For many people, making personal finance decisions is necessary and a major source of stress. Helping alleviate that confusion is what compelled Ramya Joseph to leave her position as vice president of proprietary trading at Goldman Sachs, and found the financial technology company Pefin in 2011. As competition and technology reshape the sector, “we’re being […]
Read moreAmazon has set off a scrum among cities that are hoping to land the company’s second headquarters — with the winner getting the prize of a $5 billion investment and 50,000 new jobs over the next two decades. We’re offering to help, using Amazon’s own criteria to identify a winning city. The company announced this […]
Read moreHurricane Irma will create combined insured losses of between $20 billion and $65 billion, according to a projection from risk modeling software company AIR Worldwide. The company includes in its estimate both the United States and selected islands in the Caribbean. For the U.S. alone, insured losses are expected to reach between $15 billion to […]
Read moreWhen Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan wrote a letter to their newborn daughter last month, they called themselves “optimists.” It’s a popular concept in Silicon Valley, where founders view themselves as improving the world through innovative disruption. And, according to a study from Stanford University, it’s a philosophy rooted in 19th-century […]
Read moreFashion Week kicked off on Thursday with the industry descending on New York City. The tradition of designers showing off their collections actually goes back to the 1940s. In today’s fast paced digital world, however, some are wondering if the tradition is still relevant. Fashion week “used to be open to a very small closed […]
Read moreTechnology is bringing video game enthusiasts experiences so immersive and lifelike, it’s hard to imagine how it could be enhanced any further. Perhaps for that reason, gamers are craving a bit of nostalgia. The proliferation of retro gaming has seen a boom in classics like “Space Invaders,” “Centipede” and “Frogger” — all of which are […]
Read moreChina’s producer price inflation accelerated more than expected to a four-month high in August, fueled by strong gains in raw materials prices and pointing to strong, sustained growth for both factory profits and the economy. Consumer inflation also quickened more than forecast to a seven-month high, amid signs that upstream price gains are trickling through, […]
Read moreRani Therapeutics, a start-up with a new way to turn injectable drugs like insulin into pills, has raised another $39 million, bringing its total cash haul to $100 million. The pharmaceutical sector has long searched for ways to alleviate the $289 billion annual cost of patients that neglect to take their medication. Many of these […]
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