Japanese crypto exchange startup Huobi Japan announces today that it’s raising $4.6 million (JPY 500 Million) in new funding from Japanese financial services firm Tokai Tokyo Financial Holdings. The fund, which is for the Japanese branch of cryptocurrency exchange Huobi, will be […]
It’s estimated that about 100 million metric tons of plastic waste has already “leaked” into oceans. The amount increases by 5 million to 15 million tons annually, according to research cited by the International Energy Agency (IEA). We’ve written many stories about […]
Ruangguru, an online education platform in Indonesia, today announces $150 million in Series C funding to expands its product offering across Indonesia and Vietnam. The round was led by General Atlantic and GGV Capital, with participation from existing investors and […]
Crowdfunding is now (if not the most popular) way of raising funds for startup founders. However, crowdfunding is not without its problems. Trust is probably the biggest issue. This is one of the problems Zcoin is trying to solve. Zcoin is […]
Until now, you know very little about the state of your order deliveries. Other than a cumbersome tracking number, you’ve been kept in the dark anxiously waiting for your packages to arrive. Even though there’s a lot going on, there’s […]
Happy holidays everyone! As people of different faiths celebrate the Holiday season, we in the tech community want to use this time to remember Chuck Peddle, one of the most influential engineers and the pioneers of the early personal computers. […]
Steve Jobs was an inventor, entrepreneur and perhaps of the marketer in the world. In just a just 56 years, Steve Jobs managed to revolutionize the Personal computers, animated movies, music, phones, computing and digital publishing. Apple’s products have forever changed the […]
Digital Asset is a New York-based blockchain startup and the creators of DAML, a new programming language for creating smart contracts, which are computer programs that automate business processes and digitally facilitate, verify, and enforce agreements between two or more […]
DraftKings, a Boston, Massachusetts-based fantasy sports startup that provides online daily and weekly fantasy sports contests for cash prizes in major sports, announced today it’ll go public next year in a deal that values the company at $3.3 billion. The IPO is […]
Most people probably know Mark Cuban as a multi-billionaire and also for his role in the popular ABC’s Shark Tank show. What a lot of people may not know about Cuban is his kindness and his support for up-and-coming startups. […]
Electric startup Rivian is back in the news. With millions of gas guzzlers on the roads, Rivian believes it can reduce the Carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, lower the carbon footprint and also make money doing good. Rivian wants to […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Monday, December 23, 2019. HawkFish is a secretive tech startup helping Mike Bloomberg powering his 2020 presidential bid. A technology startup called Hawkfish, founded by Mike Bloomberg along with former […]
Scientists think they have found a giant “Dark River” flowing far below the frozen cover of the Greenland ice sheet sprawls nearly 1,000 miles long of bedrock. The discovery was made when a team of researchers and scientists from Hokkaido University in […]
Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has been fired, the company announced Monday morning. David Calhoun was named new CEO. The Muilenburg’s ousting announcement comes after series of missteps by the company in wake of 737 Max crisis and over the Boeing Starliner’s […]
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We first wrote about Ripple, the creator the creator of the popular cryptocurrency XRP, when we featured some of the hottest blockchain startups to watch in 2018. The startup has grown exponentially since then. Ripple also witnessed its strongest year of growth to date in […]
On Friday, we wrote about the successful launch of the Boeing’s first Starliner spacecraft built to fly astronauts. The spacecraft returned to Earth in a predawn landing today Sunday (December 22) touching down in New Mexico after a test flight due […]
First, it was TikTok and now it’s ToTok. Welcome to the new digital arm race. In early November, the U.S. government opened a national security review of a Chinese company ByteDance and the parent company of TikTok amid security concerns. As […]
StradVision, a South Korea-based tech startup that provides deep learning based embedded perception software for autonomous vehicles and advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), has raised $27 million in Series B funding round to advance the camera technology. The round was led by Posco Capital, […]
Social network giant Facebook quietly acquired Packagd a small video-shopping startup that offers new mobile shopping experience, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the plans. The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed. The acquisition, according to […]