Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Friday, September 20, 2019. Amazon founder unveils ambitious plan to tackle climate change. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos unveiled a sweeping plan Thursday to solve the climate change problem. […]
Schizophrenia is a chronic and severe brain disorder that interferes with a person’s ability to think clearly, manage emotions, make decisions and relate to others. Although it affects barely 1% of the population, it is one of the most disabling diseases […]
We all love to read startup success stories. But as we all know, the reality is a different story. The startup failure rate is at a staggering 90 percent. Only one out of 10 startups survives. Profitability is a different […]
Facebook employee has died in an ‘apparent suicide’ at the company’s Menlo Park Headquarters, the Menlo Park Police Department said Thursday. The male employee apparently committed suicide by jumping from MPK 27 in Facebook’s HQ in Menlo Park. Facebook confirmed the employee death […]
Contrary to what the mainstream media would have you believe, China is still behind and second to the United States in artificial intelligence (AI) innovation, according to Lux Research, a leading provider of tech-enabled research and advisory services for technology innovation. […]
After more than three years of research, development, and hard work, Quilt Data, a data collaboration engine for Amazon S3, formally came out of stealth and announced the launch of an index to Amazon’s public cloud data (open.quiltdata.com). The new portal […]
Huawei, the Chinese tech giant facing trade battle with the United States, today unveils its new 5G flagship smartphone lineup but without pre-installed Google-licensed apps. The new Huawei’s Mate 30 phone series will run on an open-source version of Google’s […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Thursday, September 19, 2019. Tencent Music is not in a hurry to launch its popular karaoke app ‘WeSing’ in more countries. WeSing is a popular app already being […]
Automattic Inc., the parent company of the popular web publishing and ecommerce platforms WordPress.com, WooCommerce, Jetpack, and enterprise WordPress VIP, has raised $300M in a Series D investment round to fuel the company’s growth. The fresh capital infusion will enable […]
Every time we go online, we create valuable data points for every action we take including clicks, searches, likes, posts, purchases, and many more. We leave behind our digital trails or data about actions and activities, with little or no […]
Today, the world faces tremendous uncertainty and volatility on various fronts. It is easy to lose sight of key sustainability issues in the face of growing economic pressure. To drive sustainable development, growth must be inclusive. It has to be […]
Nearly 12,000 new tech companies were registered in the UK in 2018, a 14% increase from the previous year*. Many of these tech startups are working on exciting solutions to address one of the biggest challenges facing the travel industry. […]
HELSINKI, FINLAND, September 17th — AppFollow, a Helsinki-based startup that helps businesses manage mobile apps and user feedback from all major app stores, has secured an investment of $1.1M The round was led by the company’s current investors — Vendep […]
Revelo, a São Paulo, Brazil-based recruiting startup that helps knowledge workers find new career, has raised a $15 million Series B round to accelerate growth and to launch new products for companies and candidates. The round, which was led by the IFC, is the largest […]
The United Nations Development Programme in Indonesia has teamed up with a Silicon Valley venture capital seed fund and accelerator 500 Startups to launch ImpactAim Indonesia, to boost the development of social entrepreneurship and startups in Indonesia, a growing economic […]
Splunk, a machine learning analytics company that produces software for searching, monitoring, and analyzing machine-generated big data, today announced the launch of $150 million Splunk Ventures Fund to invest in innovative technology and data startups and fuel the next generation of data analytics. […]
Apple continues to dominate the mobile phone market with solid sales of its iPhone. What a lot of people may not know is that Android smartphones, in fact takes the lion share of the market in terms of total smartphone […]
Good morning! Below are some of the top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, September 18, 2019. TransferWise, the $3.5 billion fintech startup backed by Peter Thiel, posts its third year of profit. With many fintech startups struggling to break […]
GenomSys, a Swiss software startup company developing ISO compliant technology for efficient processing and sharing of DNA data, has raised $9.35 million (CHF 9.3 million) in Series A funding to accelerate development progress of its MPEG-G-based solution for DNA data […]
WhiteFox Defense Technologies, a tech startup that develops and provides drone threat mitigation device, has raised additional $12 million to fuel product expansion. With a total of $26M raised, the startup is well positioned for expansion in support of its rapidly growing […]
