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Every time a member of their crew changes, maritime crew managers need to handle immigration regulations, COVID requirements and travel plans for each person. This is usually done through emails with port agents, and can quickly lead to an overwhelming number of messages, sent across multiple time

"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Adopting Internet of Things (IoT) tech for the office isn’t easy — especially at enterprise scale. Companies have IoT device administration to worry about, and also building out the infrastructure necessary to keep those devices connected and operational. To

This article follows a piece I wrote that looked at six fintech ideas from the first decade of fintech that failed to go mainstream — algorithm-based buy/sell/hold advice, trade mimicking, P2P lending, P2P insurance, on-demand insurance and standalone financial planning apps. But there's more

With new leadership and a soon-to-be-thinned employee base, Lyft is going to look a heck of a lot different at the end of 2023 than it did at the start. After its co-founders said they’d relinquish their roles as CEO and president in March, the company last week said it intends to dramaticall

More construction projects are being started, but payments to contractors and their subcontractors continue to cause a bottleneck in the normal course of completing a project. “Banks are more and more careful with their own funding of development projects, which means they will also slow down pay

The current inflation environment has all of us looking for ways to cut costs and save some money. Super.com, formerly Snapcommerce, launched its cashback card SuperCash last October so that card users could build credit, amassing 5 million customers worldwide who have collectively saved over $150

Picture this: Fast-growing startup raises a high eight-figure round. Then, a year later, it decides to raise another. Investors line up, and this time they pledge more money while giving the company a healthy valuation bump. What's wrong with this picture? It's 2023, a year in which plenty

Your first slide is obviously important for a pitch deck. First impressions count and having a solid introduction goes a long way. It seems that founders often forget that the last slide is just as important. There’s a simple reason for that: Investors easily look at hundreds of slide decks p

“There’s a ton of stuff that really could be impacting the lives of everybody on Earth, that is not making it out of the lab and into practical application,” said David Van Wie, founder and chief investment officer at Aventurine Capital Group. That’s how he summarizes the problem he

The growing compute power necessary to train sophisticated AI models such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT might eventually run up against a wall with mainstream chip technologies. In a 2019 analysis, OpenAI found that from 1959 to 2012, the amount of power used to train AI models doubled every two years,

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Every so often, a new startup crosses your radar and reminds you how exciting hardware can be. It's a relative rarity in consumer electronics, a category dominated by corporations like Samsung, Apple and Sony, which are (perhaps understandably) somewhat risk averse. Melbourne-based Nura was one

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