The last time we wrote about URBAN-X was back in 2019 when the MINI-backed urbantech startup accelerator launched its sixth startup cohort. A lot has changed since then. Today, URBAN-X announced the launch of its latest class, Cohort 08. This newest class […]
Ares Management Corporation, a leading global alternative investment manager operating integrated businesses across credit, private equity and real estate, today announced the final closing of its Ares Special Opportunities Fund, L.P. (together with its parallel vehicles, “ASOF” or the “Fund”). The […]
As United Kingdom and Italy downgrade coronavirus threat level, health authorities in South Korea said for the first time on Monday that the country is experiencing a “second wave” of coronavirus infections around the country’s capital, Seoul. The country said […]
Startup veteran and Citymapper President Omid Ashtari is leaving to join London market research startup StreetBees, according to a report from CNBC, citing people familiar with the matter. The London-based Citymapper was founded in 2011 by Azmat Yusuf. Ashtari reportedly left […]
Coronavirus cases have risen 15 percent over the last two weeks across the United States. According to New York Times, coronavirus cases have risen 15 percent over the last two weeks. Cases are rising in 18 states across the South, West and […]
Last Friday, Google quietly unveiled an app that lets you curate content from the web, similar to Pinterest. The idea for Keen came out of Google internal incubator project called Area 120. Unlike Pinterest, Keen will use machine learning to […]
Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is back again on Twitter. Just about three weeks ago, Musk said he was off tweeting for a while. “Off Twitter for a while,” Musk said in a tweet on June 1. Now, it […]
Distributed Denial of Secrets, or DDoS, is a volunteer group launched in 2019 to provide researchers and journalists with a central repository where they can find terabytes of hacked and leaked documents. You can think of DDoSecrets (a play on […]
Coronovirus has impacted millions of lives and businesses worldwide. Over the past few months, we’ve written many pieces about how technology startups are navigating the coronvirus pandemic to stay afloat. Some of these startups had to significantly reduce their staffing […]
On May 30, Space X and NASA made history after Elon Musk’s space company carried NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into space from American soil after nearly a decade. SpaceX became the first private space company to take […]
In its latest gloom and doom announcement, the World Health Organization (WHO) warned Friday that coronavirus pandemic has entered a “new and dangerous phase” as daily Covid-19 cases hit record highs. In a press conference from the agency’s Geneva headquarters on Friday, WHO Director-General Tedros […]
Last month, we told you about Tesla CEO Elon Musk after he said “Politicians and unelected bureaucrats who stole our liberty should be tarred, feathered & thrown out of town!” The ongoing Woke Cancel culture, mainstream media fearmongering about coronavirus, […]
Last week we wrote about DoorDash after it was reported that the SoftBank-backed food delivery startup was planning to secure new funding before its upcoming IPO. Now, according to an exclusive report from Axios, DoorDash has raised $400 million in new […]
Alexander E. Kearns, a 20-year-old stock trader who said he lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the free-trading app, took his own life. According to his family, Alex Kerns, a student at the University of Nebraska, died by suicide […]
In an elaborate use of open-source intelligence, The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) on Wednesday tracked down a protester who set cop cars alight by tracing the custom T-shirt she wore at a Philadelphia. Lore-Elisabeth Blumenthal was tracked down by […]
It’s one thing to get coronavirus through airborne. It is another thing to ingest the virus into your body through food. Now, according to a report from Reuters, Chinese health authorities have found the trading sections for meat and seafood in […]
The last we covered UC Berkeley SkyDeck was back in March when the startup accelerator announced it biggest cohort from 11 countries, startups will collaborate remotely. Today, UC Berkeley SkyDeck announces that in the past six months, including the COVID-19 shelter-at-home period, seven of […]
Alternet, a Dallas, Texas-based energy company on mission to innovate solutions to the global energy storage capacity shortage, today announced drafting a letter of intent (LOI) with its funding partner delineating terms for an initial $25 million first tranche investment […]
Back in February 2018, we wrote about Y Combinator (YC) after the company launched its free online Startup Investor School to train new startup investors. YC is a seed money startup accelerator launched in March 2005. Over 2,000 companies have been launched through […]
There is no doubt that coronavirus is the worst pandemic of our time. The virus, which started late last year in Wuhan, China, could cost the global economy $82 trillion, according to one estimate. Latest forecast published by the Centre for Risk […]