The long awaited initial public offering (IPO) for Dropbox is finally here. According to report from Bloomberg, unicorn and file sharing company Dropbox is set to go public in the first of this year after many years of rumors. Dropbox has hired […]
Today, Siemens and the AES Corporation announced a partnership agreement to form a new global energy storage technology and services startup, under the name Fluence. The company will empower customers around the world to better navigate the fragmented but rapidly […]
Chinese startup Meicai has joined the unicorn startup club after raising $450 million round in a funding round from China Media Capital and Tiger Global Management. The company is now valued at $2.8 Billion. The news was first reported on Bloomberg. The company […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, January 11. Vestaboard updates split-flap displays for the modern home. A new startup, Vestaboard, has developed a wall piece roughly the size of a 42-inch LCD […]
Ripple’s XRP rose 13 percent to $13.38 on Thursday after MoneyGram made the announcement to use its XRP token for international payments. Shares of the money-transfer MoneyGram International Inc also jumped 10.5 percent after the the company said it partnered with blockchain […]
Alphabet Inc.’s Google has quietly acquired a British technology startup focused on technology that turns surfaces such as phone displays into speakers, according to a Bloomberg report on Thursday. Redux shutdown its website after Google’s acquisition. The startup was backed […]
Remember when the Long Island Iced Tea Corporation announced in December 2017 that it would shift its primary focus from beverages to the exploration of and investment in blockchain technology, its stock price skyrocketed and roared 500% higher on the news. By […]
The justice minister of South Korea said on Thursday that the country is preparing a bill to ban all cryptocurrency trading in the country. The news sent a shock wave to cryptocurrency market with prices of major cryptocurrencies including bitcoin, […]
Headlines are filled with news stories about self-driving cars. What’s rarely talked about is how autonomous cars technologies are adapted in other products. Welcome to the worlds of hands-free luggage with futuristic robot suitcase. “Robot suitcase,” unveiled at the 2018 Consumer […]
The world’s largest aerospace company Boeing today unveiled a new unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) cargo air vehicle (CAV) prototype. The unmanned electric vertical-takeoff-and-landing cargo air vehicle (CAV) would be used to test and evolve Boeing’s autonomy technology for future aerospace […]
The German auto giant Daimler announced that its flagship car, Mercedes-Benz, is now integrated with the world’s first in-car 3 word address voice navigation from British tech startup, What3words. The announcement is followed by Daimler’s partnership with the innovative addressing system […]
With just 10 days into the new year, 2018 is shaping up to be a great year for technology startups around the world, most especially the French startups. For the first time at Consumer Electronic Show (CES), French startups now […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, January 10. CES 2018: French Tech Startups Are Taking Over Innovation Exhibit. For the first time at CES, French startups now represent over half of all the […]
The autonomous driving car market is getting saturated. But that does not stop the world’s largest automotive alliance from its plan to invest and accelerate growth and innovation in mobility technologies. The French-Japanese group of automakers plans to start a […]
Microsoft security patches to mitigate against Meltdown and Spectre chip vulnerabilities are now slowing down PCs and servers. According to Reuters, Microsoft said on Tuesday that software patches released to guard against CPU security threats slowed down some PCs and […]
Wag Labs Inc., the startup behind the popular dog-walking smartphone app, mistakenly exposed webpages showing its customer information including addresses and lockbox codes that could have enabled thieves to break into homes. The news story was first reported by Wall […]
The Columbia Maryland-startup Zuul has secured its first customer. Their first customer is a global public sector transportation and mobility company. Zuul secured its first customer after raising $300,000 in seed funding from TEDCO, the Columbia technology accelerator MasterPeace LaunchPad and local private […]
The Chicago-based data-science startup Uptake Technologies has laid off 51 employees Tuesday. The co-founder and CEO Brad Keywell said in a statement. The layoff news story was first reported by the Chicago Tribune. With this layoff, Uptake reduced its number of […]
You probably have never heard of MIT professor Yet-Ming Chiang. Prof. Chiang’s research focuses on the design, synthesis, and characterization of advanced inorganic materials and related devices. Prof. Chiang just launched his most ambitious storage bet, Baseload Renewables, a flow battery […]
Prices for some of the most popular cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, Ethereum and XRP, dropped sharply $100 Billion on Monday after Coinmarketcap.com removes data from some South Korean exchanges, Wall Street Journal said. The dropped was due to an adjustment of digital-currency price quotes Coinmarketcap.com. […]