Flare, the Layer 1 oracle network, finally launches tonight with the distribution of over 4 billion tokens to millions of recipients. Flare announced it has successfully initiated its long-awaited token airdrop at 11:59 pm UTC on January 9th. According to the […]
With funding drying up, deep-pocket companies are scooping up promising and high-growth tech startups before their IPOs. Earlier today, we wrote about Wolters Kluwer, an Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands-based global that has acquired two startups in just a week. But Wolters […]
As you may recall, last week we wrote about Meta and Apple after the two tech giants were fined for breaking EU data rules with their targeted ads. Facebook’s Meta was fined over $400 million by the EU privacy regulator for […]
Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has come a long way since its early days over five decades ago. The first English text-to-speech system was invented by Japanese researcher Noriko Umeda at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Japan in 1968 when he generated a computer […]
Since our inception five years ago, we have covered thousands of startups that have raised billions in funding from angel investors, accelerators and incubators, and venture capital firms. Any founder would tell you that starting a new business venture can […]
The crypto market has lost over $2.1 trillion from its peak of over $3 trillion when Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $69,000 in November 2021. There is also no sign recovery is in sight anytime soon as weary investors […]
A lot of people are always looking for the next big thing. With technology constantly evolving, there are always plenty of exciting additions coming to different sectors. It’s no different for those who have an interest in the world of […]
Back in August 2019, when we first put together a rundown of the world’s unicorn startups, we counted a total of 360 of these privately-held companies with valuations hitting the $1 billion mark or beyond. Fast forward to 2020, and […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, January 5, 2023. Twitter hacked, 235 million user email addresses leaked, researcher says Late last year, a hacker by the name ‘Ryushi’ demanded Twitter pay a […]
TL;DR EVgo, one of the largest U.S. charging networks, teams up with Amazon to let EV drivers locate and pay for charging with Alexa EV drivers will soon be able to find and navigate to charging stations while on the […]
We’re all well aware of misinformation and fake news. But who would have thought of misinformation in cyber intelligence? For decades, cyber-defense systems have been used to automatically ingest Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) that contains semi-structured data or text to populate […]
In early December 2022, the EU privacy watchdog ruled that Meta cannot run advertising based on personal data and will need users’ consent to do so, according to a report from Reuters, citing a person familiar with the matter. Now, the hammer […]
Coinbase is making headlines again but not for the reasons the U.S.-based crypto exchange would like. Today, Coinbase Global has reached a $100 million settlement with New York’s Department of Financial Services (DFS), the exchange and the regulator said in statements […]
Headlines are filled with stories of businesses and organizations falling victim to data breaches. Data breaches have been on the rise for a number of years, and sadly, 2022 has been littered with thefts of sensitive information, affecting companies and […]
“We hired too many people leading into this economic downturn we’re now facing.” Salesforce announced Wednesday it is laying off 10 percent of its over 70,000 employees. In a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Salesforce said it plans to reduce […]
Nexus Circular, an Atlanta-based waste management and energy production company, has raised $150 million in equity funding led by Cox Enterprises. The latest financing will enable Nexus to build additional capacity to serve its expanding customer base and meet the outsized […]
Great companies are made during a recession, so the saying goes. When we look back at major recessions throughout history, we found that some of today’s best-known US companies like FedEx, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, and Walt Disney, got their early starts during past […]
Solana was once touted as an Ethereum killer, in part because of its eco-friendlier approach, high scalability, lower cost, and faster transaction speeds. But 2022 turned out to be the worst year for the one darling of the “Proof of […]
Happy New Year! Last year, ChatGPT dominated the news, sparking a flurry of excitement and infinite possibilities as over a million users signed up for the new OpenAI’s dialogue-based AI chatbot that does almost everything—from writing codes, and telling stories […]
Early this year, we wrote about COTI Network after the organization announced its plan to create a new token standard for stablecoins issued on the new COTI’s MultiDAG 2.0 Layer, that will be the equivalent of the ERC20 token standard […]
