Google.org has launched a campaign focused on Puerto Rico’s economic recovery, committing to match up to $2 million in donations made June 8-20, 2018 at g.co/supportPR. Hamilton creator Lin-Manuel Miranda is the campaign spokesperson, with other celebrities joining to amplify […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Friday, June 8. Ant Financial, a spin-off or Alibaba, raises $14 billion to continue its global expansion. China’s Ant Financial announced Friday that it raised around $14 […]
Yesterday, NASA said a plan to host live discussion on new Mars science results. Today, NASA announced that its Curiosity rover has found new evidence preserved in rocks on Mars that suggests the planet could have supported ancient life, as […]
Bill Gates announced on his website Tusday that he’s giving away copies of his favorite book of the year to everyone who’s getting a degree from a U.S. college or university this spring. The book is called, “Factfulness: Ten Reasons […]
For hundred years people have been dreaming of flying cars. Now it has become a reality with Kitty Hawk’s flying car, a startup backed by Google co-founder, Larry Page. The fully electrical car can fly between 3 to 10 feet off the […]
Mode, an enterprise startup and a pioneer of autonomously controlled networks, emerged from stealth today to introduce a new category of private core network for enterprise. The company also announced it has closed an $8 million Series A led by […]
Blockchain games startup, EON Foundation, has secured $5 million in seed funding led by Cherubic Ventures, Wei Guo (partner of UpHonest Capital) and Feng Li (an early investor in Ripple and Coinbase). EON Foundation plans to use the funding to […]
Zurich Insurance Group has invested in CoverWallet, the startup that makes it easy for businesses to understand, buy, and manage insurance online. The amount of investment was not disclosed. Zurich Insurance Group is one of the largest global insurance companies, has […]
Robot delivery startup Starship Technologies has raised $25 million in seed funding from existing investors to bring its self-driving robot to the mainstream. In addition, the company also announced the appointment of Airbnb veteran of Lex Bayer as Chief Executive Officer […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Thursday, June 7. Coinbase acquires Keystone Capital in bid to become a regulated broker-dealer. Coinbase is always in the news. The cryptocurrency exchange leader announced it […]
COBINHOOD, a cryptocurrency service platform startup, today launches decentralized blockchain platform DEXON with investment from IDG Capital. The new investment will allow DEXON to focus on mass adoption from the banking industry. DEXON is an infinitely scalable permissionless distributed ledger technology that […]
According to a new research publication by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and MassChallenge, a global network of startup accelerators, women-owned companies receive far less in startup financing than companies founded by men. Yet startups founded and cofounded by women […]
Last week, we reported about the release of Amazon Neptune, an Amazon Web Services (AWS)’ graph database. Today, the company announced that Amazon EKS, an Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes, is now available for use in production form. The eCommerce giant said in […]
Cryptocurrency startup and the world’s first decentralized shopper profile built on the blockchain, Shopin, just announced that significant token distributor was hacked, resulting in a loss of more than $10 million of a variety of tokens, including Ethereum, Level Up, Orbs, and […]
Back in May, we wrote about the amount of data we create every day. Based on the findings, 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created each day at our current rate. We now spend more and more of our lives producing, […]
Kittyhawk just raised $5 million from top VCs and Boeing HorizonX Ventures to build the largest community of professional drone operators. The company made the announcement in a blog post today. Kittyhawk unifies the mission, the aircraft and the data to empower […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Wednesday, June 6. Microsoft launches underwater datacenter off Scottish coast. Microsoft has announced the next phase of Project Natick , a research project to determine the feasibility of […]
We wrote about BlueVine back in May, when the company secured $200 Million to expand financing to small business startups. Today, the FinTech pioneer announced that it has closed $60 million in equity funding, underscoring the fintech pioneer’s momentum in […]
OutSystems, the #1 low-code platform for building enterprise apps, has raised $360 million to accelerate business expansion and for R&D in new advancements in software automation. The latest investment round is led by KKR and Wall Street giant, Goldman Sachs. This […]
Artificial intelligence and deep learning are changing the world around us. As such, deep learning should be physically close to us. To make that happen, we need a new type of computer which can bring intelligence to any product. Hailo […]