BI PRIME: Banks, asset managers, and even Google have invested almost $300 million into Symphony, a secure, cloud-based chat platform conceived as a hub for any and all financial work. The goal for: to help build a viable competitor to Bloomberg LP. | Continue reading
There are two mini engines on each arm and one on the back allowing you to control your movement just by moving your hands. The fuel is also stored in the backpack and the suit has 1050 bhp in total. | Continue reading
BI PRIME: Twelve years ago, Weebly CEO David Rusenko was told told by a prominent tech CEO that his idea for his company was "the worst idea ever." | Continue reading
Former FCA and Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne has died at 66. He had reportedly been in a coma in intensive care in a Zurich hospital after complications from surgery. Marchionne was an auto-industry legend, leading a turnaround at Fiat and taking Chrysler from bankruptcy to renew … | Continue reading
Government serves special interests, not people. | Continue reading
Amazon's servers couldn't handle the amount of traffic on Prime Day, causing the company to launch a backup landing page and cut off all international traffic, according to documents obtained by CNBC. | Continue reading
An open letter. | Continue reading
Polish startup Photon Entertainment, innovators of a robot that helps children take their first steps in the world of programming, has just been awarded the title of best startup in Europe — and now they're expanding overseas. | Continue reading
Internal documents show that Tesla CEO Elon Musk ordered his staff to remove the brake-and-roll test from mandatory tasks on the Model 3 production line. This is a standard test that checks wheel alignment and brake function. | Continue reading
There's a stigma that hearing voices in your head is a sign of mental-health issues. There's a community of people on Reddit who turn that stigma on its head. | Continue reading
Among the most egregious allegations found in a number of complaints filed with the SEC are the claims that Coinbase "stole" cryptocurrency holdings from its users, repeatedly ignored customer complaints regarding missing funds, and systematically defrauded its customers. | Continue reading
Tesla is in a race to ramp up its manufacturing of the Model 3 — a process CEO Elon Musk has called "production hell." The effort has been beset by bottlenecks, and the company has gone as far as flying equipment in from Germany to speed up the process. | Continue reading
Security software company Symantec revealed Tuesday that a campaign based in China had hacked into satellite operators, defense contractors and telecom companies in the US and southeast Asia. The company said the hackers were driven by national espionage goals. | Continue reading
Chris Hadfield, a former astronaut, says the future rockets and spaceships of NASA, SpaceX, and Blue Origin would be too risky to get people to and from Mars. He thinks we need some possibly "outlandish" solutions for space travel to make round-trip travel to the red planet pract … | Continue reading
Chinese investors will put $1.5 trillion into assets abroad over the next decade, with about half of that going into foreign property. | Continue reading
Technology is a major foundation of national power. Technologies that define an era usually come from a major geopolitical power. | Continue reading
Starship Technologies co-founder Ahti Heinla told Business Insider that people sometimes kick the company's food-delivery robots. He said the vast majority of interactions with its bots are harmless, but some fall victim to being an 'anger management' tool. | Continue reading
BI PRIME: In a memo obtained by Business Insider, Uber CEO Dara Khosrowshahi describes a new company policy designed to eliminate "bureaucracy creep" at the growing company, which is set to go public next year. | Continue reading
BI PRIME: Microsoft has held talks to buy GitHub, people close to the companies told Business Insider. The two have had on-and-off conversations over the years, but talks have grown more serious in the past few weeks. | Continue reading
Who makes more, engineers or software developers? We've ranked the highest paying jobs at Apple according to salary. | Continue reading
The social credit system is made up of blacklists punishing citizens for bad behavior by preventing people from traveling, getting loans or jobs, or staying in hotels, and also by limiting internet access. A national system that scores citizens has been compared to "Black Mirror. … | Continue reading
The facility is fitted with automated robots that take crates of products to pick stations where picking robots or humans then assemble the orders for shipping. | Continue reading
Startup founders are more likely to be in their forties than their twenties, a new study by MIT reveals. | Continue reading
The cost of solar power is decreasing so rapidly, it's actually cheaper than coal, based on some analyses. That shift is a sign of a potential boom in renewable | Continue reading
Medieval peasants lived grueling, terrible lives. But their vacation days beat out the policies now common even in progressive societies. | Continue reading
Microdosing is using a tiny amount of LSD for performance enhancement rather than for seeking a psychedelic experience. | Continue reading
Bitcoin bounces back after tax season but cash use is declining steadily. In the future, it's quite possible that fiat currency will disappear, leaving digital | Continue reading
Nashville and Denver would see the largest price increases if they won the sweepstakes in the competition for Amazon's next location, Zillow says. | Continue reading
In the past five years the cost of operating a startup in SF has doubled. | Continue reading
Twitter beat revenue expectations, GoPro stock was down 15%, and Pandora stock was down over 20%. | Continue reading
This millionaire isn't looking to profit from his real estate. | Continue reading
"It was meant to basically put together 9 or 10 of the most competitive people in Silicon Valley and play poker," Palihapitiya, who's been hosting home poker nights for a few years now, told Business Insider. "Once you get this competitive group of people together on the same tab … | Continue reading
Every month, some of Silicon Valley’s biggest power players meet at the Palo Alto home of Chamath Palihapitiya, an early Facebook executive who now runs his own venture capital firm Social+Capital. The guest list reads like a who’s who of Silicon Valley’s true elites: from Yammer … | Continue reading
When was the last time you saw someone under 30 fire up a PowerPoint instead of a Prezi when giving a talk? Microsoft hopes to put the kabosh on that with Sway. | Continue reading
We can't even remember the last time we saw someone under 30 fire up a PowerPoint instead of a Prezi when giving a talk. Microsoft hopes to put the kibosh on that with Microsoft Sway, its new presentation app. Sway lets you drag and drop photos, videos, files from your computer, … | Continue reading
Nick Walter turned a hobby into his primary income. | Continue reading
When the iPhone started taking over the US in 2008, Nick Walter was in Japan doing Mormon missionary work without a smartphone. "When I got home, my dad was super nice and bought me an iPhone 4, and it was my first introduction to apps," the 25-year-old remembers. "I was like, 'T … | Continue reading