Redstone and EnjoyVenture have combined forces to create Human Impact Capital (HIC), Germany’s first dedicated scial impact VC fund. The fund will deploy cash into digital business models focusing on health, education and “living,” and explicitly invests to have an impact along sustainable development goals. To HIC, this means “No Poverty, Good Health and Wellbeing,…
Samsung Electronics has appointed Jay Y. Lee as the executive chairman to lead the world’s largest smartphone and memory chipmaker, two months after the heir received a presidential pardon that erased the 54-year-old’s criminal record. Last year, Lee was paroled from prison after serving 18 months in jail for bribing former South Korean president Park…
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Hope you’ve got your costume ready, because it’s only four days until Halloween (and less if you’re partying not-on-a-school-night). But even if your wig hasn’t arrived yet, the new Wordle has! While you track your order like a slasher-movie villain, we’ve got some clues and the solution to help you out, as we do every…
TL;DR: The 2023 Coding with Scratch Programming Bundle is on sale for £22.12, saving you 97% on list price. One of the first things you may realise when you start learning to code is that there’s not one objectively correct place to start. Instead, you can think about what kind of things you want to…
Sony has unveiled a new Earth Blue color option for its most comfortable pair of wireless earbuds, the LinkBuds S. The finish is a beautiful blue marbled effect, which has been created using a material produced from recycled water dispensers, helping to further boost the LinkBuds S eco-friendly credentials. The company has also pledged that…
Elon Musk. Andrew Kelly/Reuters Elon Musk told Twitter employees that he has no plans to cut 75% of jobs at the company, Bloomberg reported. This contradicts what he told prospective investors just last week. Musk is expected to close his $44 billion deal to buy the social media giant on Friday. Elon Musk told Twitter…
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the company is committed to the metaverse. Facebook/Meta Meta expects “significantly” higher losses for the Reality Labs unit handling the development of the metaverse. CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that investors who are patient will “end up being rewarded.” Meta’s share price slumped nearly 20% to $104.30 in after-hours…
Samsung has reported a record consolidated revenue of 76.78 trillion Korean won (US$54 billion) for the third quarter of 2022, but it has also posted a decline in profit from the previous quarter and year-over-year. The tech giant’s operating profit (KRW 10.85 trillion or US$7.6 billion) has declined 23 percent from the second quarter and…
The past few years have shown Southeast Asia’s incredible resilience, as people and businesses have come online – often for the first time – to find new ways of accomplishing what would previously have to be done in person. In 2022, we’ve seen that resilience again, with global economic headwinds rising just as the region…