As part of its effort to protect Firefox browser users from online threat, Mozilla Foundation today announced the rollout of encrypted DNS over HTTPS (DoH) by default for US-based users. The rollout will continue over the next few weeks to […]
Deer & Co, the world’s leading farm equipment maker, announced today it is teaming up with Hello Tractor, a tractor-hailing agritech startup that help farmers to hail the machines via an app, monitors the vehicles’ movements and transmits usage information such […]
L1ght, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based AI startup designed to solve the crisis of online toxicity and how it impacts children, has raised $15M in a seed round for R&D and to scale the platform to meet market demand for a scalable […]
The spread of coronavirus seems to be slowing down in China as the country continues to put proper measure in place to slowdown the spread of the disease. However, the virus outbreak in Iran, Italy, and South Korea are raising […]
Karius, a life sciences startup that markets a test that can quickly detect hard-to-diagnose infections through a simple taking of blood, has secured $165 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank Vision Fund 21, with additional participation from […]
Intuit, the maker of TurboTax, is reportedly buying unicorn startup Credit Karma in a deal valued at around $7 billion in cash and stock. The acquisition would push the tax preparation giant further into consumer finance. Under the agreement, Credit Karma would […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Monday, February 24, 2020. Former Facebook’s sustainability chief launches ClimateVoice to help employees push companies on climate. With hundreds of companies have committed to reducing emissions in their own operations […]
Shares of tech giants took a nose dive on Monday after a surge in coronavirus cases renewed fears of a global economic slowdown. Altogether, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Microsoft and Google — six of the most valuable U.S. companies — have collectively […]
SoftBank is back on strong footing again. Today, Behavox, a provider of an AI-driven platform that helps organizations to mitigate compliance, cyber and conduct risk, while identifying revenue opportunities in large volumes of communications data, announced it has raised a $100 […]
According to Packaged Facts, the U.S. pet food market is $30 billion strong, and it is expected to grow 2.6% a year on average over the next five years, easily outpacing the 1% annual growth rate for packaged human food. […]
About two years ago, Microsoft introduced Azure Sphere, a hardware and service designed to better secure 41.6 billion internet for things (IoT) devices. The program, which includes a Microsoft-developed Linux operating system for microcontrollers, evolved out of a Microsoft Research project, called […]
Arima Genomics, a biotech startup focused on research tools to accelerate the understanding of genome sequence and structure toward their role in human health and disease, announces that it has completed its Series A round of financing. The amount of […]
Time is something that we all have an equal amount of. 24 hours each day. You can’t cheat that. How you spend your time at work, along with how many hours you spend there varies by industry. A common myth […]
Every year we spend over 50% of our income on home finances yet managing and tracking these accounts is a modern day nightmare. Enter Youtility, a free app that brings all your home finances into one place. Youtility helps you […]
South Korea’s Geostationary Environment Monitoring Spectrometer (GEMS) instrument on the Korean Aerospace Research Institute GEO-KOMPSAT-2B satellite launched into orbit aboard an Arianespace Ariane 5 rocket Tuesday, Feb. 18, from the Guiana Space Center in French Guiana. A sister instrument to […]
We live in a time when technology dominates our lives. More and more of our personal data is stored on digital devices including mobile devices, PC, camera, servers, and others. The sad truth is, no medium for data storage lasts forever. For […]
March 20 Update: Border patrol found suspected SARS virus and flu samples in Chinese biologist’s luggage: FBI report describes China’s ‘biosecurity risk.’ The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents at Detroit Metro Airport stopped a Chinese biologist with three vials labeled […]
Late last year, we wrote about FIDO, an AI-based on-demand dog-walking technology startup that uses Web 3.0 advancements such as AI, Blockchain, and machine learning to tackle critical issues being faced by the dog-service industry. FIDO, or F.I.D.O, stands for (Find and Identify […]
A lot has been written about the longevity and economics of electric cars and how they stack up against the traditional internal combustion engine (ICE) cars. The folks at Jalopnik, a news and opinion website about cars, recently wrote an article about what […]
Last week, we wrote about GoDaddy’s acquisition of Uniregistry’s domain registrar. There were speculations on social media that GoDaddy paid north of half a billion dollar for the company. We now have a better idea of the total deal amount. […]