Fintech startup Revolut is the newest member of the $1 billion-plus valuation Unicorn startup club. The UK-based startup founded in in 2015 by Nikolay Storonsky and Vlad Yatsenko, said it has just raised a Series C investment round of $250 […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, April 26. Nasdaq wants to become cryptocurrency exchange, CEO says. Yes, you read that right! NASDAQ is jumping on Cryptocurrency bandwagon and wants to become a […]
Cryptocurrency is boooming, so is the challenge of identifying crypto clients. While cryptocurrency market remains a largely unregulated space, government and financial regulators around the world are closing monitoring the market. Cryptocurrency also led to increase in regulatory pressures concerning Anti-Money Laundering […]
ServiceNow has acquired the Seattle‑based SaaS management startup VendorHawk to help its customers optimize their SaaS spending and app utilization. The all‑cash deal is expected to close this month. VendorHawk helps SaaS customer stay on top of all their SaaS spending, vendors, […]
Early this month, we reported that twenty two consumer advocacy groups filed a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) accusing YouTube of illegally collecting children’s data. The advocates said Google’s YouTube violates the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA). According […]
Europe wants to be at the forefront of Artificial Intelligence (AI). With many recent breakthroughs in AI coming out of European labs, now the European Commission want to increase its investment to €1.5 billion for the period 2018-2020 under the Horizon […]
Pusher, the realtime API company that helps developers add communication and collaboration features to their apps, announced it has raised $8 million in Series A investment led by Balderton Capital, with participation from Heavybit. In 2011, the startup received $1 million […]
Technology continues to disrupt traditional industries and how services are delivered to consumers. Healthcare industry is not an exception. Rising costs, growing need for better and efficient healthcare, and heightened government regulations have created forces that leave the healthcare industry […]
What not to love about capitalism? It has created enormous wealth and delivered millions from poverty but billions of people around the world are still living in poverty. According to French economist, Thomas Piketty, the traditional capitalist structure is divided into […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, April 25. Chinese smartphone maker startup Xiaomi Corp is eyeing $100 billion IPO. The world’s biggest initial public offering (IPO) of the year is about to Hong […]
Thomas Edison once said, “I would put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” His quote is still very true today. […]
For the first time, scientists have identified the existence of a new DNA structure never before seen in living cells. Yes, it’s still DNA, but not as we know it. In a world first, Australian scientists and researchers have identified […]
Chinese unicorn startup and Uber competitor, Didi Chuxing, reportedly in talks to launch $80 billion IPO, according to The Wall Street Journal reported, citing unnamed sources. As we reported in our list of unicorn startups, Didi Chuxing is now leading the ride-sharing […]
French oil giant Total is partnering with Google to develop artificial intelligence (AI) solutions specifically for the oil and gas industry. The company announced today that it signed an agreement with Google Cloud to jointly develop artificial intelligence (A.I.) solutions applied […]
Arcadia Data, provider of the first visual analytics and BI software native to big data, today announced the general availability of Arcadia Instant for KSQL. As the industry’s first native Apache Kafka® visualization software, Arcadia Instant helps get users up […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is changing how we live. Whether we know it or not, AI has permeated our lives and is one of breakthrough technologies since industrial revolution. AI has ushered in what some technology leaders called “the fourth industrial […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, April 24. Organic solar cells reach record efficiency, benchmark for commercialization. In an effort to make a more flexible, inexpensive type of solar cell commercially viable, University […]
Do you know that more than 8 million tons of plastic are dumped in our oceans every year? According to PlasticOceans.org, we now producing nearly 300 million tons of plastic every year. That means about 3% of all the plastics […]
In 2015, the Seattle-based Glowforge made a staggering introduction when it set a 30-day crowdfunding record of more than $27.9 million. Now that pre-orders have been completed, Glowforge is launching its long-awaited product to the general public. The 3D laser […]
Cambridge, Massachusetts-based molecular diagnostics startup, NuProbe, announced it has raised $11 million Series A funding round to expand reach of precision medicine and continue the development of ultra-sensitive, non-invasive blood test for the early detection of cancer and infectious diseases. The round was co-led […]