A senior Goldman Sachs banker believes 2025 will see more technology companies go public. The number of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the tech sector will “likely more than double” next year, with the rate of companies listing by the year’s end coming closer to...
Companies in Silicon Valley are reportedly doing more staff vetting over concerns about Chinese espionage. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (June 19), firms such as Google and OpenAI have begun doing tighter screening of employees and potential hires, according to sources working directly...
X, ByteDance and Booking.com could be added to the European Union’s “gatekeeper” list. The European Commission (EC) made that announcement Friday (March 1) after receiving notifications from the three companies, Reuters reported. The gatekeeper list is part of Europe’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) and applies to companies that have...
Tech companies are acting quickly to install updates and new programs to help people stay safe and informed as the coronavirus continues its worldwide spread. Google, for instance, has updated its search engine for more specific details and resources regarding the virus. The search engine...
July 01, 2019
The megamergers of 2019 have been reshaping the payments industry. For merchant services, especially, the chessboard looks much different. Daniela Mielke, CEO of RS2 North America, weighs in on why, for incumbent players tied to legacy systems and processes, scale is not enough — not when tech upstarts are folding payments into ecosystems that combine platforms, services, speed and security.
December 01, 2024
As of this weekend, OpenAI’s ChatGPT artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot is 2 years old. And as Bloomberg News columnists Parmy Olson and Carolyn Silverman argued in an opinion piece Friday (Nov. 29), it has been the world’s tech giants — and not “all humanity” as OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has envisioned — reaping the biggest […]
November 25, 2024
A senior Goldman Sachs banker believes 2025 will see more technology companies go public. The number of initial public offerings (IPOs) in the tech sector will “likely more than double”...
June 19, 2024
Companies in Silicon Valley are reportedly doing more staff vetting over concerns about Chinese espionage. As the Financial Times (FT) reported Wednesday (June 19), firms such as Google and OpenAI...
March 03, 2024
X, ByteDance and Booking.com could be added to the European Union’s “gatekeeper” list. The European Commission (EC) made that announcement Friday (March 1) after receiving notifications from the three companies, Reuters reported. The...
