Category Business

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous

TS #34 – The Antithesis of Food Delivery

These days, there are a lot of businesses in the food delivery space. This has led to lesser delivery-time being something that these businesses strive for to get more orders on their platforms. That in turn makes the whole business…

Shreesha S
May 19, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance

TS #32 – An Error Margin of Just 187400%!

Last week, one of India’s biggest cryptocurrency exchange WazirX started trading in the “Doge killer” Shiba Inu token. It was listed at around Rs 3 while actually being worth about just Rs 0.0016. But why? The third party liquidity provider…

Shreesha S
May 18, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #31 – The Curse of a Verse!

Recently, the CEO of the Chinese Delivery Giant Meituan had posted a verse from a 1,100 year old poem on the Chinese microblogging site Fanfou(Weibo). Over the course of the next 2 days, his company lost $26 billion in value…

Shreesha S
May 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #30 – Flawless Lip-syncs

Flawless, a London-based startup has launched a product called TrueSync which is a tool that tries to make film translations seamless. The company claims to be “the world’s first system that uses Artificial Intelligence to create perfectly lip-synced visualisations in…

Shreesha S
May 17, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #29 Big Blue goes Nano

IBM on May 6th unveiled a breakthrough in semiconductors design with the announcement of their 2 nanometers(nm) chips. These were achieved with their nanosheet technology. It is projected to achieve 45% higher performance, or 75% lower energy consumption compared to…

Jerin Joseph
May 16, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Tech

TS #28 Let’s go on a ro’ad’ trip

On May 6 2021, Ford patented a new technology which enables the camera system on vehicles to scan billboards as you drive along, interpret that information and deliver targeted ads to the vehicle’s infotainment system. But as with all patented…

Emil Eapen
May 14, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #27 – Colonial and the DarkSide

On May 7, Colonial Pipeline, the largest pipeline system for refined oil products in the U.S, was shut down. It met roughly 45% of the East Coast’s fuel needs, transporting 100 million gallons per day. It was said to be…

Shreesha S
May 14, 2021
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Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Tech

TS #26 – ByteDance: Some Metrics

ByteDance is the world’s most Valuable private company and the parent of the infamous short-video app Tik-Tok. It is rumored to go for a public issue for its Chinese Assets in the Hong Kong bourses. Let’s look at some of…

Shreesha S
May 13, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Finance, Miscellaneous, Tech

TS #24 – “Literal Dogecoin on the Literal Moon”

SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced last day that it will fund its mission to launch a satellite(named DOGE -1) to the moon exclusively by Dogecoin. Most of the price increase of he Dogecoin…

Shreesha S
May 13, 2021

Tiny Snips, Business, Economy, Miscellaneous

TS #23 – The Cost Of A Name Change

Recently, the name of the second oldest colonial city in South Africa – Port Elizabeth or PE – was changed to Gqeberha. The word mixes some of the unique linguistics of a widely spoken language known as Xhosa. And yet, as…

Shreesha S
May 11, 2021