March 12, 2025

Private Equity Firms Must Embrace These Cutting-Edge Innovations to Stay Competitive

Here’s why private equity firms that invest in cutting-edge technology will be best positioned to navigate market challenges and seize new opportunities.

Salesforce to invest $1B in Singapore to boost adoption of AI

March 12, 2025

Salesforce plans to invest $1 billion in Singapore over the next five years as it seeks to fuel the adoption of its AI agent development platform, Agentforce. Salesforce claimed that Agentforce can help alleviate Singapore’s ongoing labor issues and augment the country’s workforce and enterprises by creating “digital workforces” that combine humans with autonomous AI […]

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This artificial leaf makes hydrocarbons out of carbon dioxide

March 12, 2025
For many years, researchers have been working to build devices that can mimic photosynthesis—the process by which plants use sunlight and carbon dioxide to make their fuel. These artificial leaves use sunlight to separate water into oxygen and hydrogen, which could then be used to fuel cars or generate electricity. Now a research team has…

Elea AI is chasing the healthcare productivity opportunity by targeting pathology labs’ legacy systems

March 12, 2025

VC funding into AI tools for healthcare was projected to hit $11 billion last year — a headline figure that speaks to the widespread conviction that artificial intelligence will prove transformative in a critical sector. Many startups applying AI in healthcare are seeking to drive efficiencies by automating some of the administration that orbits and […]

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Uber terminates Foodpanda Taiwan acquisition, citing regulatory hurdles

March 12, 2025

Uber Technologies has ended its acquisition of Delivery Hero’s Foodpanda in Taiwan, the Germany-based tech firm said on Tuesday. The announcement comes roughly three months after Taiwan’s antitrust regulator blocked the deal, citing competitive issues. The Fair Trade Commission (FTC) said that if Uber acquired Foodpanda, its market share in Taiwan would increase to 90%, […]

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Spotify says its payouts are getting better, but artists still disagree

March 12, 2025

Spotify on Tuesday released its annual Loud & Clear report, detailing information about the music streaming service’s royalty payments. While Spotify revealed earlier this year that it paid out $10 billion to the music industry in 2024, the new report offers more in-depth numbers about its payments in an effort to dispel reports that the company […]

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