Modern Treasury (YC S18) Raises $38M

Modern Treasury wants to do for checks and wire transfers what Stripe did for credit cards. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Elon Musk Is Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2020

In a year dominated by crisis and uncertainty, these leaders stood out. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Coinbase Announces IPO

Coinbase's IPO news comes as the Bitcoin market is booming and cryptocurrency has achieved new respectability. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Vise, a company founded by two high school graduates, raises $45M

Vise, a startup seeking to automate portfolio management on behalf of wealth advisors, has raised $45 million in Series B funding led by Sequoia Capital. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Tom Siebel, CEO of C3.ai, discusses failure and the future

The billionaire CEO also says A.I. ethics is too important to be left to an A.I. ethics officer. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

IKEA to stop publishing its iconic catalog after 70 years

Customers are browsing and shopping online much more now. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

China is ramping up its other big trade war

Even as Beijing remains engaged in the U.S. trade war, it's taking aim at another key trade partner. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Nearly a third of workers don’t want to ever return to the office

To get an eye on the future of work, Future Forum by Slack conducted a three-month survey of over 9,000 knowledge workers or skilled office workers around the world. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Game over for the ‘Wargames’ hacking law? SCOTUS to hear challenge

The Supreme Court is hearing a challenge to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

In a major scientific breakthrough, A.I. predicts the exact shape of proteins

The scientific breakthrough, which effectively solves the 50-year old "protein folding problem," is likely to accelerate drug discovery and transform swaths of biology research. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Silicon Valley loses another tech icon

Keith Rabois is the latest tech industry heavyweight to pack his bags and leave the Bay Area. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

The biggest errors the Trump administration made in response to Covid

The costliest errors were committed in the pandemic’s earliest stages, the study finds. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

U.K. to use A.I. to spot dangerous side effects in Covid-19 vaccinations

The British medical regulator has awarded a $1.9 million contact to U.S.-listed outsourcing firm Genpact to build an algorithm to spot adverse event trends. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

T-Mobile will extend fast 5G service nationwide in 2021, pressuring rivals

Merger with Sprint gave the carrier an advantage in 5G deployment. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Uber, Lyft, and gig companies win big after Prop 22 passes in California

The California ballot initiative called Prop 22 will allow Uber, Lyft, and other gig companies to continue classifying their workers as contractors. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Covid gave China an edge in A.I. battle against the U.S.

"Data is what drives AI, and China has more data than anyone else," says venture capitalist Kai-Fu Lee. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

AI Will Revolutionize Education

Artificial intelligence has evolved to the point where A.I.-driven tools can optimize students' and teachers' performance, even at the university level. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

What Happened Here?

Despite a $1.4 billion valuation two years ago, Renrenche may sell its assets to 58.com Inc. for a little over $1,000. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

76% of American CEOs say they may shrink office space

Around 3 in 4 American CEOs say their company will need less office space in the future, according to a Fortune survey in collaboration with Deloitte. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

China’s GDP growth in Q3 offers little for other economies to emulate

China is expected be the only major economy to see positive growth this year. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

How fast will Apple’s new 5G iPhones be?

Apple's new iPhone 12 line up has the latest 5G technology, but carriers' networks aren't broadly deployed yet. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

G7 bankers set to block Facebook's Libra currency

Opposition to Libra from G7 finance ministers is the latest setback for Facebook's project. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

IBM CEO will be on the hunt for acquisitions and new businesses after spin off

Arvind Krishna tells Fortune IBM will bulk up after it slims down. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Cloudflare’s privacy crusade continues with a challenge to Google Analytics

Cloudflare Web Analytics is a free-to-use rival to Google's market-leading Google Analytics toolkit. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Google antitrust investigation is coming to a head

The Justice Department probe is homing in on whether Google skews search results to favor its own products and whether it muscles out rivals. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Snowflake’s shares soar 130% in early trading after IPO

It's the highest valued software IPO ever. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Snowflake, one of the buzziest tech IPOs ever

The Silicon Valley startup is aiming for the highest value software debut ever. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Germany's top virologist five days is long enough for a coronavirus quarantine

Christian Drosten, head of virology at Berlin's Charité hospital, also cast doubt on the importance of reinfection reports. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Prolog's Revenge: Disco, bell bottoms, big hair and cutting-edge A.I.?

Here's how Datalog, a programming language from the 1970s, might cure modern one of modern A.I.'s Achilles Heels. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Bill Gates–backed EV battery startup to go public

QuantumScape has spent 10 years developing a more efficient battery. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Michelangelo vs. MacGyver: Who will design the offices of our post-Covid future?

Small businesses desperate to reopen have adopted a DIY approach to viral containment. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Can A.I. Understand Poetry?

Not really. But A.I. systems are becoming more and more capable at understanding language. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Fecal aerosolization may transmit SARS-CoV-2 via plumbing&pipes many floors away

Scientists continue to investigate the role of toilets in the spread of coronavirus. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Cessna makes history by taking off and landing with no pilot

Reliable Robotics, created by two Space X veterans, plans unmanned air cargo deliveries within two years. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

China has been vaccinating key workers with unapproved Covid-19 vaccines

The practice underscores how eager China is to prove it has the virus under control. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Who is Dave Clark, the new chief of Amazon’s giant retail business?

Early in his career, he was known as "the sniper." | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Country banned tobacco sales to fight Covid-19. The result was a crime wave

"We need that money for the health system. The money is going directly into the pocket of criminals," a South Africa anti-crime campaigner says. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Instagram faces lawsuit over illegal harvesting of biometric data

Facebook is facing new allegations that it illegally harvests the biometric data of users, this time in a lawsuit that targets the company’s photo-sharing app Instagram. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Warren Buffett traded Goldman Sachs for gold

The Oracle of Omaha also dumped Occidental stock during the coronavirus pandemic—despite his sweet dividend arrangement with the energy company | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

AMC movie theaters reopen Augusts 20th with 15 cent ticket prices

AMC movie tickets will cost 15 cents when the chain reopens on Aug 20. amid the coronavirus pandemic. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Cavnue proposes driverless vehicle only road for Michigan

The ambitious plan is being led by Cavanue, a startup tied to Alphabet, with support from Ford and the University of Michigan. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Sumner Redstone, Viacom founder and old-fashioned media mogul, dies at 97

Redstone died on Tuesday, at 97. He controlled large swaths of the American media landscape in his career, and he held onto that control with an iron grip, even to the detriment of his relationships with his own family. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Why African-American professionals are moving abroad–and staying there

"I'd never been American first, and then Black. It's a refreshing change." | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Remote work during coronavirus pandemic hurts collaboration, innovation

Working remotely is a necessary reality in the pandemic. But companies from Goldman Sachs to Google know what’s missing when we Zoom—the creative spark that leads to true innovation. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

To recharge America’s job market, build a green electric grid

A nationwide commitment to clean electricity could create new jobs on a scale not seen since World War II. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

SAP says goodbye to Qualtrics, less than 2 years after buying it for $8B

Qualtrics' original plan was to go public on its own before SAP acquired the company in late 2018. Eighteen months later, the Utah company will finally get its wish. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

What the hell just happened to Intel?

CEO Bob Swan said its new 7-nanometer chips would be delayed. Intel's stock cratered. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago

Intel has fallen behind again on its next big chip manufacturing improvement

The company may have to hire a rival to manufacture some chips. | Continue reading


@fortune.com | 3 years ago