Apurva Saxena
BBC releases first beta of its Beeb voice assistant to UK Windows Insider members
Back in August 2019, the BBC made some waves with the news that it was developing a voice assistant called Beeb, an English language...
China significantly delayed releasing coronavirus info
Throughout January, the World Health Organization publicly praised China for what it called a speedy response to the new coronavirus. It repeatedly thanked the...
GOP to look at potential alternative sites for August convention
Organizers of the Republican National Convention said Tuesday they will begin visiting potential alternative sites after North Carolina’s governor told them the COVID-19 pandemic...
Amazon reportedly plans ‘Summer Sale’ starting June 22 to make up for Prime Day delay
Amazon.com is planning to hold a summer sale event on June 22 to help sellers grappling with the reported postponement of the e-commerce site’s...
Zoom’s paid usage skyrockets as remote work takes over
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, few companies seemed more poised to receive a usage bump than Zoom and its enterprise-grade video chat platform, but it...
Everything to know about Blackout Tuesday
Thousands of people are going on social media on Tuesday to participate in what has been dubbed “Blackout Tuesday,” to advance social and racial...
Novartis CEO explains why the wait for a coronavirus vaccine is so long
Vas Narasimhan, CEO of Swiss drug giant Novartis, talks with Fortune editor-in-chief Clifton Leaf about health care’s present and future in the latest episode...
Former Pollen employees were asked to sign an ‘NDA masked as a severance agreement’
Pollen, the U.K.-headquartered travel and events marketplace, describes its company culture as built on principles of “freedom” and openness, including a well-publicised pay transparency...
Appway raises $37M, its first-ever funding, for financial customer management tools
With the renewed push for more of the services we use everyday to be accessible online and in a non-physical way, a company out...
Self-driving vehicle startup Argo AI completes $2.6B deal with Volkswagen, expands to Europe
Volkswagen Group finalized Tuesday its $2.6 billion investment into Argo AI, the Pittsburgh-based self-driving car startup that came out of stealth in 2017 with...