YouGov acquires social analytics company Portent.IO
YouGov, the international data and analytics group, has acquired ‘social analytics’ startup Portent.IO, a company that it had previously invested in. Terms of the deal remain...
Diversity talk: “You need to take accountability for your own success”
A research study by The National Center for Women & Information Technology showed that “gender diversity has specific benefits in technology settings,” which could explain why tech...
“Sawtooth Sabre is our new transaction family for on-chain WebAssembly smart contracts”
JAXenter: What has changed since Sawtooth 1.0 was released? What’s been added or improved? James Mitchell: There are a lot of exciting features and improvements in...
Ola, Uber’s India rival, invests $100M in scooter rental startup Vogo
We’re familiar with Uber cozying up to scooter startups — it has bought one and invested in another — but over in India, the U.S. firm’s...
Geek Trivia: The Best Selling Single Of All Time Is?
The Best Selling Single Of All Time Is? Rock Around the Clock My Heart Will Go On White Christmas Jingle Bells Think you know the answer?...
‘The Weekly Standard’: a Record of Failed Regime Change
For most neocons, however, journalism has never been more than a Leninist means to an end—to form an intellectual vanguard. For it is political influence that...
Who Has Been Rattling the Ante-Post Grand National Markets?
When you look out your window and see the grim winter weather taking hold, it might feel a long way from those spring days when jumps...
Ford comes up with a prototype noise-cancelling kennel to shelter dogs from fireworks
Dogs have a much wider range of hearing than humans do and noises that don’t bother us can give them a very ruff time. Fireworks are...
We Finally Have Some Hard Data on How Much Twitter Sucks
Nine months after Amnesty International called on Twitter to be more transparent about abuse on its platform, the organization has published another study indicating that—brace yourself—Twitter...
Google will make it easier for people without accounts to collaborate on G Suite documents
Soon it will be easier for people without Google accounts to collaborate on G Suite documents. Currently in beta, a new feature will enable G Suite...
