Is That Side Hustle a Scam? Here Are Four Questions You Need to Ask.
Good side hustles exist. Easy money does not. Here’s how to avoid scammy side hustles and find the right one.
China’s complicated role in climate change
This article is from The Spark, MIT Technology Review’s weekly climate newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Wednesday, sign up here. “Well, what about China?” This is a comment I get all the time on the topic of climate change, both in conversations and on whatever social media site is currently en vogue.…
July 2023
The Global Heat Wave Is Not Helping Ice Cream Sales, Unilever Says
When temperatures rise, consumers tend to prefer cold drinks over frozen desserts, according to company reps.
3 Ways Female Entrepreneurs Can Shatter Stereotypes While Also Empowering Others
Women entrepreneurs are constantly battling bias and stereotypes. Here’s how they can rise above the noise and empower others.
Video Shows Construction Crane Catching Fire, Collapsing in New York City
The accident occurred in the Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood of Manhattan.
Egnyte is bringing generative AI capabilities to its storage platform
Egnyte introduced some new generative AI tools today, and revealed more of what’s coming on the AI roadmap. The company also pointed out that it has been incorporating AI into the platform for over a decade, and is not simply jumping on the bandwagon of the moment. Today, it’s announcing a ChatGPT-like interface where customers […]
Volkswagen takes stake in Xpeng as part of Chinese EV deal
VW Group announced Wednesday a pair of deals with Chinese automakers aimed at shoring up sales in China. The German automaker said it will invest $700 million into Chinese automaker Xpeng as part of a deal to jointly develop and produce two mid-sized EVs for China. Volkswagen will acquire a 4.99% stake in Xpeng, under […]
Source: Crowdstrike is close to acquiring Bionic.AI for between $200M and $300M
It sounds like another M&A deal is about to go down in the world of cybersecurity. Sources tell TechCrunch that Crowdstrike is in advanced negotiations to acquire Bionic.AI — a security posture management platform for cloud services — for between $200 million and $300 million. A deal has yet to be closed, but investors are […]
RIP Digits, the New York Times math game
The New York Times announced last week that it will stop making Digits, a math puzzle game that debuted in beta in April. The last of these daily math puzzles will go up on August 8. Digits is a fun game. It earned a slot in my daily rotation of the little games I play […]
BlackRock, Reliance’s finance unit form joint venture to tap India’s asset management industry
Jio Financial Services and world’s largest asset manager BlackRock said Wednesday they have agreed to form a joint venture, called Jio BlackRock, as the Indian conglomerate Reliance’s finance unit enters the asset management industry in the South Asian market and begins to share a peek into the growing financial services ambitions of billionaire Mukesh Ambani. […]
6 Steps to Effectively Tell a Story With Your Marketing to Gain Clients and Make More Sales
These are time-tested storytelling strategies that I have implemented within my own companies successfully over many years of refinement.