TAKE AN EVENING walk on 17th Cross Road in Bengaluru’s HSR Layout district, and you bump into tech types stepping out of their startup’s office and into one of the local microbreweries. They might work for Udaan (e-commerce), Vedantu (education technology) or another of the growing herd of private startups valued at $1bn, whose proliferation…
A consortium of technology firms is ploughing nearly $1bn into a clever market mechanismA GROUP OF rich do-gooders tried a bold experiment 15 years ago. The Gates Foundation, a charity, and five countries put $1.5bn into a pilot project aimed at encouraging research and development in a previously neglected area. The “advanced market commitment” (AMC)…
Editor’s note (April 21st 2022): After this article was published, Elon Musk said he has received funding to finance a takeover of Twitter, and that he is exploring whether to launch a tender offer to all Twitter shareholders.IDA TARBELL, author of an exposé of the Standard Oil Company in 1904, described its founder, John D.…
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Although many people know that washing poultry is not a good way of preventing foodborne illness, a recent study found that it might be more dangerous than most realize because it can lead to dangerous cross contamination. The study from North Carolina State University on the impact of poultry washing on kitchen contamination found that…
The CDC has a new center to help forecast and analyze outbreaks. Dubbed the Center for Forecasting and Outbreak Analytics, the new entity is designed to enhance the country’s ability use data, models and analytics to enable timely, effective decision-making in response to public health threats, according to an announcement by the Centers for Disease…
Recap: Google has finally rolled out a “quick delete” setting that allows users to clear the last 15 minutes of history from its search app on Android. It announced the functionality about a year ago and released it to iPhones only a few months later. In May 2021, during an I/O event, Google announced an…
iGaming, or online gaming, is a term used to describe playing games or betting on events via the internet. There are many…
The FDA is investigating more than 200 “adverse events” related to an unnamed dry cereal. In recent days reports from across the country regarding illnesses linked to Lucky Charms cereal have been filed with government agencies and the iwaspoisoned.com website. The reports include vomiting, diarrhea and other gastrointestinal symptoms. The Food and Drug Administration has…
If you live outside of the United States, then asking a friend how much they know about the National Association for Stock…