Mobile Apps vs Banner Ads. Who Won The Battle? (Call of Duty and ASKfm’s Experience)
Banner ads are on the Internet since 1994. The first banner looked minimalistic and even stylish in modern reality: Total digital ad spending will reach $455.3 billion by the end…
Yahoo Year In Review: Philippines’ Top Searches In 2021
Amid loosening community quarantine restrictions, Filipino netizens’ online activity was still at an all-time high as they sought out their passions online like never before. Athletes and celebrities continued to…
PODCAST| Startup Stories – Making Product decisions at scale
Episode Description I remember Noah Kagan telling me that he would get on Skype to get feedback from early customers. That idea stuck with me but even then it didn’t…
Despite global chip shortage, how Ola was able to make its first deliveries
On Wednesday, Ola Electric's office in Bengaluru was bustling with the first 100 customers from Bengaluru and Chennai. The final production of the scooters had begun on October 15, 2021,…
How risk-averse people become startup founders: Creating no-loss scenarios
How Risk-averse People Become Startup Founders: Creating No-loss Scenarios When I left my job as an investment professional at Softbank Vision Fund to start my own company, I saw broadly…
How LEAD is transforming affordable private schools by reimagining classrooms and digitising pedagogy
Nearly half (12 crores) of the students in India are educated in private schools. And parents pay a substantial part of their monthly household income to send their children to…
Taxdoo raises $64M to expand from tax compliance to a wider set of financial tools for e-commerce companies
With e-commerce becoming increasingly globalized, a company called Taxdoo, which builds API-based tools to help e-commerce companies with tax compliance and other accounting needs, is announcing a round of funding:…
La Belle Vie raises $28 million to build an online supermarket from scratch
French startup La Belle Vie announced that it has raised a $28.2 million (€25 million) Series B round led by Left Lane and Quadrille Capital, with existing investor Capagro also…
Motional and Uber partner to launch autonomous delivery pilot in Santa Monica in 2022
Motional, a driverless technology company, is partnering with Uber to launch an autonomous delivery pilot in Santa Monica, according to Motional. Uber Eats customers will be able to order restaurant…
France latest to slap Clearview AI with order to delete data
Controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, which has amassed a database of some 10 billion images by scraping selfies off the Internet so it can sell an identity-matching service to…
TuSimple locks in self-driving trucks deal with DHL
Self-driving trucks developer TuSimple has reached a deal to integrate its autonomous vehicle technology into DHL Supply Chain’s operations. As part of the deal, the contract logistics giant has reserved…
Reddit files confidentially to go public
In August, Reddit raked in a hefty $410 million financing led by Fidelity, valuing it at $10 billion. It had plans to close out the round, a Series F, at…
Beijing court rules bitcoin mining contract ‘void’
As crypto investors widely know, China has declared all cryptocurrency transactions illegal and outlawed crypto mining activities. Lately, a court decision further reasserted the government’s attitude to stifle any bitcoin…
World-Leading Media Agencies Partner With Hivestack To Deliver Programmatic Digital Out Of Home (DOOH)
Hivestack, the world's largest, independent, programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) ad tech company has been selected as a programmatic digital out of home (DOOH) partner by several leading global…
Charles Schwab Reports Increasing Financial Confidence Among Hong Kong
Charles Schwab, Hong Kong, Ltd. today announced the findings of its "Hong Kong Rising Affluent Financial Well-being Index 2021". As global economic growth returned in 2021, this year's survey reported the…
