Startup News

GUEST: Around this time last year, chatbots weren't on our radar, generally speaking. Sure, AI-powered conversations with brands, a la Apple’s Siri and Amazon’s Alexa, have been around for some time. But it was Faceb...

GUEST: If banking is something you do on an app, why shouldn't your mobile carrier actually be your bank? It's more than just an idea. Orange, Telenor, and O2 are all building their own operations. In the UK alone, peopl...

Wavefront, a Palo Alto-based startup behind a metrics monitoring cloud application for enterprises and SaaS companies, announced today that it closed a $52 million investment led by Sequoia Capital. Thought the startup w...

Chandler Busby, the founder of Haiti Design Co, believes in ethical fashion. Image Credit: Chandler Busby. When Chandler Busby co-founded Haiti Design Co-op with her husband in 2013, their original goal was to provide jo...

Apple today disclosed that it generated $9.01 billion in net income, or $1.67 in earnings per diluted share, on $46.9 billion in revenue in the fourth quarter of its 2016 fiscal year, which ended on September 24. The com...

iPhone sales are down again. Apple sold 45.51 million iPhones, 9.2 million iPads, and 4.8 million Macs during the fourth quarter of 2016, the company announced today — down from 48 million iPhones, 9.9 million iPads, a...

Apple stock reached the highest point in the day — $118.36 — after the publication of leaked images of the next MacBook Pro, which is set to be released later this week. The leak has perfect timing — it hit 43 minu...

Forget about cigars — Cuba’s gaming business is about to open up. Josuhe Pagliery is a multimedia artist and the founder of Empty Head Games, an independent development studio in Cuba. Now, the company is using Indig...

If you ever buy organic groceries, you are no doubt familiar with Pete & Gerry's eggs -- the largest free range egg producer in the country, in a consolidated industry dominated by Big Ag. Pete & Gerry's was founded by J...

GUEST: Salesforce Einstein has ushered in a new era of curiosity about AI. It wasn't the first commercial AI usage, and others will crop up alongside it, but the buzz these past couple of weeks is a surefire indication t...

You no longer have to traverse wyvern-invested lands to find a game of Gwent. The PlayStation 4, Xbox One, and PC can now bring the game directly to your home. Developer CD Projekt Red started sending out invitations to ...

The Weather Channel unveiled its Facebook Messenger bot today. The bot provides five-day forecasts, daily forecasts, severe weather alerts, or creates custom weather alerts. The Weather Channel bot can speak 39 languages...

Online education platform Udacity has partnered with IBM Watson to launch a new artificial intelligence (AI) Nanodegree program. Costing $1,600 for the full two-term, 26-week course, the AI Nanodegree covers a myriad of ...

A record-breaking round of fundraising from the "Uber for Weed" has taken cannabis investment to an all-time high.

Microsoft today released a new Windows 10 preview for PCs and phones. This build adds new features to the Mail app and gives the Narrator app some context awareness. Windows 10 is a service. As we wrote in our deep dive ...

ARM’s partners shipped more than 15 billion in 2015, generating $50 billion in chip sales. But Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, and new owner of ARM after September’s $31 billion acquisition deal, said in a keynote sp...

The combination of a robust freelance work platforms and an ACA-overhauled health coverage system has unleashed a dramatic labor shift in the past several years.

Employers could be penalized $100 per day, per employee or up to $36,500 a year per employee

One of the common complaints baby boomers and members of Gen X share about millennial employees is their affinity for speaking up quickly and confidently in the workplace, even though they do not have the tenure earned b...

Serial entrepreneur Ben Huh has been tapped by Y Combinator to lead its New Cities project. As a member of the startup program’s YC Research team, he’s its first “explorer” and for the next six months will be tas...

Rodger Riney and his family are billionaires thanks to the company's sale to TD Ameritade in a $4 billion deal.

A new system could make Braille more affordable and better to use - opening up new possibilities for the blind and partially sighted.