On June 15, 1991, Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines blew its top in an eruption of staggering proportions. It sent an ash cloud 28 miles high, filling surrounding valleys with deposits 660 feet thick and destroying almost every bridge within 18 miles. Over 800 people […]
Category: Food
Walmart co-leads $500M investment in Chinese online grocery service Dada-JD Daojia
Walmart sold its China-based e-commerce business in 2016, but the U.S. retail giant is very much involved in the Chinese internet market through a partnership with e-commerce firm JD.com. Alibaba’s most serious rival, JD scooped up Walmart’s Yihaodian business and offered its own online retail platform […]
Online Stock Trading Has Serious Security Holes
It’s never been easier to trade stocks; just a few taps or clicks will do the trick. But most of the platforms that millions of market participants rely on to move their money suffer from cybersecurity shortcomings, new research warns. As if stocks weren’t risky […]
Amazon cuts Whole Foods delivery time to 30 minutes
The initiative, called grocery pickup, is starting off in Sacramento and Virginia Beach before it rolls out to more cities throughout 2018. It will allow customers to pre-order bakery items, organic produce and other fresh foods from the Prime Now app, and fetch their purchase […]
June returns with a cheaper smart oven for lazy cooks
In the past two years, the company has been busy adding even more features to the June Oven platform. Last July, it added a “slow cook” mode. In October, June launched a digital cookbook with a constantly updated library of more than 100 recipes, complete […]
Flux partners with fast food merchant itsu for itemised paperless receipts
Flux, the London fintech that has built a software platform to offer merchants digital receipts, loyalty, card-linked offers and analytics, continues to sign new partnerships in a bid to solve its ‘chicken and egg’ problem. That is, it needs bank integrations to sign up merchants […]
India’s Uber rival Ola is headed to Europe with ride-hailing launch in the UK
The UK is getting a new alternative to Uber after India-based ride-hailing company Ola announced plans to expand to the country, which will become its first market in Europe. Ola was founded in 2010 and it covers over 110 cities in India where it offers […]
Vodafone Australia now offering 50Mbps NBN plans for under $60 a month
After entering the NBN playing field in December 2017, Vodafone has now announced a new and simplified trio of plans that it hopes will bring better value to the Australian high-speed internet market. The three new plans cover each of the speed tiers available from […]
Why Facebook’s Thinning Profit Margins Are a Secret Asset
Mark Zuckerberg & company surprised investors on two fronts last month, pushing Facebook shares down 20 percent and wiping out about $130 billion in market value. One was predictable, the other less so. First, Facebook user growth is slowing, and the problem is unfixable: The […]
YouTube removes Alex Jones’ official channel for violating guidelines
It appears YouTube has removed the Alex Jones Channel for violating its guidelines pic.twitter.com/H0Onaac3rJ — Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) August 6, 2018 Polygon received a statement from YouTube, which states “All users agree to comply with our Terms of Service and Community Guidelines when they sign […]