Remember back in 2013 when Google launched Google Glass, a brand of smart glasses with an optical head-mounted display designed in the shape of a pair of glasses? At the time, they were slated as the next big thing in tech. Wearers […]
Earlier today, Biden announced the sweeping COVID-19 vaccine requirements on Thursday, that affect about 100 million Americans. The new measures include a vaccine mandate for all federal workers and contractors and a requirement that large companies with more than 100 […]
In March, Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, made history after a single piece of his non-fungible token (NFT) art print was sold at Christie’s Auction for a record-setting $69.3 million, making it the most expensive digital art ever sold. Then […]
We’ve written about Techstars at least a dozen times. The Boulder, Colorado-based global accelerator provider and early-stage startup investor, has done a lot of good since its inception 15 years ago investing and building global entrepreneurial ecosystems. The firm has […]
Advance.ai, a Singapore-based AI tech startup has raised $200 million in funding to scale up its operations and accelerate future expansion, according to an exclusive report from Reuters, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The new funding makes the startup one […]
Microsoft said Tuesday it has acquired Clipchamp, an Australia-based video-editing app startup used by over 17 million registered users worldwide. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. The announcement comes just two weeks after Adobe acquired video collaboration tech startup Frame.io for […]
As you may recall back in April, we wrote about Bill Gates after he turned his $55 million vaccine investment in Pfizer’s partner, BioNTech, into over $550 million in just under two years. BioNtech is not the only vaccine maker […]
Cognizant Technology Solutions has reached a $95 million settlement deal to resolve a lawsuit brought by its investors accusing the New Jersey-based information technology services company of defrauding shareholders by concealing bribes to officials in India for facility permits. The shareholders […]
Over the past four years, we’ve been keeping track of the global top 500 unicorn startups with a valuation of $1 billion or more. Predictably, the United States accounts for more than half the valuation of all the global unicorns combined […]
New technologies like robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have transformed every industry. However, the impacts of these technologies are more drastic in banking and financial markets where AI has forever changed the ways trading and investing are done. For example, […]
Just last month, Jack Dorsey’s payments company Square acquired Australian buy now pay later (BNPL) fintech company Afterpay for $29 billion. The acquisition brings together two of the fastest-growing global fintech companies to advance the shared mission of economic empowerment and financial […]
Over the past 18 months now, Dr. Anthony Fauci has vehemently denied his involvement in the funding of Gain-of-Function (GoF) research in Wuhan, China. Just two months ago, Dr. Fauci even screamed at a sitting U.S. Senator Rand Paul during a Senate […]
Web 1.0 is a term often used to describe the early days of the Internet. Then came Web 2.0, a set of next-generation Internet technologies that describes the current state of the web, which has more user-generated content and usability for end-users […]
One of the reasons for the slow adoption of electric vehicles is cost. According to a U.K survey, 37 percent of people say the most common reason for not buying an electric vehicle was a lack of fast charging points […]
Quantum computing has been around since the early 1980s when physicist Paul Benioff proposed a quantum mechanical model of the Turing machine. Unlike the conventional computers that store information using bits represented by 0s or 1s, quantum computers use quantum bits, […]
Before the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, many startups founders and entrepreneurs were planning to either start a business in China or move their product development to the country because of its lower cost of labor. While it’s true that China’s labor is cheaper […]
Over the past decade, we’ve seen the meteoric rise of Bitcoin from a worthless digital currency with zero value between Jan 2009 – Mar 2010 to its highest peak of $63,729.50 on April 13, 2021. As of May 2010, Bitcoin was still worth less […]
Early last month, Reddit raised $700 million in a fundraising round doubling the company’s valuation to $10 billion in just 6 months. There are now reports that the popular aggregation site with billions in monthly traffic might be planning to go public. […]
Corelight, a Silicon Valley-based tech startup founded by the creators of the Zeek open-source framework, today announced it has raised $75 million in Series D investment to fuel the acceleration of its global market presence and development of new data and cloud […]
Life is short. From the moment we enter this world to the time we leave it, we’re writing our story. One day, one milestone, one memory at a time. Even with our technological advancement, most people still don’t live up […]
