In 2020, the global GDP amounted to about $84.54 trillion, according to data from research firm Statista. On the other hand, the global B2B eCommerce market was estimated to be $12.2 trillion in 2019, which is over 6 times that […]
As you may recall, we reported last week that Indian hotel chain Oyo, a SoftBank-backed Indian hospitality startup was planning for an initial public offering (IPO) this week to raise around $1 billion. The day has finally come and we […]
YouTube strikes again! As part of its effort to crackdown on anti-vaccine misinformation, YouTube announced yesterday it would block all anti-vaccine content on its video platform. As we reported yesterday, the Google-owned video platform also said it is moving beyond its ban […]
In September 1859, the first recorded solar storm, also known as a Coronal Mass Ejection (CME), hit the United States. Known as the Carrington Event, the solar storm caused widespread telegraph problems. If the same Carrington-scale event were to hit the United […]
Foxconn Technology Group (Foxconn), a Taiwan-based company and the world’s largest electronics manufacturer, is nearing a deal to buy the electric truck startup Lordstown Motors’ Ohio plant, according to a report from Bloomberg, citing people familiar with the matter. The […]
On Tuesday, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk took a jab at Jeff Bezos during an interview, saying, “you can’t sue your way to the moon.” Blue Origin, a space company founded by Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, sued NASA in August after the agency […]
In recent years, tech companies have been busy working on a variety of ways to prevent and avoid death — including uploading the human brain to a computer. However, there is still no disruptive technology out there that prevents humans […]
Crypto investors may be in for a very dark winter if a recent warning from Elon Musk is to be believed. Just two days ago, Elon Musk said the U.S. government should not be in the business of regulating cryptocurrencies as […]
With billions of people now on Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube, the shift from public to private networks is undeniable. And that’s why this new tech startup has seen phenomenal success as thousands of users turn to its new camera app. Lapse […]
There’s a lot of buzz about edge computing in recent years. What’s it really? Edge computing is a distributed computing framework that brings enterprise applications closer to data sources such as IoT devices or local edge servers. This is expected to improve […]
The global B2B payment continues to grow at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. It is estimated that B2B payments volume totals approximately $120 trillion per year globally and roughly $25 trillion per year domestically. The growth is expected […]
Shanzhai is a Chinese term that literally means “mountain fortress” or “mountain village.” But the contemporary use of the term usually encompasses counterfeit, imitation, or pirated products, which can involve the imitation and trademark infringement of brands and companies. You […]
The amount of data created every day is exploding at an exponential rate. According to estimates, an incredible 2.5 quintillion bytes of data are created every day with 90% of the world’s data created in the last two years alone. […]
There is a wave of optimism in post-pandemic Africa. The recent coronavirus pandemic and China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang have led to a momentous shift in people’s attitudes toward China. Investors are beginning to move away from the communist country to business-friendly countries […]
Google-owned YouTube announced it will block all anti-vaccine content on its video platform as part of its effort to crackdown on anti-vaccine misinformation. YouTube is also moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content […]
Medical care is estimated to account for only 10-20 percent of a person’s health, according to research from the National Academy of Medicine. The other 80 to 90% can be broadly attributed to social determinants of health (SDoH) which affect a wide […]
Botco.ai, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based tech startup that provides AI-based conversational marketing solutions, announced today it has raised additional seed funding from VamosVentures to help accelerate growth. The funding brings the company’s total seed round to $3.6 million. Founded in 2017 by […]
As you may recall in June Mark Cuban called for cryptocurrency regulation in the U.S after he lost money trading a DeFi token TITAN. The token is linked to fintech startup Iron Finance, a group that runs the wider IRON Stablecoin […]
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 […]
Forex trading (forex or FX) is the process of trading one currency for another. It also represents the price or how much it costs to buy the currency of one country using the currency of another country. Today, the forex exchange market […]
