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Botco.ai, an Arizona-based tech startup, rounds out seed funding with $3.6M to enable AI chat for wellness and healthcare organizations

Nickie Louise Posted On September 29, 2021

Botco.ai, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based tech startup that provides AI-based conversational marketing solutions, announced today it has raised additional seed funding from VamosVentures to help accelerate growth. The funding brings the company’s total seed round to $3.6 million. Founded in 2017 by […]

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Amazon unveiled its first voice-controlled home robot called Astro; starting at $999

Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2021

Amazon on Tuesday unveiled its long-rumored home robot called Astro, a screen on wheels that works with the company’s Alexa voice software. The new personal robot helper, which was first reported under development in 2018, will only be sold by invitation […]

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Apple’s new iOS 15 update now comes with a new privacy feature that lets users create “burner email addresses” — here’s how to do it

Nickie Louise Posted On September 28, 2021

Every day, billions of marketing and phishing emails are sent to people’s inboxes and there seems to be no end in sight. Now, Apple may have finally found a solution to stop these spam emails on their tracks with new privacy features […]

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SEC charges two people for wash trading scheme involving options of “meme stocks”

Nickie Louise Posted On September 27, 2021

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today it has charged a Florida resident and his friend for engaging in a fraudulent scheme designed to collect liquidity rebates from exchanges by wash trading put options of certain “meme stocks” […]

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Facebook suspends the plan to build “Instagram for kids” after a WSJ report showed that Facebook knew Instagram is harmful to teenagers

Nickie Louise Posted On September 27, 2021

Facebook announced Monday that it’s holding off its work on Instagram for kids after the company faced a slew of backlash from users and lawmakers. In a statement, the social giant said, “While we believe building ‘Instagram Kids’ is the right […]

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Newly unearthed patent reveals how Google plans to monitor household activities, including how long you brush your teeth

Nickie Louise Posted On September 26, 2021

Would you like Google to know how long you brush your teeth? A newly unearthed Google patent provides us with a closer look at how Google plans to monitor our household activities. Filed five years ago, the new Google patent application gives […]

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Cue Health, a little-known tech startup used by Google for at-home Covid-19 testing, is now a $3 billion company traded on Nasdaq

Nickie Louise Posted On September 25, 2021

Cue Health is a little-known San Diego-based tech startup that most people may not be familiar with even though the company has been in business for eleven years. For over a decade, Cue has been developing and manufacturing professional and consumer […]

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Ocrolus bags $80M in funding to automate document processing for banks and fintechs; now valued at over $500 million

Nickie Louise Posted On September 24, 2021

Even as technology continues to disrupt many industries, the financial and mortgage sectors still have a long way to go. For example, the current mortgage process is cumbersome and time-consuming, rife with filling out complicated documents which take days and […]

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Elon Musk and his girlfriend Grimes break up after 3 years together

Nickie Louise Posted On September 24, 2021

Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his girlfriend Grimes have gone their separate ways after three years of relationship. The artist and the SpaceX founder were together for 3 years before they ended their relationship. In a statement, Musk told Page Six saying, […]

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Mariner Wealth Advisors acquires wealth advisory firm FCG Advisors, closing out the summer with addition of $2.7 billion in assets

Nickie Louise Posted On September 23, 2021

Mariner Wealth Advisors, a Kansas City-based national wealth advisory firm just makes its sixth acquisition to close out the summer of deals. Today, the firm announced that it has acquired New Jersey-based wealth advisory firm, FCG Advisors. The deal closed on September […]

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Facetune and Videoleap developer Lightricks secures $130 million in new funding

Nickie Louise Posted On September 23, 2021

After achieving unicorn status in its previous funding round, Israeli visual creativity app developer Lightricks recently announced it has raised an additional $130 million. The new Series D funding round will allow Lightricks to expand its operations, primarily through the […]

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Nreal raises $100 million for lightweight mixed augmented reality glasses; now valued at $700 million

Nickie Louise Posted On September 23, 2021

Nreal, a Chinese augmented reality (AR) glasses maker and developer of ready-to-wear mixed reality glasses, has raised $100 million to fund international expansion and develop new products. The fresh funding round reportedly values the 4-year old startup at $700 million. Nreal’s […]

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Greylock Partners raises $500 million to invest in seed-stage startups

Nickie Louise Posted On September 22, 2021

Greylock Partners has raised $500 million to invest exclusively in seed-stage startups. The announcement comes a year after the firm raised $1 billion for its 16th flagship fund to invest in early- and growth-stage tech startups. Guo and general partner Saam Motamedi […]

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Verizon launches a new startup accelerator to help close the disability divide

Nickie Louise Posted On September 22, 2021

Verizon, the U.S.’ largest cellphone provider, is known for providing superior wireless coverage that covers 70 percent of the United States. But not many people know about the company’s investment in technology startups. For example, Verizon bought AOL for $4.4 billion in 2015 […]

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Italian Payments Giant Nexi Says it’s Working With the European Central Bank on Digital Euro Currency

Nickie Louise Posted On September 22, 2021

In May, the U.S. Federal Reserve bank announced the plan to launch five U.S. central bank digital currency pilots over the next 12 months as part of its Digital Dollar Project effort (DDP). The news came almost a year after the […]

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Bill Gates leads a $50 million investment in green tech farming robot startup Iron Ox to grow produce more sustainably

Nickie Louise Posted On September 22, 2021

Bill Gates is one of the largest private farmland owners in the United States. Gates has acquired over 269,000 acres of farm in the United States in the past 10 years, according to NBC News. Now, Microsoft co-founder has set […]

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Restaurant startup Toast sells its IPO shares at $40, topping the previous price range and valuing the company at $20 billion

Nickie Louise Posted On September 21, 2021

Last week, Restaurant tech startup Toast announced it was going public this week at a $16 billion valuation. Today, the Boston-based startup has priced its IPO at $40 a share, after previously raising its price range to as high as $36 per […]

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Paris-based LegalTech startup Jus Mundi raises $10 million to give lawyers access to AI-powered search engine for international law and arbitration

Nickie Louise Posted On September 21, 2021

Finding legal information and professionals in the United States is very hard and challenging, let alone finding legal resources and information worldwide. For most lawyers, looking for legal materials about international laws and arbitration requires going to a worldwide portal of […]

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AgricTech startup Advanced Farm becomes the world’s first company to bring robotically picked strawberries to grocery stores; bags $25M in funding

Nickie Louise Posted On September 21, 2021

Farming is hard work and the conditions can be grueling and repetitive. There’s a shortage of labor in the agricultural sector as only a few people want to work on farms. Most young people today will rather buy and sell […]

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Twitter to pay $809.5 million to settle lawsuit alleging Jack Dorsey and others misled investors

Nickie Louise Posted On September 20, 2021

Twitter said on Monday that it has agreed to pay $809.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit that it misled investors about its daily and monthly user engagement numbers. In a regulatory filing, Twitter and the individual defendants continue to […]

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