[ad_1] Despite caution around spending during the holiday shopping season due to economic fallout from the pandemic and subsequent inflationary pressure, consumers are expected to spend an average of $1,652 this holiday shopping season. That represents a 14% increase from a year ago, according to Deloitte’s 2023 Deloitte Holiday Retail Survey. It is the first ...

[ad_1] The U.S. Space Force is working on clearer guidelines for how it works with commercial companies—including during a potential conflict in space—and plans to have a new strategy by the end of the year.  The service had to revise its original “commercial space strategy” because the draft didn’t provide enough specifics to industry, Chief ...

[ad_1] After Carl Wieman won the Nobel Prize for physics in 2001 for, as he puts it, “shining lasers on atoms” in a new way that gave experimental proof to a theory by Albert Einstein, Wieman decided to shift his research focus. He devoted the bulk of his time and energy to studying how to ...

[ad_1] Payhippo, a leading AI-powered lender for SMEs in Nigeria, today announced the appointment of Dami Olawoye as its new CEO. Olawoye, who previously served as Payhippo’s CFO, will succeed Zach Bijesse, who is transitioning to a role on the company’s board of directors. Under Bijesse’s leadership, Payhippo achieved remarkable milestones, including disbursing over 36,000 ...

[ad_1] Day one is coming to close for Amazon Prime Big Deal Days, a fall event rooted in what Amazon says are great deals for its Prime members. And customers looking to get an even earlier jump on their online holiday shopping. And so far, based on data measured by consumer market research firm Numerator, ...

[ad_1] A pioneer in the food delivery ecommerce business is soon to be owned by one the most famous empire builders in online retailing. Blue Apron is an online retailer that helped to create the meal planning and ingredients ecommerce market. It has been acquired in a stock deal valued at about $103 million. Wonder ...

[ad_1] The Hackaholics Digital Summit and Grand Finale by Wema Bank/ALAT ended in a grand style as Jane Agbaohwo, Founder and Creative Director of Ireti, a health tech startup that helps solve the problem of late diagnosis of breast cancer of Ireti bagged the N15 million coveted price at the Lagos event on Friday, October ...

[ad_1] Here’s a look at the top EdSurge stories for September, as the new school year kicked off. Our coverage of new approaches to math education drew the most interest from readers, with two different features exploring how to rethink calculus making our Top 5. Also topping the chart was an in-depth look at one ...