Apple invests in Tim Berners Lee startups

Apple invests in the startup founded by Tim Berners Lee, the father of the web. It's called Inrupt was created in 2017 by the British computer scientist and aims to redesign the way the internet works. Last year, it raised over $ 10 million in funds from technology companies, institutions and individual investors. The news was reported by the PatentlyApple website which explains how Inrupt is expanding its operating team to launch a project that develops "a widely scalable high-quality technological platform".

Inrupt works on Solid technology developed by the Berners-Lee team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Mit), aims to change the way web applications work today by offering users greater privacy.

Among the big names in technology that have decided to invest in the project besides Apple are Google, Facebook, Microsoft and Twitter. All publicly support the Data Transfer Project launched in 2018: a sort of alliance between technology giants to promote the portability of user data as it happens for the portability of telephone numbers.