Even by the standards of cryptocurrencies’ notorious volatility, the last six months have been a white-knuckle ride. The total value of all cryptocurrencies is estimated to have plummeted by some $2 trillion from their November 2021 peak, while the price of bi
Imagine the following scenario: A phone rings, an office worker answers it and hears his boss, in a panic, tell him that she forgot to transfer money to the new contractor before she left for the day and needs him to do it. She gives him the wire transfer information, and with the money transferred, the crisis has been averted.
The worker sits back in his chair, takes a deep breath, and watches as his boss walks in the door. The voice on the other end of the call was not his boss. In f
Samsung’s Galaxy Z Fold 4 is the first foldable phone I’d actually buy.
Not that I’m going to–I’m only a year into an iPhone 13 Pro Max installment plan, and can’t quite justify spending $1,800 on a second, unlocked phone–but Samsung’s biggest foldable is now refined enough to have fi
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Last year Amazon and Google sold 73 million smart speakers. Since Amazon
As CEO of Pearson, Andy Bird presides over one of the world’s largest textbook publishers. Yet when thinking about Pearson’s long-term direction, Bird doesn’t necessarily look to his fellow Goliaths; often he’s drawing inspiration from the Davids of the world.
“We are desperately trying to be a startup,” he said during a panel on innovating at scale at the Fast Company Innov
The hybrid work world has been a reality for several months now, but whether it’s working well is really a matter of debate. A new report from Microsoft, entitled “Empowering your workforce in economic uncertainty,” checks in with both employers and employee
Airbnb is, by nearly every measure, a Silicon Valley success story.
The company was founded during the Great Recession, shot up through the prestigious Y Combinator program, made its market debut during the pandemic, and is now worth more than $70 billion. But things might have looked different if it wer
The people behind the Firefox browser are feeling fired up about how desktop and mobile platforms shape browser choices these days. And they went to the trouble of publishing a 66-page report Thursday to make that point.
But while this “Five Walled Gardens” report documents some clear cases of what it calls “the foreclosure of browser engines and independent brow
Adobe just announced its intention to buy Figma for $20 billion, which would be among the largest software acquisitions in history. More notable still is the timing and price paid: $20 billion represents more than 50 times the startup’s annual recurring revenue at a time when public comps are trading at around one-tenth of that level.
Why is Adobe willing to risk so much to buy Figma? Because it has to. With this acquisition, Adobe is recognizing that its persona-based approach
Even without their logos, you might be able to identify them as Polaroid products. They’re all emblazoned with the company’s “spectrum” stripe of rainbow colors and have white plastic cases and big red buttons linking them to other Polaroid devices all the way back to the 1970s.
It’s just that these Polaroid products