The future of shopping is here. Back in 2018, we wrote about Amazon after the retail giant launched its first checkout-free grocery store called Amazon Go. It is a grocery store without checkout lines. The sensor-infused store and convenience store was opened […]
ThredUp is a fashion resale marketplace that enables individuals to buy and sell clothing for women and children. ThredUp is one of the world’s largest online resale platforms for women’s and kids’ apparel, shoes, and accessories. Today, the Goldman Sachs-backed secondhand clothing […]
Nuxeo, a New York-based cloud-native, open-source, low-code platform content services platform has been sold by Goldman Sachs Growth Equity and Kennet Partners to Hyland Software. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. In an announcement today, Kennet Partners, a […]
TytoCare, a mobile health platform that allows anyone to perform a self physical examination, and remote diagnosis, has raised an additional $50 million in Series D funding. The funding will allow TytoCare to continue to expand the availability of its full-stack telehealth […]
Earlier today, SpaceX’s Starship SN10 prototype aborted the first launch attempt due to what Elon Musk describes as “slightly conservative high thrust limit and increasing thrust limit.” Three hours later, the SpaceX team retried the launch and successfully landed the Starship SN10 […]
Last week, we wrote about why crypto-collectibles and NFTs (non-fungible tokens) are the new craze and how celebrities like Mark Cuban are cashing in, Now, Elon Musk’s girlfriend Grimes is also cashing in. Grimes recently made nearly $6 million in only 20 […]
2020 was the year of the global coronavirus pandemic. So far, over two million lives have been lost to the deadly coronavirus. In addition, millions of people have also lost their jobs. Thousands, if not millions of companies shut down […]
Payments giant PayPal is reportedly in negotiations to acquire Israeli cryptocurrency startup Curv for around $500 million, according to a report from Coindesk, citing three sources familiar with the situation. Curv’s security technology enables users to build crypto finance products […]
Welcome to the post-COVID-19 world. We now live in a time when not many people go to the shopping malls. With millions of people spending more time at home, most people now shop online and eCommerce sites have changed the […]
FutureFuel is a New York-based FinTech startup that works with employers, financial institutions, and universities to deploy digital solutions to help students pay down their student loan debt. Today, FutureFuel announced it has closed a $10 million Series A1 round to accelerate product […]
While everyone is talking about coronavirus pandemic, not very many are talking about the government’s stratospheric borrowing throughout the pandemic period. As of June 2020, the total U.S. debt surged to $55.9 trillion amid big increases in corporate and government borrowing, […]
Arts and crafts retailer Michaels Companies has been acquired by the private-equity firm Apollo Global Management in a deal valued the company at $5 billion. In an announcement on Wednesday, the Michaels Companies said it has entered into a definitive merger agreement […]
About a year ago today, we wrote about Banzai after the Seattle-based SaaS startup Banzai scored a $7M Series A funding to simplify event marketing. Fast forward a year later, Banzai has closed a $15 million in venture debt funding to expand […]
Xsight Labs, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based tech startup in the field of manufacturing chip-set semiconductors for the data center and automotive sector, today announced the closing of its Series D funding to execute its ambitious vision of delivering end-to-end connectivity solutions […]
As some of you know, we love to write about Elon Musk mainly because of his tenacity, perseverance, and how he defied all odds and proved everyone wrong to build the world’s most valuable car company. Today, we would like to […]
According to a recent survey, more than forty percent of Americans do not trust Facebook and TikTok. Over 40% of Americans don’t trust Facebook and TikTok. However, sixty-five percent find Google to be trustworthy, with Amazon and Microsoft in second and […]
What do you when you’re the world’s richest person? You build your own city. Given that Tesla’s CEO Elon Musk currently has a lot of ambitious projects including the colonization of Mars, Musk has decided to take a baby step […]
Although 70% of the Earth’s surface is a relatively unchanging ocean covered with water, the remaining 30% is occupied by land covered with forests and vegetation. Using data collected from NASA and NOAA’s next-generation Earth-observing satellite system called the Suomi […]
Artificial intelligence and machine learning are rapidly changing how companies do business and serve their customers. These opportunities, however, tend to be exploited most by large technology companies with significant resources invested in data collection, data processing, and productionization of […]
The Boeing Airpower Teaming System (ATS), also known as the Loyal Wingman project, is a stealth unmanned aerial vehicle currently in development by Boeing Australia to perform autonomous missions using artificial intelligence. Boeing first released a full-scale mockup of the jet […]