Initially launched in 2015, Samsung Pay has now grown to serve 26 countries across the globe. Thats not universal support by any means but according to a new official statement from Samsung, 2020 will see its digital wallet and mobile payment system expand further. We still dont have specifics as to which countries are planned…
Hiring the right people may be the most important thing you do when you start a new company. But how much time should founders spend on hiring when there are so many other competing demands? Last week, we discussed team-building and several other issues during a panel on the Extra Crunch stage at Disrupt Berlin…
Earlier this year, PBS announced it had secured for its member stations streaming agreements on YouTube’s live TV service, YouTube TV. Today, that deal goes live. PBS says more than 100 of its local stations are now available on YouTube TV by way of dedicated live channels for both PBS and PBS Kids, as well…
Adriana Gascoigne Contributor Adriana Gascoigne is founder and CEO of the global nonprofit Girls in Tech, which is dedicated to empowering, educating and mentoring women in the technology industry. As we welcome 2020 with ambitions set high for greater diversity and inclusion in the workforce, it provides us with an opportunity to reset our goals…
Anyone who wants to eat a meatless burger has plenty of options — but what if you want to be a little healthier? Daring Foods will soon be offering an alternative, in the form of plant-based chicken made from five non-genetically modified ingredients — water, soy, sunflower oil, salt and natural flavoring (a mix of…
OM1, a big-data analytics company for the healthcare industry, has raised $50 million in its latest round of financing to expand its sales and marketing and product development activities as it brings clinical insights to hospitals and big pharma companies alike. The new financing highlights just how important access to data is in the fight…
Ericsson, Telia and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) have partnered to carry out a demonstration of a 5G autonomous ferry, Ericsson said in a release. The partners have successfully demonstrated a small connected passenger ferry, using artificial intelligence (AI), in the Norwegian city of Trondheim. The autonomous ferry, dubbed milliAmpère, transported…
In a world where ad rates are declining for traditional broadcast media, the corporations responsible for making the fictions that millions devour daily need to find a new business model. Subscription services are on the rise — with every major broadcaster launching an on-demand service — and so are ad-supported video streaming services to replace…
I spent many years working with start-ups and large corporations, and invariably they all spent a large proportion of their budgets getting their message across to consumers and other businesses. Yet while there is no doubt that external communications are important, I found that the most successful companies were, in fact, the ones which dedicated…
WhatsApp, the world’s most popular end-to-end encrypted messaging application, patched an incredibly frustrating software bug that could have allowed a malicious group member to crash the messaging app for all members of the same group, The Hacker News learned. Just by sending a maliciously crafted message to a targeted group, an attacker can trigger a…
