Category: <span>Tech</span>

The soon to launch Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin is finally getting ready to sell tickets for seats on its suborbital New Shepard rocket. No details on price or timelines yet, but the company tweeted a video on Thursday featuring a cowboy-hat-wearing Jeff Bezos driving an electric Rivian truck through the Texas desert right after Blue Origin’s...

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Canada’s Shopify Inc, on Wednesday smashed first-quarter profit and revenue estimates on resilient demand for the company’s e-commerce platform from businesses despite a gradual opening of economies. The company, which provides infrastructure for retailers to set up their stores online, emerged as a pandemic winner with revenue soaring 86% last year from 2019 and shares...

More and more creators are bringing their podcasts and shows to Spotify. With 345 million monthly listeners on Spotify, there’s a massive opportunity for all of these creators to monetize their work—and we believe there needs to be a variety of options for them to choose from to do so.  At Stream On, we shared that...

According to TheVerge, Ford announced the launch of a new battery development center in Michigan, the first step toward taking on some of the burden of building its own battery cells for electric cars in-house. The new “global battery center of excellence” will be called Ford Ion Park and will be based in Southeast Michigan....

Streaming service, Netflix came out to defend their slower subscriber growth. Netflix said slower production of TV shows and movies during the pandemic hurt subscriber growth in the first quarter, sending shares of the world’s largest streaming service down 11% on Tuesday. Roughly 3.98 million people signed up for Netflix from January through March, below...

Video chat app Zoom Communications is investing $100 million to fund startup software companies that builds apps using its technology, the company made the announcements on Monday. The video conferencing company has become a household name during the pandemic as businesses and schools shifted to its platform, along with rival platforms such as Microsoft Corp’s...

Apple will allow the controversial social media platform Parler to return to its App Store, according to a letter first reported by CNN on Monday. In the letter addressed to American senators and congressman, Apple said “Parler has proposed updates to its app and the app’s content moderation practices” that would bring the app into compliance with the App...

The CEO of Grab, a popular app to book taxis, order food and make payments in Southeast Asia, has always been determined to win — from making his firm the best-funded regional start-up to defeating behemoth Uber Technologies. On Tuesday, Anthony Tan set another record when Grab Holdings agreed to list on Nasdaq through a...

The social media titan Twitter Inc is eying the golden opportunity accelerate its growth in the African continent. According to Thomson Reuters, Twitter Inc will open its first African office in Ghana, it said on Monday, as the social media company seeks to make inroads in some of the world’s fastest-growing markets. Africa is under-tapped...