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 […]
Who said saving lives is not a lucrative business? Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer has been making the headline news since the coronavirus pandemic early last year. The New York-based Pfizer was founded in 1849 by Christina Warren. Today, the 172-year old company is […]
Darktrace, a Cambridge, England-based cybersecurity startup advised by former MI5 and CIA spymasters, jumped by more than 40% in its London IPO debut on Friday as investors looked past last month Deliveroo’s lackluster listing. Darktrace was originally priced at 250 pence in […]
Happy Friday! Back in 2018, we wrote a piece titled, “33 Best Inspirational Quotes For Startups And Entrepreneurs.” Surprisingly, it was one of the most read articles we’ve ever published. However, we do recognize that some of our readers are […]
“Innovate or die” is a popular phrase first coined by the renowned Peter Drucker, who was hailed as the father of modern management. But as Harvard Business Review rightly pointed out, the origin of the phrase is a matter of […]
We featured Moloco more than two years ago after the mobile performance advertising startup founded by former Google engineers raised $11 million in Series B funding to advance the development of its proprietary Ad Cloud platform. Since then, the Palo Alto, California-based […]
The rollout of the vaccines began in December 2020. 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 […]
As part of its efforts to bridge the digital divide, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced today that it will launch a temporary $3.2 billion program to provide lower-income Americans with discounts on monthly internet service and on purchasing laptops […]
We wrote about Actuate back in 2019 after the artificial intelligence startup rebranded from Aegis AI to its current name. Today, gun violence is spiking at schools, grocery stores, workplaces, and industrial facilities, and security systems meant to support security […]