Investments in property tech (Proptech) startups dropped in 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic. Thanks to vaccines, the global economy is slowly returning back to normal and investors are making more deals in the first half of this year than […]
Remember Robinhood, the commission-free stock trading app that blocked Reddit Army from trading blocked Gamestop and AMC stocks back in April? The notorious fintech startup also restricted thousands of retail investors from trading Dogecoin. Now, the startup is planning to go public […]
Dr. Robert Malone, a pioneer and one of the five inventors of mRNA vaccines, expressed his concerns about the sudden surge in covid-19 cases in countries with the most vaccinated citizens while the 15 least vaccinated countries don‘t seem to face […]
Back in April, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky faced backlash after she said that “vaccinated people do not carry the virus, don’t get sick. The CDC later walks back the claim that vaccinated people do […]
As of today, a total of 336 million doses of vaccines have been administered. Of that figure, a total of 160 million Americans have been fully vaccinated representing 48.9% of the total population, a number that is short of the 70 percent […]
In recent years, the number of targeted cyberattacks has been on the rise especially across government agencies and technology companies with intellectual properties that are of interest to nation-state threat actors. CEOs and CIOs of these organizations later turn to cybersecurity […]
On November 22, 2019, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled the “bulletproof” electric Cybertruck pickup truck in front of thousands of fans at its Design Studio in Hawthorne, California. However, the debut suffered a setback after its ‘armored glass’ windows shattered. Fast […]
Google Cloud has abruptly parted with its VP of developer relations for Google Cloud, according to an exclusive report from CNBC, citing an internal email that employees said followed a contentious all-hands meeting about antisemitism. According to an email obtained and […]
Driverless tech startup Aurora Innovation becomes the latest company to join the SPAC craze. Today, Aurora announced it has agreed to go public via a merger with Reinvent Technology Partners Y, a blank-check firm backed by Silicon Valley heavyweights including […]
After the Biden administration failed to meet the 70 percent goal of the United States’ adult population receiving at least one vaccine dose by July 4, his administration now believes Covid misinformation is partly to be blamed for the vaccine hesitancy […]
Welcome back to another edition of the Startup Spotlight, our weekly series where we get into the minds of some of the world’s most successful and inspiring startup founders and CEOs to help future and aspiring entrepreneurs navigate the startup journey […]
The use of LiDAR technology is on the rise. While it is commonly used in autonomous driving cars, other areas including logistics, robotics, security, intelligent traffic management, and smart cities are expected to be the dominant fields for LiDAR sensors. LiDAR, […]
This week, thousands of Cubans took to the streets to express their frustration with the authoritarian regime. In response, the Cuban Communist government on Monday shut down social media and messaging apps, making it impossible for people to share videos and […]
Organizations are accelerating their digital roadmap with their assets now spread between on-premise and cloud environments. As part of their security and compliance needs, there is increasing demand for a SaaS-based product that can be easily stood up and allows […]
The dominos keep on falling. Just last week, we wrote about Binance after reports that seven countries are now investigating the world’s largest crypto exchange for money laundering and illegal activities. Singapore, the country with some of the toughest cryptocurrency regulations […]
No day goes by without another headline about cyber hacking and data breaches. With no one to stop them, cyber attackers are now roaming freely across the internet wreaking havoc on mostly American companies. SolarWinds, Colonial pipeline, JBS meat processing, Cyber Polygon, and […]
Finally, someone has the gut to tell it as it is: cryptocurrency is a Ponzi scheme that harnesses populist rage and convinces desperate and vulnerable people to dump money into highly manipulated and speculative assets with the promise of over […]
UK fintech startup Revolut announced Thursday it has raised $800 million in a new funding round led by SoftBank and Tiger Global. Revolut is now valued at $33 billion, a sixfold increase on the $5.5 billion the company was worth […]
Sonarworks, a Riga, Latvia-based audio technology startup company behind the award-winning recording studio software for music creators like Lady Gaga, Madonna, Rihanna, Kanye West, and others, announced today that it has closed a $6 million funding round to fund the expansion of […]
Known for calling out Hollywoods and public figures on the issues of racial and financial inequality throughout his film career, Spike Lee is now teaming up with crypto startup Coin Cloud to introduce a national ad campaign and short film on […]
