Interest Rates Are Going to Drop This Year. Here Are 6 Ways Businesses Can Take Advantage When the Time Comes.
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Meta is adding AI-powered summaries to WhatsApp
Meta announced on Wednesday that it’s adding an AI-powered summaries feature to WhatsApp. The optional new feature uses Meta AI to summarize unread messages in a chat. This summary would only be visible to you, not others in your chat, the company notes. The feature builds on the AI technology that Meta released in April, […]
Magnificent 7 Oil & Gas Stocks to Buy
The burgeoning demand for oil and gas, coupled with supply shortages, is propelling its prices, which is serving as an enduring tailwind for the energy sector. As the energy industry’s…
Functional beverage startup Odyssey grabs $6M to accelerate energy drink growth
Odyssey’s products tap into the health benefits of Lions Mane and Cordyceps mushrooms to produce an energy drink that provides cognitive clarity and focus.
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Africa-focused funds find their feet amid a downturn
In the midst of a funding downtime last year, and with conditions getting tougher for fund managers raising capital as backers (limited partners) enhanced their focus on strategy and track record, some new African and Africa-focused funds still emerged, with several of the existing ones receiving fresh backing. Data tracker and market insights firm Briter […]
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Why Investors Are Flocking to These 2 Medical Stocks
Given the growing demand for healthcare facilities, rapid integration of digital technology, and transformative biotechnology breakthroughs, the medical industry is poised for continued growth and profitability this year and beyond….
Why engineers are working to build better pulse oximeters
This article first appeared in The Checkup, MIT Technology Review’s weekly biotech newsletter. To receive it in your inbox every Thursday, and read articles like this first, sign up here. Visit any health-care facility, and one of the first things they’ll do is clip a pulse oximeter to your finger. These devices, which track heart rate…
The Silver Economy: Unveiling Investment Opportunities in Aging Populations
The global demographic landscape is undergoing a profound transformation. As life expectancies extend and birth rates decline in many parts of the world, the proportion of the elderly population is…
Pinterest announces a new ad deal with Google as it approaches 500M MAUs
Pinterest announced a new ad deal with Google as the company aims to ramp up its ad revenue. Google is the social platform’s second third-party ad partner after Amazon signed a multiyear deal with Pinterest last year. The company talked about the Google partnership during the earnings call for Q4 2023, where it posted results […]
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Bootstrapped for 8 years, Xensam has now snapped up $40M for AI that manages software assets
Software asset management — an area of enterprise IT designed, in part, to help companies save money — continues to draw a lot of money itself. In the latest development, Xensam — a startup out of Stockholm that provides AI-based tools to help businesses understand and track where and how software is being used — […]
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Indian parliamentary panel red-flags PhonePe and Google Pay cornering 83% of India’s UPI payments
An Indian parliamentary panel has urged the government to support the growth of domestic fintech players that can provide alternatives to the Walmart-backed PhonePe and Google Pay apps that currently command more than 83% of the country’s fast-growing digital payments market. The 58-page report, which includes a series of recommendations, comes at a time when […]
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