FinEX Asia’s Private Equity Fund Manager Announces US$50 Million Investment...
a U.S. online marketplace lending platform for consumer loans. “FinEX Asia is excited to complete the Series G financing into Prosper, a leader in marketplace lending in the U.S.,” said Maggie Ng, CEO...
View ArticleIBM open-sources a microservices-friendly Java app server
A few weeks ago, Nginx released its multilanguage microservices-friendly app server, but without Java support at launch. Now IBM has a beta build of its own microservices-friendly app server for Java...
View ArticleBelton volunteer dentistry celebrates a year of service, needs more volunteers
BELTON – It is a special day for a Belton dental clinic. The Body of Christ Community Clinic is celebrating one year in its new clinic. Executive Director Donna Dunn said the Body of Christ Community...
View ArticleThe real lesson of Facebook’s Russian ads is scarier than we realize — and...
There’s a mad scramble underway to figure out how we lost control of our social networks. How did the innocent place where we reconnect with old classmates and share cute baby photos become ground zero...
View ArticleSamsung SM-G888N0 “Galaxy X” foldable phone certified in Korea
It seems that Samsung is really making true its word that it will finally be making available one of its most hyped moonshot devices. Over at Korea’s National Radio Research Agency, the country’s...
View ArticleGoogle Is Fighting A Massive Android Malware Outbreak — Up To 21 Million Victims
Another month, another bunch of Android malware that’s found its way onto Google Play. That’s according to researchers from Check Point, who claimed to have found the second-biggest outbreak to ever...
View ArticleFacebook reportedly discovered it had been infiltrated by Russian government...
Members of a hacking group connected to Russia’s military intelligence unit, the GRU, began creating fake Facebook accounts to amplify stolen emails as early as June 2016, people familiar with the...
View ArticleObama tried to give Mark Zuckerberg a wake-up call over fake news on Facebook
Nine days after Facebook Inc. Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg dismissed as “crazy” the idea that fake news on his company’s social network played a key role in the U.S.’s November election,...
View ArticleApple switches from Bing to Google for Siri web search results on iOS and...
Apple is switching the default provider of its web searches from Siri, Search inside iOS (formerly called Spotlight) and Spotlight on the Mac. So, for instance, if Siri falls back to a web search on...
View ArticleThe CBO says the newest Republican healthcare bill would leave ‘millions’...
(Sen. Bill Cassidy, who co-authored the healthcare bill that got a score from the CBO on Monday.Jonathan Bachman/Reuters) The latest attempt by Republicans in the Senate to repeal and replace the...
View ArticleJimmy Kimmel Thanks Senators McCain, Collins for Potentially Thwarting...
Late-night host Jimmy Kimmel used his Monday-night monologue to suggest that the current Republican effort to repeal Obamacare was dead – and touted his role in the effort. Kimmel has been speaking...
View ArticleMicrosoft CEO Satya Nadella says he voted against Steve Ballmer’s $7.6...
When Microsoft’s then CEO Steve Ballmer proposed buying Nokia to shore up the company’s foundering mobile phone division, Satya Nadella thought it would be a mistake. Four years later, he hasn’t...
View ArticleThe big question for Apple is how many people are waiting for the iPhone X
Two new iPhones went on sale this weekend, but lines were not as long as they’ve been for previous iPhone launches. This has investors and analysts asking: Are Apple customers and fans passing on the...
View ArticleInkitt, a ‘reader powered’ book publisher, raises $3.9M to discover the next...
Inkitt, which bills itself as “the world’s first reader-powered book publisher,” has raised $3.9 million in pre-series A funding, in a round led by Redalpine, with Frontline Ventures, Speedinvest and a...
View ArticleDentistry From The Heart
BRIDGEWATER — Pamela Powers-Funkhouser needed dental work, but she kept putting it off for months due to a lack of money. But on Saturday, the 46-year-old Lost River, W.Va., resident was able to get...
View ArticleCongress can do its favorite thing on healthcare: Nothing
A lot of conversations about Obamacare start from the premise that Congress has to do something. They must repeal Obamacare, or partially repeal it — and if they don’t do that, there will have to be a...
View ArticleAddressing The Gap In Noncommunicable Disease Data With Technology And...
High-quality health data is the backbone of strong public health policies … Because of marked increases in mobile phone ownership, tapping into this technology for survey purposes has the potential to...
View ArticleHow Switzerland Became The Silicon Valley Of Robotics
Switzerland. Mountains, lakes, chocolate, fondue and banks? Right? Only partly. The Alpine nation is now “the Silicon Valley of robotics,” according to Chris Anderson, chief executive of 3D Robotics....
View ArticleNow, can we try to fix the problem that could actually bring down the US...
Protesters line up outside the Senate Finance Committee hearing room hours ahead of a hearing on the latest Republican effort to repeal Obamacare on Capitol Hill in Washington, U.S., September 25,...
View ArticleWorld’s largest flawless diamond ever to be auctioned will be unveiled this week
A 163-carat D flawless diamond, described as the largest ever put up for auction, will be unveiled in Hong Kong on Thursday. ‘D’ graded diamonds are colorless. The diamond, which will be unveiled by...
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