Silicon Valley venture capital firms haven’t exactly been models for gender equality—especially in light of the recent spate of sexual harassment scandals that have plagued the industry. But at least some are trying to do their part to promote more inclusion of women in the tech field. Fortune has learned that, for the past year, […]
Read moreApple is breaking its silence on net neutrality, urging the Trump administration to preserve strong rules that prevent the likes of AT&T, Charter, Comcast* and Verizon from blocking or interfering with web traffic. In its new comments to the Federal Communications Commission, the iPhone maker specifically urged Chairman Ajit Pai not to roll back an […]
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The new iPhone is expected to offer a large screen that takes up almost the entire front of the phone, without the large blank spots (bezels) surrounding the screen. That matches what other companies like Essential, Samsungand LG are doing, and it will allow users to carry a big screen without requiring a massive pocket-hogging […]
Read moreApple is officially hosting its iPhone 8 event on September 12. The company just sent invites out to press with a note: “Let’s meet at our place. Please join us for the first-ever event at the Steve Jobs Theater in Cupertino.” That would mean this is the first event at the new campus. Apple is […]
Read moreA lot of kids are naturally drawn to Amazon‘s Alexa — it’s a lot more fun to talk to a computer than push icons on a screen. Now Amazon is adding its first kid-focused features to the service, including games from Nickelodeon and Sesame Workshop and a storytelling feature. Alexa already has a ton of […]
Read moreDisney has partnered with Lenovo to create an augmented reality (AR) “Star Wars” game which users play via their phone, a headset, and a Lightsaber. Google Android and Apple iPhone users can pre-order “Star Wars: Jedi Challenges” with the products being available in November in certain markets. Here’s how it works: Users download the “Star […]
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This year, the “Star Wars” toys have a particular tech focus, and Apple Stores are a big partner. They’ll be selling the app-enabled products, including an R2-D2 robot, a drone that looks like a Starfighter from the film, and a Droid inventor kit. They will also host coding sessions for kids, and some stores will […]
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VADIM BELYAEV’S start in business in the mid-1980s was to sell foreign watches on the black market in the Soviet Union. He became a financier, and by 2015 had transformed his bank, Otkritie, into post-Soviet Russia’s largest private lender. Named “Businessman of the Year” by a Russian magazine, he used an English term to describe […]
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PAUL POLMAN runs Europe’s seventh-most valuable company, Unilever, worth $176bn, but he is not a typical big cheese. A Dutchman who once considered becoming a priest, he believes that selling shampoo around the world can be a higher calling and detests the Anglo-Saxon doctrine of shareholder primacy, which holds that a firm’s chief purpose is […]
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ON NOVEMBER 8th 2016, Narendra Modi, India’s prime minister, stunned its 1.3bn people by announcing that most banknotes would soon become worthless. Indians then queued for weeks on end to exchange or deposit their banned money at banks. The comfort for the poor was that the greedy, tax-dodging rich would suffer more, as they struggled […]
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