Sunday. The criticism came just two days after Twitter’s Board adopted a “poison pill” strategy to block Elon Musk from taking […]
The Metaverse is all the rage since Facebook re-branded as Meta in October of last year. However, while the metaverse may seem exciting now, current metaverses are being built as separate virtual silos of individual metaverses with no way for […]
Did you know that the air in your home can be five times worse than the air outside? Today, most homes use HVAC (heating, ventilation, air conditioning) filters to filter dust, pollen, pet dander, and other small particles out of […]
Before the pandemic began in February 2020, only about 2 percent of the U.S. workforce was working remotely, by May 2020, that number had jumped to close to 70 percent. If there is one lesson we all learned from this pandemic, […]
As Germany scrambles to contain the fallout from sanctions against Russia, German vice-chancellor said this week that citizens should start working from home and avoid using cars to reduce energy consumption. The announcement comes just a day after the German […]
A day after Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced his plan to acquire 100% of the social media platform, Twitter’s Board of Directors has decided to adopt a “poison pill” strategy to prevent Elon Musk from taking over the platform. The […]
Social media quizzes and questionnaires are common. They make you laugh, with dozens of people commenting on their answers and sharing their stories. You see a post asking users about their first pets, their names, and some funny situations involving […]
For years, organizations built their business applications using a concept known as monolithic architecture. The idea is to build an application as a single unit. However, monolithic architecture comes with a lot of challenges including application maintenance nightmare. For example, to […]
In just three decades, Amazon has grown from a simple online bookseller to become an e-commerce giant. In 2021 alone, Amazon controls 40% of US e-commerce sales. The remaining 60% of sales are shared among 2.5 million US online retailers. With all […]
