On Monday, Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role as Twitter CEO. Just two days after the announcement, Dorsey’s payments company Square announced yesterday it’s changing its corporate name to Block as the company expands beyond its original credit card-reader business […]
Grab, a SoftBank-backed food delivery startup and Southeast Asia’s biggest ride-hailing, makes its public debut on Thursday after a record $40 billion merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), making it the biggest Southeast Asia listing. Grab becomes the latest […]
New Twitter CEO Parag Agrawal is not having a good week. Just yesterday, Parag came under fire for an old tweet after just less than 2 days on the job. On October 26, 2020, Agrawal shared the following tweet with quotes: “If […]
Legacy banks are losing their grips on millennials and Gen Z as millions of young consumers abandoned the traditional banks in favor of online and digital-only banking. Now, the old banks are fighting back by offering mobile banking services that make […]
One of the basic rules of safety is that testing never ends. This is even more profound in autonomous vehicles, also called driver-less or self-driving vehicles. Unlike regular vehicles with human drivers, an autonomous vehicle is one that senses its environment […]
On November 17, OSHA suspended the vaccine mandate in a big win for employers after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit granted a motion to stay that found it likely to be struck down as unconstitutional. Now about two […]
Reibus, a provider of B2B e-commerce platform for the industrial metals market, has raised $75M in Series B funding led by SoftBank Vision Fund 2. This investment brings Reibus’ total funding to over $100 million and a valuation of $750 million. […]
Things appear not to be going well at SpaceX after a company-wide email from Elon Musk was made public. According to a copy of the email which was obtained by CNBC, Musk wrote that “The Raptor production crisis is much […]
As you may recall, last month Japanese drone startup A.L.I. Technologies unveiled the world’s first hoverbike that can fly above public roads. Made for the ultra-wealthy, the hoverbike is called “XTurismo Limited Edition.” According to the company, the 77.7 million yen ($680,000) […]
Just yesterday we wrote about Twitter founder Jack Dorsey after a surprise announcement that he was stepping from his role as chief executive officer of Twitter. Immediately after his departure, Jack was replaced by CTO Parag Agrawal. Now with less than two […]
Colony is a new community-driven platform you’ve probably never heard of. Imagine you’re a developer and you’re trying to raise funds to launch your project on blockchain platforms like Ethereum or Ethereum rival, Avalanche. What you may not realize is […]
Cryptocurrency miners are using compromised Google Cloud accounts for compute-intensive crypto mining purposes, the tech giant warned in a “Threat Horizons” report published on Wednesday. According to Google, 86% of 50 recently compromised Google Cloud accounts were used to perform cryptocurrency […]
Mainstream Renewable Power, a global wind and solar renewable energy startup company, announced today it has raised €90 million ($101.4 million) in additional funding to accelerate new market entries and the build-out of gigawatt-scale wind and solar assets across Latin America, Africa, […]
As you may recall, we reported about Microstrategy back in June after the Virginia-based company bought a total of 105,085 bitcoins for $2.741 billion at an average price of ~$26,080 per bitcoin. Today, the company announced it has bought another 7,002 bitcoins for […]
Happy Thanksgiving Holiday. With news of the new covid variant sucking the oxygen out of the 24-hour news cycle, we think you’re better served with a thought-provoking article about what affects us all: Education. Today, there is a lot of debate […]
Times change and so do businesses. In fact, the working environment has changed so much over the last two years that new tools appeared to make collaboration between remote teams much easier. One of these tools is the online whiteboard. […]
The global pandemic has changed the way patients see doctors. A recent report from McKinsey & Co. estimated that physicians saw between 50 and 175 times more patients via telehealth than they did prior to the pandemic. Many doctors also turned to telemedicine […]
Early this week, Italy’s antitrust regulator fined Amazon and Apple a total of more than 200 million euros ($225 million) for alleged anti-competitive cooperation in the sale of Apple and Beats products. The Italian watchdog said the contractual provisions of a […]
The metaverse craze continues without any sign of slowing down. Since Facebook changed its name to Meta in October, at least 3,700 companies have jumped on the metaverse bandwagon with Invidia, Tencent, Bytedance, and Alibaba leading the way. There are also […]
The world runs on semiconductors and microchips are everywhere – from your laptops, desktops, aircraft, vehicles, kitchen appliances, and smartphones to millions of mysterious servers that power all the internet websites. Currently, these semiconductors are produced by a handful of companies […]
