In May, a study conducted by crypto exchange company Gemini found that 14% of American adults — roughly 21 million people — now own cryptocurrency. The sudden rise in crypto ownership coincided with Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live (SNL) […]
SenseTime, the AI facial recognition startup that is used by the Chinese government to surveil its citizens, is planning for an up to $2 billion initial public offerings (IPO) in Hong Kong stock exchange as soon as the end of […]
No day goes by without headlines on cyberattacks. But we’re now beginning to see a different type of attack, this time the attack on cryptocurrency. This morning, Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid said in a Twitter post that it has been […]
Remember Second Life back in the dot com boom? There is a new virtual world with an immersive experience called Metaverse. It’s seen as the successor of the Internet from Second Life to Horizon. Metaverse is the rage these days, and every […]
“Don’t be evil” is a phrase used in Google’s corporate code of conduct since the company’s inception over two decades ago. Then in 2018, Google quietly removed the phrase from its code of conduct. During that year, some Google employees left […]
In the past decade alone, 1.7 billion consumers have joined the world’s middle class, with over 90% of the new middle class in emerging markets (Brookings Institute, 2020). Many of the world’s new middle class in Asia, Latin America, Africa, […]
Two years ago, we looked at Europe’s top-funded startups. Since our last story, thousands of European tech startups have been created, raising a collective of nearly $9 billion in disclosed equity funding as of October 8, 2019. Europe is also […]
If you don’t automate your critical lease accounting workflows and tasks, you run the risk of racking huge admin costs. You’ll also get stuck in inefficient workflows and complicate your Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) accounting standards compliance processes. The […]
According to Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO), a branch of the United Nations, the global full costs of food wastage amount to about $2.6 trillion per year, including $700 billion of environmental costs and $900 billion of social costs. What if […]
Since the introduction of visual programming, developers and designers have been at loggerheads over user interface designs, user experience (UX), look-and-feel, among others. These days, more and more designers are being tasked with non-design-related tasks like frontend coding and UX designs rather than graphic […]
Hackers strike again. On Monday, a hacker offered for sale personal data from T-Mobile customers. Now the phone carrier is confirming the hack. T-Mobile said this morning that an ongoing investigation into the attack on its systems found that some personal data […]
Performance is more important than ever for modern websites. While creating a great-looking website on website design platforms is easy, optimizing it for performance is a tough task. Aside from streamlined visual elements, creators need to ensure that the website’s […]
Did you know that 8% of the U.S. national debt was spent fighting a 2-decade-old war in Afghanistan? According to estimates from Brown University’s Costs of War Project, the United States has spent a total of at least $2.26 trillion […]
On December 29, 2020, Boston Dynamics released a video of its dancing robots to usher in the New Year. The Massachusetts-based robotics firm welcomed us into the new year with new dance moves from Atlas and its two robotic friends. In the three-minute video, Atlas […]
In April, Moloco became the first Korean startup in Silicon Valley to reach unicorn status. We featured Moloco back then after the programmatic ad tech startup founded by former Google engineers after it raised new funding for its mobile performance advertising platform. […]
Wish is an e-commerce shopping app and one of the largest and global eCommerce platforms online. We covered Wish.com late last year after the marketplace announced the launch of a $2 million fund to support independent, black-owned retail businesses across the US. The […]
In 2015, Tesla was losing more than $4,000 on every car sold. The company was burning through cash at an alarming rate that reminds us of the dot-com bubble. Tesla burned $359 million in cash in the second quarter as it battled […]
As you may recall, we featured Bitpanda back in March after the European cryptocurrency trading platform raised a $170 million Series B round to drive expansion and transform Europe’s financial industry. The round, which was led by Peter Thiel’s Valar Venture, pushed the company’s […]
Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States. It is also the leading cause of mortality in the world, with an estimated 17 million deaths each year. To provide treatment for this deadly disease, Oxford, England-based HealthTech […]
Treliant, a Washington, DC-based Treliant regulatory and compliance consulting firm announced today it has acquired Vox Financial Partners (Vox) to strengthen its capital markets capabilities and expand its footprint into Europe. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. The transaction […]
