Last week, we wrote about Intel chairman Omar Ishrak after he announced the launch of his new blank-check company with $750 million in funding. Now, another well-known digital ad company is joining the SPAC craze. Today, digital ad startup Taboola announced Monday that it […]
AirAsia food is a Malaysia super app launched in May 2020 to help support local and small food and beverage businesses during the coronavirus pandemic. With restaurants only allowed to offer take-out services, AirAsia food’s riders continue to do their part in […]
Bit.com, the secure and high-performance derivatives exchange by Matrixport, will be launching Bitcoin Cash (BCH) perpetual swaps and options. BCH options trading will go live on 01 Feb 2021, following the launch of BCH perpetual swaps on 20 Jan 2021. […]
SAP and Microsoft announced Friday they have reached a partnership agreement to integrate Microsoft Teams with SAP’s intelligent suite of solutions. The two companies also formalized an extensive expansion of an existing strategic partnership to accelerate the adoption of SAP […]
Just when you thought the discussion about the origin of coronavirus was going away, now Jamie Metzl, a World Health Organization (WHO) adviser, is breaking his silence over the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic. Metzl was appointed in 2019 to the WHO expert advisory committee […]
Happy weekend! 2020 was a difficult year for all of us. With people spending more time working from home, reading great books could offer a lot of help in these trying times. We could learn from history and how people before […]
After a year in which the coronavirus pandemic changed our ways of life, a big question that is often asked is, how is COVID-19 severity going to change in the years ahead? Now, we may have the answer to this […]
The German city of Ulm, which is about 75 miles west of Munich, has just unveiled futuristic insulated sleep pods for its homeless citizens on cold winter nights. Dubbed ‘Ulmer Nest,’ the pods are equipped with solar panels and placed in parks […]
Fossil Fuels are Dead, Long Live Fossil Fuels. For many years, environmentalists have been talking about the death of fossil fuels. However, with new carbon capture and sequestration technologies, fossil fuels could be part of the zero-carbon solution. Yesterday, Elon Musk […]
In October 2014, Janet Yellen was appointed to replace Ben Bernanke as chair of the Federal Reserve. Her nomination came at a time when the discussion about regulating Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies was a hot button issue. Then after three […]
Thirty-seven years ago today, the world was introduced to the Apple Macintosh personal computer with a one-minute advertisement that ran during Super Bowl XVIII. On January 22, 1984, Apple introduced the first commercial computer to popularize the computer mouse and the graphical user […]
With millions of people concerned about their privacy over the Internet, internet users are abandoning popular browsers like Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge in favor of privacy-focused browsers like DuckDuckGo and Brave. However, the browser alone doesn’t offer you the […]
Crosslink, a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in ambitious early-stage founders, announced it has closed $350 million for its ninth flagship venture capital fund, Crosslink Ventures IX. The new fund, which was oversubscribed, includes support from both new and existing investors. […]
The impacts of climate change are global in scope, unprecedented in scale, and can no longer be denied. We can see the impacts of climate change all around. Some of the major impacts include increased heat, drought, insect outbreaks, increased […]
Yesterday, The World Health Organization (WHO) released a new set of tightened guidelines and diagnostic criteria for detecting COVID-19 on the same day the 46th President of the United States was sworn in. The new guidelines may impact how healthcare […]
Good afternoon! Below is a list of the top tech startup news for today, the 21st day of the 21st year of the 21st century. Sorry, we missed yesterday’s top stories. Former Cisco CEO John Chambers says his startups are leaving […]
In a minor setback to the free speech social app Parler, a federal judge on Thursday rejected its demand that Amazon.com restore its web hosting services. However, Parler CEO John Matze said he is ‘confident’ the platform will return back fully […]
Back in May, we wrote about tech companies moving out of California to Austin, Texas due to the state’s lockdown rules and poor handling of the stay-at-home order. A couple of months later, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced Tesla headquarters […]
Quantifind, a Silicon Valley-based startup that provides AI solutions for anti-money laundering and fraud detection, today announced it has closed a $22 million funding to accelerate its pursuit of a growing market for automated financial crime and risk investigation. Founded in […]
The global eyewear market, which is made up of spectacles, contact lenses, sunglasses, and other eyewear products, was estimated to be valued at $147.60 billion in 2020, according to data from research firm GrandViewResearch. One startup disrupting this space is […]
