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FORBES.COM — ASSOCIATED PRESSFamily offices are where the rich throw their wealth around. These discrete companies are tasked with managing the money of the wealthiest families, acting more like small governments or global banks in their investment clout. Now, however, over half of them “consider climate…

TIM.BLOG — NOTE FROM THE EDITOR: The following is a guest post from Ryan Holiday (@RyanHoliday). Ryan is one of the world’s foremost thinkers and writers on ancient philosophy and its place in everyday life. He is a sought-after speaker and strategist and the author of many bestselling books, including The…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — When Confluent launched a cloud service in 2017, it was trying to reduce some of the complexity related to running a Kafka streaming data application. Today, it introduced a free tier to that cloud service. The company hopes to expand its market beyond large technology company customers, and the free tier should make it easier for smaller companies to get started.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — Headquartered in Shenzhen, Transsion is a top-seller of smartphones in Africa under its Tecno brand. The company has also started to support venture funding of African startups. Transsion issued 80 million A-shares at an opening price of 35.15 yuan (? $5.00) to raise 2.8 billion yuan (or ? $394 million).

ENTREPRENEUR.COM — A combination of guidance, transparency and collaboration will help leaders guide in the digital age. October 18, 2018 7 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — social and economic stage, women’s issues are finally receiving heightened attention and priority. There are more women than ever seeking political office; funding for female-founded startups is reaching record levels (even if they still have a long way to go to reach gender parity); a sizable cohort of female-founded and led companies have achieved billion-dollar unicorn valuations; and several women-led companies, including PagerDuty, The RealReal, and Eventbrite, have entered the public markets with successful IPOs.

WIRED.COM — That and Spot might not even be the right tool for your needs—if you want to remotely monitor five gauges, just train five stationary cameras on them. And maybe you do need a robot, just not something as advanced as Spot. Drones can map environments too, and a wheeled robot like Knightscope’s…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — is all set to deliver an update on the status of its Starship program, courtesy of CEO Elon Musk. Musk will provide new info about “the design and development of at 7 PM CDT (8 PM EDT/5 PM PDT) tonight, live from the company’s Boca Chica rocket assembly facility in South Texas. The likely backdrop for the update will be the Starship Mk1 orbital prototype, the second flight-testing vehicle has produced in its development of Starship.

INC.COM — Netflix has a fascinating look at the Microsoft co-founder with a new three-part documentary, Inside Bill’s Brain: Decoding Bill Gates directed by Davis Guggenheim. Guggenheim is probably best known for directing the Academy Award-winning Al Gore documentary An Inconvenient Truth. With that in mind, it’s no surprise that the bulk of Inside Bill’s Brain focuses on telling the story of Gates’s active pursuit of global health and other social causes.

TECHCRUNCH.COM — the founder of music instrument manufacturer Doepfer, decided to launch a brand new modular synthesiser system in 1995, no one could have predicted what would follow. Today, his “Eurorack” format supports an ecosystem of hundreds of manufacturers that have collectively produced thousands of compatible modules used by famous musicians, such as Radiohead, Chemical Brothers and Aphex Twin, and hobbyists alike.

VENTUREBEAT.COM — When one of the world’s largest AI companies rolls out dozens of new products, services, and features in the span of roughly an hour as Amazon did on Wednesday, what it all means can be tough to discern. Of course Amazon, the inventor of smart speaker and smart display consumer electronic…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — UK startups concerned the country is about to leave the in just a little over a month’s time with nothing agreed to ensure a smooth transition should point their eyes at this guide — put together by startup policy advocacy group, Coadec. While a ‘no deal’ brexit is still not inevitable the chances of it happening have stepped up sharply in recent months as the clock winds down towards exit day with no withdrawal agreement in place.

MASHABLE.COM — Not to brag, but I’ve had probably dozens of ice cream cones and hundreds of creamy scoops during my 30 years on this Earth. Still, the cone that I remember the most is one I didn’t eat. My parents practically airlifted themselves in to the wilderness camp where I broke my nose during the summer of 2004.

ECONOMIST.COM — Daily chartIndonesia has banned marriage for young girlsBut many other countries tolerate or encourage it Sep 26th 2019ONE IN FIVE girls marries before reaching adulthood. One in twenty is wed before her fifteenth birthday. In Indonesia, which has the eighth-highest number of child brides in the…

BLOG.HOOTSUITE.COM — Blog / Social Looking for a listicle to show you how to become Instagram famous in 10 easy steps? You won’t find that here. While the life of an Instagram influencer may look easy, there’s a lot more to it than latte art and filtered sunsets. And if there’s one thing to learn from…

BLOG.HOOTSUITE.COM — Blog / Social The number of brands incorporating Instagram marketing into their business strategy has surged in recent years. While just over half of U.S. marketers used Instagram in 2016, more than 75% will do so by 2020. It’s no wonder: Instagram has a billion monthly active…

TECHCRUNCH.COM — Fidel, the U.K.-headquartered startup that offers an API to let developers build functionality, such as rewards, on top of the major card payment networks, has raised $18 million in Series A funding. The pretty sizeable round is co-led by U.S.-based fintech funds Nyca Partners and QED Investors. Also participating are Citi Ventures, Commerce VC, Elefund, Horizons Ventures, RBC Ventures Inc.

LOLLYDASKAL.COM — Leadership is a practice that often involves constant stimulation, socializing and communicating, all at a fast pace. It sounds like the last profession an introvert would want to pursue or would be successful in. But I have coached some exceptional introverted leaders to leverage the supposed…

LOLLYDASKAL.COM — Leadership is a practice that often involves constant stimulation, socializing and communicating, all at a fast pace. It sounds like the last profession an introvert would want to pursue or would be successful in. But I have coached some exceptional introverted leaders to leverage the supposed…