Everyday, we monitor funding raised by startups from around the globe. Below are the top startup funding news stories. Dallas Home Repair Startup Raises $2M for Texas Expansion. Dallas-based startup Fixd is aiming at disrupting the home repair and warranty business […]
Yes, your suspicions have been confirmed. Apple is intentionally slowing down your iPhone as it gets older. Yesterday, Apple admitted it had been secretly throttling the performance of older iPhones. The throttling affects iPhone 6, 6S, and 7 users at […]
How safe are cryptocurrencies? It depends on whom you ask. The hacking of cryptocurrency exchanges is the new normal. This week alone, three cryptocurrency exchanges, EtherDelta, Tether and Youbit were hacked. You might think this might slow down the Bitcoin momentum. […]
Good morning! Here are top tech startup news stories you need to know this Thursday, December 21. Smartron partners with IoT startup MiQasa to strengthen home automation ecosystem. India-based original equipment manufacturer (OEM) and Internet of Things (IoT) brand Smartron on […]
December 20, 2017 (SAN FRANCISCO) CanYa Purchase Open Source Bounty Software Platform Prior To Ending Its ICO The coalition of Bountysource and CanYa creates a new open field for peer-to-peer software bounties CanYa has recently announced the purchase of […]
Do you know that only one in five plastic bottles are recycled? Americans consume over 8.6 billion gallons of bottled water. The plastic waste is not limited to the United States. The problem of plastic waste is a lot more in […]
The Florida-based mixed-reality startup Magic Leap is finally rolling out its first product after 7 years and $1.9 billion in funding. To date, the startup has raised almost $2 billion. The startup was founded in 2011 by Brian Schowengerdt, Randall […]
Emil Oldenburg, the co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of bitcoin.com (not to be confused with the official bitcoin.org website) has sold all his Bitcoins and switched to Bitcoin Cash, a hard fork of Bitcoin created in August 2017. He said […]
So it begins! The European Union’s highest court has just ruled that Uber should be regulated as a transportation company — and not a tech firm. The ruling, which cannot be appealed, could have major implications for other companies that operate […]
Good morning! Here are top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, December 20 Top court: Uber should be regulated like a taxi company. Europe’s top court has ruled that Uber should be regulated as a transportation company […]
What goes must come down. It seems the law of gravity does not apply to Bitcoin. Finally, Bitcoin drops more than 8% as top cryptocurrency marketplace starts supporting rival bitcoin cash. The digital currency fell from $17,929 to a low of […]
Germany’s competition watchdog, Federal Cartel Office (FCO), today accused Facebook of “limitless” collection of its users’ data. The watchdog said Facebook was a “quasi-monopoly” that was abusing its position to force its users to give up data. Today’s FCO ruling is […]
The New York-based AI-powered insurance startup Lemonade Inc., announced a $120 million Series C funding round led by the SoftBank Group, with participation from existing investors. The startup plans to use the funds to accelerate its global expansion in 2018. […]
Effective February 15, 2018, Google will block all ads (including those owned or served by Google) on all websites that display non-compliant ads. Chrome’s built-in ad-blocker will start working on February 15, 2018, the company announced today. This announcement will have […]
Good morning! Here are top tech startup news stories you need to know this Tuesday, December 19. Google’s Waymo is teaming with insurance startup Trov on passenger insurance for self-driving service. Waymo LLC, the driverless-car unit of Google-parent Alphabet Inc., is […]
If you are like the rest of us, we dream of great summer vacation in a tropical island sipping margarita at beach bar overlooking the sea. But that is not what prompted Peter Thiel, the founder of PayPal, to come […]
We’ve all witnessed it during our commute hours, road rage, drivers yelling at other drivers. You might ask, is there not a way to better communicate with other drivers? CarWink reinvents the way drivers communicate with each other while minimizing road […]
A California-based startup, Rigetti, is trying to take quantum computing to the next level. The company wants to quantum computers can be game changer and be used to perform a common form of machine learning and artificial intelligence. Rigetti Computing is […]
Good morning! Here are top tech startup news stories you need to know this Monday, December 18 Aconex, the Australian tech startup beats the odds and now sold to Oracle for $1.6 billion. After 17 years of patience, perseverance, the […]
Chinese Electric Vehicle startup, NIO, is releasing its Tesla rival in 2018 — and it’s amazing. NIO just launched sales of its first vehicle three years after the company was founded, undercutting the price of a rival model from Tesla Inc. Chinese customers […]