Tortoise is partnering with hospitality giant Sodexo to bring a mobile smart store — which is basically a fancy vending machine with wheels — to Comic Con this year. One of Tortoise’s robots, laden with Sodexo’s carne asada burritos and 20-ounce bottles of Gatorade, will roam around the main Pavilion at the San Diego Convention…
Arrenda, a Mexico City-based fintech company, is offering digital financial services to the real estate market of Latin America and closed on $26.5 million in a pre-seed round of equity and debt. The funding round was a mix of $1.5 million in equity and $25 million in debt financing. Fasanara Capital led the investment and…
Receiving a medical diagnosis can be a difficult and scary experience. You may even be left with more questions than answers. For many, Patient Advocacy Groups, or Patient Organizations, can help answer those questions. These groups, typically non-profit organizations, promote the needs and priorities of local patient communities and represent a wide variety of disease…
Evidence has been found in code for Apple’s next big round of software updates – including for iOS on phones, iPadOS on tablets, macOS on Macs and, of course, tvOS on Apple TV 4K – that Apple will support the next-gen AV1 video format on its devices in the future. AV1 has one major advantage:…
China and India have stepped up purchases of Russian oil this year. VCG/Getty Images China’s purchases of Russian oil dropped 13% in June from May, according to new data. China imported 7.28 million tons of Russian crude in June, compared to 8.42 million tons in May. The fall raises questions about Russia’s pivot to Asia,…
Mick Mulvaney. Joshua Roberts/Reuters Mick Mulvaney said Trump is was probably the only “mainstream Republican” who could lose to Biden in 2024. Trump’s former chief of staff doubled down on comments that the GOP doesn’t need Trump. Mulvaney previously said Trump was damaged by the Jan. 6 committee findings. Former White House Chief of Staff…
Mike Novogratz, CEO of Galaxy Investment Partners, speaks during the Bitcoin 2022 Conference at Miami Beach Convention Center on April 8, 2022 in Miami, Florida. Marco Bello/Getty Images Billionaire investor Mike Novogratz said he was “darn wrong” about leverage risks in the crypto industry. “It turned into a full fledged credit crisis, with complete liquidation…
Unclaimed luggage piles up at London Heathrow Airport on July 8, 2022. PAUL ELLIS/AFP via Getty Images. A stranger texted Jamie O’Grady saying he’d found his luggage in baggage reclaim at London Heathrow. American Airlines told O’Grady to collect the bag from the airport, even though he was back in the US. O’Grady had been…
Getty Images In the wake of the pandemic, new ways of working and an increasing focus on technology have meant that forward-looking companies can build back better in terms of their digital transformation journey. Being digital-first has always been at the heart of travel insurance company DirectAsia’s business strategy. Founded in Singapore in 2010, it…
TP-Link has introduced two new WiFi 6 routers that use tri-band technology, which translates to more bandwidth for multiple devices and less congestion. The Archer AXE5400, also known as Archer AXE75, is a WiFi 6E router than can deliver speeds of up to 5400 Mbps. It’s a standalone router that gives users access to the…