Robinhood, a stock app popular among millennials, experienced a ‘system-wide outage’ and eventually crashed as markets rebounded in heavy volume Monday. The stock missed the entire day of trading. As of writing, the stock trading app’s status is now up. The outage […]
Waymo, a self-driving startup owned by Google’s parent company, Alphabet, has raised a whopping $2.25 billion in its first external funding round. The round was led by Silicon Valley heavyweights including Alphabet itself, along with outside firms like Silver Lake, Andreessen Horowitz and […]
We’ve heard many horror stories of coronovirus and its impacts all around the world. To date, the virus has claimed over 3,000 lives. The virus also caused trillions of dollars in economic damage. However, there is one positive effect of […]
We live in a data-driven world where informed decisions are not just based on human intuition but on data derived from every part of the organization. Decision makers are now turning to artificial intelligence and machine learning to crunch a […]
Good morning! Hope you all had a great weekend. Below are the top tech startups news for today, Monday, March 2, 2020. Apple to pay up to $500 million to settle U.S. lawsuit over slow iPhones. Tech giant Apple has […]
According to the Financial Times special report, mobile game developer and publisher Gismart has been named the fastest-growing company in the gaming industry and came 6th in the overall list of FT 1000: Europe’s fastest-growing businesses. Ranked according to the […]
We’ve explored space and gone to the moon and back. But we know very little about what’s going under the seas and the oceans. One of the biggest barriers to protecting the ocean, and our future, is that we don’t […]
Thought Machine, a London-based cloud native core banking technology startup, has raised $83 million to transform banking by deploying modern cloud-native systems and continue investment in its core engineering capability. The funding will also be used to drive Thought Machine’s […]
The two companies are joining forces to provide affordable English as a foreign language tutoring at scale by using a virtual voice-enabled character. Edwin, the EdTech startup backed by General Catalyst, Y Combinator, and Google Assistant Investments Program, among others, […]
Recent advances in cancer immunotherapy have resulted in medications that have profound benefit to some patients. Unfortunately, most cancer victims are relatively unresponsive to single agents such as PD-(L)1 checkpoint inhibitors. Literally hundreds of clinical studies are currently being conducted […]
Agragene, a San Diego, California-based agritech startup developing developing novel biological crop pest protection products using advanced CRISPR-based genome engineering, has raised $1.2 million in a seed funding to expand field trials and commercialization of Agragene’s eco-friendly alternatives to chemical pesticides. The round was […]
Billionaire Paul Singer’s Elliott Management has purchased a stake Twitter and is reportedly seeking to oust its chief executive, Jack Dorsey. Paul Singer, a major Republican donor is planning to push for changes at the social media company, including replacing Chief […]
Coronavirus Updates: There are now 85,733 of confirmed coronavirus cases of the virus worldwide and almost 3,000 deaths – the vast majority from mainland China, where the outbreak originated. There is currently no vaccine to prevent coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). Researchers and […]
From Boston to San Francisco, robots are now being used in fast food restaurants to work alongside restaurant workers. The latest example is Flippy, a robot hamburger flipper and the world’s first autonomous robotic kitchen assistant. The robot was developed by Miso Robotics, […]
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates said the coronavirus is starting to behave like the “once-in-a-century pathogen we’ve been worried about.” Comparing the ongoing coronovirus outbreak to influenza pandemic of 1957, which killed an estimated 66,000 people in the U.S., Gates said […]
How cool would it be to be able to fly your drone during an entire day instead of losing most of the time charging batteries or replacing them, like nowadays? This dream is now more reachable thanks to hybrid drones. […]
We covered Legit back in 2018 when the Cambridge, MA-based AI startup raised $2.6 million for its AI-enabled life sciences collaboration platform. We’ve not really been following the startup until this week. It turned out they’ve been quietly working for the past […]
With continued spread of deadly coronovirus all around the globe, many people are now avoiding public places to avoid being infected with the virus. This is a good news for e-commerce and online delivery companies. Today, RedMart, a grocery arm of e-commerce […]
Many healthcare organizations are finding their resources stretched as they strive to improve patient experience, meet patient expectations, and address a changing reimbursement landscape. Enter Solutionreach, a Lehi, Utah-based healthtech startup and a provider of cloud-based tools to help healthcare providers […]
With rise in the number of coronavirus cases around the world, scientists in the United States and Israel are a step closer to developing vaccine for the novel coronavirus. A group of Israeli researchers at the Galilee Research Institute (MIGAL) […]
