2021 was a blockbuster year for merger and acquisition (M&A). For the first time ever, global M&A volumes topped $5 trillion, comfortably surpassing the previous record of $4.55 trillion set in 2007, Dealogic data showed. According to a report from […]
Splinterlands, the next generation of collectible card games and the most popular NFT-based play-to-earn card game 6 months running, announced today it has passed the one Billion battle milestone. Thanks to its ever-increasing popularity and sustained presence atop the charts […]
The drums of war are beating in Ukraine louder than ever, and the United States is probably responsible for the escalation. Even when Ukraine President said that Russia poses no threat to his country, Pentagon spokesperson John Kirby said on […]
With the growing population in urban cities around the world, the arrival of autonomous vehicles (AVs) provides a unique opportunity for a fundamental change in urban mobility. One of the startups leading this change is May Mobility, an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based tech […]
Worldwide, Google is mostly known for its most popular search engine, but the tech giant offers many other products you probably don’t know about. Do you know that Google is also a domain registrar? Google got into the domain registration business as […]
FTX U.S., the American affiliate of cryptocurrency exchange FTX, said on Wednesday it has raised $400 million in its first external funding round from high-profile investors including Japan’s SoftBank Group Corp and Singapore’s Temasek Holdings. The Series A funding round gives FTX […]
Small farmers will soon have a way to increase their bottom lines if they’re willing to share data on their farming methods. Dimitra, the AI-driven AgriTech platform provider, is providing users with the opportunity to monetize their datasets by selling […]
NFTs have been one of crypto’s undisputed success stories of the last year. From relatively meager sales under $100 million in 2020, NFT transactions skyrocketed to hit $25 billion in 2021. Nevertheless, early last year, as the hype around NFTs […]
China has the world’s largest video surveillance network with plans to expand it to more than 600 million surveillance cameras in just a few years. Today, the Chinese government uses some of the world’s most sophisticated systems of electronic surveillance, […]
About a year ago, we wrote about NEC X, the innovation accelerator for NEC Corporation’s emerging technologies, after the accelerator announced a joint partnership with Alchemist Accelerator to provide technology startups with end-to-end support, including NEC R&D technologies and business launch coordination. Alchemist Accelerator […]
Late last year, we wrote about why Mark Zuckerberg’s ‘metaverse’ plan and Facebook’s vision to take over people’s lives should terrify and scare everyone. As it turns out, the situation with Facebook’s Metaverse is a lot worse than we originally […]
With virtually every organization moving their IT resources to the cloud, today companies are massively overspending on provisioning cloud resources for their big data jobs, a problem that even those who use Databricks run into. To solve this problem, one […]
Negotiatus, a New York-based tech startup and provider of guided B2B marketplace, announced today it has changed its name to Order after raising 30M in Series B funding. The rebranding reflects the company’s mission to optimize, simplify, and streamline the purchasing […]
Imagine you have to deal with multiple tools to get the best out of Salesforce. That’s what the sales teams of most organizations have to contend with. Now one startup is building out tools that make it easy for salespeople to […]
APImetrics announced today it has acquired API Science to expand its API monitoring capabilities. The combined offering brings together APImetric’s enterprise-business focus with API Science’s developer intelligence to serve the API monitoring and reporting needs of developers, API consumers, and enterprises. The terms […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is back at the relentless promotion of Dogecoin, a cryptocurrency that started as a joke in December 2013 based on the popular “doge” meme represented by a Shiba Inu dog as its logo. About two weeks ago, […]
With liquidity pool, yield farming, the popular DEX aggregator TimechainSwap is building out its own decentralized exchange platform with the addition of key functionality around staking, Automated Market Maker liquidity pools, and some big incentives. The new functions announced today are […]
Creditas, a SoftBank-backed fintech startup, has raised $260 million in its sixth funding round to expand its collateralized loan business in Brazil and Mexico. The round solidifies Creditas’ position as a member of the Brazilian unicorn, with a valuation of $4.8 billion. […]
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Singapore’s Temasek Holdings has agreed to buy Bridgepoint’s UK-based testing firm Element Materials Technology for about $7 billion, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing two sources familiar with the matter. The acquisition will boost growth at the testing and inspection services […]
