Wander, a new startup that lets users rent smart homes across the country, raised $7 million in funding, the company said Wednesday.John Andrew Entwistle, who became an entrepreneur as a teen, founded Wander after an interesting journey. He enrolled in high school online, which allowed him to travel the U.S. and internationally. Earlier this year when he stepped down as CEO of Coder, the startu...

With $300 billion to pack it up–the gaming industry is exploding, and its ripple effects are transforming lateral industries faster than we can say, “PogChamp!” Brandon, a 31-year-old from California, told Cassandra he thinks the future of gaming includes “VR and AR full capabilities bringing games to the real world and vice versa!” So today, we’re taking a pulse on gaming innovations cat...

Worldwide IT spending is projected to total $4.5 trillion in 2022, an increase of 5.5% from 2021, according to the latest forecast by Gartner, Inc. “Enterprises will increasingly build new technologies and software, rather than buy and implement them, leading to overall slower spending levels in 2022 compared to 2021,” said John-David Lovelock, distinguished research vice president at Gartner...

With autonomous vehicle (AV) tech at an inflection point, funding to AV companies is skyrocketing. In this brief, we examine the sector's market drivers as well as emerging themes and their implications.Though autonomous driving technology has been slow to deliver on its promise, investors haven’t pumped the brakes.Autonomous driving tech companies have raised over $12B this year, with market...

Can e-scooters ever be sexy? Taur, a winner in Fast Company’s 2021 Innovation by Design Awards, is betting on it. This startup is on a mission to make e-scooters as cool as muscle cars.Big wheels. A powerful body. A lot of attitude. I’m not describing a 1960s Mustang, but an electric scooter designed by the British startup Taur. The winner of Fast Company‘s 2021 Innovation by Design Award in...

At a billion users and rising, TikTok’s influence is growing by the day, and with the holiday season fast approaching, many marketers are now looking at how they can utilize the reach of the platform to maximize their results in the period.And while TikTok doesn’t offer as many ad options as other platforms, it definitely does influence user action, and purchase behavior. Which is the focus o...

Virtual reality (VR) platform Decentraland is hosting a four-day long Metaverse Festival, bringing everything music lovers expect from a fest into the virtual world, including big-name headliners, merch stands, and… portable toilets.“It is a celebration of music and culture in the virtual social world, but also a recognition that the metaverse has arrived as a viable, irresistible, and profit...

Founded in 1886, Bosch operates multiple business sectors such as consumer goods, industrial technology and automotive mobility solutions. The German company teamed up with Microsoft to develop software-defined vehicles with cloud support services for traffic infrastructure, repair shops and cloud-based software modules designed to bring over-the-air updates to entire vehicle fleets.U.S. patent...

This week Facebook announced that it's looking to change its name to better reflect its future ambition to build the "metaverse" — a virtual space where people could play games, interact, socialize and work.Pulling an Alphabet (which Google changed its name to in 2015) is an interesting move, and it underlines how serious Zuckerberg is about Facebook's future in virtual spaces (although everyo...