Every year, about 305 million total startups are created globally. 1.35 million businesses out of those startups are tech-related. Each one of these businesses starts out with an innovative idea and a passion for the solution they’re providing to the market. Yet […]
Forget about coronavirus vaccines. The U.S. government is working on futuristic technology that will continuously monitor your body for signs of the coronavirus before you even realize you had one. Yesterday, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that it […]
According to surveys, an estimated 10 to 20 percent of people have anxiety and an exaggerated fear of going to the dentist. And so they decided not to go. Recognizing this problem, one startup has made it its mission to make […]
Just a day after U.S. secretary of state Antony Blinken warned China that it would be a “serious mistake” for anyone to try and change the status quo in the western Pacific via military threats, China flexed its military muscle exercises […]
SimpliSafe, a Boston-based tech startup and a popular provider of home security products that are designed for wireless security alarm systems and services, today announced it has raised $130 million in growth funding. Since founded 15 years ago, SimpliSafe has fundamentally changed […]
With the U.S. government spending of $10 trillion in the last 12 months and the interest rate at almost zero, rich investors and venture capitalists are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash. As worries about coronavirus continue to go […]
Yesterday, we wrote about a report that Microsoft was in talks to buy AI and speech technology company Nuance Communications for about $16 billion. This morning, Microsoft confirmed in an announcement that it will buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications in […]
The identity verification (IDV) market is seeing significant demand as a result of the pandemic-driven accelerated digitization across the globe. In 2020 alone, identity fraud cost Americans a total of about $56 billion, with about 49 million consumers falling victim, […]
Wildberries is the largest Russian online retailer. The startup was founded in 2004 by Tatyana Bakalchuk at age 28 in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave from teaching. Tatyana started Wildberries using her savings of $700. In 2019, Wildberries was valued […]
To protect employees from COVID-19, many enterprises rapidly shifted to make distributed work possible while maintaining business productivity. Forced to accelerate digital transformation initiatives, these changes led to gaps in visibility and security, ultimately playing into the hands of attackers. […]
Microsoft Corp is reportedly in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc at about $16 billion, according to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter. Microsoft has been on a buying spree lately. Just […]
LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned professional networking site, announced that some user data including publicly viewable member profiles have been scraped and posted for sale online. LinkedIn also added that the incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the […]
Facebook users, rejoice! Your friends and fans will soon be able to know that you have received COVID-19 vaccines. In a post early this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is working with the CDC to launch a new […]
After four years of relative peace under former President Donald Trump, the U.S military may be getting the country into a new war on two fronts–Russia and China. Yesterday, an unnamed US defense official told CNN the warships would be deployed […]
We covered ATAI Life Sciences (ATAI) back in the winter of 2020 after the Peter Thiel-backed startup raised a $125 million round to develop psychedelics treatment for people suffering from mental health disorders. Based in Munich, Germany, ATAI is developing psychedelic and […]
In the summer of last year, Elon Musk demonstrated Neuralink’s AI-powered brain implant in live pigs. During the demonstration, Musk showed the uses and applications of Neuralink with three pigs implanted with Link V0.9 chips. Musk told the audience that the implementation would one […]
KKR, a New York-based private equity firm KKR is making a $500 investment in Box.com to help the cloud content management company buy back shares from activist investor Starboard Value. Since 2019, Box has faced pressure from Starboard after the […]
In the last few days, Russia has moved more than 25,000 troops to Crimea and the border region of Ukraine, which has resulted in threats and counter-threats between the two countries. The Russian military build-up has raised fears of a possible Russian […]
Data is growing exponentially which creates both opportunities and obligations for enterprises. Jumbled up with this exponentially growing data is ‘sensitive data’ that attackers perpetually go after, can be inadvertently misused by insiders and regulators incessantly want to govern. The […]
It’s been a while since we wrote about TrueLayer, a London, England-based fintech startup that builds universal APIs or application programming interfaces to allow companies to capitalize on new Open Banking initiatives in the UK, and beyond. TrueLayer lets fintech apps like […]