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Comment: Make your business more agile, one step at a timeAgile working was born out of software development. It was developed and refined by tech teams as a way of working that sped delivery to market. But now it’s been adopted much more widely, with great success. Recent research carried out by PA Consulting on […]

Book review: ‘Steve Jobs, A Biographic Portrait’, by Kevin LynchGiven that we’ve already had three major motion pictures about the life of Steve Jobs, it’s somewhat surprising that no one has thought to tackle Jobs’ life and work in print before with the same heavily graphical, stylised angle of tech journalist Kevin Lynch’s ‘…A Biographic […]

Prototype plane with no moving parts completes maiden flightUnlike turbine-powered planes, the aircraft does not depend on fossil fuels to fly and it is completely silent, unlike propeller planes. “This is the first-ever sustained flight of a plane with no moving parts in the propulsion system,” said Steven Barrett, associate professor of aeronautics and astronautics […]

Mars 2020 landing site finally chosen after exhaustive five-year searchJezero Crater was chosen from more than 60 candidate locations on the Red Planet for which every available detail was scrutinised and debated by the mission team and the planetary science community. The rover mission is scheduled to launch in July 2020 as Nasa’s next step […]

Movinga, the European house removals platform, raises further €15MMovinga, the European house removals and relocation platform, has closed €15 million in further funding. The round was led by London-based growth investor ETF Partners, with participation from existing backers Santo Venture Capital, Earlybird, and Rocket Internet. The company says the new capital will support “further process […]

Cross-border fintech startup Instarem raises $20M for global expansionInstarem, a Singapore-based startup that helps banks transfer money overseas cheaply, has raised a Series C round of over $20 million for global expansion. The round is led by MDI Ventures — the VC arm of Indonesian telecom operator Telkom — and Beacon — the fund belonging […]

Tencent e-wallet is following Alibaba to Hong Kong subwaysChina’s payments giants have taken their battle to Hong Kong. Less than a week after Ant Financial announced adding QR codes to the city’s MTR public transport network of rail, Tencent’s WeChat Pay unveiled a similar scheme on Wednesday. Starting mid-2021, commuters in Hong Kong can scan […]