About
Tech news without the insider tax
Technopolis brings the most consequential technology news of the day to professionals who work in and around tech — outside its capital.
Our reader is in Mexico City or Bogotá, Riyadh or Dubai. They are educated, technical enough to be impatient with hype, and busy enough to resent padding. They follow global tech because their work depends on it — but most tech media is written for people already inside the Silicon Valley bubble, priced in insider shorthand and US cultural references. We remove that tax.
Every Technopolis story is built the same way: roughly 500 words, the most important fact first, the numbers that matter, the context a global reader actually needs, and a closing answer to the only question that counts — why it matters. We publish in English, Spanish, and Arabic, and we hold all three editions to the same standard. The Spanish edition is written in neutral Latin American Spanish and the Arabic edition in Modern Standard Arabic; neither is a watered-down copy of the English.
Editorial standards
A short list, strictly enforced:
- Concrete over vague. Numbers, names, and dates beat adjectives. “Significant” is not a fact.
- Analysis, not cheerleading. We assess what a story signals and what it changes. We do not celebrate companies, and “game-changer” is banned from our pages.
- Global framing. US institutions, acronyms, and market quirks get a sentence of context. No cultural references that die at the border.
- Forward-looking. Every story ends with “Why it matters” — one concrete implication, never “time will tell.”
- Quality over volume. A story that does not clear the bar gets dropped, not padded. A skipped article costs us nothing; a bad one costs the reader’s trust.
- Coverage cannot be bought. We run no sponsored stories and accept no payment for coverage, in either direction.
Where our stories come from
Technopolis is a second-source publication, and we are straightforward about it. We do not claim original reporting. Each story begins with reporting by an outlet we name and link — the source line at the bottom of every article is not fine print, it is the point. What we add is the editorial layer our readers need: selection (most of what crosses the wire does not matter; we publish what does), compression, global context, and full-quality translation into Spanish and Arabic.
Three commitments follow from that model:
- Attribution, always. Every article names its source and links to the original. If you want the full original reporting, it is one click away — we consider sending readers to the source a feature, not a leak.
- Our own words. Every story is written in our own words. We do not reproduce source text beyond short quotes, which are always attributed.
- Verification before publication. Names, numbers, dates, and characterizations are checked against the source before a story ships. When a claim is the source’s alone — an exclusive, a report citing unnamed sources — we say so rather than harden it.
The same discipline applies to images: every photo carries a credit line, and we never reuse photography that another outlet licensed from a wire service or stock agency.
Corrections
We would rather be correct than fast, and we fix errors visibly. If we got something wrong — a number, a name, a date, a characterization — write to ops@technopolis.news with a link to the article and to the evidence. Verified errors are corrected in all three language editions, and material corrections are noted on the article itself. We do not quietly rewrite published stories.
Contact
Technopolis is published by Technopolis Media. For corrections, rights questions, and anything else: ops@technopolis.news.
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