Category: Food

Alibaba is increasing its control of Lazada, its e-commerce marketplace in Southeast Asia it acquired control of in 2016, after it injected another $2 billion into the business and replaced its CEO with a long-standing Alibaba executive. Alibaba’s first investment came in April 2016 when […]

Like OLED (used in the Apple Watch and now iPhone X, MicroLED tech doesn’t need a backlight, so it could provide better contrast while using less power, but since it has to be assembled one sub-pixel at a time (each pixel requires three), it hasn’t […]

There’s no shortage of ideas being backed when it comes to direct-to-consumer e-commerce companies that are cultivating their own brands. We’ve seen everything from slippers to toothbrushes to, perhaps most famously, razor blades. Among the newer frontiers being funded right now: ingredient-conscious perfumes. The New York-based, […]

By DAMIEN CAVE and VINDU GOEL Ola hopes to become a rare consumer technology firm in India that breaks away from home and grows in a well-to-do market where it can charge more. Published: March 18, 2018 at 01:00AM from NYT Technology http://ift.tt/2tXaYP3 via IFTTT

Did Google's marketing department get bored this week? On Thursday, the Mountain View, California-based company announced it was renaming its operating system for wearable devices (predominately used in smartwatches) Android Wear to Wear OS. The search giant argued that users of Android … social experiment by […]

Sunny Dhillon Contributor More posts by this contributor Mixed reality arcades are the next big market opportunity — but not for VCs Virtual reality in Japan “$43 million and the only thing you can buy in it is a coffee.” So said Samsung’s Senior Director […]

Bad data privacy: On the “social [meal] ordering app” Ritual, you can join any company without email verification and see which office floor users work on at places like @DHSgov, @LockheedMartin, @PalantirTech, and the Pentagon. pic.twitter.com/fZrwPCGJaw — Caitlin Tran (@caitlinsays_) March 16, 2018 In the […]

GrokStyle’s simple concept of “point your camera at a chair (or lamp, or table…) and find others like it for sale” attracted $2 million in funding last year, and the company has been putting that cash to work. And remarkably for a company trying to […]