Month: April 2021
California now home to 22 Israeli-founded tech unicorns
5 privately held Israeli-founded companies in California reached or surpassed a $1 billion valuation just this year, a bilateral group reports
Read MoreIran’s president orders probe into leaked Zarif audio ‘conspiracy’
Government spokesman says recording of foreign minister criticizing military’s role in diplomacy is an act ‘against the system, domestic institutions and our national interests’
Read MoreCanada’s newest unicorn: Clio raises $110M at a $1.6B valuation for legal tech
Clio, a software company that helps law practices run more efficiently with its cloud-based technology, announced Tuesday it has raised a $110 million Series E round co-led by T. Rowe Price Associates Inc. and OMERS Growth Equity. The round propels
Read MoreIsraeli aid team heads to Uruguay, where COVID dream has turned to nightmare
The South American country hardly felt the virus last year, but now has the world’s second-highest infection rate and hospitals are under pressure
Read MoreNapoleon: Military genius or sexist, slaving autocrat?
The jury is still out on Napoleon Bonaparte. He modernized France and won some of the most famous battles in history, but he also enshrined the subordination of women into law and re-established slavery. Ahead of the May 5 bicentenary
Read MoreMarianne Faithfull turns to poetry as COVID robs her of song
Iconic British artist Marianne Faithfull fears she may never sing again after a brutal dose of Covid-19 last year, but a new album of poetry set to music has given her a beautiful outlet. The 74-year-old spoke to AFP by
Read More10 years after death, Bin Laden still mobilizes jihadists
A decade after he was hunted down and killed in Pakistan by US special forces, Al-Qaeda founder Osama bin Laden retains the capacity to mobilise extremists even in a polarised jihadist scene that has radically changed in the last years.
Read MoreHow TIME Chose the 100 Most Influential Companies of 2021
Which companies are shaping our future? That’s the question at the heart of our first ever TIME100 Most Influential Companies, a new list—and an expansion of our iconic TIME100 franchise—that highlights businesses making an extraordinary impact around the world. To
Read MoreThe Story Behind TIME and Beeple’s Future of Business Cover
For TIME’s cover story on the future of business and the digitization of everything—which accompanies our list of the 100 most influential companies—we turned the space over to an artist who’s been at the forefront of the digital art movement
Read MoreEvery Company is a Tech Company Now. The Disruption is Just Beginning
In March 2020, as businesses across the world sent non-essential workers home to slow the spread of the coronavirus, a 2.6 million-sq.-ft. General Motors plant in Kokomo, Ind., sat idle. At the same time, ventilators—the breathing machines essential to keeping
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