Despite what some call an oversaturated market, these freelance drone pilots say they’re making more than $100,000 a year.Looking for a gig that pays six figures? Consider being a freelance drone pilot.It worked for Andrew Dean, who had been working as a waiter after leaving his job with the U.S. Air Force. Four years ago, he invested in drone equipment, as well as a thermography certification...

Global asset management is undergoing a metamorphosis, and so are its practitioners, as advanced digital and analytics finally go mainstream. Fresh evidence of flux and reinvention fill every corner of The Boston Consulting Group’s 16th annual study of the industry’s current performance and huge potential.Asset managers enjoyed exceptional results in 2017. Fueled by bull markets, they broke g...

Tel Aviv startup Audioburst is making radio, TV and podcasts instantly searchable and enhancing the capabilities of voice assistants.The days of aimlessly scanning through AM/FM radio stations in search of something that interests you may be coming to an end. An Israeli startup is organizing the world’s audio so that you can instantly find and listen to any piece of audio from anywhere, on dem...

How deeply convinced investors are of the strength of China’s electric vehicle market? They’ve put hundreds of millions of dollars into EV startups that have yet to mass produce their vehicles.The latest example is Xiaopeng Motors, an Alibaba-backed EV startup that completed a four billion yuan ($580 million) funding round last week. The latest investment has given the 4-year-old EV carmaker...

It's National Missing Persons Week in Australia this week, and to help highlight those who are missing, a new campaign prints professional illustrations of six missing people onto takeaway coffee cups.Twenty of Melbourne's top cafes will serve the takeaway biodegradable cups. The work, created by WhiteGrey Melbourne for the Missing Persons Advocacy Network (MPAN), was a collaboration between fa...

New data suggests Tesla’s security checks to foil thieves are remarkably effective. The recovery rate of stolen Tesla’s is notable in an industry where the overall recovery rate for stolen vehicles was just 58.4% in 2016. Elon Musk wants to take Tesla private.There are also quite a few people out there who simply want to take your Tesla. However, new figures on thefts of these electric cars s...

“Augmented reality for enterprise” is the sort of phrase that surely hits all of the right neurological pleasure centers for VCs. No surprise, then, that Scandit just raised a $30 million Series B, in a round led by GV (née Google Ventures) and NGP Capital. That joins a previous $13 million raise for the Zurich-based startup.We highlighted the company back in early 2017. At the time, its mis...

As one of the year’s major cultural holidays, Mid-Autumn Festival holds a special significance for Chinese culture (as well as for certain Southeast Asian countries) as it marks an important transitional period. Despite its cultural importance, however, one of the occasion’s most recognizable features remains to be the delectable dessert that is enjoyed each year: the mooncake. Although the o...

McDonald's just opened a new restaurant that looks like an Apple Store — and it reveals a blueprint for the future of the fast-food giant.McDonald's opened a new flagship store in Chicago that looks more like an Apple Store than a fast-food restaurant.The restaurant features table service, ordering kiosks, and more than 70 trees at the ground level.While not every McDonald's will look like the...