Category: Technology & Digitalization

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Donald Trump/ social media: truth hurts for new social media app

The chaotic launch of former president Donald Trump’s social media platform makes for an awkward start. Although Truth Social hit its target of launching on President’s Day and rose to the top of the free US app chart, thousands of would-be users received error messages. Building a “non-cancellable” community is difficult when applications are cancelled.…
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23 February 2022 0

India’s IT sector is battling a hiring ‘crisis’, says Saleforce’s India chief

The India chief executive of software giant Salesforce said the country’s IT sector is grappling with a skills shortage “crisis”, as companies struggle to meet surging demand and compete with well-funded tech start-ups for workers. The shortage is challenging India’s IT companies, which serve as the foundation of the country’s services industry and as back…
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23 February 2022 0

Making the smart home Matter

This article is an on-site version of our #techFT newsletter and is usually available only with a Premium subscription. Are you currently a Standard subscriber? Click here to switch your subscription to Premium. Not yet a subscriber? You can take out a Premium subscription here Our smart homes are currently too smart for us —…
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22 February 2022 0

Silicon Valley has learnt little from Elizabeth Holmes

The world would like to remember the conviction of Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes as a cautionary tale of Silicon Valley hubris. The collapse of her blood-testing company was hailed as both the end of tech’s “fake it till you make it” culture and of the dubious cultural phenomenon of the girlboss. But here in the…
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22 February 2022 0

Web3 Part 4 Hype waves go through a lot of turbulence 

Inevitable does not mean imminent. It is inevitable that the decentralized Web3 will replace the centralized Web2, but nobody knows when this will happen – it is not imminent. Amaras law is still true; I have deep conviction on direction of travel, but I have no idea on the speed of travel. To trade successfully…
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22 February 2022 0

Tech begins to raise its dividend game

Interested in ETFs? Visit our ETF Hub for investor news and education, market updates and analysis and easy-to-use tools to help you select the right ETFs. The MSCI World index is heavily weighted to the US and big tech, and the same often applies to global equity funds whose managers are reluctant to stray too far…
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22 February 2022 0

Inside ‘Project Tinman’: Peloton’s plan to conceal rust in its exercise bikes

As Peloton’s stock price began to tumble last autumn and just months after a costly recall of the connected fitness company’s expensive treadmills, its executives were confronted with a new crisis. In September last year, staff at Peloton warehouses, which receive high-end bikes originally manufactured in Taiwan, noticed that paint was flaking off some of…
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22 February 2022 0

Never mind Big Tech — ‘little tech’ can be dangerous at work too

An inquiry opened last week into a scandal that has horrified Britons: how hundreds of people running UK post offices were wrongly prosecuted for false accounting and theft on the basis of a faulty computer system. A judge has called the Post Office’s insistence that the software was infallible “the 21st-century equivalent of maintaining that…
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22 February 2022 0

Founders, be careful about who you invite to the table

The writer is an investor in technology start-ups at Samos Investments Any founder will tell you how gruelling fundraising can be: speaking to hundreds of investors, meeting after meeting, telling your story and hoping the person on the other side will connect, care and fund your venture. It’s not just emotionally exhausting, it’s also time…
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22 February 2022 0

Trump launches Truth Social app in push to circumvent tech groups

Donald Trump’s social media app debuted on Monday as the former US president tries to build a conservative rival to Twitter and Facebook ahead of a possible 2024 campaign to retake the White House. The new platform, Truth Social, is among brands being launched by Trump Media & Technology Group, the media start-up created last…
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21 February 2022 0