In July, former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden sounded the alarm bell about how government agencies are using military-grade spyware to spy on citizens. As far back as 2018, the U.S. government and private companies around the world have been using Pegasus spyware developed by an […]
Six months after the U.K. food delivery startup Deliveroo went public, Amazon announced yesterday its first major tie-up with the company since it invested in the company two years ago. As part of the partnership, Amazon said it will offer its […]
The FinTech industry is changing the face of finance and banking. Unlike in the past when companies only care about making profits, a new generation of leaders and a thriving ecosystem of startups are unlocking new possibilities to make broader […]
Stock insider trading has been going on for decades. Now the same illegal practice is now moving its way to the NFT world. Earlier today, an executive at the NFT platform OpenSea used insider knowledge to buy NFT assets in […]
App Annie is a mobile data and analytics platform tech startup founded 11 years ago by Bertrand Schmitt and Bjorn Stabell. App Annie is a leading alternative data provider for the mobile app industry. Its platform is used by more than 1 million users […]
Renewable energy generation is expected to account for more than half the world’s power supply by 2035, rising to 75% by the middle of the century. Over the years, the cost of lithium-ion batteries has decreased quickly and markedly, enabling […]
Pharmacia & Upjohn was a company most Americans probably never heard about. Pharmacia & Upjohn was a global pharmaceutical company formed by the merger of Sweden-based Pharmacia AB and the American company Upjohn in 1995. In July 2003, Pharmacia was later sold to […]
Toast is a Boston-based restaurant tech startup the has been helping struggling restaurants navigate and survive through the COVID-19 pandemic over the past 18 months. Now, the startup is gearing up for its IPO next week that could potentially value the 10-year old […]
For 40 years, the SoftBank Group has helped fund promising tech startup companies and founders around the world. In March 2019, Softbank created the $5 billion SoftBank Latin America Fund to partner with entrepreneurs and founders shaping the future of […]
Melio, a New York-based fintech startup that gives small businesses a way to digitally manage their business-to-business payments and receivables, today announced it has raised $250 million in late-stage funding round, tripling its valuation to $4 billion since the start […]
Intuit has acquired email marketing company Mailchimp for $12 billion in cash and stock, the two companies said in an announcement Monday. The acquisition makes it the biggest-ever deal for a privately-held bootstrapped tech startup company, as Mailchimp never took outside […]
As Pfizer plans to start administering a third booster shot for covid-19 for millions of Americans, a group of leading U.S. and international scientists said Covid booster shots are ‘not appropriate’ at this time. In the study, which was published Monday in the peer-reviewed […]
Early this morning, fake news about a partnership between the world’s largest grocer Walmart and Litecoin was circulating on social media. A number of media organizations including Reuters and CNBC sent headlines on the announcement. Now, Walmart just denied the news […]
The InsureTech market is red hot with no sign of slowing down. In the past three years alone, venture investors have poured over $20 billion into the space, making it one of the highest growing sectors. One of the leading […]
As you probably remember in April, the inventor of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee put the original source code he wrote 32 years ago for sale as an NFT. Then on June 30, his NFT of the world wide web […]
In July, we asked in one of our articles why female founders were ignored by venture capital firms. Similar to how startups founded by people of color are often ignored, female-founded are also ignored by VCs. A 2018 report released by PitchBook […]
We all love underdog stories, like in the biblical story of David versus Goliath. But this time, it is a story we’ve been following over the past year–the battle between Fortnite creator Epic Games and tech giant Apple. As you […]
Chinese autonomous driving car startup WeRide today unveiled Robovan, its first self-driving cargo van for logistics and autonomous deliveries. The launch, which was part of a strategic partnership between WeRide, automaker Jiangling Motors (JMC), and delivery firm ZTO Express, aims to […]
Corti.ai, a Copenhagen, Denmark-based healthtech SaaS startup that uses machine learning to help emergency departments to detect critical illnesses like cardiac arrest in real-time, announced today that it has raised $27 million (about €22.82M) in Series A funding to revolutionize the healthcare industry. The […]
Over the past 18 months, the government and public health officials have said repeatedly that vaccines are our only hope to end this deadly pandemic. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has repeatedly said that the vaccines would […]