Under Armour came in at #6 on Forbes Most Innovative Companies List this year and for good reason. This start up that began with a 23 year old football player and a dream in 1996 is now going head to head with giants like Nike and Adidas, without having to disrupt through a niche model like Lululemon.

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Recently, Ant Financial, the payments affiliate of Alibaba , acquired EyeVerify, a Missouri based start-up which uses biometric authentication technology for securing consumer’s online data and transactions. This is Ant Financial’s first investment in the U.S. and the company plans to use EyeVerify’s technology to upgrade its own security systems and integrate this technology in several of its products. Alibaba’s payment gateway Alipay is the most important offering of Ant Financial and has nearly 450 million active users, dominating the Chinese payment market. While global expansion has been on Alibaba’s agenda for some time, introducing a product in the U.S. requires not only a better understanding of the market, but the achievement of the quality, security and service standards expected by U.S. consumers. We believe that, as Alipay expands beyond China into regions such as India and Europe (for Chinese tourists), better security features can lead to faster adaption of this product. Once the company establishes trust in regions outside China, Alibaba can eventually look at launching a product in the U.S.

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As we know, planet Earth is now under the control of intelligent machines and, in this new ‘rise of the robots’ dystopia, we have seen machines start to become ‘self-aware’ sentient, emotional and even a little moody from time to time. Okay so that hasn’t happened yet has it? But machine learning and Artificial Intelligence is on the rise… and so-called ‘behavioral analytics’ technologies are expanding, proliferating and positively diverging all the time.

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Banks have lots of valuable information about their customers; the challenge is to find cost effective ways of using it.

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We live in a world where consumers expect everything to be available instantaneously and with a simple touch of a button. We can thank Google for this – launched nearly two decades ago, it wasn’t the first search engine, but it was by far the fastest and the most accurate. Consumers for the first time saw that information can be accessed in hundreds of milliseconds, rather than seconds or minutes in some cases. And as social and mobile commerce apps have gained in popularity, consumers have become even more demanding – they want answers, experiences and even products instantly.

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Tipalti, a leading provider in the B2B supplier payments space based in Palo Alto, California, has announced a further investment funding round to the tune of $14 million (m) led by early stage venture capital firm by SGVC, which is touted as enabling the firm to “accelerate adoption” of supplier payments solutions to global enterprises.

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To be an entrepreneur, you have to be a little bit of a dreamer. I’d argue that every business was built on the foundation of somebody’s dream. My company is no different. It was my dream to launch a startup and grow the business from one dedicated employee (me), into a thriving enterprise.

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The first brief footage for the upcoming Pokémon Sun and Moon anime has been released and Ash looks quite a bit different to how you probably remember him.

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