More and more people are beginning to pay attention to Bitcoin as the world’s most popular cryptocurrency sees its value more than doubled from $29,388.30 to over $61,000 last week. Bitcoin (BTC) has now entered a new phase of mainstream adoption after […]
We wrote about Stripe when the digital payments behemoth acquired Nigeria’s fintech startup Paystack for over $200 million to expand its footprint in Africa. The startup continues to grow with no sign of slowing. Stripe now operates in 42 countries. Of this […]
Last week, we wrote about Deliveroo after the Amazon-backed food delivery startup posted a $309 million loss in 2020 ahead of the much-anticipated IPO. In a filing last week, Deliveroo provided details on its dual-class share structure, which will see the company […]
LoginID is a San Mateo/Toronto based-based startup that protects user identity by providing users secure control over personal information through a compliant decentralized network. The startup provides APIs and SDKs for enterprises to integrate FIDO-certified biometric authentication in as little as […]
DNA, which stands for deoxyribonucleic acid, is the genetic code that determines all the characteristics of a living thing. The genome of every organism, be it bacteria, virus, potato, human, is made up of DNA. Each organism has a unique DNA sequence that […]
Last July, NASA successfully launched the Mars Perseverance rover into space. After traveling for 203 days and 300 million miles at the speed of about 24,600 miles per hour, NASA Perseverance Rover landed on Mars on February 18, 2021. Today, the […]
It’s been a while since we last featured the daily and weekly top tech startup news. We needed to catch our breath, and now we’re back in full force. Here’s your weekly tech news roundup for the week ending March 12, 2021. […]
If you have ever bought a home in the past, you know that closing a home sale still involves mountains of paperwork. The traditional home closing process is not only manually intensive but also time-consuming and error-prone with a bonus case of […]
FalconX, a Silicon Valley-based cryptocurrency brokerage and digital asset trading platform that uses data science to provide institutions with trading, credit, and clearing, announced it has secured a $50 million investment to scale its team and further expand its business lines to […]
The stranglehold that the big media outlets have on Americans is on the decline. Back in the summer of 2020, we wrote a piece about a survey from Pew Research which found that about a quarter (26%) of U.S. adults […]
Three Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, and Iceland have temporarily suspended the use of AstraZeneca’s Covid-19 vaccine over concerns about patients developing post-jab blood clots, according to a report from Ireland news outlet RTÉ. In addition to these countries, Austria also […]
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have been dominating the headlines in recent months as everyone jumps on the crypto-collectibles and digital arts bandwagon. Although NFTs have been around for quite a while, the public is just beginning to understand the future potential especially […]
In late 2019, we shared the story of how a Harvard dropout created the largest e-commerce company in South Korea. Kim Beom-Seok, also known as Kim Bom, was born in Seoul, South Korea. He migrated to the US with his parent at the […]
To date, at least 23 million Americans are now fully vaccinated against the deadly coronavirus. But health officials are still urging caution because there is still so much uncertainty about what is safe and what isn’t after you get your shots […]
To understand how something works, it helps to see it up close. A team of NIST researchers took this approach when studying the fabric masks that people wear to slow the spread of COVID-19. Those masks work by blocking some of […]
Last week, we wrote about Elon Musk’s partner Grimes making $5.8 million in just 20 minutes after she sold her digital art (Non-fungible token) at auction. Just when you thought NFTs couldn’t get any crazier. This morning, Christie’s Auction announced it has sold […]
Yesterday, the U.S. Congress approved another $1.9 trillion in the COVID-19 stimulus relief package. As the U.S. government continues to print money, investors are looking for safe haven to protect their wealth from rapid depreciation. Many investors are moving their […]
We wrote about BlockFi back in August 2020 after the crypto lending startup raised $50M in Series C funding to provide digital asset-backed loans to crypto investors. A lot has changed since then and the company has been expanding its […]
Flatfile, a Dever, Colorado-based data onboarding software startup, announced a $35 million in Series A funding to grow its all-remote team to meet the increasing demand for its solutions. The round was led by Scale Venture Partners, with participation from Workday Ventures. and […]
Back in late 2019, we wrote about Unstoppable Domains after the Draper-backed startup launched a $1 million grant to help wallets, browsers and decentralized applications integrate blockchain domains. The San Francisco-based Unstoppable Domains is a registry business similar to Verisign, the […]