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In 2018 the number of people older than 64 years old surpassed the number of children under 5 years old. This was the first time in history this was the case. We can see this transition clearly when we look at the population by age bracket in the chart below – this is shown from 1950 onwards, with UN projections to 2100.
Read MoreAfter 18 years, Apple is killing iTunes — well, sort of. The media management software for most Mac users (and many Windows users) is being broken into separate pieces for separate uses: Music, podcasts and television will soon have their own apps on the new Catalina Mac operating system.
Read MoreChances are you've had a handful of conversations with friends where someone has a "new app idea" and chances are it was the one Spotify is about to release: Social Listening.
Read MoreFoursquare, that app that helped you proudly become the "mayor" of your local Wendy's, just made its first acquisition.
Read MoreCameo is a Chicago-based startup that lets fans pay for personalized videos from celebrities, and they just raised a Series B investment at around a $300 million valuation.
Read MoreThis year I happily strapped my saddle to the Carolina Hurricanes bandwagon, and what a ride it was.
Shoutout to those deprived sports fans in Boston for sweeping this series. Really needed a win for that city.
In this week's Really Good Analytics post our resident analyst Michael dives into "Why Moneyball hasn't made it's way to Hockey."
Elon Musk's SpaceX delayed their Starlink mission last night, which didn't make many headlines in the land of click-baiting tech writers making a mountain out of the mole hill that is Uber's public market performance...
Read MoreIf you've ever played a video game in your life, chances are you also have a strong opinion about Microsoft's Xbox vs sony's Playstation.
Read MoreZuck made a joke about the privacy of your data and it didn't go over well.
Read MoreBird, recognizing the growing possibility that people will want to own electric scooters rather than share them, is launching a new scooter model available for purchase. Called the Bird One, it will be available for ownership and shared-use cases. Bird is also ditching the Ninebot ES and relying on its own M365 model for monthly personal rentals.
Each year, Warren Buffett writes an open letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders. Over the last 40 years, these letters have become an annual required read across the investing world, providing insight into how Buffett and his team think about everything from investment strategy to stock ownership to company culture, and more.
Yesterday, Uber raised $8.6 billion in proceeds from its IPO (including a $500 million PayPal investment) at an initial market cap of $75.5 billion, and its fully diluted value just north of $82 billion.
Fortnite creator Epic Games announced this week that it’s acquired the independent game development studio Psyonix, makers of the massively popular vehicular soccer game Rocket League.
Beyond Meat shares popped 163% yesterday on their first day of trading, marking the best IPO day performance since before the financial crisis.
Facebook is introducing a new design to its app and website, and it's all about groups.
Read MoreGot a few seconds to spare? Open the Google homepage and search for "Thanos." Then, click the Infinity Gauntlet that appears in the supervillain's Knowledge Graph card.
Read MoreIf you're a Jeopardy fan like many of us in the Malartu office, you already know this, but for the rest of you let me introduce you to the new Jeopardy "goat": James Holzhauer. During Thursday’s game, he came in first place with a total of $90,812 after he was the only one to correctly answer the Final Jeopardy question.
Read MoreCar2go, the free-floating car-sharing service owned by Daimler, temporarily shut down its service in Chicago on Wednesday after dozens of Mercedes-Benz vehicles were stolen using the app.
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