It was 1998 and internet mania was in full swing. Fueled by the fear of missing out on the next big e-thing, freewheeling venture capitalists and speculators poured money into companies that appeared only tangentially internet-related. Entrepreneurs responded in kind, many going so far as to add “.com” or some techy sounding prefix like “e-“…

Some email scams—penis enlargement spam, "Nigerian prince" shakedowns—feel like they've been around almost as long as email itself. But the grifts have evolved significantly over the last decade, as scammers have learned that they can extract much bigger payouts from big businesses than lone victims. They've tallied billions of dollars in the last few years…

There's no shortage of products that are hailed by their creators as "revolutionary" or "totally transformative" upon launch. Sure, every company that births a new gadget into the world wants to believe that its innovative design and fancy new manufacturing process is going to profoundly change the way we experience technology in the future. But…

If your worst critic over the holidays isn’t your fitness tracker, it may be your relatives. You may only break bread with those wackos once a year—but the emotional repercussions from those brief moments can feel long-lasting.You’re not alone. Nearly half of Americans experience family-induced stress over the holidays. And while your family’s particular brand…

There are now 11 French unicorns, and many of them arrived in 2019 In September 2019, President Emmanuel Macron was about to wrap up a speech on late-stage investment in…

Wikimedia Foundation, the nonprofit group that operates Wikipedia and a number of other projects, has urged the Indian government to rethink the proposed changes to the nation’s intermediary liability rules…

Sophia Wood is a principal at Magma Partners, a Latin America-focused seed-stage VC firm with offices in Latin America, Asia and the U.S. Sophia is also the co-founder of LatAm…

It’s gotten to the point now where a handful of angel investors can put a space company on the map. But the same changes that have made the industry accessible…

Russia has begun testing a national internet system that would function as an alternative to the broader web, according to local news reports. Exactly what stage the country has reached…

The Federal Aviation Administration this week issued proposed rules for the remote identification of drones in the U.S. The “next exciting step in safe drone integration” (their words) aims to…