London-based Trading.co.uk will be launching an app that will make it easier for traders to keep track of Trump in real time. The new app will launch trading alerts for the scores of fund managers and traders who want to watch the incoming new president’s...
U.K.-based food on demand firm Deliveroo has announced that orders were up over 650 percent last year — despite increasing competition from bigger-name players like Uber and Amazon. In response to the swell of demand, the firm will be taking on over 1,000 full-time employees in its...
Americans are not terribly familiar with Pepper — the robot helper — today, but SoftBank is determined that it will soon conquer U.S. shores with its automated adorableness. And, having had a test run with a few California-based retailers, SoftBank says Pepper is more than a pretty face — it...
It’s just a few days into 2017, and already it looks to be the year of the bots. With CES 2017, the annual global consumer electronics and technology tradeshow, just days away, technology companies are teasing eager technophiles with teaser product announcements. South Korean electronics...
Subscription models have seen a significant rise across commerce categories in the past few years. At the start of this year’s holiday shopping season, the gift that keeps on giving got an additional sales boost. Recurly Inc., which provides enterprise-grade subscription management platforms to thousands...
MetLife announced Monday (Dec. 19) that PNB MetLife, its joint venture partnership in India, launched conVRse, an on-demand virtual reality (VR) customer service platform that it claims is first of a kind. In a press release, MetLife said the conVRse technology, which was developed with...
Price wars are expensive — just ask the team at Uber, which has put $800 million in losses on the board during the third quarter of this year. Those big loss figures come care of a price war with rival ride-hailing service Lyft in the U.S. and...
Pepper, a rather adorable humanoid robot, is being put to work by his bosses at SoftBank. The Japanese internet group — founded by Masayoshi Son — has already sold about 10,000 of the robots, mostly to futurists and lovers of novelty. “In the first phase, customers were more like...
While Americans are known for many wonderful things, being great savers of money is not one of them. In fact, in the event of an even minor financial emergency — $400 worth of an emergency — almost half of all American adults wouldn’t be able to cover...
