Category: News

It looks like we’re in for another big tech CEO hearing. The Senate Commerce Committee voted Thursday to move forward with subpoenas for Twitter’s Jack Dorsey, Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and … Read More

Anguilla has announced the second phase of its reopening to the international community, including implementing the bubble concept to safely enhance visitor experiences on the British Overseas Territory in the … Read More

Julio Vasconcellos Contributor Share on Twitter Julio Vasconcellos is the managing partner of Atlantico, a venture capital fund focused on Latin America. He was previously the founder of Canary, Peixe … Read More

Former West Indies coach, Floyd Reifer, is putting aside his cricket clothes and will contest the Barbados by-election in the St. George North constituency later this year on a ticket … Read More

Google today announced a few updates to Live View, the augmented reality walking directions in its Google Maps app that officially launched last year. Live View uses your phone’s camera … Read More

Bermudians are voting in a snap general election on Thursday which is expected to give the ruling Progressive Labour Party (PLP) a fresh five-year mandate — despite two opposition parties … Read More

Detlev von Platen is a car guy, and in this age of new mobility, that’s important. Platen has been at Porsche for over 30 years and is currently on Porsche’s … Read More

The Colombian Navy said it had rescued 94 Haitian illegal migrants aboard the “Jhosua” a small boat that was adrift off the Caribbean coast of Colombia, following an engine failure. … Read More

SAP seemed to be all in on customer experience when it acquired Qualtrics for $8 billion in 2018. It continued on that journey today when it announced it was acquiring … Read More

As part of Jamaica’s ongoing efforts to rebuild the tourism industry and boost travel to the island during the COVID-19 pandemic, the government has teamed up with American Airlines to … Read More

Cybersecurity giant Imperva will acquire jSonar, a database security startup that recently landed $50 million from Goldman Sachs. Financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The acquisition of jSonar, which … Read More

Google has long had a frenemy position with regards to the world of news: it can direct a lot of traffic to online publishers, but that’s only if people bother … Read More

Since 2011, European startup studio eFounders has launched 27 companies with a focus on software-as-a-service companies trying to improve the way we work. Some of them have been quite successful, … Read More

A lot of people are opting to use cars instead of taking public transportation in the UK at the moment, as a way of ensuring more social distancing, and today … Read More

As more companies and brands put the internet at the core of how they run their businesses these days, it’s giving a strong push to the growth of startups that … Read More

The government of Jamaica is moving ahead with plans to implement the National Identification System (NIDS) law by December, even as it receives massive pushback from Jamaican citizens. Speaking in … Read More

As people spend less time out and about and more time daydreaming about when a vaccine will arrive, lifestyle shoes are only gaining traction. One obvious beneficiary is Allbirds, the … Read More

The Police Service Commission (PSC) on Tuesday announced that Police Commissioner Gary Griffith, will go on a one month vacation from Friday dispelling social media reports that he had been … Read More

Yesterday, Baltimore-based fintech company Facet Wealth said it raised $25 million in financing as it readies a new business line pitching financial planning as an employment benefit to businesses looking … Read More

Bermudians will go to the polls on Thursday for the second time in just over three years after Premier David Burt called a snap general election that has been enlivened … Read More

Google, which reaches more internet users than any other firm in India and commands 99% of the nation’s smartphone market, has stumbled upon an odd challenge in the world’s second … Read More

Jamaica on Tuesday said there was a need for an “unprecedented response” to the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and praised the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) for its … Read More

This year, Google’s annual hardware event consisted of a brisk 30 minutes of pre-recorded promotional videos, but the company managed to pack a number of new product announcements into that … Read More

The Victoria Mutual Group will be spreading happiness across the Jamaican Diaspora with the staging of its virtual VM Diaspora Web-Expo, on October 3, 17 and 31, 2020. The event … Read More

It’s a big day for Asana, the work management tool that debuted on the NYSE this morning in a direct listing. Founded back in 2009 by Dustin Moskovitz and Justin … Read More

Its almost like a bad TV series that on, then gets cancelled, then it’s on again, off, then on…… Finally, following a long silence during which the Public Charge form … Read More

The markets are closed and the verdicts are in: investors liked what they saw in Palantir and Asana . The two companies, which debuted this morning in dual (and duel) … Read More

Health ministers from the Americas, including the Caribbean, have committed themselves to maintaining as well as expanding the sustained actions needed in the fight against the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. The … Read More

Six months ago, millions of workers left their offices for the last time without realizing it. Many would be laid off because of the pandemic, but for those fortunate to … Read More

Some 18 students were presented with scholarships and tablets at the JN Money offices recently, as part of the JN Money Support A Dream back-to-school promotion, which ran from July 27 to … Read More