Month: June 2019

MacKenzie Bezos’ recent announcement that she’d take the Giving Pledge and dedicate at least half of her $35 billion in net worth to philanthropy has sparked attention, partially because her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos, wouldn’t sign the pledge. Her commitment to the Giving Pledge, spearheaded by […]

New York City is hard. Fact. Here are two more NYC life facts: I’m never not carrying multiple things in my hand, and one thing I’m always juggling is my smartphone. That’s why I’m ready to say goodbye to fetching my yellow MetroCard every time […]

Jumia may be the first startup you’ve heard of from Africa. But the e-commerce venture that recently listed on the NYSE is definitely not the first or last word in African tech. The continent has an expansive digital innovation scene, the components of which are […]

Serve una legge che stabilisca risorse e regole per tutelare gli anziani sia sotto il profilo economico (pensioni) sia per quanto riguarda l'aspetto … by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

Need to extract content from a document quickly and automatically? You’re in luck if you’re an Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer. Amazon today announced the general availability of Textract, a cloud-hosted and fully managed service that uses machine learning to parse data tables, forms, and […]

DJI is the leading name in drones, and we've liked their prosumer Phantom and Mavic lines quite a bit — but it looks like the company has also quietly … social experiment by Livio Acerbo #greengroundit

Next-gen 5G mobile networks are starting to launch all over the country to help users casually download data at lightning-fast speeds, and T-Mobile has its own. But unlike Verizon, Sprint and AT&T, T-Mobile has only confirmed a single 5G phone that will work on its […]

How much value do online publishers derive from behaviorally targeted advertising that uses privacy-hostile tracking technologies to determine which advert to show a website user? A new piece of research suggests publishers make just 4% more vs if they were to serve a non-targeted ad. […]

Serena Williams descended upon the clay courts of the French Open in Paris this week, where a year ago she became a lodestar of ridiculous controversy. In one early bout, Williams’ decision to wear a black catsuit resulted in a violation; the form of dress […]

When serial entrepreneur Eric Lefkofsky grows a company, he puts the pedal to the metal. When in 2011 his last company, the Chicago-based coupons site Groupon, raised $950 million from investors, it was the largest amount raised by a start-up, ever. It was just over […]