Yesterday, we wrote about a report that Microsoft was in talks to buy AI and speech technology company Nuance Communications for about $16 billion. This morning, Microsoft confirmed in an announcement that it will buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications in […]
The identity verification (IDV) market is seeing significant demand as a result of the pandemic-driven accelerated digitization across the globe. In 2020 alone, identity fraud cost Americans a total of about $56 billion, with about 49 million consumers falling victim, […]
Wildberries is the largest Russian online retailer. The startup was founded in 2004 by Tatyana Bakalchuk at age 28 in her Moscow apartment while on maternity leave from teaching. Tatyana started Wildberries using her savings of $700. In 2019, Wildberries was valued […]
To protect employees from COVID-19, many enterprises rapidly shifted to make distributed work possible while maintaining business productivity. Forced to accelerate digital transformation initiatives, these changes led to gaps in visibility and security, ultimately playing into the hands of attackers. […]
Microsoft Corp is reportedly in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc at about $16 billion, according to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter. Microsoft has been on a buying spree lately. Just […]
LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned professional networking site, announced that some user data including publicly viewable member profiles have been scraped and posted for sale online. LinkedIn also added that the incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the […]
Facebook users, rejoice! Your friends and fans will soon be able to know that you have received COVID-19 vaccines. In a post early this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is working with the CDC to launch a new […]
After four years of relative peace under former President Donald Trump, the U.S military may be getting the country into a new war on two fronts–Russia and China. Yesterday, an unnamed US defense official told CNN the warships would be deployed […]
We covered ATAI Life Sciences (ATAI) back in the winter of 2020 after the Peter Thiel-backed startup raised a $125 million round to develop psychedelics treatment for people suffering from mental health disorders. Based in Munich, Germany, ATAI is developing psychedelic and […]
In the summer of last year, Elon Musk demonstrated Neuralink’s AI-powered brain implant in live pigs. During the demonstration, Musk showed the uses and applications of Neuralink with three pigs implanted with Link V0.9 chips. Musk told the audience that the implementation would one […]
KKR, a New York-based private equity firm KKR is making a $500 investment in Box.com to help the cloud content management company buy back shares from activist investor Starboard Value. Since 2019, Box has faced pressure from Starboard after the […]
In the last few days, Russia has moved more than 25,000 troops to Crimea and the border region of Ukraine, which has resulted in threats and counter-threats between the two countries. The Russian military build-up has raised fears of a possible Russian […]
Data is growing exponentially which creates both opportunities and obligations for enterprises. Jumbled up with this exponentially growing data is ‘sensitive data’ that attackers perpetually go after, can be inadvertently misused by insiders and regulators incessantly want to govern. The […]
It’s been a while since we wrote about TrueLayer, a London, England-based fintech startup that builds universal APIs or application programming interfaces to allow companies to capitalize on new Open Banking initiatives in the UK, and beyond. TrueLayer lets fintech apps like […]
Prosus is an Amsterdam-based technology investor and internet conglomerate. Prosus’s parent company, Naspers Ltd., is Africa’s largest listed company and a global consumer internet group, and one of the largest technology investors in the world. In 2001, Naspers made an early, successful […]
Peter Thiel is a renowned billionaire tech investor and a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund. He was the first outside investor in Facebook. He currently sits on Facebook’s board after making an early investment. Often colloquially referred […]
Paymob, a Cairo, Egypt-based fintech startup and Egypt’s market-leading digital payments provider, announced today it has closed an $18.5 million in Series A funding round, the largest Series A fundraise by an Egyptian company. The round was led by Global […]
A little over two years, we wrote about Redis Labs after the Mountain View, California-based tech startup raised a $60 million Series E round for its NoSQL in-memory database. The startup is behind Redis, a database benchmarked as the world’s fastest. Redis Labs’ […]
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) is holding an Entrepreneur-in-Residence program investor talk today at 2:30 PM Eastern Time via Zoom. What: Join President and CEO of NYSERDA Doreen M. Harris and Clean Energy Ventures (CEV) […]
Homes, offices, restaurants, grocery stores, and gyms, have one thing in common: germs. They travel from one thing to another in a heartbeat, just by opening doors, hanging onto the bus railing, working out at the gym, paying for coffee, […]
