Trunomi wins Barclays Fintech Award
Bermudian-based start up Trunomi has been announced as the overall winner in the Barclays Fintech Awards. The Fintech Award recognises companies in the ThinkRise community that are disrupting the...
View ArticleBritain’s fintech boom is pushing the number of finance trademarks to a...
Startup bank Monzo was forced to change its name from Mondo following a trademark dispute last year. Monzo Trademarks registered by finance firms rise by 35% in 5 years to 4,228. Growth fuelled by rise...
View ArticleThree years after it launched, Apple Pay is finally starting to gain traction...
Although Apple announced Apple Pay to much fanfare three years ago, the mobile payment service has struggled to gain traction since. Only 27% of eligible iPhone owners have ever used Apple Pay and only...
View ArticleApple Pay now in 20 markets, nabs 90% of all mobile contactless transactions...
While we are going to have to wait a little longer for Apple to launch payments in iMessage, this weekend, Jennifer Bailey, Apple’s VP of Apple Pay, announced a series of other milestones for the...
View ArticleFacebook tests burying posts from media outlets in a separate News Feed —...
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is interviewed by reporters. Getty / Stephen Lam Facebook is currently testing a change that would force news publishers to pay to show posts from their Facebook Pages in...
View ArticleShift Technology raises another $28 million to prevent fraudulent insurance...
Shift Technology is raising a Series B round of $28 million from Accel and General Catalyst. Accel had already led the company’s previous round. Existing investors Elaia Partners and Iris Capital are...
View ArticleVPC Specialty Lending Investments : Portfolio Update
In line with the previously stated strategy of reallocating capital from marketplace lending to balance sheet lending, the Company is pleased to announce that it has sold the vast majority of its Avant...
View ArticleGlobal commercial robotics market set to be dominated by North America in the...
Leading players in the global commercial robotics market include Northrop Grumman Corporation, KUKA AG, iRobot Corporation, Yaskawa Electric Corporation, Honda Motor Company Ltd., Omron Adept...
View ArticleApple’s new premium leather case for the $999 iPhone X costs $99
You’ll have to shell out at least $999 to own Apple’s new iPhone X. If you want Apple’s top-of-the-line leather case to go with it, be prepared to spend $100 more. Apple will be selling a leather folio...
View ArticleBillionaire hedge funder David Einhorn says Tesla is putting ‘inadequately...
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital is sticking to its bet that Tesla’s stock should be performing much worse than they are. “Tesla (TSLA) had an awful quarter both in its current results and future...
View ArticleWall St hits fresh records on financial, tech gains
Oct 16 (Reuters) – Major Wall Street indexes hit fresh records at the open on Monday on gains in financial and technology stocks even as investors awaited a slew of earnings reports this week. The Dow...
View ArticleMicrosoft drops lawsuit after U.S. government revises data request...
(Reuters) — Microsoft said it will drop a lawsuit against the U.S. government after the Department of Justice (DoJ) changed data request rules on alerting internet users about agencies accessing their...
View ArticleSurgical Drains/Wound Drainage Market Worth 2.18 Billion USD by 2022
By applications, the Surgical Drains Market is segmented into general surgery … than 10,000 companies this year for their revenue planning and help them take their innovations/disruptions early to the...
View ArticleRobotically assisted surgical device for laparoscopic procedures cleared by FDA
The US Food & Drug Administration (FDA) has cleared the Senhance System, a robotically assisted surgical device (RASD) that can be used during minimally invasive surgery. “RASD technology is a...
View ArticleRobots Power Profits at Intuitive Surgical
but that’s less worrisome because innovation is critical to expanding da Vinci’s use. In the following table, I’m including some line items from the company’s Q3 income statement that are important to...
View ArticleWith Lots of Moving Pieces, Intuitive Surgical, Inc. Reports Yet Another...
Intuitive Surgical (NASDAQ: ISRG) shareholders like myself have gotten … the early innings of robotic surgery and he’s willing to spend big to continue pushing innovation in the field. The company...
View ArticleWith a CE-marked surgical sealant, what’s next for Gecko Biomedical?
Gecko Biomedical’s first product may be a surgical sealant, but has eyes on much more … The company is working to build out its platform into these areas, but it wants to open up innovation around its...
View ArticleImpact of Surgical Robots on Global Surgical Equipment Market
Modern invention and innovation in technology has captivated almost all industries and is continuously influencing the market growth across the world. The surgical equipment market is also influenced...
View ArticleRegulators Clamp Down On Abusive Consumer Loans, But Affordable Alternatives...
In an effort to clamp down on abusive consumer loans, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has finalized a rule to end abusive consumer loans by requiring lenders to determine up front...
View ArticleDJI’s ‘electronic license plate’ helps authorities identify drones in mid-flight
DJI took to the roofs of Washington DC to demonstrate AeroScope, a new identification technology the company has taken to calling an “electronic license plate for drones.” The feature is designed to...
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