Risk Management Housing Starts Increased to 1.282 Million Annual Rate in August | Risk Management Sep 19, 2018 From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions Housing Starts:Privately-owned housing starts in August were at a seasonally adjusted annual…
Tech and Gadget Indiana’s Emplify raises $7.5 million for its employee satisfaction software | Industry Sep 18, 2018 Emplify, a two-year-old software startup that helps companies track employee satisfaction, today announced that it has raised a $7.5 million round of…
Advertising UM lands $300 million Quicken Loans media account | Advertising Sep 17, 2018 Mortgage lender Quicken Loans has selected IPG Mediabrands’ UM to handle media following a lengthy competitive review dating back to January of this…
Computing Galaxy, BlockTower Lead $16 Million Funding for Crypto Project Caspian | Crypto Sep 17, 2018 Institutional traders simply need better crypto tools. That’s the driving idea behind a union between Kenetic Capital, a crypto hedge fund based in…
Innovation Uber Expanding Autonomous And AI Operations With $150 Million Investment In Canada | Feature Sep 15, 2018 Uber will invest more than $150 million in order to open an engineering hub and expand its autonomous and AI operations in Toronto, Canada, in an…
Innovation A Porsche Dealership Employee Reportedly Bilked Customers Out Of $2.5 Million | Feature Sep 15, 2018 The world of high-end automobiles is full of long waits and high price tags and this seems to have made it the perfect environment for fraud. In an…
Computing Fintech Investor Ribbit Capital Sets $420 Million Goal for Its Latest Fund | Crypto Sep 13, 2018 U.S.-based venture capital firm Ribbit Capital, the portfolio of which includes notable cryptocurrency and blockchain projects, is aiming to raise…
Computing The $20 Million Bitcoin Miner Being Hailed as a Bitmain Rival | Crypto Sep 12, 2018 Things haven’t been easy of late for Bitmain. After CoinDesk revealed the China-based crypto mining giant was planning an initial public offering…
Social Media As Twitter and Facebook growth slows, Pinterest hits 250 million users | Social Sep 12, 2018 prykhodov / 123RF Snapchat lost 3 million daily users, Twitter lost a million monthly users in the U.S., and growth on Facebook is slowing — but…
Artificial intelligence Hurricane Florence: Mass evacuation of 1.5 million residents ordered | Artificial intelligence Sep 12, 2018 Hurricane Florence, as seen from the International Space StationNASA By Andy Coghlan The evacuation of more than a million residents along the…