Major banks including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Citi, and Bank of America share overlapping investments in financial tech startups.[click to enlarge]Funding to financial technology is thriving as startups in the space harness major trends like big data, mobile, and social networks.Major banking giants aren’t sitting on the sidelines as they see some of these startups attack traditional ba...

Bank of America's workforce and branch network has declined by double-digit percentages over the past two years.If your Bank of America branch disappeared, you're not alone.The nation's second-largest bank has pulled the plug on hundreds of branches and eliminated tens of thousands of jobs over the past two years. Bank of America (BAC) is not the only big bank scaling back, but it's been among...

Mailjet, one of many email providers in an increasingly complex email landscape, is announcing an $11 million Series B funding round today, bringing its total to $17.5 million from Iris Capital, Alven Capital, and new investor, Seventure. The company is using the funds to expand globally and continue adding to their suite of tools for better personalized emails.“Where once there was a clear se...

Wearing Ekso Bionics’ forthcoming exoskeleton for construction and industrial workers is probably the closest that I will ever come to having a real physical superpower.Through the magic of gravity and amazing industrial and mechanical design, a 40-pound industrial tool that I was holding became totally weightless. After just a few minutes, I quickly figured out that if I let the tool go it wo...

More than $100bn will be spent on chocolate in 2015 across the world, but which country will spend the most and how have tastes changed?According to data from Euromonitor, the Swiss spend the most per person on chocolate each year. Perhaps unsurprising in a country whose official tourist information website encourages visitors to luxuriate in a chocolate bath.The Swiss are expected to spend $23...

Air-filled (pneumatic) tires give our vehicles comfortable, cushiony rides.Looking at it from another perspective, pneumatic tires are containers of pressurized gas that are being subjected to constant abuse, and when something happens to them, it can result in a situation that falls somewhere between a minor annoyance and a deadly catastrophe. We’ve ridden on these things for about 130 years...

More revenue now. Faster growth in the future. A stronger position in the marketplace. How can more digital publishers seize these opportunities?Programmatic, or automated, spending on display advertising (desktop and mobile) is a $9 billion market that is expanding at almost 30 percent a year. Spending is expected to exceed $30 billion in 2019. Growth in programmatic revenue for all types of p...

Don’t you ever wonder what makes the world’s top CEOs so darn successful? Well, as it turns out, their habits make them who they are. Below are nine of the most important habits of these highly successful entrepreneurs which you should consider incorporating into your own routine.Tim couldn’t be the CEO of the finest design technology company in the world without knowing what to pay attentio...

Q2’15 set a new high-water mark for ed tech deals and financing, with $765M in funding across 80 deals.Funding to education-technology companies is booming. Financing grew from $944M in 2013 to $1.6B in 2014, a 71% increase. In the last four quarters, including Q2’15, ed tech startups attracted $2.3B, a jump of 96% compared to the previous four quarters.Meanwhile, deal flow ticked down in 201...