Late last year, San Francisco-based fintech startup Stripe acquired Nigeria’s Paystack for over $200 million to expand its footprint in Africa. Paystack was founded in 2015 by two Nigerians Ezra Olubi and Shola Akinlade to let businesses in Africa accept payments by anyone, […]
Robinhood, a commission-free trading platform, is back at what it does best: restricting users from trading surging assets. We all remember back in January when Robinhood restricted its users from buying surging stocks like GameStop, AMC Entertainment, and BlackBerry. Robinhood founder and CEO […]
As we reported early this week, venture capitalists (VCs) poured a record $64 billion into tech startups in the first quarter of 2021. That equals 43% of the total fundraising in all of 2020, which was a record year. But what […]
We wrote about Dogecoin back in February after Elon Musk’s tweet sent the cryptocurrency that was created based on the “Doge”soaring another 53% to over $10 billion market cap. A few days earlier, Dogecoin surged by as much as 800% as Reddit board […]
Just like the yearly flu shots, people who are already vaccinated will likely need a third dose of the COVID-19 vaccine within a year of being inoculated. That was according to Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla. He added that it’s possible that people will […]
Back in January, we wrote about Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz after the German automaker threw its hat in the ring with the launch of an EQA compact electric SUV with 300 miles range in an effort to take on Tesla. The EQA was […]
On the 10th anniversary of its Internet Essentials program, Comcast announced it will invest $1 billion over the next 10 years to further close the digital divide and give more low-income Americans the needed tools and resources to succeed in […]
There is no denying that big tech companies now control our lives. From online search to the products you buy online, artificial intelligence has permeated into our everyday lives. Unlike the United States where our leaders don’t have the courage […]
We live in a world where boardrooms are mostly full of men. At the same time, we’ve made progress over the years and women are beginning to take up executive chairs at Fortune 500 companies. The situation is improving, but it […]
It’s almost three years since we last wrote about KuCoin, a crypto exchange that aims to bring cryptocurrency to the masses. Back then the Hong Kong-based startup closed a $20 million Series A investment led by IDG Capital, Matrix Partners, Neo Global Capital, […]
Online fraud is costing U.S. merchants more this year than it did a year before. In addition, the average number of both attempted and the cost of fraud for online merchants continues to go up. Every $1 of fraud now […]
Sony Music Africa has partnered with a not-for-profit pan-African women empowerment platform, The Women of Music Business (WOMB), to launch a new ‘masterclass’ training program, supporting women working in the African music industry and helping to build the next generation […]
We covered Medable late last year after the Silicon Valley-based health tech startup raised $91 million in Series C funding to revolutionize clinical trials and reduce clinical trial timelines by 50 percent. Medable is transforming clinical research and predictive medicine […]
About two months ago, SpaceX after Elon Musk’s space company raised $850 million in new funding at a $74 billion valuation. The February funding followed a $1.9 billion funding SpaceX raised in the summer of 2020. With increasing demands from […]
Carl Sagan once said, “All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.” Space transportation is now a reality, thanks to private spaceflight companies like Virgin Atlantic, SpaceX, and new innovative technology startups like Phantom Space Corporation, a Tucson, Arizona-based tech startup focused on space transportation including […]
Crypto exchange startup Coinbase is unlike any market debut Wall Street has ever seen. The highly anticipated Coinbase IPO is set to hit the public market on Wednesday, a week after preliminarily reporting a ninefold increase in first-quarter revenue to […]
With more and more companies seeking simplified ways to turn their vast amount of information from a worry into a strength, Kyocera has risen to the challenge with the launch of KYOCERA Capture Manager (KCM). For many enterprises across all […]
The gaming industry is booming with no signs of slowing down. According to data by research firm Statista, the gaming industry is expected to surpass 138 billion by 2021. As the gaming market explodes, it also presents fantastic possibilities for game developers. […]
Today, Tesla remains the worldwide leader in electric vehicle sales and has sold nearly half a million EVs so far. However, new electric car companies in China are not far behind. China is the world’s largest market for electric vehicle […]
Fate loves irony is a phrase that describes events in our lives when the opposite of what we expect happens. A famous example is a fire station that burns down. In the early 1990s, way before he became a millionaire and […]
