Oil giant Saudi Aramco released its 2018 financials, which is a pretty big deal for a few billion reasons (pun intended) but mostly that for decades the Saudi Arabian government has kept the earnings of Saudi Aramco private.
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Last week's news of the European Union's latest antitrust fine levied against Google fattened the already multibillion-dollar tally against the search giant. But like the previous penalties, there aren't many signs the new fine will cause Google to make major changes.
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Remember a late 90's movie called Shazaam, starring the American stand-up comedian, Sinbad (David Adkins), as an incompetent genie who granted wishes to two young children?
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Another notable soon-to-be-public company in the unicorn stampede is Zoom Video Communications, a video conference platform and crowd favorite among the Malartu team and customer base.
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There's a stampede of private market unicorns headed for IPO and Lyft kicked off the bell ringing with authority. Lyft last night raised around $2.34 billion in its IPO, selling more shares than expected and pricing at the top of its upwardly-revised range.
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For 2.5 years before its release, Apple had developed the iPhone in secret. So secret, that engineers developing the different components weren't even able to see how they interacted with each other.
I've been known to argue that all business boils down to is product and distribution. While it may be an oversimplification (we can talk about it), there's one industry where the distribution side of things is really heating up: Gaming.
Tyler Blevins, otherwise known as "Ninja" to the video-gaming community, was paid $1 million by EA Sports to stream his gameplay of their new battle-royale game, Apex Legends, for one day.
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Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology teamed up with colleagues from the U.S. and Switzerland and returned the state of a quantum computer a fraction of a second into the past.
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And it's not Apple technology, it's the problems continuing to plague Facebook.
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The joint health-care venture between Amazon, J.P. Morgan and Berkshire Hathaway finally has a name: “Haven.” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, J.P. Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon and Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett last January announced they were teaming up to tackle rising health-care costs. They formed a nonprofit company and named renowned surgeon, author and speaker Dr. Atul Gawande as CEO in June.
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In addition to launching our new partner "Fit Score" survey, we've revamped our Traction Program to more closely align with how our partners do business.
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Kraft Heinz recently launched a line of new products that basically involve mixing mayonnaise with their existing product line.
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Almost exactly one year ago Spotify announced plans to move into the crowded music streaming scene in India. Well, Spotify followed through on this promised and launched last Wednesday. After only 6 days in the country, they reached 1 million users.
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Uber for [insert product/service here] is probably the most cliche phrase in all of entrepreneurship these days.
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Lidl, the German discount supermarket, has won big at World Whiskies Awards.
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Costco may be a latecomer to e-commerce, but consumers love it even more than Amazon.com Inc., according to a customer satisfaction survey released Tuesday.
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From February to April each year, girl scouts in the U.S. sell about 200 million boxes of cookies, managing nearly every aspect of the $800 million business.
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If you're feeling tired, looking wrinkled or otherwise enfeebled, Ambrosia (a company out of San Francisco) claims they can fix that. What is their super cure? Simple, go straight vampire and inject yourself with the blood of the youth.
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