In May, fintech startup and online mortgage lender Better.com announced it was going public via a SPAC deal with Aurora Acquisition Corp. in a deal that valued Better at $7.7 billion. However, the SPAC merger is now in question after a […]
Back in March, we wrote about Geojam after the Mariah Carey-backed music startup launched its Emerging Artist Program to reward fans and support emerging artists. Similar to Songclip, Geojam is a social music community that connects fans, artists, influencers, and brands. In fact, […]
Why advertise on job boards when you can get your message in front of 100 million social media fans? That’s how Elon Musk has been able to recruit the best and the brightest people to work for his companies. With […]
Arabic is one of the widely spoken languages around the world. Today, it is estimated that there are more than 420 million Arabic speakers globally with 30 different dialects. Egypt has the highest population of Arabic speakers with the highest population of […]
Cryptocurrency hackers strike again. Last August, hackers stole over $90 million worth of crypto coins from the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Liquid. The crypto startup also said that some of its digital currency wallets had been “compromised,” and that hackers were transferring the […]
Bitcoin has been defying the law of gravity for over three weeks now. But not for too long. What goes up must come down. In just an hour, the world’s most popular cryptocurrency lost $9,000 and fell as low as […]
In the past 20 years, the average cost of college in the United States has tripled to $35,720 per student per year, with an annual growth rate of 6.8%. Even with all the scholarships available, the rising cost has put thousands […]
Plastic pollution is a huge problem around the world. Even though many western nations have banned the use of plastic bags, developing countries in Africa and Asia still use plastic bags. The situation is no different in India, a country […]
Hycan, a GAC and Nio-backed Chinese electric car startup, is reportedly on the verge of raising $300 million in another round of funding as investors pour billions of dollars into the electric car space. In an interview with Evelyn Cheng of CNBC during […]
The iGaming industry has seen a big boom in the past two years as millions of people turned to online gaming as a way to pass time amid the ongoing pandemic. For example, in the first nine months of 2021, iGaming generated […]
Two years after introducing the all-terrain vehicle (ATV) along with pickup vehicle Cybertruck, the world’s largest electric-car maker quietly launch “Cyberquad for Kids,” a four-wheel ATV, all-electric quad bike for kids in the United States at a starting price of […]
Glorify, a Christian faith-based app for worship and meditation, has raised $40 million in funding from investors including SoftBank Latin America Fund, Silicon Valley heavyweight Andreessen Horowitz, and reality TV star Kris Jenner, Corey Gamble, Michael Ovitz, Michael Bublé, Jason Derulo, […]
Maven 11 Capital, a global blockchain and digital asset investment firm., has closed $120 million for its second fund, Venture Fund II as the booming cryptocurrency market heats up and investors’ appetite to include crypto assets in their venture portfolio. Maven 11 […]
In a close reminder of what took place during Nazi Germany during Hitler’s rule, today, Germany becomes the first nation to impose the toughest restrictions for unvaccinated citizens as German COVID-19 deaths passed 100,000 mark in the fourth wave of the virus. According […]
This is a guest post by Sowmyanarayan Raghunathan, VP of Engineering at Talentica Software, the global leader in product development for startups. Debt is usually considered monetary in nature. But as technology has become a core asset for many businesses, companies […]
Wealth disparities are on the rise in the United States. Today, the top 20% of Americans owned 86% of the country’s wealth and the bottom 80% of the population owned 14%. Closing the racial wealth gap requires more than just taxing […]
In 2020, the global cannabis market was valued at $22.10 billion. As millions stayed at a home during the pandemic, an increasing number of people turned to cannabis to relax and alleviate their anxieties. This, in addition to more states legalizing marijuana […]
London-based digital asset investing company CoinShares International has acquired French fintech Napoleon Crypto SAS and its social trading platform for $15.8 million (about 13.9 million euros), as the booming cryptocurrency market heats up. As part of the acquisition agreement, CoinShares said […]
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs announced Tuesday the launch of Goldman Sachs Financial Cloud for Data with Amazon Web Services, Inc. (AWS), a new suite of cloud-based data and analytics solutions for financial institutions. The new product will enable Goldman to […]
Griid Infrastructure, a bitcoin mining startup, announced today it is going public through a merger with a blank-check firm Adit EdTech Acquisition Corp in a deal that valued the combined company at about $3.3 billion, including debt. According to the announcement, Griid […]