Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Monday, April 23. Walmart doubles down on India with purchase of Flipkart for over $12 billion. The retail giant is close to finalizing a deal to buy […]
China is the most populous country in the world with a population of over 1.3 billion people. What many people may not know is that almost half of China’s population still live in rural areas. While income continues to grow, […]
The number of connected devices or the Internet of Things (IoT) is growing faster than anyone can imagine. According to IDC, approximately 80 billion devices will be connected to the Internet by 2025. The amount of data being generated is […]
Happy weekend! Here is the roundup of the top startup news of the week. If you want this weekly update in your inbox every week, please subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this […]
Cole and Guillaume’s entrepreneurial do-or-die story of mental strength and determination is astounding. They went from couch surfing on Craigslist, sleeping in a car and eating day-old-bread peanut butter-only sandwiches to $65 million in 2017 revenue growing Green Creative’s LED […]
The startup landscape is changing. There are now so many ways for startup founders to raise funds with multiple options to choose from. Founders can now fund their project ideas using options like the traditional path of bootstrapping, crowdfunding, venture […]
E-commerce giant Alibaba Group Holding announced it has acquired China’s proprietary embedded company, C-SKY Microsystems, to further its cloud-based “internet of things” (IoT) business. The news was first reported on China’s website, QQ.com. Alibaba Group announced that it will wholly acquire the company. The […]
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, also known as the Gates Foundation, is the largest private foundation in the US, holding $38 billion in assets. The foundation is well-known for its work to enhance healthcare and reduce extreme poverty, and expand educational opportunities […]
Equity crowdfunding platform startup, StartEngine, and PrimeTrust announce they are preparing the launch of the first ever Regulation Crowdfunding crypto escrow. The escrow is being developed by PrimeTrust and will be available first on StartEngine’s platform. This escrow will allow […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, April 20. $6.3 billion in ICO funding already raised in three months of 2018, outpaced 2017’s total. Despite all the policy changes from the three tech giants, […]
The recognition of objects is one of the main goals for computer vision research. 3-D object recognition has many industrial applications and applications in our daily lives. Some of the applications include: the automation on the assembly line, inspection of integrated circuit chips […]
Citrine Informatics announced today it has received additional capital in the form of an $8 million convertible note from Tencent Holdings, a leading provider of Internet value-added services in China, and B&C Holdings, an Austria-based private-equity firm. The note will help […]
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has selected a 44-year old defense contractor company, Dynetics, to proceed to Phase 3 of its Germlins drone swarm program, the company said in announcement on its website. Managed out of DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO), […]
Biotech startup, Inocucor, today announced the final close of its Series B funding round at $15.9 million with participation by existing investors Cycle Capital Management (Montreal), Desjardins Innovatech (Montreal), TPG ART (San Francisco), and Pontifax AgTech (Los Angeles). Concurrently, the […]
We must all be tired of hearing about blockchain technology. Maybe not! Blockchain is just getting started especially as we enter into the the 4th generation blockchain technology. The first generation of blockchain was designed by Satoshi Nakamoto back in […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today, Thursday, April 18. Former Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer creates tech startup incubator. Former Yahoo Chief Executive Officer Marissa Mayer is in the news again. This time for a […]
This is a guest post by Anthony Rose, Founder & CEO, SeedLegals. His mission is to revolutionise the way you build, run and fund your startup by replacing lawyers with machine-learning and date-driven driven templated documents, built using a beautiful […]
Voicera has acquired AI note taking app startup, Wrappup, to expand its AI virtual assistant beyond conference calls, the company made the announcement today. The terms of the acquisition weren’t disclosed. In addition, the company also announced that it’s unveiling new […]
The only that doesn’t change in technology is change itself. In the not so distant future, advances in artificial intelligence will usher in a new era of “Do-it-yourself” projects with what Google is now calling AIY. AIY is acronym for Do-it-yourself […]
The artificial intelligence-powered extension enables patients to prepare their homes for recovery after joint replacement and spine surgery SAN FRANCISCO – APRIL 18, 2018 – PeerWell, whose mobile technology helps people prevent, prepare for, and recover from surgery, has announced […]
