SoFi, a U.S.-based student loans marketplace for lenders and borrowers, announced on Wednesday that it has secured a further $1 billion in funds led by Japan’s SoftBank. It’s calling it the “largest single financing round in the fintech space to date.”Surprisingly, SoFi is still not as well-known as some other startups of its size. A post-money valuation was not disclosed, but it’s now rai...

Your friend tells you about a great new TV show they’re watching on Netflix, or a new restaurant that you just have to try. If you’re like me, you tend to pop open the Notepad app on your phone and jot down this information for later…And then you promptly forget about it.A new mobile application called Soon is now offering a better way to help you keep track of all those things you want to r...

For as long as the idea of the 'mobile internet' has been around, we've thought of it as a cut-down subset of the 'real' Internet. I'd suggest it's time to invert that - to think about mobile as the real internet and the desktop as the limited, cut-down version. Once, the idea that mobile was a subset of the internet made sense. First, the phones themselves could only do a little bit of the int...

The TruPosture smart shirt is designed to provide real-time posture feedback.Those who have suffered through any type of back pain know it's not a fun feeling. Given the amount of sedentary slouching at desks and/or strained hunkering over display screens done on a daily basis, it's a wonder that more people haven't been afflicted by the pinch of poor posture. Adela Health has just unveiled Tru...

Proterra, the startup Popple runs, designed a sleek new electric bus that drove 258 miles on a single charge in a recent test. That's farther than most tiny electric cars can go and also farther than a daily city bus route.That means it's ready to start to replace the hundreds of thousands of diesel buses in the country, most of which average less than five miles to the gallon and pump out carb...

Red Dot Design Award has announced its winners, congrats to all designers that have won the precious trophy. This year, there are 344 winning concepts from 31 categories, with more than 4,500 entries from more than 60 countries. This time, we’re not going to discuss the best of the best design, there are many others have done that. We’d like to mention the 5 concepts that are nominated for Re...

At first glance, Chinese companies would appear to be enjoying a golden age of deal making: the outbound M&A market flourished from 2004 through 2014, with deal value growing at a compound annual rate of as much as 35 percent, and deal volume expanding at a compound annual rate of 9.5 percent. In 2014 alone, Chinese companies made 154 outbound M&A deals, with a total deal value of $26.1...

Streaming is no longer the future of the music industry. It's the present.According to RIAA statistics compiled here by Statista, streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music generated $1.028 billion in sales for the U.S. music industry in the first half of 2014, up 23% from last year. That's still behind digital downloads, but that portion of the industry is shrinking — down 4% from the fi...

In an effort to improve harsh working circumstances in clothing factories, Fashion World created the #WhoMadeMyClothes initiative.Have you ever stopped to wonder who made your clothes and where they came from? Most people probably haven’t – it’s just not something people normally think about. But all that is changing with the Fashion Revolution. A team of fashion lovers and conservationists...