Tourism continues to bounce back in the wake of Covid-19, with 2023 raking in $2.23 trillion globally, surpassing pre-pandemic levels for the first time since 2020. That’s having […]
Best leap day deals: Celebrate this rare day by scoring great savings on travel and home goods
Feb. 29 leap day deals include $99 flights to Europe, $29 off hotel stays, and 29% off bed sheets.
A bumpy road for EV manufacturers
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Yorba’s service is like Mint for uncluttering your entire digital life
Spend enough time online, and you’ll collect a digital paper trail of accounts, logins, subscriptions, mailing lists, and passwords wrapped up in data breaches. A new startup called […]
Tencent’s gaming cash cow Honor of Kings sets sights on MENA
Honor of Kings, Tencent’s massively popular mobile game, has its eye set on the international market in 2024. Starting on February 21, the multiplayer online battle arena (MOBA) […]
Dutch startup Monumental is using robots to lay bricks
Few categories are as ripe for automation-fueled disruption as construction. The industry is valued at around $2 trillion a year, in the U.S. alone. Much of that work […]
Pokémon Actor Veronica Taylor Talks 26 Years Of Ash Ketchum
When Veronica Taylor was called to audition for a Japanese cartoon in 1998, she had no idea what to expect. Heavily pregnant and living in New York, the 33-year-old actor had just finished a run of commercials, soaps and theatre productions, before a chance call from her acting coach sent her hurrying downtown. It was…
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MessageBird rebrands as Bird, and slashes prices by 90% on SMS to take on Twilio
No, don’t think Bird Scooters. Think Bird, formerly MessageBird. For the Amsterdam-based unicorn is now re-branding as such after reportedly acquiring the Bird.com domain name a couple of […]
Google’s Gradient backs Send AI to help enterprises extract data from complex documents
A fledgling Dutch startup wants to help companies extra data from large volumes of complex documents where accuracy and security is paramount — and it has just secured […]