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EMQ’s “Remittance Railroad” Through Southeast Asia Required Patience – and Resolve
Each Sunday, in Hong Kong, hundreds of Philippine migrant workers queue up outside remittance offices, the lines snaking around entire city blocks, to send money home. For most, it’s their only free…
DEVCON CEO Maggie Louie: “Too Many Ad-Theft Companies are Fear Mongers”
For an industry as brittle as publishing, advertising fraud can be fatal. According to Marketing Dive, an analyst, publishers lose $1.27 billion each year to ad fraudsters, whose activity rises yearly. Losses…
On International Literacy Day, Three Gadgets that Changed How We Read Forever
The written word has come a long, long way since Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press in the 16th century – from Shakespeare folios, through Gothic horror, feminist samizdat, modern journalism and,…
5 Japanese Startups You Should Check Out Now
Japan’s economy stands at a precarious crossroads. Still recovering from the 2008 financial crisis, its central bank refused on Tuesday to print more money – or do anything really – to crawl…
Musk’s Thai Mission: Failed, but Good
Remember July 10, 2018: It’s the day we hit Peak Tech. First, the drama: twelve young members of the Wild Boar soccer team were rescued from a cave rapidly filling with water,…
From Laser Fighters to Wildfires: How Drone Startup Edgybees Found a Life-Saving Niche
When Menashe Haskin launched augmented reality drone firm Edgybees in 2017, with two others, he aimed to turn the sky into a technicolor racetrack. DronePrix AR gave users the chance to duck…
Doctrin founder and CEO Magnus Liungman: “It’s Easy to Focus Too Much on the Tech Aspect of Healthtech”
Swedish MedTech startup Doctrin has a simple, yet ambitious goal: to improve healthcare for one billion people by 2030. It helps practitioners to intelligently digitize the patient journey, creating better experiences, improving…
The Five Best Coworking Spaces in the World
There is nothing new about coworking: its first recorded mention arrived in a 1628 book. But it has rarely been more popular. Berlin’s C-Space became one of the world’s first hackerspace when…
San Francisco Protests Target Tech, Inequality
Protesters in San Francisco have blocked streets with electric scooters and let off smoke bombs, in a demonstration aimed at the city’s handling of its large tech companies compared with the poor.…