Day: December 15, 2017

Airwallex, an Australia-based fintech startup that helps banks and businesses handle cross-border transactions at scale, has closed a $6 million investment ahead of a planned Series B next year. The new funding comes from Square Peg — a VC firm located in Melbourne, the same city […]

Da anni le nazioni del Vecchio Continente e l'Unione Europea tentano di costringere i colossi del web statunitensi a pagare la giusta dose di tasse ma senza successo. Aziende come Apple, Amazon e Facebook hanno utilizzato lo stratagemma di porre la propria sede fiscale in […]

While Canary’s security cameras can notify you when they detect something moving in your home, they can’t differentiate between an intruder and your pet Fluffy doing zoomies. Once their new feature rolls out, though, you won’t have to get 20 notifications in an hour if […]

What Disney’s Acquisition of Fox Means For the Future of Film and TV Published on December 15, 2017 at 11:00AM Disney announced on Thursday it had reached a $52 billion deal to buy most of the assets of 21st Century Fox. It is “the biggest […]

Black Friday, Cyber Monday, Green Monday … they’re over and done, but the holiday deals continue. If you’re still on the hunt for affordable gift ideas, or just want to treat yo’ self to some new gear, look no further. We’ve gathered our favorite deals […]

Less than 20 percent of Andhra Pradesh’s 53 million populace has access to internet, with the state government pledging to connect 12 million households by 2019 as part of its AP Fiber Grid program. The high-bandwidth FSOC links will form the “backbone of [that] network,” […]

“There are two types of competition for us at Loot: the banks and the money management apps,” Loot founder Ollie Purdue tells me. The U.K. startup, founded in 2014 while now 24 year old Purdue was finishing up university, offers a digital-only current account aimed […]

Next Story A new version of Mixer, Microsoft’s Twitch rival, hits iOS and Android Despite overwhelming opposition from Congress, technical experts, advocacy organizations and, of course, the American people, the FCC has voted to eliminate 2015’s Open Internet Order and the net neutrality protections it established. The […]

The FCC just killed net neutrality The FCC just killed net neutrality. In a 3-2 vote today, the Federal Communications Commission approved a measure to remove the tough net neutrality rules it put in place just two years ago. Those rules prevented internet providers from […]