Long-Lost Sisters Who Built the Largest Black-Owned Wine Company in the U.S. Reveal How to Break Into a Notoriously Tough Industry
Andréa and Robin McBride followed their shared love of wine into business — but it hasn’t always been easy.
Here are MIT Technology Review’s best-performing stories of 2024
Another year is coming to a close, so let’s look back at the MIT Technology Review stories that resonated most with you, our readers. We published hundreds of stories in 2024, about AI, climate tech, biotech, robotics, space, and more. There were six new issues of our magazine, on themes including food, play, and hidden…
QIA to invest $1 billion in international and regional venture capital funds
The Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) is launching a $1 billion venture capital (VC) fund of funds for international and regional venture capital funds, the sovereign wealth fund announced on Monday. The program, according to QIA, seeks to attract international VC funds and startups to Qatar and the wider Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) region, with a […]
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Feds hack LockBit, LockBit springs back. Now what?
Days after it was knocked offline by a sweeping, years-in-the-making law enforcement operation, the notorious Russia-based LockBit ransomware group has returned to the dark web with a new leak site complete with a number of new victims. In a verbose, borderline-rambling statement published Saturday, the remaining LockBit administrator blamed its own negligence for last week’s […]
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‘Next Tesla’ Electric Car Startups Hit Speed Bump: ‘Investors Want To See Demand’
Electric vehicle companies large and small, from Ford to Tesla to Rivian, are dealing with cooler-than-expected demand for EVs.
Former Twitter engineers are building Particle, an AI-powered news reader
A team led by former Twitter engineers is rethinking how AI can be used to help people process news and information. Particle.news, which entered into private beta over the weekend, is a new startup offering a personalized, “multi-perspective” news reading experience that not only leverages AI to summarize the news, but aims to do so […]
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Ransomware attack blamed for Change Healthcare outage stalling US prescriptions
An ongoing cyberattack at U.S. health tech giant Change Healthcare that sparked outages and disruption to hospitals and pharmacies across the U.S. for the past week was caused by ransomware, TechCrunch has learned. A healthcare executive with knowledge of the incident, who was on the call briefed by the company’s executives, said the healthcare tech […]
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The Top 5 Strategies for Overcoming Naysayers in Business
Here’s how you can handle naysayers with resilience and poise.
Let’s Bring Back the Human Element to Paying Bills — Here’s 3 Ways to Nurture Vendor Relationships for Business Success
In a small business’s accounts payable process, the human touch is essential. Building trust through personal interactions with vendors is key, guaranteeing a dependable supply chain and effective collaboration. How can businesses improve these connections? Here are three approaches for improvement.
A Millennial Relocated for a Job and Was Laid off 3 Months Later. Now, She’s Questioning Why She Was Hired in the First Place.
She says the company was aware she had to relocate.
Instagram confirms it’s developing a Snap Map-like ‘Friend Map’ feature
Instagram is developing an opt-in “Friend Map” feature that would allow users to see their friends’ locations in real time, a Meta spokesperson confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The company says the feature, which is similar to Snapchat’s Snap Map, is an internal prototype and is not being tested externally. The feature was first spotted […]
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