Microsoft 365 is down! Microsoft 365 team said the issue was caused by expired authentication certificate, which prevented customers from using the service. Microsoft said it’s developing a fix to apply a new certificate to the service which will remediate impact. […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for the first Monday of February 2020. Payments giant Worldline to buy rival Ingenico in $8.6 billion deal as fintech competition heats up. Two European giants in the payments space are […]
ArcLight Capital Partners, a private equity firm focused on midstream and power infrastructure investments, announced today the final closing of its latest fund, ArcLight Energy Partners Fund VII, L.P. The fund closed with approximately $3.4 billion in commitments. ArcLight has […]
According to estimates from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), an estimated 80,000 Americans died of flu and its complications in winter of 2017 — the disease’s highest death toll in at least four decades. And while influenza-related deaths […]
Jumpstory, the Netflix of images and the creator of a revolutionary AI-based digital content platform, today announced the rollout of its AI-powered image search and success prediction tools after securing a $1 million investment. The platform, which features a Netflix-style subscription […]
SafeSwiss, a Lucerne, Switzerland-based tech startup and provider of all-encompasing, end-to-end encrypted communication app, announced today that it has acquired Secure Swiss Data the end-to-end encrypted email provider. Although the exact details of this multi-million-dollar acquisition are undisclosed at this stage, […]
Nasdaq, a global technology company serving the capital markets and other industries, announced today the acquisition of OneReport, a fintech startup and provider of corporate responsibility and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data management and reporting services. The financial terms […]
Industry Ventures, an investment firm pioneering venture capital solutions, announced today the final closing of its debut hybrid fund of funds for technology buyouts, Industry Ventures Tech Buyout, L.P. (“the Fund”), with total commitments of $125 million. The hybrid fund […]
Vestar Capital Partners, a middle-market private equity firm, announced has closed Vestar Capital Partners VII, L.P. (“Vestar VII”) with $1.1 billion to invest in profitable and growing companies in the Consumer, Business & Technology Services, and Healthcare sectors, with a focus […]
Coronavirus, a virus that cause diseases in mammals and birds, has claimed the lives of more than 300 people in China. As the overall death toll passed 360, the Chinese government expanded a quarantine in Wuhan, the central Chinese city where […]
Guillermo Martinez is a 24-year old Spanish engineer who is changing lives with his 3D prints prosthetic arms for people in need. He has touched more lives than most do in a lifetime and he hasn’t turned 30 yet. It […]
NASA has selected Maxar Technologies, an Earth Intelligence and Space Infrastructure company, to perform an in-space assembly demonstration using a lightweight robotic arm. The arm, called SPIDER (Space Infrastructure Dexterous Robot), will be integrated with the spacecraft bus Maxar is […]
Policygenius, an online insurance marketplace startup, has raised $100M funding to grow the Huckleberry insurance products through sectors such as auto repair, personal care and restaurants. The Series D financing was backed by KKR & Co. and venture capital operations backed […]
NASA has awarded a $142 million contract to Maxar Technologies of Westminster, Colorado, to robotically assemble a communications antenna and manufacture a spacecraft beam in orbit. The technology demonstration is slated to take place on NASA’s Restore-L spacecraft, designed to […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for the last day of January 2020. Amazon re-joins the trillion-dollar club after blowout earnings report. Amazon previously reached a trillion-dollar market capitalization in 2018 but got kicked out of the trillion-dollar […]
It’s 2020 and the question at the top of everyone’s mind is, what technologies will dominate this year and beyond? In recent years, we saw transformation changes with technologies like blockchain, IoT, robotics, and artificial intelligence. This year is no-different. In […]
Mobile commerce has seen explosive growth in recent years. Thanks to smart devices that are making it easier for people to shop, the mobile commerce is now driving the majority of consumer traffic (81% h/t Shopify) and forecasted to draw more […]
Today, companies struggle to onboard, upskill and fire-up their employees for work. That’s the problem 1Huddle is solving. Using its mobile gaming platform, 1Huddle helps organizations onboard new hires. The startup also helps organizations to quickly and easily convert existing training manuals, videos, […]
StopLight, an Austin, Texas-based online platform that helps organizations manage their entire the pre-production API workflow, has closed $6 million Series A round of funding to augment engineering efforts, accelerating its product roadmap and covering more customer use cases. The round, which […]
Proof-of-concept Phase 1b trial evaluating safety and biomarkers of anti-cancer effect in patients with hormone receptor positive metastatic breast cancer Novel GlycoMimetics drug candidate targets tumor and bone marrow microenvironment GlycoMimetics today announced that Duke University investigators have dosed the […]