In 2019, Facebook was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors for data-sharing deals with other major technology companies, according to the New York Times. The investigation added to the laundry list of inquiries since the Cambridge Analytica revelations in 2018. Now, […]
The future of work is changing. In September, we published a guest post about how technology is changing the way we work. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic, the old way of work is likely not going to be coming back. […]
We covered N26 back in May when the Peter Thiel-backed digital bank startup raised $100 million funding to prepare for the economic uncertainty from the coronavirus pandemic. N26 currently offers its services in 22 European countries and the United States. N26 has […]
While the United States is still the only country to have successfully conducted crewed missions to the Moon, China formally launched a “historic” mission to Moon this week to collect and bring back rocks samples from the unvisited area. In what […]
According to a 2019 survey conducted by FDIC, 5.4 percent of U.S. households (approximately 7.1 million households) were unbanked. Another data tells a different story. In a piece published in Forbes, 88 million Americans are either unbanked or underbanked. To address […]
In 2018, the global haircare market is estimated to be worth about $90 billion, according to the latest data from research firm Statista. Haircare is one of the least appealing verticals for technology startups. However, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for […]
According to a survey conducted by Invesp, acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer. The survey also finds that increasing customer retention by 5% can increase profits from 25-95%. A customer loyalty program is one […]
Almost a billion people suffer from mental health problems worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. ATAI Life Sciences is a biotechnology startup founded in 2018 in response to the clear and growing unmet needs of mental health patients worldwide. ATAI […]
Morse Micro is an Australian semiconductor company and creator of the Wi-Fi HaLow chip; an ultra-low-power, long-range and secure Wi-Fi chip specifically designed for IoT environments. Its team includes original inventors of Wi-Fi and designers of the world’s first Wi-Fi […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person. Musk’s net worth soared from $7.2 billion to $127.9 billion, driven by yet another surge in Tesla’s share price. Bill Gates’ net worth is currently $127.7 billion. […]
Over the five years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using mass surveillance to monitor and track the lives of its citizens. Back in March, we wrote a piece about how a small unknown tech startup is helping the Chinese government to […]
With governments around the world imposing a new round of lockdowns to stem the tide of the second wave of coronavirus, Dr. Mike Yeadon, the former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says “there is no science to suggest a […]
Cyber hacking has become one of the fastest rising threats to organizations of all sizes. According to a study, the damage from cybercrime is projected to cost $6 trillion annually by 2021. Earlier this month, we wrote about Facebook after […]
We first covered Relativity Space back in 2018 after the Los Angeles-based orbital launch startup raised $35 million in funding. A lot has changed since then. Relativity Space (Relativity) is disrupting 60 years of aerospace tradition by creating an entirely new process […]
Gibraltar, Gibraltar, November 23, 2020 — Gnosis, a blockchain prediction market, has announced the launch of its futarchy-based governance organization named GnosisDAO. Created to transparently guide decisions on development, investments, and governance, the prediction market-driven collective is a major milestone […]
Jaan Tallinn is an Estonian computer programmer famous for co-founding Skype, a popular telecommunication platform that offers free video chat and voice calls to internet-connected devices. Skype was co-founded in 2002 by Jaan Tallinn, Janus Friis, Niklas Zennström. Microsoft later bought Skype […]
Facebook and Twitter announced over the weekend that they will hand over @POTUS account to Joe Biden on Inauguration Day, even if Trump doesn’t concede. The @POTUS account on both social platforms is the official account of the President of the […]
Almost two weeks after Pfizer and BioNTech announced that their COVID-19 vaccine offers 90% protection on 43,500 people in 6 countries shows no safety concerns, Oxford University announced this Monday morning that its vaccine being developed with AstraZeneca could be around 90% […]
We live in a digital world where people of all ages are actively sharing life events with their friends, families, and colleagues through social networks. Some of these events lead to buying a home, saving for college, and even planning for […]
Middle mile is an important part of the logistics supply chain that enables businesses to move goods from the port to the warehouse or distribution center. Unlike the “last-mile” logistics that places products at consumer doorsteps, “middle-mile” logistics get goods from a […]