From the advent of the sewing machine to the rise of e-commerce, fashion has always been on the cutting edge of innovation. Like technology, trends in the fashion industry are both forward-thinking and cyclical. This intersection between the two sectors […]
Microsoft has acquired Lumenisity, a Southampton, England-based tech startup developing next-generation hollow core fiber (HCF) technology solutions primarily for data. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. In a blog post on its website, Microsoft said the acquisition will help the […]
Turkish grocery delivery tech startup Getir has acquired the embattled German rival Gorillas, the company said Friday. The company did not disclose the terms of the deal. But the Financial Times pegged the value of the cash-and-stock deal for Gorillas […]
You were sick but you didn’t exactly know what it was. It was in the middle of the night and you couldn’t reach your doctor. What about if you could check your symptoms and find possible causes for free in just three […]
There’s a big jump in the number of Americans with a negative view of cryptocurrency after a series of bankruptcies, crypto collapses, and scandals rocked the crypto industries. Americans’ views on cryptocurrencies have suddenly soured following the collapse of the […]
Celebrity video messaging service Cameo today announced it has partnered with Candle Media to launch Cameo Kids, a new service that enables parents and loved ones to book personalized Cameo videos for kids from their favorite family entertainment stars. The new Cameo service […]
Amid massive tech layoffs and struggles to raise new funding, some startups are still raising millions of dollars from deep-pocket investors and venture capital firms, although no one knows when the funding well may dry up. Today, Walmart-backed Indian digital payment […]
It’s been over two years since we last covered dLocal, a Montevideo, Uruguay-based fintech startup that offers a cross-border payment platform that connects global merchants in emerging markets. At the time, the Latin America-based dLocal just raised $200 million for cross-border payments […]
It’s refreshing to see tech startups making positive impacts in the world. Last year, we wrote about Songclip, a San Francisco, California-based tech startup that is working in partnership with the music industry to properly protect and monetize music IP and help […]
Swedish electric and autonomous freight tech startup Einride has raised $500 million in additional funding for its electric self-driving truck that has no room for a human driver. We covered Einride a year ago after the startup made its debut in […]
“Not your keys, not your coins,” was the statement made by Elon Musk following the implosion of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX. Musk urged crypto investors to take their crypto out of the exchanges and keep them in cold wallets. Since the […]
According to the latest data from the World Bank, only 48.4% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to electricity. The situation is even far worse in West Africa where only about 42% of the total population, and 8% of […]
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced on Monday that he plans to step down from the chat software developer company a little over a year after Salesforce acquired it for $28 billion. Butterfield will be replaced by Lidiane Jone, who worked […]
The global cryptocurrency market reached an all-time high of $2.9 trillion in late 2021. But this year, it has shed around $2 trillion as a string of high-profile corporate failures and a perfect storm of geo-political tension, increased interest rates, […]
Technical debt, is the debt you accumulate over time via in-efficient IT Systems which tend to be invested in for the greater good, perhaps a short-term convenience but actually are more harmful to your business later down the line when […]
In February, fintech startup Circle doubled its valuation to $9 billion following a deal with blank-check company Concord Acquisition Corp, doubling its value since July 2021 when the initial agreement valued the company at $4.5 billion. Fast forward ten months after […]
With growing urbanization across Africa, multi-property developments have emerged as the preferred mode of delivering residential and commercial real estate. Of the 2.5 million households in Nigeria that earn more than $1,000 per month, 80 percent live in multi-property communities. […]
Temporary workers play a vital role in the growth of the US economy. Although temporary workers account for just 2 percent of total nonfarm employment in the United States, companies, small and large, have increasingly relied on temp workers to support […]
Nikola Tesla first theorized the idea of wireless power in the late 19th century. It was the idea that electricity could be transmitted wirelessly through the air over long distances. Today, wireless power transmission is all around us. Most of today’s smartphones […]
It’s day 22 and the story of the FTX scandal is gaining more steam. On November 11, the embattled crypto exchange FTX filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. Immediately after the news, FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried (also known as SBF) resigned as […]