By now, holders of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies are accustomed to their massive price swings. In December, a two-week 81 percent surge in the price of a single Bitcoin was immediately followed by a five-day decline of 36 percent. Bitcoin's meteoric rise in price, from […]
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A look back at the year that the Sub-Saharan African startup scene found its stride
Jake Bright Contributor Jake Bright is a writer and author in New York City. He is co-author of The Next Africa. More posts by this contributor: African tech in 2017 was about the normalization of market events mostly absent even a decade ago. There were […]
See if you can beat today’s BT broadband price rise with one of these internet deals
BT counts around 10 million households among its huge share of the UK internet market. That’s a LOT of disgruntled customers it presumably had on its hands when it announced its latest round of price rises on BT broadband and Infinity fibre. Deals are going […]
Epifania, 200 clochard al pranzo dei CIty Angels: Gori e Violi camerieri d’eccezione
Epifania, 200 clochard al pranzo dei CIty Angels: Gori e Violi camerieri d’eccezione – 1 di 1 – Milano – Repubblica.it Personaggi della politica e dello spettacolo a servire come camerieri, lo chef di Alberto di Monaco – Christian Garcia – a cucinare, un hotel […]
Success for Advent in Šibenik, Single Plastic-Free Christmas Market in Croatia
The Advent programme in Šibenik, cleverly titled Adventura, recorded more than 65.000 visitors this time around, reports ŠibenikIN on January 6, 2018. The impressive number of visitors makes for a 30% increase in traffic compared with 2016, but also proves that Šibenik isn't just a […]
A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion
A Cryptocurrency Based On a Dog Meme Is Now Worth Over $1 Billion Published on January 06, 2018 at 11:00AM Earlier today, the market capitlization of dogecoin, a cryptocurrency based on a meme about a Shiba Inu dog, passed the $1 billion mark for the […]
How to Curb Silicon Valley Power—Even With Weak Antitrust Laws
Technology companies with unprecedented power to sway consumers and move markets have done the unthinkable: They’ve made trust-busting sound like a good idea again. The concentration of wealth and influence among tech giants has been building for years—90 percent of new online-ad dollars went to […]
Court rules Zepp has to stop selling its baseball and softball sensors
A US District Court has found that both companies infringed on each other’s patents and the two parties have agreed to a settlement that will allow both to keep their products on the market, save for one. Zepp’s baseball and softball sensor products will no […]
Dinghy picks up backing from Balderton for its flexible freelancer insurance
Insurtech was one of the big VC bets of 2017, and that looks set to continue into the new year as startups spot gaps in the insurance market. This has already seen new types of products launch, such as Zego’s gig economy insurance play or […]
LG’s new robots deliver food and double as shopping carts
Robots are hard. Softbank has pumped a bunch of money into them, and the best it’s come up with so far is Pepper, a friendly humanoid that stands outside of stores and restaurants, tablet in-hand. LG announced this time last year that it was planning […]