Last Friday, pharmaceutical giant Gilead Sciences shared more good news about the effectiveness of its COVID-19 treatment drug remdesivir. According to new clinical trial results published on Friday, the drug maker says new analysis of its antiviral drug remdesivir suggests a 62% cut […]
The most famous equation in all of science is Einstein’s E = mc2. The equation is derived by the twentieth-century physicist Albert Einstein, in which E represents units of energy, m represents units of mass, and c2 is the speed of […]
The last time we wrote about CureVac was back in April when the Tübingen, Germany-based biopharmaceutical startup company was thrust into the spotlight for following the announcement it was developing mRNA vaccine against coronavirus. Then in June, CureVac received regulatory clearance to start […]
The days of “if you build it, they will come” are over. Back in January, we wrote about Quibi after the mobile-first video streaming service startup raised $400 million for its mobile-first video streaming service built for millennials. At the […]
Another day, another remdesivir and hydroxychloroquine study. Even after a study published in the New England Journal of Medicine in April showed Gilead’s antiviral drug remdesivir only helped those on oxygen, Gilead Sciences continues to push the drug as a potential treatment […]
On Monday, we wrote about Tesla after the electric company reached a major milestone with a market cap of $250 billion. Since then, Tesla stock has gone up by another $8.46 billion as of market close today. The shares of […]
The last two weeks have been a disaster for Chinese social video app TikTok. Late last month, Indian government banned TikTok and 58 other Chinese apps. In a statement, Indian government said the apps were blocked “in view of information […]
Over the past few months, Tesla has been making the headlines after the electric car giant’s valuation rose more than 100 percent to over $0.25 trillion in just 6 months. Now, electric truck startup Rivian is looking to ride the electric […]
Just when you think you can’t get enough of coronavirus, a new ‘unknown pneumonia’ more deadly than COVID-19 is brewing in Asia. According to Chinese officials, the mysterious pneumonia is understood to have broken out in Kazakhstan. The Chinese embassy warns in […]
Hong Kong begins life under a new Chinese national-security law immediately after the law unanimously passed by Beijing on June 20. The new law prohibits any citizen or resident in Hong Kong from acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign […]
We covered Marqeta back in May. At the time the Goldman Sachs-backed payments startup secured $150 million in funding at $4.3 billion valuation. A year earlier, the startup raised $260 million equity financing led by Coatue and included participation from Vitruvian Partners and several […]
We love writing about Tesla. Just think about this for a moment. Electric car has been around for over 200 years. The first successful electric car made its debut around 1890. It was developed by William Morrison, a chemist who lived […]
Sony Corp. announced today it has invested $250 million in Epic Games, the owner and the creator of the popular video game Fortnite and the mobile app Houseparty. Bloomberg first reported last month that Epic was close to securing funding at […]
Docket, an Indianapolis, IN-based tech startup and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) productivity platform for managing effective meetings, has secured $1.25M in funding to grow meeting productivity platform. The new funding came from new investors Sequoia Capital, Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures and Maven […]
Bringing a new tech product to life is not an easy undertaking. Creating new products involves a lot coordination with so many moving parts. To help tech startup founders and entrepreneurs, IndieGogo, the popular crowdfunding website, has partnered with Arrow Electronics […]
For over four months now, the naysayers have been warning us about the danger of taking malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The disgraced medical journal Lancet even went as far as using falsified data from Surgisphere Corp to back […]
About half of the people in the world are not connected to the internet. Nearly 3.8 billion people don’t have access to the internet, and many more lack what we would consider meaningful access. The unconnected are missing out but […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the news. Yesterday, it was Dr. Birx. Today Fauci pushes for more lockdowns as coronavirus spreads across Sun Belt states. After several months of misleading comments, White House health advisor and the nation’s top infectious […]
Tesla is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. According to NHTSA, level 5 autonomous refers to a fully-autonomous system […]
Google announced Wednesday that it has abandoned its cloud project on concerns over political tensions and the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from Bloomberg. Dubbed as “Isolated Region,” the initiative is sought to address the desires of China and other […]