Albanian teens develop app for domestic violence victims
Three Albanian 16-year-old girls have developed an app to help victims of domestic violence access support, hoping to tackle a huge problem in Albania, where...
Russia’s first lab-grown meat: a taste of things to come?
A company in Russia claims to the first to produce lab-grown meat in the country, with hopes it will become the first affordable product of...
‘Call of Duty Mobile’ smashes records with 100 million downloads in first week
The mobile version of videogame franchise “Call of Duty” racked up 100 million downloads in its first week, industry site Sensor Tower said on Tuesday,...
Paralyzed man harnesses brain power to walk again with robot exoskeleton
A French tetraplegic man who has been able to walk again using a pioneering four-limb robotic system, or exoskeleton, said walking was a major feat...
U.S. expands blacklist to include China’s top AI startups ahead of trade talks
The U.S. government widened its trade blacklist to include some of China’s top artificial intelligence startups, punishing Beijing for its treatment of Muslim minorities and...
EU finance commissioner pledges to regulate digital currencies
The European Union’s finance commissioner pledged on Tuesday, if he is reappointed, to propose new rules to regulate virtual currencies such as Libra, the currency...
Sorrell buys Silicon Valley’s Firewood in pursuit of red-hot digital growth
Martin Sorrell’s S4 Capital has bought Silicon Valley’s biggest independent agency, Firewood, for $150 million in its latest deal to form a purely digital global...
Sorrell’s S4 Capital content arm buys Firewood ad agency in digital push
S4 Capital’s content unit, MediaMonks, is set to merge with Silicon Valley’s biggest independent agency, Firewood, as the Martin Sorrell advertising vehicle ramps up its...
Strong smartphone sales raise hopes of Samsung turnaround
Strong sales of Samsung Electronics’ Galaxy Note 10 smartphone series are limiting forecast profit falls at the South Korean tech giant, raising hopes it is...
S4 Capital’s digital content unit to merge with U.S.-based agency
Martin Sorrell’s advertising vehicle S4 Capital on Tuesday said its digital content unit, MediaMonks, would merge with U.S.-based marketing agency Firewood as the company pushes...