Even with recent technological advances, job interviews have not changed a lot in the past four decades. The traditional recruitment process is still plagued with unconscious bias that affects job seekers more than most people think. That’s why one startup is […]
It’s been a difficult year for Zendesk after the San Francisco-based software company failed to buy Momentive, the owners of SurveyMonkey. Zenkdesk walked away from the proposed $4.1 billion deal in February to buy Momentive. At the same time, the software giant […]
In 2021, the average age of vehicles in operation in the US was 12.1 years old, according to data from the US Department of Transportation. More Americans are keeping their automobiles longer as millions struggle to make ends meet due to the […]
In October, the US Department of Justice (DOJ) charged Ukrainian national Mark Sokolovsky with identity theft and “conspiracy to violate the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, money laundering, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft.” Just a month later, the DOJ has […]
Even as tech startups continue to disrupt the insurance industry with AI and machine learning, the Southeast Asian region still operates a traditional insurance industry plagued with legacy systems, slow-to-change insurers, and a lack of insurance technology providers. That was […]
Tech layoffs are spreading across the globe and no company looks completely immune from the ongoing global economic downturn. Tech companies, large and small, have laid off more than 100, 000 people so far this year. Last week, retail giant […]
Anyone who has heard of Warren Buffett would tell you that he’s one of the crypto skeptics who believe cryptocurrency is a Ponzi scheme with no intrinsic value. In 2018, Buffet called bitcoin “rat poison squared.” In April, the legendary billionaire investor said in an interview that […]
Vox Populi, Vox Dei! Elon Musk has reinstated former President Trump’s account after 52 percent of 15 million Twitter users voted to bring him back to the social platform. Musk launched the poll yesterday. By the time the poll was closed, […]
Justice is finally served. Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes was sentenced to more than 11 years in prison for fraud, putting an end to the three-year case and the extraordinary downfall of a one-time Silicon Valley darling. U.S. District Judge Edward Davila delivered […]
Electric vehicles (EVs) are not new in the United States, EVs made their way back to the mainstream in the early 2000s with the popularity of Tesla. Even after two decades, the EV car market is still dominated by conventional lithium-ion […]
Mohit Gupta, the co-founder of an Indian food delivery startup Zomato has resigned after about five years at the restaurant aggregator and food ordering and delivery platform, the company said on Friday. The announcement comes three months after Nitin Savara stepped down […]
On 12 November, the Bahamas Securities Commission (SCB) issued an order for FTX Digital Markets (FDM) to transfer the contents of its crypto wallets to a government-controlled wallet. A little over a week later, the Bahamas regulator announced it now has […]
Let’s face it, the US mainstream media hate Elon Musk. They’ve been going after him since he became the CEO of Tesla in 2008. Elon Musk even lashed out at the media’s ‘relentless hatestream’ of bad reporting back in February. “The holier-than-thou […]
Just a few days after firing dozens of employees who criticized him in tweets and internal messages, Elon Musk gave Twitter employees a deadline to say if they are committed to his cultural reset to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0. In an […]
Early this year, we covered Cider Security after the Israeli cybersecurity startup emerged from stealth with $32 million in funding to bring the world’s first AppSec operating system to market and revolutionize continuous security for continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD). Fast […]
Arkon Energy, a Sydney-based startup and provider of 100% renewable data center infrastructure, has raised $28 million in funding led by quantitative investment manager and digital assets market maker, Blue Sky Capital. In conjunction with the funding, the startup also […]
PTC, a Boston-based company that provides Internet of things (IoT), augmented reality (AR), and collaboration software, announced Thursday it has agreed to buy cloud provider company ServiceMax for $1.46 billion in cash. The transaction will be funded in two stages, with $808 million paid […]
Digital Virgo said Thursday that it is going public through a merger with a blank-check company Goal Acquisitions Corp in a deal that values the French mobile payments platform at $513 million. Goal Acquisitions Corp is a blank-check company founded by high-profile […]
Back in September, crypto exchange giant FTX acquired bankrupt Voyager’s assets for $1.42 billion. But with FTX now bankrupt following the drama of last week, Binance is preparing to relaunch a bid to buy the embattled Voyager Digital, CoinDesk reported, citing sources familiar […]
The collapse of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange continues to roil the industry. In less than 24 hours, four crypto companies including BlockFi, Gemini, SALT, and Genesis have announced new restrictions on withdrawals for their customers. Winklevoss brothers’ Gemini crypto exchange […]