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There’s a lot of buzz and confusion around the term ‘digital workplace’. Many businesses make it a synonym of their collaboration tools, intranet software, and various network solutions. But this is a shortsighted view of what a digital workplace can be. Leaders need to look beyond the past and into the future about how a […]

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During a trip to visit his village in north India sometime in 2016, Tikendra Yadav’s two-wheeler ran out of fuel and broke down. Yadav, then an Assistant Manager at Samsung Electronics, had to walk about 10km in search of the nearest fuel station to refuel his vehicle. When he returned to work, he thought about […]

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The good news is, they can be protected We’ve all heard the worst of it: “WhatsApp hacked!” “Airline hacked!” “Bank fined!” Mobile app hacks are becoming increasingly common — it takes a hacker less than 5 minutes to break open a mobile app and get access to your source code, which can be used to […]

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Spindrift, maker of fizzy soda and sparkling water, has raised $29.8 million in a funding round, per an SEC filing. The Charlestown, Mass. company was founded by Bill Creelman and has raised $70 million in known venture capital funding to date, per Crunchbase data. The company did not immediately respond to request for comment.  Previous […]

Another afternoon, another round of funding for a mobile banking app. This time, it’s Empower Finance, a San Francisco-based company that’s headed up by former Sequoia Capital partner Warren Hogarth and which just closed on $20 million in Series A funding from Icon Ventures and Defy Ventures. David Velez, who is the founder and CEO […]

Social networks are in for a rude copyright awakening. A new European Union law called Article 17 essentially eradicates safe harbor and requires that they’ve made their “best effort” to get licenses from rights holders for all content on their platform. If a user uploads a video with a popular song in the background, tech […]