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‘Smart’ pyjamas give new insights into sleep patternsKnown as the ‘Phyjama’, the shirt can be used to monitor the wearer’s sleep quality, such as the amount of REM sleep they are getting, which occurs at intervals during the night and is characterised by rapid eye movements, dreaming and bodily movement, or if they have breathing […]

View from India: Cloud spending is set to soarIndia’s cloud market is driven by high adoption levels. All this and more has been highlighted in the report ‘Cloud – Next Wave of Growth in India’.  The report was unveiled by National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) in collaboration with Google Cloud and Deloitte […]

Book review: ‘The Gendered Brain’, by Gina RipponThe myth of essential sex differences, Rippon writes, is a “whack-a-mole” myth. Just when it seems that scientific evidence has put an end to it, it springs back, often appropriating new scientific techniques. We are all familiar with this myth. It runs through newspaper articles describing evidence of […]

Early-stage VC byFounders closes €100M fund to back Nordics and Baltics startupsByFounders, a relatively new early-stage venture capital firm targeting the Nordic and Baltic regions of Europe, is officially launching its first fund today. The debut fund has closed at €100 million and will be used to back tech startups at pre-seed, seed and in […]

Uber may have left Southeast Asia but its APAC HQ remains in SingaporeUber exited Southeast Asia last year after it sold its local business to Grab but it continues to remain in Singapore, where it has now opened a new regional HQ for Asia Pacific and is hiring for staff. The company — which is headed […]

Andreessen Horowitz isn’t alone in leaving behind VC as we know it — and more company is comingThis morning, Forbes wrote a lengthy profile of Andreessen Horowitz, the now 10-year-old venture firm that its rivals love to hate but nevertheless tend to copy. It’s a great read that revisits some of the firm’s wins and […]