Can Musk turn Twitter really into “a more honest” platform?

Please make no mistake: any time someone plops down 44 billion dollar without batting an eyelid to purchase an influential social media platform and take it private, it is going to cause concern - and in our opinion rightfully so. There is no point in pretending that Tesla chief executive Elon Musk’s acquisition of...

The Web3 movement has yet to take off

If the tech movement known as Web3 represents the internet’s next big gold mine, then why aren't we hearing more about the truly useful applications that will be built on this new platform. And why aren't more developers flocking to it to make their fortunes? Those questions hang in our opinion uncomfortably over...

A New Year – A New Challenge – Regulating Low Earth Orbit

The first flight of Elon Musk’s Falcon 9 rocket back in 2010 launched a new space age. Since SpaceX developed its first reusable rocket, the costs of sending satellites into orbit have plummeted, opening up a multi-billion-dollar market for thousands of companies around the world. Arguably, Musk has done more than anyone since Neil...

Beware of the Known Unknown where Decentralized Finance (Defi) meets AI

“When change is easy, the need for it not be foreseen; when the need for change is apparent, change has become expensive, difficult and time consuming.” How can we act when dealing with known unknown? That dilemma is facing regulators today as they try to assess the impact of decentralized finance and artificial intelligence in the...

Big Techs of the United States feel the heat of a Russian crackdown

Russia is increasingly pressuring Google, Twitter and Facebook to fall in line with Kremlin internet crackdown orders or risk restrictions inside the country, as more governments around the world challenge the companies’ principles on online freedom. Russia’s internet regulator, Roskomnadzor, recently stepped up its demands for the American companies to remove online content that it...

Jobs of Tomorrow – The A.I. Revolution is Coming

Automation, robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies have been taking over routine tasks for years. The COVID-19 pandemic, has rapidly increased that trend, driven by the triple necessities of increased productivity, lower costs and humans safely. Suddenly, human contact is both undesirable and more longed for than ever. Delivery companies, plumbers and even some...

Barclays’ Credit Card Business joins hands with Amazon by offering seamless customized shopping through AI in Germany

Last month Barclays’ credit card business struck a deal with Amazon to offer seamless customized shopping and payment services in Germany. The announcement drew little attention amid the US election, pandemic pain - and the cancellation of Ant Financial’s putative 37 billion US-Dollar initial public offering (IPO). But investors and regulators should pay attention....

India is getting prepared on cracking Cryptos

Confidence in the Indian financial system has been breaking down for some time. Instead of trying to restore trust, it may be time to require less of it – with the help of an official rupee cryptocurrency. The last straw was the collapse of corporate lender Yes Bank Ltd., which failed in slow motion in...

The Dominance of Big Tech – No End in Sight:

When Google’s parent company, Alphabet, said recently that revenues at the company had soared past 161 billion US-Dollar last year, it was a stark reminder of the widening gap between tech’s wealthiest outfits and the rest of the industry. And there is in our opinion little reason to believe that this will change. In...

How Big Tech like Amazon determine their power – start-ups are helpless

Elastic, a software start-up in Amsterdam, was rapidly building its business and had grown to 100 employees. Then Amazon came along. In 2015, Amazon's cloud computing arm announced it was copying Elastic’s free software tool, which people use to search and analyze data, and would sell it as a paid service. Amazon went ahead even...