We covered Marqeta back in May. At the time the Goldman Sachs-backed payments startup secured $150 million in funding at $4.3 billion valuation. A year earlier, the startup raised $260 million equity financing led by Coatue and included participation from Vitruvian Partners and several […]
We love writing about Tesla. Just think about this for a moment. Electric car has been around for over 200 years. The first successful electric car made its debut around 1890. It was developed by William Morrison, a chemist who lived […]
Sony Corp. announced today it has invested $250 million in Epic Games, the owner and the creator of the popular video game Fortnite and the mobile app Houseparty. Bloomberg first reported last month that Epic was close to securing funding at […]
Docket, an Indianapolis, IN-based tech startup and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) productivity platform for managing effective meetings, has secured $1.25M in funding to grow meeting productivity platform. The new funding came from new investors Sequoia Capital, Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures and Maven […]
Bringing a new tech product to life is not an easy undertaking. Creating new products involves a lot coordination with so many moving parts. To help tech startup founders and entrepreneurs, IndieGogo, the popular crowdfunding website, has partnered with Arrow Electronics […]
For over four months now, the naysayers have been warning us about the danger of taking malaria drug hydroxychloroquine to treat COVID-19. The disgraced medical journal Lancet even went as far as using falsified data from Surgisphere Corp to back […]
About half of the people in the world are not connected to the internet. Nearly 3.8 billion people don’t have access to the internet, and many more lack what we would consider meaningful access. The unconnected are missing out but […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci is back in the news. Yesterday, it was Dr. Birx. Today Fauci pushes for more lockdowns as coronavirus spreads across Sun Belt states. After several months of misleading comments, White House health advisor and the nation’s top infectious […]
Tesla is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. According to NHTSA, level 5 autonomous refers to a fully-autonomous system […]
Google announced Wednesday that it has abandoned its cloud project on concerns over political tensions and the coronavirus pandemic, according to a report from Bloomberg. Dubbed as “Isolated Region,” the initiative is sought to address the desires of China and other […]
Amazon sellers in the U.S. will soon be required to provide their business contact information including names and addresses. Today, the e-Commerce giant informed U.S. sellers on Wednesday that it will soon require them to disclose their business name and […]
It’s been a while since we last wrote about Xometry, the world’s largest marketplace for On-Demand manufacturing. Xometry is changing the way you order custom parts with custom manufacturing on demand services for 3D printing, CNC machining, Injection molding, and more. Late last year, […]
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the trends show some increased interest in use of telemedicine and telehealth services among patients and healthcare providers around the country. In the first half of 2020, healthcare providers have seen a sharp increase in utilization of […]
Micro social platform Twitter is reportedly working on a new subscription platform under the codename Gryphon, according to two online job postings. Twitter revealed little about the new platform, though it said it will work with its Payments and Twitter.com […]
It’s been a bad few weeks for TikTok. Last month, the Chinese social app TikTok was caught reading data from user clipboards. The ByteDance-owned app was caught after TikTok users were notified by Apple that TikTok was reading data from their […]
Third drone parachute validation by NUAIR and New York UAS Test Site, advancing safe integration of unmanned aircraft Following vigorous testing, completed in collaboration with NUAIR, the drone parachute recovery system by Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions (AVSS) for the DJI […]
SUSE, a Linux distribution company controlled by private equity firm EQT, has agreed to acquire Rancher Labs, an open source container software startup tech startup that helps organizations run software in virtual containers across many servers. The financial terms of the deal […]
Slack has acquired software as a service startup company Rimeto, the company announced Wednesday. The financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed. The acquisition is a natural fit with Slack. Channels make it easy to find the information you […]
Last week, China passed a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, which many fear could be used to override existing legal processes and end China’s “One country, two systems” policy. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the United States […]
The United States has officially withdrawn from the World Health Organization (WHO), a senior administration official confirmed Tuesday. The U.S. has submitted its withdrawal notification to the United Nations secretary-general, the official said. Withdrawal requires a year’s notice, so it […]
