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Hello, Welcome to this week's edition of Trending, the weekly newsletter highlighting the best of BI Prime's tech coverage. I'm Alexei Oreskovic, Business Insider's West Coast Bureau Chief and Global Tech Editor.  This week: Computer school has gotten cool Computer programming was once an unglamorous practice. At least, that's how it seemed to me as an incurious middle school student many years ago, pecking away in computer class on a TRS-80 and struggling to learn BASIC. It was tough to see how that kind of drudgery could make anyone's life better — at least, beyond the brief thrill that came from making an obscene word scroll across a classmate's monochrome screen. But today, knowing how to code is a sexy superpower; it's the special skill that can land you a job at Apple or Google . A variety of coding schools and boot camps have sprouted up to let anyone achieve the dream. Lambda School, based in San Francisco, is one of the most popular. In j...

This is a preview of a research report from Business Insider Intelligence, Business Insider's premium research service. To learn more about Business Insider Intelligence, click here . 5G is coming, and wireless networks are poised for transformation thanks to its blazing fast connections, near-instantaneous response times, and massive device support. The networks will support over 1.5 billion 5G phones in use worldwide by 2024. Companies across the digital space need to know what this generational shift will do to enable new practices, expand revenue streams, and embed their technology even deeper into consumer’s lives and enterprise workflows. And 5G won’t be acting alone: The development of AI technologies will fuel the rise of autonomous cars and trucks and the growth of smart speakers, all of which are acting alongside one another and ushering in a transformed world. To help navigate this fast-changing landscape, Business Insider Intelligence has forecast the key figures th...

While Silicon Valley VCs blame Wall Street's dominant role in IPOs, corporate governance experts say rules that allowed startups to withhold more information was a cause of recent flops They cite the impact of the Jumpstart Our Business Startups Act -- or the JOBS Act -- which allowed startups to file for an IPO confidentially and withhold more information about their financials. They worry that an SEC proposal to open up private markets could make the problem with the lack of transparency worse and hurt individual investors. Check out Business Insider's special series — Founder Frenemies — for more stories on Silicon Valley's changing landscape for startup funding.  It's been a year of IPO flops featuring high-profile names like Uber , Lyft and Peloton — and it's causing a stir in Silicon Valley's venture capital community. The unrest has sparked a new debate on the best way for startups to go public, preferably one that gives VCs and startups more sa...

WeWork's options to avoid running out of cash could include a SoftBank financing deal that would give the Japanese company — WeWork's largest investor — control of the office rental startup, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday . SoftBank's deal could value the startup below $10 billion. The Japanese investment group valued WeWork at $47 billion in its January funding round. WeWork is also working with JPMorgan on another option, lining up billions for a debt deal. WeWork could run out of money as soon as the end of November, The Financial Times reported last week. The company's new co-CEOs are slashing thousands of jobs, selling off businesses, and closing non-core activities like WeGrow .  For more WeWork stories, click here.  WeWork's cash problems could lead to a takeover by its largest investor that would see its valuation dip below $10 billion, The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.  The office rental company had planned to raise billions...

This is a preview of the AI in Telecommunications  research report from Business Insider Intelligence. Purchase this report. 14-Day Risk Free Trial: Get full access to this and all Connectivity & Tech research reports. In the face of rising demand for data, increasingly saturated mobile markets, and stiff opposition from legacy players, tech entrants, and startups, global telecoms are locked in a battle for market share. These market pressures have led to vicious price wars for mobile services and, as a result, declining average revenue per user (ARPU). Making matters worse, improvements in infrastructure and technology have made telecoms largely comparable in terms of coverage, connection speeds, and service pricing, meaning companies must transform their businesses if they hope to compete. For many global telecoms, shoring up market share under today's pressures while also future-proofing operations means having to invest in AI. The telecom industry is expected to inv...