No day goes by without another headline on Software-as-a-Service (SaaS). Also known as cloud-based software or apps, SaaS is a software delivery model that allows software applications (apps) to be accessed from any device with an internet connection. Instead of […]
Is America under attack by state-sponsored actors? Just two days ago, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) after the agency issued an Emergency Directive calling on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect […]
French President Emmanuel Macron becomes the fourth world leader to test positive for coronavirus. According to the Élysée, President Macron tested positive for COVID-19 on Thursday after displaying symptoms. President Macron joins other world leaders who’ve tested positive for the […]
Last month, we wrote about China’s “historic” mission launch to the unvisited area of the moon. In what many experts said could mark the beginning of another era of “space races,” the mission of the unmanned spacecraft launch, was to bring back […]
As bitcoin surges past $23,000 for the first time, cryptocurrency startups see renewed interest from investors who want to take advantage of the current momentum for fear of missing out (FOMO). Today, cryptocurrency startup Paxos announced that it has raised about […]
Robinhood is one of the unicorn startups we’ve been following for quite some time now. For some of you who may not know what Robinhood is, it’s a stock trading app that offers commission-free U.S. equity and options trading, as well as […]
The healthcare sector continues to attract record levels of venture funding as early-stage startup companies rise to the forefront of delivering critical innovations. Wall Street giant J.P. Morgan’s goal is to bring value to venture capital (VC) firms that are supporting […]
S-Alpha Therapeutics, a Seoul, South Korea-based digital therapeutics startup, has raised $2.7 million (3 billion KRW) in seed funding for early-stage development clinical trials in the US to use its digital therapeutic application for the treatment of eye disease. This […]
We’ve been following the story of the Pfizer vaccine since early March when German biotech company BioNTech announced two strategic partnerships to advance the development of vaccines with Pfizer and also China-based Fosun Pharma. Then on November 9, Pfizer and […]
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the popular buzzwords coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 during his work at Procter&Gamble. Ashton is known as the father of IoT, Proctor & Gamble alumni, and the founding Executive Director of MIT’s Auto-ID […]
We first covered Zoox back in July 2018 when the self-driving tech startup raised a massive $500 million at a $3.2 billion valuation. Then in June, Amazon acquired Zoox in a deal valuing the autonomous-car startup at a little over $1.2 billion. The San […]
We’ve covered Bolt for at least three years now. Just last month, the Estonian ride-hailing startup announced over €100 million investment in the European e-scooter market. The 7-year old startup said it would invest over 100 million euros ($118 million) in 2021 to […]
On the first day of this month, we wrote about bitcoin after the world’s most popular cryptocurrency defied gravity and surged to a record $19,800, topping 2017 high. This is not a small feat. Today, bitcoin achieved a new milestone since the […]
Unless you work in the shipping industry, you don’t know how terrible shipment tracking is. Today, conventional shipment tracking is incredibly complicated, unreliable, and expensive. Imagine what that would do to a $20 trillion shipping industry. Tive is a Boston, MA-based […]
Canada is a country where the Big Five banks own 90 percent of the market share. Now, a new fintech startup is trying to shake things up. Neo Financial is a Calgary, Canada-based fintech startup created to bring much-needed innovation and […]
GoDaddy is back on a buying spree. Early this year, we wrote about the world’s largest domain registrar acquired a competing domain registrar and marketplace, Uniregistry, and its domain portfolio for a reported $196.9 million. Then in September, GoDaddy acquired SkyVerge, […]
We wrote about Toast back in February after the restaurant management platform startup raised $400 million in Series F funding at a $4.9 billion valuation. The Boston-based Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and […]
The fact that you’re vaccinated does not mean you still cannot transmit the virus to other people. At this point, it is still unclear if the vaccines can prevent the spread of the coronavirus. That’s one of the takeaways from an […]
Public.com is a New York-based fintech startup and a commission-free stock brokerage firm that enables companies and individuals to buy public stock with any amount of money. Public.com aims to accelerate all people’s prosperity. Unlike other brokerage firms out there, […]
Since the introduction of personal computers in the early 80s, productivity software has changed the way we work and made tasks easier for office workers. Productivity software is often used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, […]