There’s Now a Yelp For International Cargo Shipping
Fleet, a Disrupt 2014 San Francisco Battlefield finalist, is creating a way to find and rate freight forwarders -- like…
Google Says Its AI Technology Can Now Filter 99.9% of Gmail Spam
Ever since widespread adoption of the Internet began, spam emails have been a near-unavoidable plague upon the average web user…
How One Major Rug Company is Revolutionizing the Way Artisans Are Paid
A major Indian rugs company recently partnered with Vodafone to pay some 8,000 rug-makers via the telecom firm's M-Pesa mobile…
How the White House Plans to Make Solar Power More Accessible to Americans
Since the concept of solar power was first introduced on a commercial basis in the 1950s, this form of renewable…
New Report Highlights Mobile Use of Internet
A leading authority on Internet standards and policy recently released a report which found that the use of mobile devices…
Who Disrupts the Disruptors? Airbnb Under Attack (Again)
In the tech world, "disruption" is the buzzword so buzz worthy it's disrupting the way we buzz about words altogether.…
Last Minute Father’s Day Present Turns Out to Be Worth $1 Million
In one instant, a kind-of lousy Father's Day present became an unimaginably amazing gift. On June 21, 61-year-old truck driver…
Shanghai Stock Market Falls Drastically
June 26 marks yet another stock market plunge, reaffirming the riskiness of stocks. In fact, 76% of those who responded…
DuckDuckGo Challenging Search Giants Like Google
Search engine DuckDuckGo announced June 23 that it had surpassed 10 million daily searches for the first time, a major…
The BBC Is Experimenting With Mind Control
The BBC is experimenting with mind control, but not the sort that conspiracy theorists dread. Rather, the creative agency and…