The surging popularity of bitcoin and cryptocurrencies offers a vision of a more efficient world where individuals can deal directly with each other without trusted centralised institutions. That’s the positive narrative , but technology has promised many things in the past, only for them to either fail or take a lot longer to hit critical mass. But how will it […]

In its ongoing efforts to redefine popular beauty standards as part of its decade-long Real Beauty campaigns, Dove learned the hard way about the thin line that exists between positive social message and controversy. For a company that has so successfully promoted positive body image in the past, it must have come as a shock that an idea […]

Technology has become an integral part of people’s lives — and it’s not likely to slow down anytime soon, said tech pioneer Scott McNealy. “It’s unstoppable,” McNealy, co-founder and former CEO of Sun Microsystems, said Friday on CNBC’s “Squawk Box.” “We’re getting more tech in our lives every day as we go to VR or AR and […]

Los Angeles and Orange County area community colleges are starting a push to improve the training they offer for middle-skill jobs in the entertainment and digital industries. A new report commissioned by the colleges and released Friday reveals detailed wage and job growth information for Southern California middle skill jobs in entertainment and digital industries. It […]

The war on science has at least three fronts. First, there is the widely reported political war on science, widely and erroneously believed to be waged exclusively by conservatives, when in reality, progressives are just as eager to throw science under the bus when it suits their agenda. (ACSH President Hank Campbell and I wrote […]

Amazon is planning to debut a package-delivery service for businesses that’s designed to compete directly with FedEx and UPS, according to a new report. The Wall Street Journal’s Laura Stevens reported Friday that the e-commerce giant would roll out the service, called Shipping with Amazon, or SWA, in Los Angeles over the next few weeks. The service […]

It should come as no surprise that the CEOs of Blockchain and Chain, two leading companies in the bitcoin and blockchain industry, have both personally bought into cryptocurrencies. But their investing strategies sound different, and a lot more restrained, than the broader, vocal crypto crowd. On a panel at the Yahoo Finance All Markets Summit: Crypto on […]

RIPPLE managing director Danny Aranda has played down fears of volatile market conditions, insisting it “is a good thing” for cryptocurrency because it “brings an interest” to the wider concept of digital currency. Ripple, whose XRP operates alongside the likes of bitcoin and ethereum in the popular cryptocurrency marketplace, have witnessed the same market shifts […]

When’s the last time you were choked up by an AdWords sentence? In 2018, text is easy to skim right over, thanks to the many platforms that bombard us every day with the written word. Video marketing is one of the most powerful marketing tools online right now, and it gets more popular every day. […]

The top five U.S. tech companies have taken a huge hit during this recent sell-off. The combined market value of Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon and Facebook is down $437 billion, as measured by the decline from each of the stocks’ respective 52-week highs — all of which occurred on or after Jan.18 of this year […]