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PhonePe mobile payments company gets $200 million investment from Walmart

03/27/202303/24/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

The Indian company raised the funds as a component of an ongoing round. PhonePe, a mobile payments giant from India, has announced that an investment from Walmart has brought it another $200 million in funding as a part of an ongoing round that has already helped it bring in $650 million. The funding has arrived regardless of the economic downturn. PhonePe has been bringing in funds too help build itself up in the face of its upcoming separation from Flipkart, its parent company. Walmart already owns the majority of the…

Rémy Martin celebrates 50th anniversary of hip-hop with QR codes

03/20/202303/17/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

The barcodes direct scanners to features that place the spotlight on a broader showcase of Black culture. French company Rémy Martin, best known for its production and sale of cognac, has launched a new campaign celebrating the drink’s connection to Black culture and is using QR codes to help share information and features about hip-hop, which is generally believed to be turning 50 this year. The campaign includes a larger push than has previously been the case through VSOP Mixtape. The new campaign using QR codes is meant to highlight…

Inventor of the first cell phone is hopeful that new tech will improve it

03/06/202303/02/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

Marty Cooper feels that this device definitely has a dark side, but he’s optimistic for its future. The first cell phone call ever made was placed in New York City on April 3, 1973, by its inventor, Martin Cooper, using a massive gray prototype gadget. He and his team at Motorola had only recently developed the technology he was testing. The device that has now managed to change the world was invented by Cooper fifty years ago. Obviously, the original cell phone looked absolutely nothing like the slim, touchscreen devices…

Google CEO Pichai tells employees to fix Bard AI problems

02/20/202302/17/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

The artificial intelligence function had a rocky launch, to say the least, with its unpredictable results. A leaked Google memo issued company-wide by the company’s CEO Sundar Pichai has requested that employees use two to four hours from their day to improve Bard AI and make the search function usable. Shortly after the botched unveiling, Google announced it knew the feature wasn’t ready for launch. Employees at Google are now all a part of the company’s plan to work out all the kinks in the Bard AI function to help…

Meta Platforms launches a “Year of Efficiency”, and its stock takes off

02/06/202302/03/2023 Jorge Gonzalez

CEO Mark Zuckerberg has vowed to work on achieving improved efficiency and decision making. Facebook founder and Meta Platforms CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been pouring billions into the digital metaverse world and the company has been bleeding money as a result of these ventures. The company is now committing to focus its attention on the more immediate problems it is facing. Following drooping stock prices and substantial losses, Meta Platforms will now be buckling down and looking to correct its more immediate problems, such as sending its users improved relevancy…