Here are three of the week’s top pieces of financial insight, gathered from around the web: Robinhood gets a challengerAn Israeli online-trading platform is challenging Robinhood for “the hearts and wallets of rookie traders,” said Edward Robinson and Justina Lee at Bloomberg. Tel Aviv–based eToro has attracted 15 million users worldwide — about the same level as Robinhood — and plans to expand in

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry’s top tech writers. This week’s pick is a fleet of high-altitude balloons. Google’s new “fleet of high-altitude balloons” is bringing internet service to one of the remotest regions of Africa, said Abdi Latif Dahir in The New York Times. Acting as “floating cell towers,” the balloons began providing 4G LTE network connec

Each week, we spotlight a cool innovation recommended by some of the industry’s top tech writers. This week’s pick is [X]. Researchers in Australia unlocked internet speeds high enough to download “more than 1,000 high-definition movies in less than a second,” said BBC​. Using a single fiber-optic wire linked between two campuses in Melbourne, the team “logged a data speed of 44.2 terabits per sec

The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web: The U.S. moved last week to tighten the vise on China’s technology ambitions with a “one-two punch of industrial policy” said Ana Swanson at The New York Times. First, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co., one of three companies in the world capable of making the most advanced microprocessors, announced it