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Sayollo partners with Speechly to bring voice recognition to gComm
Venture Beat - 22 Dec 2021 17:00
Sayollo partners with Speechly to add voice recognition and navigation to mobile, in-game shops via its gComm software
Why Retool's CEO Took A 'Risky' Fundraising Approach On The Way To A $1.9 Billion Valuation
Forbes - 22 Dec 2021 17:09
Retool CEO David Hsu took an unusual approach to his low code software startup's Series C funding round, raising just $20 million from fellow founders like Stripe's John and Patrick Collison and former GitHub CEO Nat Fri...
AWS suffers another outage as East Coast datacenter loses power
Venture Beat - 22 Dec 2021 16:03
AWS has suffered its third outage in as many weeks, as the cloud computing giant's "US-East-1" cloud region went down in North Virginia.
AstraZeneca Begins Work On Omicron-Targeted Vaccine
Forbes - 22 Dec 2021 03:41
AstraZeneca said it has taken "preliminary steps" to create the variant-specific vaccine "in case it is needed."
2022 Stock Market Outlook: 2021 Fads And Fashions Are Forgotten
Forbes - 22 Dec 2021 01:28
The big three 2021 popularity traps have sprung - Wall Street will forget and move on
The Existential Threat to Ecommerce
Retail Touch Points - 22 Dec 2021 15:53
By all accounts, the pandemic was a boon to ecommerce. A McKinsey Report noted that lockdown orders crammed a decade's worth of ecommerce growth into just 10 months. More people began shopping online, and all shoppers pu...
Cannabis Watch: Al Harrington-backed Village is aiming to support women- and minority-owned cannabis companies
Market Watch - 22 Dec 2021 15:41
Only 3% of legal cannabis businesses are owned by women or minorities, but NBA veteran Al Harrington and Dan Pettigrew co-founded Village to change that
European Banks Prepare for Pullback in ECB Stimulus
Wall Street Journal - 22 Dec 2021 15:36
Banks in Europe are issuing covered bonds in droves, locking in super low borrowing costs ahead of possibly tighter monetary policy in 2022.
Elon Musk says he has sold 10 percent of his stake in Tesla, meeting goal
New York Post - 22 Dec 2021 15:26
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has met his goal of selling 10 percent of his stake in the electronic car company, he said in an interview on December 21, 2021.
Confronting Inflation, Biden Administration Turns to Oil Industry It Once Shunned
Wall Street Journal - 22 Dec 2021 15:00
The administration has been calling for more output to rein in gasoline prices, but producers say its climate-change focus is a brake on more drilling.
More And More Trump Goons Desperately Try To Sue Their Way Out Of Jan. 6 Scrutiny
TPM - 22 Dec 2021 14:57
A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. Welcome To The Club, Flynn Convicted ex-Trump adviser Michael...
Gove holds summit with high street banks amid cladding crisis
Sky News - 22 Dec 2021 14:32
Michael Gove has held fresh talks with Britain's biggest lenders in a bid to ease the cladding crisis that has left thousands of homeowners unable to sell their properties.
Why Your Digital Marketing Strategy Needs Long-Form Content
Forbes - 22 Dec 2021 14:30
If you put together longer, more effortful articles, your work will, on average, be handsomely rewarded with SEO-boosting links.
Crypto.com Will Run its First Super Bowl Ad Amid Marketing Blitz
Wall Street Journal - 22 Dec 2021 14:00
Singapore-based cryptocurrency platform Crypto.com will run its first Super Bowl commercial in February as it seeks to become a household name.
Bob Iger Says Disney Plus Needs "More Content For More People"
Forbes - 22 Dec 2021 05:33
Disney Plus needs to make more content, and more kinds of content, to keep growing, retiring Chairman Bob Iger said. It won't be easy, given the SVOD service's squeaky clean and tightly controlled brand.
UK businesses given £1.0 billion support as Omicron bites
IBTimes - 22 Dec 2021 05:09
Across the country, all sectors of British industry have been hit as staff contract the virus and are forced to self-isolate at home.
100 Companies Fail to Obtain Crypto Licenses in Singapore Due to Tough Regulation
Bitcoin.com - 22 Dec 2021 05:00
More than 100 companies that applied for a license to offer crypto services in Singapore have either been turned down or withdrawn their applications. “Cryptocurrencies could be abused for money laundering, terrorism f...
Donald Trump Says Crypto Is 'Very Dangerous' -- Warns of 'Explosion Like We've Never Seen'
Bitcoin.com - 22 Dec 2021 03:00
Former U.S. President Donald Trump says that crypto is “a very dangerous thing.” Commenting on cryptocurrencies, he warned of “an explosion someday” that will “make the big tech explosion look like baby stuff.�...
Hoymiles IPO Mints China's Latest Billionaire From Solar Energy Industry
Forbes - 22 Dec 2021 01:51
Country boasts the world's largest number of billionaires after the United States
CES insists tech conference will go on despite big-name cancellations
New York Post - 22 Dec 2021 01:47
Organizers of the annual CES tech conference in Las Vegas are puttingon a brave face as Omicron spreads, insisting the show will go on — but some big names already are pulling out, On The Money has learned. Graphics ch...
Monsta X Ties Blackpink, Seventeen, Enhypen And Twice With Their Latest Bestselling Album In America
Forbes - 22 Dec 2021 01:30
Monsta X returns to their No. 3 peak on the album sales chart with their latest release.
Visa Partners With 60 Crypto Platforms to Let Consumers Spend Digital Currency at 80 Million Merchants
Bitcoin.com - 22 Dec 2021 01:00
Visa’s head of crypto has revealed that the payments giant has partnered with about 60 leading crypto platforms “to launch card programs that make it easy for consumers to convert and spend digital currency at 80 mil...