03:15 China sits among the most popular markets for online shopping, especially in livestreaming. In an exclusive interview with CGTN, the country's livestream shopping superstar Viya p
For many founders, Y Combinator is a coveted milestone on the entrepreneurial road. As of January 2021, the accelerator has helped create 60,000 jobs, has 125 companies valued over $150 million, and h
02:04 By 2040, it's likely that half of the cars on our roads will be electric.One of the drawbacks of today's electric vehicles is that they use several different charging systems. If
In April, real estate tech company Compass forged ahead with its initial public offering and is now valued at nearly $6.4 billion.At that time, TechCrunch Senior Editor Alex Wilhelm caught up with fou
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Apple’s new AirTag item trackers are pretty small, but not quite small enough to slip into most wallets without adding an obvious bit of bulk.Fortunately, as one talented AirTag owner has found,
Their investors call them disruptive innovators. Detractors like North Carolina Attorney General Josh Stein call them “dirty scammers.” But Leda Health co-founders Madison Campbell and Liesel Vaidya t
Duolingo CEO and co-founder Luis von Ahn was tired of the gray and dreary design aesthetic edtech companies used to emulate universities. Instead, he and the company’s early team sought inspiration fr
Duolingo has been wildly successful. It has pulled in 500 million total registered learners, 40 million active users, 1.5 million premium subscribers and $190 million in booked revenues in 2020. It ha
Quarterback Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers looks on before the National Football Conference (NFC) Championship game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers at Lambeau Field in Green Bay, Wiscons
Gr4vy, (pronounced ‘gravy’) is a cloud-native payments company with a “payment orchestration platform (POP)” that merges a Cloud platform with payments infrastructure. It’s also announcing a Series A
Atlassian today announced a new edition of its Jira project management tool, Jira Work Management. The company has long been on a journey of bringing Jira to teams beyond the software development grou
17:06 India's second wave of COVID-19, which began in March, has escalated rapidly, with daily cases exploding in the past week. It is now the world's worst coronavirus crisis, with mor
Annabelle Liu in 2017. /Annabelle LiuBefore she set off to study at Columbia University in August 2016, Annabelle Liu had worked hard to improve her English. She had ma
Swedish digital health startup Kry, which offers a telehealth service (and software tools) to connect clinicians with patients for remote consultations, last raised just before the pandemic hit in Wes
00:45 Would you disconnect yourself from the world and retreat to a dark cave for 40 days?In France, 15 people did just that, emerging Saturday, from the scientific experiment, slightly
The current rave about newsletters and so-called or social audio is just the latest version of the story of podcasting. Take the idea that podcasting is experiencing a new wave of popularity and scaff