ICON, an Austin, Texas-based construction tech startup using 3D printing robotics to build homes, said today announced it has closed a $207 million Series B round of funding to accelerate growth and meet the growing demand for 3D-printed construction. In conjunction with […]
In just a century, technology and scientific discoveries have forever changed our ways of life. From penicillin to genome editing to CRISPR, billions of people around the world now have access to life-prolonging drugs and vaccines. However, these breakthroughs did not […]
Earlier this year, we made a prediction that non-fungible token (NFT) is one of those tech fads that will soon fade away with time. As it turns out, we were wrong–NFT is here to stay. Since our last piece, NFT […]
Isreal is one of the most vaccinated countries on earth. But the crisis in the ultra-vaxxed Jewish nation deepens as Israel passes 1 million total COVID cases. At this point, the question many are asking is: Can vaccine alone save […]
Customers are the lifeblood of every business. No company can survive without customers. In recent years, customer acquisition has become one of the biggest challenges faced by every new business. With increased competition and even with billions of users now […]
In recent months, Google has been facing a fast and furious pace of lawsuits and antitrust scrutiny. In the second quarter alone, the search giant faced its highest volume of regulatory pressure from lawsuits, which alleges it abuses monopoly power while […]
In March, we wrote about Roblox when the San Francisco-based gaming startup went public with an eye-popping $38 billion market cap to usher in a new era of Metaverse. Unlike other gaming companies, Roblox is building on the “metaverse” concept or […]
In 2015, China was banned from the International Space Station due to human rights issues and national security concerns. China later decided to build its own Space Station called Tiangong. The core of the space station was launched in April 2020. In […]
Chinese tech giant Baidu announced Tuesday that its artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistant Xiaodu Technology has closed Series B financing at a $5.1 billion valuation. The exact amount of the funding was disclosed. Xiaodu Series A was completed in November 2020 […]
In the United States, The average bank interest rate for interest checking accounts is a meager 0.03%. Savings accounts aren’t any better either. The average savings account rate is currently 0.06%, while the average money market account interest rate is 0.09%. Considering […]
Global payments giant Visa revealed Monday it bought CryptoPunk,” one of the thousands of non-fungible token (NFT)-based digital avatars for $165,000. According to the company’s official news-based Twitter account, Visa told its 114,000 followers it paid 49.5 ethereum ($165K) for the […]
Pharmaceutical giant Pfizer announced on Monday it has agreed to buy Canadian drug developer Trillium Therapeutics in a deal valued at $2.26 billion to strengthen its arsenal of blood cancer therapies. According to the announcement, Pfizer will pay $18.50 for […]
SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest technology-focused venture capital fund with over $100 billion in assets. Since its inception 39 years ago, the Japanese giant has invested billions of dollars in technology startups around the world, except in […]
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted full approval to Pfizer-BioNTech coronavirus vaccine wins full FDA approval, according to a report from The Washington Post, citing two individuals with direct knowledge of the decision. “Federal regulators Monday granted full […]
Adobe announced Thursday that it plans to acquire video workflow startup Frame.io for $1.275 billion. Frame.io is a maker of cloud-based software that enables multiple people to provide input on videos. The acquisition is expected to close during the fourth quarter of Adobe’s 2021 […]
As you may recall, PayPal announced in March the launch of “Checkout with Crypto” to enable PayPal customers in the U.S. to checkout with cryptocurrency alongside other payment methods in the PayPal wallet. At the time, the payment giant said it […]
In North America alone, the Rent-to-Own Industry is $8.5 billion, according to 2019 data from the Association of Progressive Rental Organizations, a nonprofit trade association advocating on behalf of the rent-to-own industry. The data includes dealers and companies that rent furniture, electronics, […]
Is there nothing coffee can’t do? A new study from the United Kingdom found that drinking 1 cup of coffee reduces the chance of Covid 19 by 10%. However, drinking 10 cups had no further effect. While vaccines, therapeutics, wearing masks, […]
In 2012, Tilt CEO James Beshara was named one of the 15 sharpest up-and-coming CEOs in Silicon Valley. Tilt (formerly Crowdtilt) was a crowdfunding company that allowed for groups and communities to collect, fundraise, or pool money online. The company was […]
Early this month, a Pfizer-funded study of 45,000 patients conducted over 6 months found there were 15 deaths in the vaccinated people versus 14 deaths in the unvaccinated. The highly-anticipated Pfizer’s safety and efficacy study of the BNT162b2 mRNA COVID-19 vaccine […]
