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TheDigital Hub Initiative’sStart-up GamesVol. 3is fast approaching and ready to put the spotlight on ten up-and-comers. If you haven’t heard about it yet, in 2017, the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy’s Digital Hub Initiative was set up to support the establishment of 12 digital Hubs across Germany. The Start-up Games is the event that brings together the most innovative startups from these Hubs to pitch their company in front of a distinguished panel of VCs....

John Maynard Keynes(1883-1946) was the greatest economist of the twentieth century. Less well known is that he had a parallel career as a successfulinvestor: fairly successful early in his career, and spectacularly successful later on when he changed his strategy. After the first world war, his income depended more on his investments than his academic work. In addition to his personal investments, he managed the investments of King’s College, Cambridge, of which he was a member....

Google has done a lot to popularise the cloud computing concept. And in its infinite wisdom, the search engine giant is now offering new graduates theopportunityto become what it calls ‘Google Guides’. The programme aims to help youngsters take their Google Apps expertise into their new career, introducing their new ‘mature’ work colleagues to the wonders of cloud-based computing with Google. A Google Guide should be a graduating college senior, young alum, or current student doing a summer internship....

This week BMW confirmed withAuto-blogthat it’s shipping vehicles without touchscreen functionality in response to the semiconductor chip shortage. The issue was initially raised on a Bimmerfest forum post stating that customers who receive a touchscreen free car receive a $500 credit. The post says these cars will also lose theBMWBackup Assistant if they were marketed with the optional Parking Assistant Package. The Backup Assistant enables automatic reversing in narrow parking areas and those with poor visibility....

Would you leave your passwords for services like iTunes or Facebook to a loved one in your will? A study out yesterday suggested that it’s a trend which could be growing. The Rackspace-commissionedsurveylooked at British attitudes to cloud storage, finding that 53% of the 2000 respondents had what they consider ‘treasured possessions’ stored with cloud services, while 11% said they had ‘addressed their digital entities with care’. Examples of this given?...