Getir, an Istanbul, Turkey-based tech startup that provides on-demand delivery services, has raised $550 million in a Series D investment round, pushing the company’s valuation to a whopping $7.5 billion. Getir was last privately valued at $2.6 billion in a May funding round. The […]
Back in February, we wrote about Bill Gates after the Microsoft co-founder and Amazon Jeff Bezos invested in nuclear fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). CFS is an MIT spinoff research company that focuses on bringing fusion energy technology to the market. Unlike […]
Outreach, a Seattle, Washington-based sales engagement platform, has just landed $200 million in Series G funding. The round was co-led by new investors, Premji Invest and STEADFAST Capital Ventures. To date, Outreach has raised a total of $489 million in funding. The […]
In the middle of last month, we reported that Twitter was planning to “Twitter Blue,” a subscription service priced at $2.99 per month to let you “undo tweets” and much more. Today, the social giant announced Thursday the launch of Twitter Blue, […]
Apple announced Wednesday that its App Store facilitated an estimated $643 billion in billings and sales in 2019, according to a new study commissioned by the tech giant. The sales figure marks a 24% jump from last year, as many consumers […]
U.S.-based cybersecurity firm FireEye announced Wednesday that it’s selling its products business, including the FireEye name, to a consortium led by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close by the end […]
Cryptology Asset Group, a Malta-based crypto asset and venture investment firm, announced today that it’s investing $100 million over the next two years into crypto-related venture funds. In a statement, Cryptology said it plans to focus on first-time funds and emerging managers, […]
Yesterday, the Internet was ablaze after thousands of emails of Dr. Anthony Fauci were published online. The emails, which spanned from January to June 2020, were first obtained by The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). […]
Oil and gas giant Total has rebranded as TotalEnergies to mark its shift from crude oil to renewable energy sources. The company shareholders also voted overwhelmingly in favor of its rebrand as TotalEnergies to mark its shift to renewable energy. Along with […]
In January 2017, just 10 days before Trump’s inauguration, Dr. Anthony Fauci warned that there will be a challenge to the coming Trump administration in the arena of infectious diseases. He said the administration will face a “Suprise Outbreak.” In a […]
With non-fungible token (NFT) mania sweeping across the Internet, new startups are answering the challenge to meet the growing demands for specialty NFT marketplaces. Even GameStop, the video game chain with brick-and-mortar game stores, wants a piece of the action. As we reported last […]
As employers scramble to fill open jobs, many companies are turning to EdTech startups to train new people and bring them to the workforce. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the training boom is Guild Education, a Denver, Colorado-based EdTech startup […]
Oak9 is a Chicago-based tech startup that provides a cybersecurity SaaS platform for developers. Backed by a seed round of $5.9 million in funding, Oak9 today announced the launch of its Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security platform to help businesses accelerate […]
In artificial intelligence, the use of synthetic data is critical for businesses due to privacy, product testing, and training machine learning algorithms. As such, synthetic data does not contain any personal information. Instead, it contains sample data that has a similar […]
Just like peeling the onion one layer at a time, the truth about the origin of coronavirus is slowly unraveling. As experts comb through hundreds of pages of Fauci’s emails obtained by The Washington Post and BuzzFeed News through the Freedom […]
For over a year, we’ve been questioning the effectiveness of masks in stopping the spread of coronavirus. As we reported here and here, people have been criticized, demonized, and de-platformed for asking this simple question. Now, it turned out that […]
If you’ve been paying attention to what’s trending on Twitter this morning, the first thing you will notice is that Dogecoin is trending again. Unlike the previous #DogeCointotheMoon hashtag, this time, it’s #DogeCoinTo1Dollar hashtag that has received about 30,000 tweets, as […]
Mobile gaming continues to explode worldwide and represents one of the fastest-growing forms of digital entertainment, accounting for 52% of the global games market, which reached $177.8 billion in value in 2020 and is expected to surpass $200 billion in […]
E-commerce giant Etsy announced Wednesday that it is buying Gen-Z-focused fashion reseller Depop for $1.63 billion as part of its effort to attract younger shoppers. Depop is a U.K.-based second-hand fashion marketplace app that caters to a younger audience. Founded in 2011 […]
Over the last 14 months, people have been discredited and de-platformed for questioning the origin of the COVID-19 and also for reporting about the theories that the deadly coronavirus might have originated and escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology […]