In January 2020, we wrote about Plaid after payment giant Visa agreed to buy Plaid for $5.3 billion. As we later learned, the Department of Justice (DOJ) later sued to block the deal alleging that it would create a monopoly and […]
GiGstreem, a New York-based startup and premier in-building gigabit internet service provider, announced that it has secured a $50-million investment from Crestline Investors to deploy its Ubiquitous WiFi platform to multifamily properties and also help meet remote work-fueled demand for […]
The U.S. government seems to be softening its stance on the vaccine passports for American citizens. During a White House briefing Tuesday, press secretary Jen Psaki said that there is “No Federal Mandate” requiring American citizens to get vaccine passports. Psaki […]
Just last week, we wrote about the war brewing in the Luhansk & Donetsk region of Ukraine. It all started on March 24 when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a declaration of war against Russia in a document you won’t find […]
“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a literary folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in 1837 about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects. For those of you who have read the book, the emperor was finally […]
Just a little over two weeks after raising a whopping $600 million at a $95 billion valuation, Stripe makes its first expansion into the Middle East and North Africa with Dubai launch. The latest launch in UAE is part of the […]
ThreatQuotient, a Reston, Virginia-based cybersecurity startup and a threat intelligence platform that centrally manages and correlates unlimited external sources, today announced $22.5 million in new financing to accelerate the execution of new innovations currently in development. The investment syndicate includes New Enterprise […]
Forbes Magazine just published its annual list of the world’s billionaires. This year’s list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year at $177 billion. Tesla CEO Elon Musk often called people’s […]
SoftBank announced today that it’s investing $2.8 billion to get a 40% stake in Norwegian warehouse automation startup AutoStore, according to news first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday and later confirmed by AutoStore in an update on its website. […]
There are two things that are certain in life: death and taxes. It was Benjamin Franklin’s last great quote in 1789 when he said, “Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing […]
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are all the rage. Celebrities and artists cashed in millions of dollars as NFT artworks became mainstream about three weeks ago when Christie’s Auction sold digital artist Beeple’s NFT for a record-setting $69.3 million, making it the most expensive […]
Bitcoin continues to defy gravity and there is no sign of slowing down. Thanks to the support from institutional and retail investors, bitcoin has been sitting at a little under $60,000. As bitcoin popularity rises so is the entire cryptocurrency market. […]
Digital health and fintech startup Inbox Health has raised $15 Million in Series A funding to fuel expansion to bring personalized communication and billing experiences to more patients. The round was led by Commerce Ventures, with participation from new and existing investors, […]
Last week, we wrote about the controversial vaccine passport after the Biden administration announced it’s working with private tech companies to develop a COVID-19 vaccine passport system for Americans to prove they’ve been vaccinated. Now, a new poll released over the […]
The shares of Tesla jump 6% after the unexpected first-quarter sales surge. Tesla beats analysts’ expectations after the world’s largest electric car maker on Friday reported that it delivered 184,800 vehicles and produced 180,338 cars in the first quarter of 2021 […]
The last time we wrote about DraftKings was back in the winter of 2019 when the fantasy sports startup filed to go public in a $3.3 billion merger deal. Much has changed since our last coverage. The startup finally went public […]
infiniDome, a Caesarea, Israel-based wireless security startup has raised $2.4 million in pre-series A funding round to scale its customer engagements in the Commercial Aircraft, UAS/UAV, and UAM market segments. The round was led by Next Gear Ventures, with participation from Honeywell […]
Since the beginning of this year, bitcoin has been enjoying a steady price increase as the world’s most popular cryptocurrency continues to gain institutional support from Wall Street banks and payment companies like PayPal. In 2021 alone, bitcoin has increased by […]
Personal information of over 533 million Facebook users was leaked on a low-level hacking forum in one of the largest cyber data breaches ever reported. The data breach was first discovered on Saturday by Alon Gal, CTO of Hudson Rock, […]
Microsoft’s billionaire founder Bill Gates is financially backing the development of sun-dimming technology that aims to spray calcium carbonate (CaCO3) dust into the atmosphere to block the sun, triggering a global cooling effect. Dubbed Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx), the […]