WhatsApp hits 1B daily users while its Snapchat clone rockets to 250M
Facebook is winning the race to bring Snapchat’s Stories format to the rest of the world before its originator. WhatsApp Status, its version of Snapchat Stories, now has 250 million daily active users....
View ArticleApple or Foxconn could be building factories in the US — or maybe not
President Donald Trump surprised everyone yesterday when he told the Wall Street Journal that Apple CEO Tim Cook told him Apple would build three factories in the U.S. It’s worth quoting Trump on this...
View ArticleHTC’s first standalone Vive headset is only available in China
You’ll get self-contained VR in other countries… just not now. At long last, HTC has released a PC-free version of the Vive… only you probably won’t get to use it. The company has introduced a Vive...
View ArticleEvidence-based dentistry in practice
This article considers what evidence-based dentistry means, how to begin to implement it in practice, and why it is important for clinicians and patients alike. The General Dental Council, in its...
View ArticleApple must pay $506M for infringing university’s patent
A judge has ordered Apple to pay $506 million to the research arm of the University of Wisconsin. Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation, or WARF, sued Apple in 2014, accusing its A7, A8, and A8X chips...
View ArticleOGIC Surpasses 40th Project Milestone for Innovation and Technology Projects
The part-funding across all projects to date has resulted in more than GBP 1.3 m worth of funding being injected into collaborative projects for innovation and technology driven solution for the oil...
View ArticleActing Comptroller Of The Currency Discusses Responsible Innovation And...
Acting Comptroller of the Currency Keith A. Noreika today discussed responsible innovation during an appearance before the Exchequer Club. His remarks provided the audience an update on the agency’s...
View ArticleThe 5 Ways Data Can Prevent The Next Financial Crash
The financial crash of the late 2000s was the most severe since … Few would argue that there isn’t a significant tech bubble in Silicon Valley amongst the many startups who are valued at billions of...
View ArticleFinancial services to drive fastest IT budget increases…
Infocomm Media Development Authority (IMDA) and the e2i (Employment and Employability Institute), has launched talentguru, a skills-focused career development platform, powered by the latest big data...
View ArticleBAI Renews Collaboration with FinTechStage to Foster Innovation Among FinTech...
and has done so in eight countries already by assembling the five components of a successful innovation framework in financial services: the incumbents, the investors, the entrepreneurs, the technology...
View ArticleWhat free market healthcare really looks like
As an economics graduate, MBA, and entrepreneur I’m a fan of the free market system. The invisible hand is a beautiful thing, and it’s certainly been good for me. A healthcare management consultant and...
View ArticleSling TV adds pay-per-view events starting with UFC 214
It’ll cost $59.99 on top of your monthly subscription. SlingTV is taking another step toward replicating the traditional pay-TV experience: Offering pay-per-view events. If you’re impatient, know that...
View ArticleOnly Female Republicans Are Taking The Heat For Opposing Healthcare Repeal
Since the Senate opened debate on healthcare legislation, two proposed bills have failed because multiple Republican senators joined Democrats in voting “no.” But, President Trump and GOP members of...
View Article‘The American people hate all their plans’: Al Franken scorches GOP on...
On Thursday night, with the vote on a possible “skinny repeal” of Obamacare looming in the Senate, Sen. Al Franken (D-MN) told Rachel Maddow that the Republican healthcare bill is so bad that...
View ArticleSenators threaten to block healthcare ‘skinny repeal’ bill
Republican Senators threatened to vote against the latest Obamacare repeal bill unless they received a guarantee it would be debated further. Lindsey Graham, Ron Johnson, and John McCain’s votes would...
View ArticleThe Senate voted down a single-payer healthcare system — and there’s a...
In a twist that exemplifies just how wild the healthcare debate has been, on Thursday the Senate voted on a single-payer healthcare plan. Introduced by a Republican. Who doesn’t support it. The plan,...
View ArticleSkeptical Republicans to vote for ‘horrible’ healthcare bill – live
Reminder that there is not a budget analysis for the bill yet but an early estimate anticipated that a rumored version of this bill would leave 16 million people without health insurance compared with...
View ArticleGlobal financial technology market insights shared in detailed report
This report provides growth estimates, forecasts, and an in-depth analysis of all key factors at play in the Financial Technology market. – Agency -. The report takes into account the micro and macro...
View ArticleLinking financial success with financial technology…
While most companies (95%) have some form of general business insurance such as accident and property cover, roughly half of the companies surveyed in Asia do not carry any business liability...
View ArticleInside a young Indian engineer’s very human struggle to build a global...
Butler and Sorter seem like an unlikely pair. One is unassuming, small and squat, though it has a talent for lifting weighty shelves and whirring around with them. The other is loud, long and immobile,...
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