Melio, a New York-based fintech startup that gives small businesses a way to digitally manage their business-to-business payments and receivables, today announced it has raised $250 million in late-stage funding round, tripling its valuation to $4 billion since the start […]
Intuit has acquired email marketing company Mailchimp for $12 billion in cash and stock, the two companies said in an announcement Monday. The acquisition makes it the biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped tech startup company, as Mailchimp never took outside […]
As Pfizer plans to start administering a third booster shot for covid-19 for millions of Americans, a group of leading U.S. and international scientists said Covid booster shots are ‘not appropriate’ at this time. In the study, which was published Monday in the peer-reviewed […]
Early this morning, fake news about a partnership between the world’s largest grocer Walmart and Litecoin was circulating on social media. A number of media organizations including Reuters and CNBC sent headlines on the announcement. Now, Walmart just denied the news […]
The InsureTech market is red hot with no sign of slowing down. In the past three years alone, venture investors have poured over $20 billion into the space, making it one of the highest growing sectors. One of the leading […]
As you probably remember in April, the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee put the original source code he wrote 32 years ago for sale as an NFT. Then on June 30, his NFT of the world wide web […]
In July, we asked in one of our articles why female founders were ignored by venture capital firms. Similar to how startups founded by people of color are often ignored, female-founded are also ignored by VCs. A 2018 report released by PitchBook […]
We all love underdog stories, like in the biblical story of David versus Goliath. But this time, it is a story we’ve been following over the past year–the battle between Fortnite creator Epic Games and tech giant Apple. As you […]
Chinese autonomous driving car startup WeRide today unveiled Robovan, its first self-driving cargo van for logistics and autonomous deliveries. The launch, which was part of a strategic partnership between WeRide, automaker Jiangling Motors (JMC), and delivery firm ZTO Express, aims to […]
Corti.ai, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based healthtech SaaS startup that uses machine learning to help emergency departments to detect critical illnesses like cardiac arrest in real-time, announced today that it has raised $27 million (about €22.82M) in Series A funding to revolutionize the healthcare industry. The […]
Over the past 18 months, the government and public health officials have said repeatedly that vaccines are our only hope to end this deadly pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has repeatedly said that the vaccines would […]
The NASA Perseverance Rover has succeeded in obtaining the Martian rock sample, which is only slightly thicker than a pencil. Photographs sent by the #Perseverance rover have since confirmed the presence of the rock inside its tube. The tube has been […]
Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, and a number of other cryptocurrency exchanges appear to have crashed or restricted trading after the price of bitcoin suddenly collapsed on Tuesday wiping $400 billion off people’s investments. The price fell from above $52,500 to below […]
AddictingGames.com, a gaming platform founded by entrepreneur Bill Karamouzis (Bill Kara) has been acquired for $35 million dollars by Toronto-based Enthusiast Gaming Holdings. As part of the acquisition agreement, Addicting Games and its 28 employees will be joining the 200 or […]
As you may recall, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO back in July to spend more time on philanthropy and passion projects like his space company Blue Origin. Former AWS executive Andy Jassy later takes over as the CEO […]
In 2011, hackers stole 25,000 bitcoin (US$400,000 at the time) from the Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. A year later in 2012, former Airbnb engineer Brian Armstrong saw an opportunity and decided to build a crypto exchange platform that offers better security and protection […]
In March 2020, NBC Brian Williams was criticized for a simple math error while discussing Bloomberg on MSNBC. “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have […]
News stories of the fully vaccinated people dying of coronavirus are beginning to emerge. This evening, a local CBS News announced that a 35-year-old woman in Portland died early Friday morning of COVID-19 while on the waiting list for a last-resort […]
In early August, a double-blind study from Israel found that Covid-19 could be treated for under $1 a day using the Nobel Prize-winning drug Ivermectin. Unfortunately, the news about the study received little to no attention from the mainstream media in […]
As you may recall in early August, Apple announced the plans to scan and monitor all US iPhones for evidence of child abuse images. However, security researchers raised concerns over the potential surveillance of personal devices saying the system could be misused […]