Francis Tseng’s simulator game invites you to “grow your startup and please those investors until there’s nothing left to give” by building biotech, defense, machine learning, cloud computing, drone and space companies with a crew of employees whose low wages can be mitigated with bulletproof coffee and whose products can ... Read More »
At least 13 persons were killed in the past 24 hours in rain related incidents in Uttar Pradesh, a home department official said on Wednesday. It has been raining heavily in most parts of central and eastern Uttar Pradesh since Tuesday evening, leading to water logging, caving in of houses ... Read More »
Google has launched a new space for YouTubers at its UK headquarters in London’s King’s Cross. Space London, which opened on Tuesday, includes three soundproof studios, editing suites and a store for YouTubers to sell their merchandise. It also has a community area with a barista bar. The 20,000 square ... Read More »
Bahujan Samaj Party chief Mayawati on Wednesday urged the Election Commission to declare the Uttar Pradesh Assembly elections early, by January-February next year. Ms. Mayawati argued that the family feud within the ruling Samajwadi Party and the “jungle raj” in the State would lead to “chaos” in governance in the ... Read More »
Chip maker Intel and British semiconductor IP company ARM announced an agreement that could help boost the chip giant’s custom foundry business. The deal, revealed today at the the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco, will allow Intel Custom Foundry to make ARM processors for third parties. Intel’s latest earnings announcement ... Read More »
Lobbing the ball for dialogue back into Pakistan’s court, India said that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar was “willing” to travel to Islamabad to discuss “cross-border terror in Kashmir”, but not to discuss Kashmir itself, as Pakistan had proposed. In a letter handed over to Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhury ... Read More »
Gawker Media has been sold — and with the sale comes questions of what happens next. Late Tuesday, Univision purchased the media company for $135 million following a bidding war with Ziff Davis. With the $140 million verdict from the Hulk Hogan trial hanging over the company, and with Gawker’s ... Read More »
As head of the Vote Leave campaign, one of the most enjoyable events I did during Britain’s EU referendum campaign was a lunch with Roland Rudd from the Stronger In side. Rather than debating the UK’s membership of the EU, we agreed to brief senior executives on why we thought ... Read More »
Turkish riot police have raided the offices of 51 businesses and detained dozens of executives the government accuses of aiding an exiled cleric blamed by PresidentRecep Tayyip Erdogan for a failed coup. The raids were part of a sweepinggovernment crackdown in which 17,800 people, including journalists, academics, military personnel and ... Read More »
Lobbing the ball for dialogue back into Pakistan’s court, India said that Foreign Secretary S. Jaishankar was “willing” to travel to Islamabad to discuss “cross-border terror in Kashmir”, but not to discuss Kashmir itself, as Pakistan had proposed. In a letter handed over to Pakistan’s Foreign Secretary Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhury ... Read More »
Breitbart News CEO Steve Bannon and GOP strategist Kellyanne Conway are now running Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s campaign, according to various media reports. Bannon is the newly installed campaign CEO, while Conway, who first joined Trump’s team in July, has been promoted to campaign manager. The Wall Street Journal ... Read More »
Rose Marcario, CEO of outdoor clothing company Patagonia, believes providing employees with high quality on-site child care isn’t just is good for families – it’s good for the bottom line. “It’s true, there are financial costs to offering onsite child care, and they can be expensive if you offer high-quality ... Read More »
