VAST Data, a New York-based storage infrastructure startup announced Tuesday that it has raised $83 million in Series D funding led by investment giant Tiger Global Management. The round, which triples the company’s valuation in one year to $3.7 billion, making it a […]
Cremation is the hottest trend in the funeral industry. Due to the high cost of a traditional burial, many Americans are now opting for cremation. According to estimates from the National Funeral Directors Association’s (NFDA), the median cost of a […]
As the SaaS market expanded to more than $150 billion in 2020, the risks and costs associated with security breaches have similarly expanded. In 2020, in the United States alone, more than 150 million people were affected by data breaches. […]
GameBake is a London, England-based tech startup and an end-to-end distribution platform for mobile games which helps publish games in new markets and beyond the big two stores. The startup is already working with platform partners such as Huawei’s AppGallery […]
The process of getting a vaccine approved for use in the general public is extensive and rigorous and can take several years. In the United States, for example, all vaccines are regulated by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). It […]
DAS42, a Denver, Colorado-based data analytics startup that helps Fortune 500 executives and managers use data to understand and improve their business, today announced it has completed a growth funding led by M/C Partners (“M/C”) joined by Frank Selldorff. The total amount of investment […]
The clubhouse app has grown in popularity in recent months. Big Tech giants like Facebook and Twitter now want a piece of the pie. Last week, Facebook announced it’s launching its own in-app podcast player to take on Clubhouse. Twitter is […]
Cumulus Neuroscience (formerly known as BrainWaveBank) is a Belfast, Ireland-based biotech startup developing faster and more effective tools to help solve the biggest healthcare challenges in neurodegeneration and psychiatry. Cumulus has created a next-generation integrated physiological and digital biomarker platform. In clinical trials, Cumulus […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates and his wife, Melinda Gates announced on Monday that they are ending their marriage after 27 years. In an announcement on Twitter, the two said they will keep working together on philanthropic efforts, which have addressed education, […]
Flaring is the wasteful practice of burning natural gas, produced from oil wells that can not be economically taken to market. An estimated 150 billion cubic meters per year are flared into the air, equivalent to 275 million metric tons […]
If you ever needed proof of the power of “Big Tech” then the censorship of the former President Trump and removal of its account from social platforms is a good place to start. A few weeks before the election, Big Tech […]
Today, the U.S. dollar and the euro combined account for 75% of all global financial transactions. Early last year, we wrote about the Federal Reserve after the central bank announced it planned to create a Digital Dollar Wallet this year. It’s unclear […]
More than 50 million Americans fish every year. In 2017, 16.5% of the U.S. population, ages 6 and up, went fishing at least once. In 2017, 49.1 million people went fishing at least once, according to data from Outdoor Industry. Catch […]
TechCrunch is changing hands again. In an announcement this morning, Verizon said it’s selling its Media group to private equity firm Apollo Global Management for $5 billion. The sale allows Verizon to offload properties from the former internet empires of […]
Last week, Ether, the world’s second-largest digital currency, jumped to a fresh record of $2,800 and almost doubled the price it reached when we wrote about it on January 19 of this year. This morning, it broke past $3,000 to […]
SafetyCulture, a Queensland, Australia-based tech startup that empowers workers to make safety and quality a priority and improve workplace standards, today announced it has $76.5 million (A$99 million) a $1.7 billion (A$2.2 billion) valuation, making the 7-year old startup a member of the highly […]
Intel Corp announced on Sunday it will invest another $600 million in Israel to expand its research and development (R&D) and confirmed it was spending $10 billion on a new chip plant, according to a report from Reuters. The microchip […]
Sentinel, a network layer that allows the development of third-party and white-label decentralized Virtual Private Network (dVPN) applications, today announced its integration with StrongBlock, the leading Nodes-as-a-Service (NaaS) provider. StrongBlock launches and operates full blockchain nodes for non-technical users to […]
Vaccitech is an Oxford, U.K.-based biotech startup developing vaccines and immunotherapies for infectious diseases and cancer, such as hepatitis B, HPV, and prostate cancer. Vaccitech owns the technology used to develop the AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine. A spinout of Oxford University, Vaccitech […]
As of Sunday, about 140 million people — 42.2% of the population — have received at least one dose of a Covid-19 vaccine. Another 95 million people — about 28.5% of the population — have been fully vaccinated, according to the […]