NEWS + VIEWS

by Elyse Richter| March 21, 2022

Let’s take a journey back to the ‘90s for a minute: Britney Spears on your sticker-covered CD player, Dunkaroos in hand as you dangle a stretched out cord on the landline chatting with a friend— your favorite Beanie Baby perched proudly on the shelf. Pretty vivid, right? Except now that Peanut the Elephant, the Beanie […]

by Lisa Sullivan| January 4, 2022

What Will This Week’s Show Teach Us About the Year Ahead for the Technology Industry? CES has long been viewed as a bellwether for the technology industry. In boom years, the Convention Center and surrounding hotels have been bursting at the seams, and the residents of Las Vegas welcomed us with open arms.  Hopes were high that CES 2022 would mark a major […]

by Becca Cooper| November 4, 2021

Last week, after a two-year break, 8,000 fintech professionals gathered again at Money20/20 in Las Vegas. The energy of the event was more than just delight at being IRL — it was excitement and awe at how much fintech has exploded in the last two years. Unlike years past, 2021 felt as if it was […]

by Melissa Kinch and Lisa Sullivan| October 25, 2021

As the COVID-19 crisis emerged, worsened and endured, technology became our saving grace.   Technology allowed us to stay connected to friends and family, and to access essential needs like education, healthcare – even the weekly grocery shopping. And without digital technologies enabling us to live and work virtually, we undoubtedly would have plunged into a deep […]

by Melissa Kinch and Lisa Sullivan| May 6, 2021

What do U.S. tech workers want from their employers? The answers today are likely much different than they would have been before the pandemic. Despite being the industry that pioneered work-from-home, and that enabled millions of workers and students to keep on working/learning despite this unprecedented crisis, tech isn’t immune to new levels of scrutiny […]

by Amit Wadehra| February 17, 2021

The last few months have brought a lot of buzz about the new social audio-chat app Clubhouse. So how exactly does it work, and what are the rules of the road for communicators and brands that want to get involved? Clubhouse is an (as of now) invitation-only audio-chat app that debuted in the spring of […]