The Chinese theft of American intellectual property (IP) currently costs between $225 billion and $600 billion annually, according to a report from the United States Trade Representative. In 2010, Japan accused the Chinese government of stealing its intellectual property for […]
For over three years now, we’ve been tracking tech startups that went out of business and shut down their operations. For some reason, Takl slipped under our radar. Takl was a Nashville, Tennessee-based startup that provided an app that connected self-employed […]
A new study led by researchers at Oxford University and Queensland University Medical found that a commonly used asthma treatment appears to reduce the need for hospitalizations as well as recovery time for COVID-19 patients if given within seven days of […]
The coronavirus pandemic has forever changed our ways of life. During the past 12 months, we saw how companies and governments adapted and used technologies to keep their operations going. Many businesses embraced remote work using video conferencing software like Zoom […]
As a tech startup, you have a lot on your plate. From fixing the printer to ordering stock and winning clients – a data breach is the last thing you need. Take a moment to ask yourself, how easy would […]
Voyager, a crypto-asset broker that provides retail and institutional investors with a trusted and secure access point to crypto asset trading, announced today it completed its previously announced private placement in the amount of $100 million. A private placement is a […]
Electronic Arts (EA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, is on a buying spree in recent months. In December 2020, we covered the gaming giant after it acquired U.K. racing game developer Codemasters for $1.2 billion. Codemasters is a developer and publisher of […]
Early this week, Tesla announced it bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin and planned to start accepting bitcoin for its products. The price of bitcoin surged immediately after the news. Then yesterday, America’s oldest bank BNY Mellon said it is adopting cryptocurrencies and […]
Energiewende is a German word for ‘”energy transition.” Energiewende is a policy launched by the German government in 2000 to decarbonize its primary energy supply. Depending on whom you ask, the program has been praised by many environmentalists and others called […]
Expedia Group Inc, the company that operates the online travel platform Expedia.com, today reported its fourth straight quarterly loss, as coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the travel industry. In the financial results released Thursday for Fourth Quarter 2020, the company […]
We wrote about Bumble back in September 2020 after the popular dating app announced its $6 billion IPO. Widely popular among professionals and millennials, Bumble is an app that brings dating, friend-finding, and career-building into a single social networking platform. The […]
UpEquity, an Austin, Texas-based startup and a provider of tech-enabled mortgage platform creating a better way to buy a home, today announced it closed $25 million in Series A funding. The round, which consists of $7.5 million of equity financing and […]
Back in October 2020, we wrote about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates after he warned that climate change is “even scarier” than the COVID-19 pandemic. The once world’s richest person warned at the time that the ‘shutdown’ was ‘nowhere near sufficient’ […]
German automaker Volkswagen announced Thursday that it will use Microsoft’s cloud computing services to help it streamline its software development efforts for self-driving cars, according to a report from Reuters. The financial or contractual details of the deal were not disclosed. […]
Bureaucracy is one of those words that gets thrown around so frequently but no one seems to know the true meaning of it. As someone with knowledge of how the U.S. federal government works, the true meaning of the word can […]
We featured Smarthop back in July 2020 when the Miami, Florida-based tech startup raised $4.5 million in seed funding to empower small trucking companies with AI-powered freight dispatch solutions. You may be wondering want Smarthop does. In the United States, 91% […]
Social giant Twitter announced on Wednesday its financial results for the fiscal year 2020, saying it recorded a net loss of $1.136 billion against net income a year earlier. According to the company, “2020 net loss was $1.14 billion, representing […]
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Xometry, our home state’s tech startup that’s now grown to become the world’s largest on-demand manufacturing marketplace. The last time we wrote about Xometry was back in October 2020 when it announced the […]
Fresh off a successful IPO, DoorDash announced it has acquired Chowbotics, the creator of the Fresh Food Robot. The financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the Chowbotics team have all become DoorDash employees, and the company will operate independently […]
Failing gaming giant, GameStop (NYSE: GME) was trading under $50 per share heading into an explosive session of unprecedented gains in late January 2021. The stock reached a 52-week high of $483 per share, from a 52-week low of $2.57 […]
