Companies face massive reskilling challenges as they seek to transform their workforces to keep pace with rapidly changing technology, evolving workforce expectations, and growing talent gaps. Soft skills like leadership and communication are at a premium in an increasingly digital […]
Wargaming, the developer of World of Warships, and Stack Up, a nonprofit supporting veterans through gaming, today announced a partnership to raise money and awareness for military veterans in need of mental health support. Wargaming will introduce a special bundle […]
Akouos, a Boston, MA-based precision genetic medicine startup developing potential gene therapies to restore, improve or preserve hearing, has raised $105 million $105M Series B funding. The oversubscribed funding was led by Pivotal bioVenture Partners, with participation from new investors […]
Intercontinental Exchange, an operator of global exchanges and clearing houses and provider of data and listings services, today announced that Goldman Sachs has connected to ICE ETF Hub as an authorized participant on the platform. Intercontinental Exchange owns exchanges for financial and […]
Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak said earlier today that he thinks, he and his wife might be patient zero for the USA because they were in China before Jan 4. His wife has been coughing since they both returned from China […]
Robinhood, a stock app popular among millennials, experienced a ‘system-wide outage’ and eventually crashed as markets rebounded in heavy volume Monday. The stock missed the entire day of trading. As of writing, the stock trading app’s status is now up. The outage […]
Waymo, a self-driving startup owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has raised a whopping $2.25 billion in its first external funding round. The round was led by Silicon Valley heavyweights including Alphabet itself, along with outside firms like Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and […]
We’ve heard many horror stories of coronovirus and its impacts all around the world. To date, the virus has claimed over 3,000 lives. The virus also caused trillions of dollars in economic damage. However, there is one positive effect of […]
We live in a data-driven world where informed decisions are not just based on human intuition but on data derived from every part of the organization. Decision makers are now turning to artificial intelligence and machine learning to crunch a […]
Good morning! Hope you all had a great weekend. Below are the top tech startups news for today, Monday, March 2, 2020. Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones. Tech giant Apple has […]
According to the Financial Times special report, mobile game developer and publisher Gismart has been named the fastest-growing company in the gaming industry and came 6th in the overall list of FT 1000: Europe’s fastest-growing businesses. Ranked according to the […]
We’ve explored space and gone to the moon and back. But we know very little about what’s going under the seas and the oceans. One of the biggest barriers to protecting the ocean, and our future, is that we don’t […]
Thought Machine, a London-based cloud native core banking technology startup, has raised $83 million to transform banking by deploying modern cloud-native systems and continue investment in its core engineering capability. The funding will also be used to drive Thought Machine’s […]
The two companies are joining forces to provide affordable English as a foreign language tutoring at scale by using a virtual voice-enabled character. Edwin, the EdTech startup backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and Google Assistant Investments Program, among others, […]
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy have resulted in medications that have profound benefit to some patients. Unfortunately, most cancer victims are relatively unresponsive to single agents such as PD-(L)1 checkpoint inhibitors. Literally hundreds of clinical studies are currently being conducted […]
Agragene, a San Diego, California-based agritech startup developing developing novel biological crop pest protection products using advanced CRISPR-based genome engineering, has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding to expand field trials and commercialization of Agragene’s eco-friendly alternatives to chemical pesticides. The round was […]
Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has purchased a stake Twitter and is reportedly seeking to oust its chief executive, Jack Dorsey. Paul Singer, a major Republican donor is planning to push for changes at the social media company, including replacing Chief […]
Coronavirus Updates: There are now 85,733 of confirmed coronavirus cases of the virus worldwide and almost 3,000 deaths – the vast majority from mainland China, where the outbreak originated. There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Researchers and […]
From Boston to San Francisco, robots are now being used in fast food restaurants to work alongside restaurant workers. The latest example is Flippy, a robot hamburger flipper and the world’s first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant. The robot was developed by Miso Robotics, […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the coronavirus is starting to behave like the “once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.” Comparing the ongoing coronovirus outbreak to influenza pandemic of 1957, which killed an estimated 66,000 people in the U.S., Gates said […]