Big Data

Five years ago, Frank Meehan, my SparkLabs Global Ventures co-founder, described the goal of our seed-stage fund as follows: The future is data. We are looking to invest in companies that are generating valuable data around usage patterns, customer behavior,…

Pay your bills online and earn rewards  Lets face it, adulting can be hard sometimes. Finding the right life hacks can tweak little things during your day just enough to make your life that much easier. Take the Paytm Canada app, which turns the important (b…

August 5, 2019 5 min read Opinions expressed by Entrepreneur contributors are their own. Right now, Generation Z is just beginning to scratch the surface of the business world. Many are still in college, but some have already begun to pursue the timeless …

As this goes to print, a team in Noida is coordinating with a person from the weaving community in Maheshwar, to manage an order for handwoven hemp fabric, which they received from a boutique in Los Angeles. In a nutshell, this encapsulates what Lal10, a fou…

Yesterday, I wrote about science publishing profiteer Elsevier's legal threats against Citationsy, in which the company claimed that the mere act of linking to Sci-Hub (an illegal open-access portal) was itself illegal. You'll never guess what happens next. …

Billionaire Silicon Valley investor and Paypal cofounder Peter Thiel doubled down on his attack on Google conducting AI research in China on Thursday. Thiel first started banging the drum against Google in a speech at the National Conservatism conference l…

SL Huang got a degree in math from MIT, then became a martial artist, stuntwoman and weapons expert; her debut novel, Zero Sum Game, features an ass-kicking action hero called Cas Russell, who combines all of Huang's areas of expertise: Russell is a ninja-gra…

Half a century ago, physicians and engineers shared a dream that computers would be able to deduce diagnoses, store medical records, and circulate information. Today, many fundamental problems with realizing this dream remain unchanged.

One big idea that the Survey discusses at length is the creation of a centralised welfare database of citizens that links different government-held data repositories about citizens. By Varad Pande and Subhashish Bhadra Data, data everywhere, and everyone is…

SL Huang got a degree in math from MIT, then became a martial artist, stuntwoman and weapons expert; her debut novel, Zero Sum Game, features an ass-kicking action hero called Cas Russell, who combines all of Huang's areas of expertise: Russell is a ninja-gra…