February 21, 2025

Doctors and patients are calling for more telehealth. Where is it?

Maggie Barnidge, 18, has been managing cystic fibrosis her whole life. But not long after she moved out of her home state to start college, she came down with pneumonia and went into liver failure. She desperately wanted to get in touch with her doctor back home, whom she’d been seeing since she was diagnosed…

June 2023

Notarize launches Proof to ensure safe online transactions

June 21, 2023

Notarize, the world’s largest online notary network, is launching Proof, a new company and platform for digital identity verifications. Beginning in August, Notarize’s business tools will be rebranded to Proof, and it is also changing its company name to Proof. Notarize will continue serving its online notary network, which is used by companies like Adobe […]

Notarize launches Proof to ensure safe online transactions by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch

Investing with Occam’s Razor

June 21, 2023
Time to get philosophical about the outlook for the market with the help of Occam’s Razor. This tool tells us to assume that the simplest explanation is the most likely….

The US city that scares Chinese Amazon sellers

June 21, 2023
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Want to know how to make Chinese Amazon sellers anxious? Put Chicago in the delivery address when you order. Why? Because in the last few years, many sellers have been slapped with massive lawsuits for…

Volt, an open banking fintech for payments and more, raises $60M at a $350M+ valuation

June 21, 2023

Open banking — where traditional banks enable payments and other new services by way of APIs that give access to financial data previously locked up in their systems — has led to a rush of startups looking to build the links to make it a reality. Today one of the hopefuls in open banking — […]

Volt, an open banking fintech for payments and more, raises $60M at a $350M+ valuation by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

The iPad was meant to revolutionize accessibility. What happened?

June 21, 2023
In December 2022, a few months after learning that he’d won an Iowa Arts Fellowship to attend the MFA program at the University of Iowa, David James “DJ” Savarese sat for a televised interview with a local news station. But in order to answer the anchorman’s questions, Savarese, a 30-year-old poet with autism who uses…