PM creeping into Grenfell service via back door is an insult, survivor tells RT

Published time: 14 Dec, 2017 17:13 UK Prime Minister Theresa May attended Thursday’s memorial service at St Paul’s Cathedral in London, which marked six months since the Grenfell Tower fire. Rather than make a grand entrance, however, the PM crept in through the back door. Grenfell survivors were not impressed. Survivors and bereaved families were […]

Kate Middleton wears navy hat and coat with to Grenfell victims service

Kate Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge, 35, arrived at St Paul’s Cathedral for a memorial service in honour of the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, London. She visited the venue with her husband Prince William, also 35, and Prince Harry, 33. She wore a navy blue coat with six gold buttons, and a navy […]

AT&T’s power line-mounted internet service is back for more tests

Providing high-speed internet to rural areas is a constant challenge; after all, there isn’t a lot of incentive for companies to build infrastructure for a limited number of people. That’s why AT&T’s Project AirGig is so interesting. It provides internet speeds of up to 1 gigabyte per second thanks to power lines. Today, the company […]

DIGITAL HEALTH BRIEFING: NYP, Walgreens launch telemedicine service — Cybercriminals continue to target health data — Philips buys VitaHealth

Welcome to Digital Health Briefing, a new morning email providing the latest news, data, and insight on how digital technology is disrupting the healthcare ecosystem, produced by BI Intelligence. Sign up and receive Digital Health Briefing free to your inbox. Have feedback? We’d like to hear from you. Write me at: lbeaver@businessinsider.com. NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN, WALGREENS PARTNER FOR […]

YouTube’s new music streaming service has some obstacles to overcome (GOOG, GOOGL)

BI Intelligence This story was delivered to BI Intelligence “Digital Media Briefing” subscribers. To learn more and subscribe, please click here. YouTube plans to launch a new music streaming subscription service, internally dubbed “Remix,” in March 2018, Bloomberg reports. The service, YouTube’s latest foray in the music streaming space, will include on-demand streaming capabilities, similar to Spotify’s, […]

Quincy Jones has a streaming service for jazz documentaries

It’s easy enough to find concert movies or music documentaries online, but watching them across various services is kind of a pain. Jazz legend Quincy Jones wants to help with that. Along with a French TV producer, Jones is launching Qwest TV. For between €7.49 and €9.90 per month ($ 8.83 – $ 11.68; the […]

WorldRemit raises $40 million to push its money-transfer service into new markets

London-based fintech startup WorldRemit has raised $ 40 million in a series C round of funding led by LeapFrog Investments, with “significant participation” from existing investors Accel Partners and Technology Crossover Ventures (TCV). This takes the company’s total funding to $ 220 million, including a $ 100 million round in early 2015 and a $ 45 million […]

The amount of money flowing through Venmo has surged — at least before the launch of Apple’s rival service (PYPL)

Venmo has become so popular, its name has become a verb in the same way “Google” has. People use the the PayPal-owned mobile person-to-person payment service to pay rent, split bar tabs, and hold fundraisers. It’s become a must-have app for millennials, and as we can see in this chart from Statista, the amount of […]

ProtonMail expands encrypted email service to desktop clients including Outlook, Thunderbird, and Apple Mail

Encrypted email service ProtonMail has come a long way since its global launch 18 months ago, having expanding into VPNs, started targeting small businesses, grown into multiple languages, and — most recently — launched an encrypted contacts manager. Now, the Swiss company is making its core service available in desktop email clients that support IMAP and SMTP, including Microsoft Outlook, […]