Millions of Chinese minors are addicted to playing hours of online games every week. Now the Chinese government is doing something about it. On Monday, China’s National Press and Publication Administration announced that kids and teens under 18 years old in […]
Fontinalis Partners is a Detroit-based venture capital firm focused on next-generation mobility founded by Ford Motors chairman Bill Ford. But Fontinalis is not currently affiliated with Ford Motor Company. Founded over a decade ago, Fontinalis supports entrepreneurs who are boldly reshaping mobility. […]
Back in December 2018, we wrote about Avanan when the enterprise cyber security startup raised $25 million in Series B funding to transform how businesses secure SaaS email and collaboration. Almost 3 years later, Avanan became a target for acquisition. Today, cybersecurity […]
Peter J. Burns III has started or helps start almost 200 small businesses over the last four decades. But none of them may have the lasting impact of Millennial Queenmaker (MQ). With its launch earlier this summer, the startup, which […]
Earlier today, 12 US service members including 11 marines and a Navy medic were killed in the Kabul, Afghanistan airport attack, according to a report from the BBC. So far, more than 60 people have died including civilians and 12 US […]
A pitch deck is how you make connections with the people who can take your startup where you want it to go. It’s only the first step but there won’t be any more unless you impress investors enough. Doing it […]
BBC presenter Lisa Shaw died due to complications from the AstraZeneca Covid vaccine, a coroner has found. The healthy mother of one developed headaches a week after her first dose of the vaccine and suffered blood clots in the brain which […]
SPAC has grown in popularity in the last two years. There are at least 400 SPAC IPOs of the 500 IPOs, a 75 percent increase, according to data from the SPAC analytics firm, SPACAnalytics.com. Softbank-backed car-sharing startup Getaround becomes one of […]
The Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus on Monday pleads against booster shots. Dr. Tedros also questioned the efficacy of the booster shots while highlighting the risk of ‘more potent’ variants.” In a news conference in Hungary, Dr. Tedros doubles down […]
Customers are the lifeblood of every business. No company can survive without customers. In recent years, customer acquisition has become one of the biggest challenges faced by every new business. With increased competition and even with billions of users now […]
In March, we wrote about Roblox when the San Francisco-based gaming startup went public with an eye-popping $38 billion market cap to usher in a new era of Metaverse. Unlike other gaming companies, Roblox is building on the “metaverse” concept or […]
Chinese tech giant Baidu announced Tuesday that its artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistant Xiaodu Technology has closed Series B financing at a $5.1 billion valuation. The exact amount of the funding was disclosed. Xiaodu Series A was completed in November 2020 […]
Global payments giant Visa revealed Monday it bought CryptoPunk,” one of the thousands of non-fungible token (NFT)-based digital avatars for $165,000. According to the company’s official news-based Twitter account, Visa told its 114,000 followers it paid 49.5 ethereum ($165K) for the […]
Is there nothing coffee can’t do? A new study from the United Kingdom found that drinking 1 cup of coffee reduces the chance of Covid 19 by 10%. However, drinking 10 cups had no further effect. While vaccines, therapeutics, wearing masks, […]
David Lidstone, 81, known as “River Dave,” was arrested and jailed on July 15 for allegedly squatting on a property for nearly 30 years in Canterbury, New Hampshire. His shack was mysteriously burned down to the ground on August 4. The news of his […]
Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that runs on the same AI used by Tesla’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. The unexpected revelation came at the end of Tesla’s AI Day, during which engineers gave highly technical presentations […]
Back in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky faced backlash after she said that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick. The CDC later walks back the claim that vaccinated people do […]
How effective is the vaccine in preventing the spread of covid-19? The answer depends on the type of variants. Late last month, a Pfizer-funded study found that Pfizer vaccine effectiveness drops to 84% after 4 to 6 months. The study also […]
We all have people who helped make us who we are. Call them mentors, godparents, great bosses, or just wise friends; no one makes their way to success completely on their own. In business, this concept is similar. Incubators aren’t […]
Remember Second Life back in the dot com boom? There is a new virtual world with an immersive experience called Metaverse. It’s seen as the successor of the Internet from Second Life to Horizon. Metaverse is the rage these days, and every […]