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 […]
The NASA Perseverance Rover has succeeded in obtaining the Martian rock sample, which is only slightly thicker than a pencil. Photographs sent by the #Perseverance rover have since confirmed the presence of the rock inside its tube. The tube has been […]
Coinbase, Gemini, Kraken, and a number of other cryptocurrency exchanges appear to have crashed or restricted trading after the price of bitcoin suddenly collapsed on Tuesday wiping $400 billion off people’s investments. The price fell from above $52,500 to below […]
AddictingGames.com, a gaming platform founded by entrepreneur Bill Karamouzis (Bill Kara) has been acquired for $35 million dollars by Toronto-based Enthusiast Gaming Holdings. As part of the acquisition agreement, Addicting Games and its 28 employees will be joining the 200 or […]
As you may recall, Amazon founder Jeff Bezos stepped down as CEO back in July to spend more time on philanthropy and passion projects like his space company Blue Origin. Former AWS executive Andy Jassy later takes over as the CEO […]
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 […]
In 2011, hackers stole 25,000 bitcoin (US$400,000 at the time) from the Japanese bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox. A year later in 2012, former Airbnb engineer Brian Armstrong saw an opportunity and decided to build a crypto exchange platform that offers better security and protection […]
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 […]
In March 2020, NBC Brian Williams was criticized for a simple math error while discussing Bloomberg on MSNBC. “Bloomberg spent $500 million on ads. The U.S. population is 327 million. He could have given each American $1 million and still have […]
News stories of the fully vaccinated people dying of coronavirus are beginning to emerge. This evening, a local CBS News announced that a 35-year-old woman in Portland died early Friday morning of COVID-19 while on the waiting list for a last-resort […]
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 […]
In early August, a double-blind study from Israel found that Covid-19 could be treated for under $1 a day using the Nobel Prize-winning drug Ivermectin. Unfortunately, the news about the study received little to no attention from the mainstream media in […]
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. […]
As you may recall in early August, Apple announced the plans to scan and monitor all US iPhones for evidence of child abuse images. However, security researchers raised concerns over the potential surveillance of personal devices saying the system could be misused […]
In February we covered Justo’s Series A round when the Mexico City-based FoodTech startup raised $65 million Series A funding to fuel its expansion into Mexico and Latin America. Justo had exponential growth of 800% in the last year in Mexico, thanks to […]
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 […]
