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iObeya raises $17M to digitize management planning processes like Agile

As we move deeper into the pandemic, companies are looking for ways to digitize processes that previously required in-person meetings with manual approaches. Investors appear to be rewarding companies

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The cybersecurity industry needs to reinvent itself

Organizations are spending more money on cybersecurity and feeling less secure. Last year, 93% of cybersecurity professionals said they were moderately or extremely concerned about cloud security.And

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Epidemic brings more robots into Chinese restaurants

In Foodom Robot Restaurant in south China's Foshan City, a line of robot chefs helped allay customers' fears of COVID-19 infection. After customers placed orders on their smartphones, the chefs were

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Frontline healthcare workers help Cuba win battle against pandemic

Jose Alberto Rodriguez began work early in the morning at the Pedro Kouri Institute of Tropical Medicine (IPK) in the outskirts of Cuba's capital Havana, where a COVID-19 hospital was set up by the

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‘One day we were in the office and the next we were working from home’

Ryan Easter couldn’t believe he was being asked to run a pandemic business continuity test.It was late October, 2019 and Easter, IT Director and a principal at Johnson Investment Counsel, was being as

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COVID-19 Frontline: How are families adapting to the changes?

The COVID-19 pandemic has closed schools around the world, with parents and students adapting to the new world of online learning. While this is a critical way to practice social distancing, it ca

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UK’s COVID-19 health data contracts with Google and Palantir finally emerge

Contracts for a number of coronavirus data deals that the UK government inked in haste with US tech giants, including Google and Palantir, plus a UK-based AI firm call

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The NPC police officers on the front line against COVID-19

Hao Shilin, a deputy to China's top legislature, the National People's Congress (NPC), is also among the thousands of police officers who were on the front lines in the

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NPC deputies doubling as medical experts help China's COVID-19 fight

When the second group from Zhejiang'smedical team returned in triumph from Wuhan on March 19, the fifth group led by Ge Minghua, president of Zhejiang Provincial People

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Across China: Guide dog trainers offer glimmer of hope for visually impaired people

"There were around 50,000 applicants when our guide dog training center was first established in 2006. We got endless phone calls every day," Wang Jingyu, founder of a

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Why travel bans didn't stop the coronavirus

When the World Health Organization (WHO) declared on January 30 the novel coronavirus outbreak "a public health emergency of international concern" (PHEIC), most of the world thought the virus was

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UN health agency chief unbowed amid attacks, Trump criticism

The World Health Organization’s director-general has faced many challenges during the coronavirus pandemic: racial slurs, death threats, social media caricatures — he w

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Equinix just recorded its 69th straight positive quarter

There’s something to be said for consistency through good times and bad, and one company that has had a staggeringly consistent track record is international data center vendor, Equinix. It just

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Orca Security raises $20M Series A for its multi-cloud security platform

Orca Security, an Israeli cloud security firm that focuses on giving enterprises better visibility into their multi-cloud deployments on AWS, Azure and GCP, today announced that it has raised a $20 mi

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FDA-cleared AI-based medical triage tool goes free customers to help busy radiology diagnostics departments

Medical startup Nines, which has developed an AI-based triage tool that has received clearance from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for use, is making that tool available for free to all u

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Dear Sophie: How will President Trump’s order ‘suspending immigration’ affect me?

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies.“Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge t

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Disney World furloughing 43,000 more workers due to coronavirus

Walt Disney World plans to stop paying wages to 43,000 workers in about a week while allowing them to keep their benefits for up to a year in what is the largest wave o