Apple Watch Series 7 arrives October 15, starting at $399
The Apple Watch Series 7 debuted at the big September 14 hardware event, with a vague “fall” release date. Today, the company announced that the popular wearable will go up for preorder this Friday (October 8), with in-store available starting a week later, on the 15th, for customers in Austral
William Shatner to fly on Blue Origin’s next human spaceflight on October 12
Blue Origin’s next passenger list will include TV and film space exploration veteran William Shatner, along with Blue Origin’s own Audrey Powers, who serves as the company’s vice president of New Shepard Mission & Flight Operations. These two will round out the four-person cre
DevOps market demand drives quick Series C turnaround for Esper
As DevOps SaaS platform Esper continues to build out the category and the number of connected devices grows, the company took on another round of funding to stay ahead of demand.
Just five months after announcing a $30 million Series B round, the company is back with an even bigger capital infusion
Elevate launches its approach to managing pre-tax benefits with $12M Series A
Company benefits make or break the ability to recruit top talent. On one side of that is 401(k), while on the other are consumer-directed benefits, any accounts offered by the employer to use for a designated purpose that typically has tax-advantaged benefits.
Elevate has a new approach to how empl
To The Market takes on funding to create ethical, sustainable work environments for women
Jane Mosbacher Morris started her career in the U.S. Department of State helping women fight terrorism. Now she is helping them find fairly paid work.
She recognized that for women to drive change they needed access to resources, so she started studying agriculture and other sectors and become inte
Amazon will allow US Prime members to send gifts using only an email or phone number
In preparation for the holiday shopping season, Amazon today announced a convenient new way to send gifts through its mobile app. Instead of entering the recipient’s mailing address — a piece of information people often don’t know in today’s age of digital communications
Facebook whistleblower reveals identity, says company ‘chooses profits over safety’
Internal documents published by the Wall Street Journal (WSJ) recently revealed that Facebook allowed VIPs to break its rules and that it was aware of how Instagram affected the mental health of teens. Now, the whistleblower who brought that information to light has revealed herself as Frances Haug
The Station: Inside the Rivian R1T and its IPO filing
Hello readers: Welcome to The Station, your central hub for all past, present and future means of moving people and packages from Point A to Point B.
Welp, it was an EV-heavy week, starting with the Polestar SPAC and ending with the Rivian IPO filing (curses to the late Friday regulatory filing). O
One Identity has acquired OneLogin, a rival to Okta and Ping in sign-on and identity access management
More consolidation is afoot in the world of cybersecurity, specifically around services to help organizations manage identity and access. Today, One Identity — which provides tools for managing “zero trust” access to systems, as well as running log management and other governance
First drive: The electrifying GMC Hummer EV
The $110,000 GMC Hummer EV is a wild mashup that can keep up with the best off-roader, has the comfort of a luxury sedan and has the speed of a sports car. And it has a truck bed. GM calls it a super truck, and I cannot disagree.
After driving the Hummer EV at General Motor’s test track, a fe
Indian edtech giant Byju’s valued at $18 billion in new funding
Byju's has raised about $300 million as part of a larger round of new investment as the Indian edtech giant focuses on expanding its international business and aggressively explores merger and acquisition opportunities.
A filing, supplied to technewss by research firm Tofler, showed that the n
B Capital in talks to back Indian neobank Fi
B Capital Group, which last week co-led Indian social commerce Meesho’s $570 million funding, is in advanced stages of talks to back Bangalore-based neobank Fi (formerly known as epiFi), many aware of the talks told me.
Fi offers a neobanking service for millennials in India. The startup, whi
Komunidad, a Philippines-based environmental intelligence platform, lands seed round
The Philippines is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world, with geography that makes it vulnerable to typhoons, floods, volcanos, earthquakes and droughts. While working in IT, Felix Ayque began compiling cyclone reports and sending them as email alerts to communities. His work evolv
Design's dirty secrets and how to address experience bias
I had a conversation recently with a huge technology company, and they wanted to know if their work in human-centered design guards against experience bias. The short answer? Probably not.
When we say experience bias, we're not talking about our own cognitive biases; we're talking about it