Stefan Glaenzer, the prominent European VC and former chairman of Last.fm and founder of Ricardo.de, has quit his role as Partner at Passion Capital. He co-founded the London-based early-stage firm seven years ago with partners Eileen Burbidge and Robert Dighero. The decision to resign, which […]
Day: April 5, 2018
Facebook restricts how you can search for other people
People used this feature to easily look up their friends, which was handy when in a language that took effort to type out a full name or pick between multiple accounts with the same name, Facebook’s blog post noted. But ‘malicious actors’ have abused it […]
Witchblr, Kek, and the Widening Schism of Internet Religions
In its four decades, the internet has seen a lot of conceptual alchemy, but there’s nothing quite so odd as the Cult of Kek. The maybe-maybe-not religion is the brainchild of the so-called alt-right, some of whom claim to believe not only in white supremacy, […]
White House email domains are at risk of being used in phishing attacks
In the latest episode of how badly some branches of government are at cybersecurity, a new study by the cybersecurity outfit Global Cyber Alliance indicates that 95 percent of the email domains managed by the Executive Office of the President could be spoofed and potentially […]
Valve is ‘still working hard’ on Steam OS, Linux gaming
A few days ago Valve reworked the main navigation bar in its Steam Store and removed a direct link to buy Steam Machines, the Linux-based boxes it hailed as an open alternative to macOS or Windows PC gaming. Combined with a lack of recent announcements […]
Netanyahu cancella l’intesa sui migranti
Ora la marcia indietro è completa. Benjamin Netanyahu, che lunedì sera aveva deciso la sospensione dell'intesa con l'agenzia dell'Onu per i rifugiati (Unhcr) che prevedeva l'invio all'estero di oltre sedicimila immigrati africani in Israele, ne ha … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit #thisisnews
Pensioni, così crescerà l’età pensionabile nel biennio 2019-2020
Dal 1° gennaio 2019, dunque, per la pensione anticipata sarà necessario perfezionare 43 anni e 3 mesi di contributi per gli uomini e 42 anni e 3 mesi di contributi per donne pari, rispettivamente, a 2249 settimane e a 2197 settimane di versamenti, contro i […]
Alibaba is preparing to invest in Grab
Fresh from announcing a deal to buy out Uber in Southeast Asia, Grab looks set to gain further firepower with Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba preparing to invest in the ride-hailing firm. Alibaba is in the early stages of making an investment in Grab, two sources […]
TTG Asia | To entice SE Asians, Atout France finds inspiration in Leonardo da Vinci
Francois Bonneau, Centre Val-de-Loire region president, speaking during a press conference during the recent 2018 Rendezvous en France travel market event in Paris, revealed that many events will be organised in castles and gardens in the Val-de-Loire region. He said: “There will be major … social […]
Meet the Astronomer Who Has Chronicled the Field for 16 Years
In 1965, physicist Richard Feynman was busy. He was busy winning the Nobel Prize, and he was busy learning to draw. One day during that productive time in his life, he saw astrophysics student Virginia Trimble striding across Caltech’s campus and thought, There’s a good […]