The hunter has become the hunted. On Saturday, cybers hackers successfully hacked into the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI’s) email system on Saturday, using it to send over 100,000 fake emails warning of a possible cyberattack, according to a report […]
Spotify is one of the world’s most popular music streaming services, with over 356 million monthly active users, including 158 million premium subscribers. The music streaming behemoth has seen explosive growth in revenue and customer base in recent years. With billions of […]
Yesterday, we wrote about Rivian after the Amazon-backed EV startup made its public market debut on the Nasdaq stock exchange, opening at $106.75 per share after being priced at $78. By the time the market closed, the shares of the Plymouth, Michigan-based […]
Imagine you want to go on a long ride on your electric scooter but are unsure of how long the battery charge will last. This is one of many challenges facing users of e-scooters around the world–getting enough juice to […]
With growing demands for electric vehicles across the globe, more charging points are needed to power millions of new electric vehicles that are going to hit the roads in years to come. That’s why charging platform ElectricPe is leading the […]
GoTo Group, a unicorn tech startup created in May as a result of a merger between Indonesia’s internet startups Gojek and Tokopedia, announced Thursday it has secured $1.3 billion from investors in the first close of an ongoing funding round ahead […]
In early September, a federal judge ruled that Apple must allow third-party payments in its App Store and not force developers to in-app purchasing. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said in a verdict of a closely-watched trial between Apple and Epic Games. But Apple […]
Late last month, we wrote about Twitter founder Jack Dorsey after he warned about how “hyperinflation is going to change everything.” But economists and the so-called financial experts were so quick to dismiss what he said. Some even went as […]
Late last month, Amazon quietly increased its stake in electric vehicle tech startup Rivian to 20%, bringing its total equity to $3.8 billion. The revelation came from quarterly filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The retail giant stated […]
The Buy now, pay later (BNPL) phenomenon has grown in popularity in recent years as customers seek alternative methods of financing. BNPL is a new payment option that allows consumers to receive their purchase right away (Buy Now), either online […]
Today, the online video streaming landscape is dominated by larger subscription services like Netflix, YouTube, Disney+, Peacock, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, Apple TV+, and HBO Max.Together, these subscription services account for a 75% share of the total streaming market while the remaining […]
Over the weekend, Elon Musk launched his first-ever Twitter poll to ask Twitter users if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock to pay billion in taxes. 24 hours later, 58% of Twitter poll respondents say Musk should sell […]
Apple CEO Tim Cook said on Tuesday that he personally invested cryptocurrency. Cook made the revelation after he was asked at the DealBook Online Summit conference if he owns bitcoin or ethereum. “I do. I think it’s reasonable to own it […]
According to the latest estimates, Google controls a little more than 92% of the search engine market share worldwide, which includes 72% of the desktop market and 92% of the mobile search engine market. Google’s nearest competitor, Bing, only controls 2.5% of […]
Data governance tech startup Collibra announced Tuesday it has raised $250 million in a late-stage investment round of funding that values the 13-year old startup at $5.25 billion. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Belgium-based holding company Sofina, with […]
AI-powered drone startup Citadel Defense announced today it has been acquired by BlueHalo, a mid-market defense innovation company backed by Arlington Capital Partners‘ $1.7B investment fund. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. Citadel CEO Chris Williams told Tech Startups […]
In its Global Risks Report 2021, the World Economic Forum listed five top cybersecurity challenges. These are the increased complexity of cyber threats, fragmented and complex regulations, dependence on other parties, lack of cybersecurity expertise, and the difficulty in tracking cybercriminals. […]
With the electric car market is getting more crowded, automakers around the world are beginning to set their sights on a new smaller portion of the market: the electric trucks. Unlike the electric cars, there are a few handful companies in […]
Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng is an adjunct professor at Stanford University Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering and the brain behind the Google Brain research lab. In 2011, he co-founded Google Brain, a deep learning artificial intelligence […]
Less than 10 months after emerging from stealth, San Diego-based compliance and security automation startup Drata joins the coveted unicorn club after raising $100 million in Series B funding. The round, which was led by ICONIQ Growth, makes Drata one of the fastest SaaS companies […]