Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, January 24. Apple’s HomePod will finally hit store shelves. Apple plans the first online sales of its long-awaited Homepod this Friday. Stores will have it on Febuary […]
Artificial Intelligence (AI) biotech startup, XtalPi, announced today it has closed a Series B funding round of $15 million led by Sequoia China, with participation from Google and existing investor Tencent. XtalPi will use the funding to develop new computational models […]
Confirm.io, a government ID authentication startup that digitally authenticates government identification, said on its website that it agreed to be acquired by Facebook for an undisclosed amount. The entire Confirm.io’s team will move to Facebook after the acquisition. The Confirm.io posted the […]
Techcyte, a deep learning image analysis solutions startup, has partnered with Motic, a leading provider of whole slide scanners, to provide advanced solutions for scanning, image analysis, workflow and reporting. As part of the partnership, Techcyte will sell the MoticEasyScan Pro […]
As part of its push to accelerate its digital strategy and support innovation, German software giant and Europe’s biggest software company SAP said it will invest two billion in French tech startups over the next five years, the company announced on […]
TMunity announced it has raised $100 million in Series A financing from Be The Match BioTherapies, a subsidiary of the National Marrow Donor Program, a patient advocacy group, Sean Parker’s Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, drug giant Gilead Sciences and […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Tuesday, January 23. Overfunded startup Clinkle is shutting down. Califfornia-based data virtualization startup, Clinkle, is in the process of shutting down after raising a whopping $100 million in […]
Today, Facebook’s virtual reality (VR) division announced it has invented a new unit of time called Flick. Flick is used to measure the speed of digital audio and video. A flick (frame-tick) is a very small unit of time. On […]
A Tesla Model S car reportedly on “Autopilot” smashed into the back of a fire truck parked at a freeway accident scene Monday morning, authorities said. Mercury News first reported the story Culver City firefighters whose truck was hit around 8:30 […]
Estonia-based startup and Blockchain protocol for telehealth service provider, DocCoin, today announced Pre-Initial Coin Offering (ICO) for Blockchain based telehealth. DocCoin is a internationally available service that integrates the entire online medicine industry and provides advantages to the businesses, as well as the […]
Baltimore, Maryland-based startup Protenus has raised $11 million in a Series B funding round led by F-Prime Capital and Kaiser Permanente Ventures, the company said in a press release. The company will use the investment to make its comprehensive health data auditing and privacy […]
We covered AbiliTek back on January 9 of this year. AbiliTrek is a new startup founded by Western Washington University grad Daman Wandke, aims to provide comprehensive information about hotel accessibility and amenities for those with disabilities. Since the last time […]
The footwear industry often overlooks Mother Nature’s innovative materials in favor of cheaper, synthetic alternatives. This startup thinks it’s time to change that. Allbirds, a New Zealand-based startup has raised $120,000 in just 4 days on Kickstarter to produce shoes made […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, January 22. Two student-owned startups are semifinalists in Student Startup Madness. Two student-owned Northwestern startups are semifinalists in Student Startup Madness, a nationwide college startup competition focusing […]
The future of grocery shopping is here. Amazon is introducing its first cashierless grocery store called Amazon Go. It is a grocery store without checkout lines. The sensor-infused store and convenience store will open to the public Monday in Seattle. Amazon makes […]
Many people in the United States or outside China probably may never have heard of Tencent. Tencent is a leading provider of Internet value added services in China. For the first time on November 20, 2017, Tencent surpassed Facebook as […]
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We’ve all read about how one can generate light from solar, batteries and even potato. What about if there is a way to generate light with just a tea candle? Luminiser is a lantern to generate powerful LED light from […]
OnePlus today confirmed thieves stole tens of thousands of people’s credit card numbers from its online store. The Chinese smartphone company admitted after a week of investigation that about 40,000 of its customers had their payment card details were taken while […]
Pioneer Square Labs (PSL), a Seattle-based startup, has secured a $15 million in Series B funding to scale its successful startup studio. The current investment round is led by Foundry Group with $10 million investment, and PSL’s 12 existing VC investors […]