The COVID-19 crisis brings a unique opportunity for updates and innovation Pedro Alves is the founder and CEO of Ople.AI, a software startup that provides an automated machine learning platform to empower business users with predictive analytics. The machine learning and AI-powered tools being deployed in response to COVID-19 arguably improve certain human activities and…
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was caught red-handed patronizing a San Francisco hair salon on August 31 for a wash and blowout. Her visit was a direct violation of a whole lot of San Francisco’s coronavirus restrictions. First off, salons are not supposed to be doing business. They are supposed to be closed until Joe Biden…
Founders pitch venture capitalists at every available chance, which is why most of them quickly develop the skills required to identify whether someone is offering them an opportunity or wasting their time. At TechCrunch Early Stage, I chatted with NFX Managing Partner James Currier about how founders can find the right investors and what they…
Goldman Sachs is the latest Wall Street firm to raise Amazon’s stock price target. Amazon may be thriving due to the shelter-in-place orders, but this is only temporary. The online retail giant has made enemies on both sides of the political aisle. Amid the coronavirus pandemic, Amazon’s stock has been outstanding. As the equities market…
Tensions between the US and Iran have spiraled toward all-time highs. President Trump has plenty of personal agendas to satisfy by attacking Iran. Here are three things Trump seems to be accomplishing with his recent moves. President Trump unleashed a lethal airstrike in Baghdad on Friday that led to a massive escalation in tensions between…
2019 was a great year for stocks. 2020 will start well as the dollar bull returns. Bargain hunt a late year recovery. There is no question that 2019 was a great year for stocks. With the U.S. economy holding together despite a slowing global environment U.S. equities came off 2018’s near meltdown with a massive…
Mikel Arteta was not arriving at a happy football club. When the Spaniard joined Arsenal from Everton in 2011, his new team were still reeling from a recent 8-2 demolition by Manchester United. Some fans had begun to call for the head of then-Arsenal manager Arsene Wenger. Yet slowly but surely, the cerebral midfielder established…
The House voted 230-197 Wednesday night to impeach President Donald J. Trump for ‘Abuse of Power’ and ‘Obstruction of Congress.’ Zero Republicans voted ‘Yes.’ Two Democrats voted ‘No.’ One Democrat voted ‘Present.’ One independent voted ‘Yes.’ Here are five things you need to know about the historical and political context of the House impeachment vote…
Only so much knowledge can be gleaned from preseason NBA action. But annual outliers to the significance of early-October basketball exist, and New Orleans Pelicans rookie Zion Williamson is the biggest one in recent memory. Every waking moment of his unofficial introduction to the league will be watched, dissected, and fawned over by analysts and…
Jio, India’s telecom giant, just announced a gaming console to rival Google’s Stadia in India. Here’s what you need to know about the device. | Source: Shutterstock (i), Josh Edelson / AFP (ii). Image Edited by CCN.By CCN Markets: Google tantalized the gaming industry when it revealed that its console, Stadia, would be a streaming…
