Last week, Microsoft received the backing from U.S. President Trump buy the U.S. operations of the ByteDance-owned TikTok. However, the tech giant seems to have a bigger dream–buy TikTok’s entire global business. Microsoft is going after a deal to buy all […]
We wrote about Epic Games back in July after Sony Corp. invested $250 million in the creator of the popular video game Fortnite and the mobile app Houseparty. The investment valued the Cary, North Carolina-based Epic Games at about $17 billion. […]
As of today, there is currently no scientific evidence that shows any correlation between the ongoing coronavirus pandemic to climate change. However, don’t tell that to Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates. In a gloom and doom forecast, Gates wrote on his […]
2020 is a year we will never forget. With millions of people unemployed, the coronvirus pandemic has brought about uneasy feelings that exacerbate mental illness and record-high demand for mental health support. According to a 2020 Workforce Attitudes Toward Mental Health […]
Are we in electric vehicle bubble? As startups ride on the success of Tesla, 2020 is shaping out to be a year when electric vehicle companies with names like Fisker, Karma and Rivian are raising millions of dollars at a time […]
Uber announced on Thursday it is buying the UK-based taxi tech startup Autocab, which sells booking and dispatch software to private hire firms, in a move that will allow the taxi app to reach customers where it does not currently operate. The […]
Telehealth sector continues to see massive growth as patients avoid hospital and doctor visit to prevent exposure to the deadly coronavirus. One of the leading companies in this space is Teladoc, a New York-based provider of virtual doctor visits provider and […]
While debate rages on about the efficacy of hydroxychloroquine, studies haven shown that countries that used the malaria drug are doing much better than those that haven’t. According to a report published by Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS), the group […]
We wrote about Anthony Levandowski back in November 2017 after the controversial driverless car pioneer started a new religion based on Artificial Intelligence (AI). The new religion of artificial intelligence, as he puts it, is called Way of the Future Church. […]
GentiBio, a Seattle-based biotherapeutics tech startup has closed a $20 million seed funding to develop engineered regulatory T cells to deliver immune tolerizing therapies for autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. The round was led by OrbiMed, Novartis Venture Fund and RA Capital […]
Coronavirus broke out from Wuhan, China in December 2019. Since then the virus has claimed over half a million lives around the world. A record 25 million Americans filed for unemployment benefits in the week and millions or businesses were […]
Kompany, a Vienna, Austria-based regulatory technology startup and provider of a global RegTech platform for global business verification and Business KYC, today announced it has announced it has raised about $7.1 million (€6 million) in new investment. The funding, which the company’s largest single investment […]
For B2B brands, building sales pipeline is a slow, inefficient process with delayed handoffs and missed opportunities to meet with qualified buyers. Every year, B2B marketers spend more than $6 billion driving buyers to their website, but sales teams have […]
According to CDC data, there have been at least 154,471 coronavirus-related deaths in the United States. However, that number may not be telling the whole story. On Tuesday, Dr. Robert Redfield, director of of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, […]
A group of citizen scientists motivated to action by the suffering caused by the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, announced they have developed a coronavirus vaccine that can be self-assembled and self-administered. In association with Harvard Medical School, the scientists are now sharing their […]
We last wrote about Yotpo back in January after the New York City-based eCommerce marketing platform acquired SaaS startup SMSBump. The mobile commerce market has seen explosive growth in recent years. Thanks in part to smart devices that are making […]
ReturnLogic, a Camp Hill, PA-based tech startup that provides SaaS returns optimization platform for modern retailers, today announced it has raised $2 million in financing from Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund, Amplify.LA, Cultivation Capital, SaaS Ventures, Stout Street Capital, SpringTime […]
Coronavirus has decimated the travel industry. The sector will not regain its footing until we have some kind of therapeutics or vaccine that gives people the confidence that it’s okay to start traveling again. One of the affected companies in the […]
If you’ve been following our blog for some time now, you know that we’re obsessed with writing about Elon Musk. We admire him because of his tenacity and perseverance in the face of adversity and obstacles. Against all odds, Musk succeeds in […]
Silverfort, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based security startup and a provider of the industry’s first agentless, proxyless authentication platform, announced today that it has raised $30 million in a series B investment round to accelerate the its fast growth and meet the […]
