We’ve been following the story of the Pfizer vaccine since early March when German biotech company BioNTech announced two strategic partnerships to advance the development of vaccines with Pfizer and also China-based Fosun Pharma. Then on November 9, Pfizer and […]
Internet of Things (IoT) is one of the popular buzzwords coined by Kevin Ashton in 1999 during his work at Procter&Gamble. Ashton is known as the father of IoT, Proctor & Gamble alumni, and the founding Executive Director of MIT’s Auto-ID […]
We first covered Zoox back in July 2018 when the self-driving tech startup raised a massive $500 million at a $3.2 billion valuation. Then in June, Amazon acquired Zoox in a deal valuing the autonomous-car startup at a little over $1.2 billion. The San […]
We’ve covered Bolt for at least three years now. Just last month, the Estonian ride-hailing startup announced over €100 million investment in the European e-scooter market. The 7-year old startup said it would invest over 100 million euros ($118 million) in 2021 to […]
On the first day of this month, we wrote about bitcoin after the world’s most popular cryptocurrency defied gravity and surged to a record $19,800, topping 2017 high. This is not a small feat. Today, bitcoin achieved a new milestone since the […]
Unless you work in the shipping industry, you don’t know how terrible shipment tracking is. Today, conventional shipment tracking is incredibly complicated, unreliable, and expensive. Imagine what that would do to a $20 trillion shipping industry. Tive is a Boston, MA-based […]
Canada is a country where the Big Five banks own 90 percent of the market share. Now, a new fintech startup is trying to shake things up. Neo Financial is a Calgary, Canada-based fintech startup created to bring much-needed innovation and […]
GoDaddy is back on a buying spree. Early this year, we wrote about the world’s largest domain registrar acquired a competing domain registrar and marketplace, Uniregistry, and its domain portfolio for a reported $196.9 million. Then in September, GoDaddy acquired SkyVerge, […]
We wrote about Toast back in February after the restaurant management platform startup raised $400 million in Series F funding at a $4.9 billion valuation. The Boston-based Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and […]
The fact that you’re vaccinated does not mean you still cannot transmit the virus to other people. At this point, it is still unclear if the vaccines can prevent the spread of the coronavirus. That’s one of the takeaways from an […]
Public.com is a New York-based fintech startup and a commission-free stock brokerage firm that enables companies and individuals to buy public stock with any amount of money. Public.com aims to accelerate all people’s prosperity. Unlike other brokerage firms out there, […]
Since the introduction of personal computers in the early 80s, productivity software has changed the way we work and made tasks easier for office workers. Productivity software is often used for producing information (such as documents, presentations, worksheets, databases, charts, graphs, […]
A little over two years ago, we wrote about Baidu after the China search giant teamed up with U.S. automaker Ford to collaborate on a two-year joint autonomous vehicle test project to develop and test self-driving vehicles on designated roads […]
The level of investments and equity funding in blockchain startups continues to grow despite the ongoing coronavirus pandemic. In 2019 alone, blockchain startup companies around the world raised over $3.08 billion in funding. Gartner also estimates that the business value added by […]
Softbank is a Japanese conglomerate we’ve covered extensively over the past three years. Founded in 1981 by Masayoshi Son, SoftBank owns stakes in many technology, energy, and financial companies. The company also runs Vision Fund, the world’s largest technology-focused venture capital […]
While the rest of the world is busy fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the Chinese government has secretly been working to boost its nuclear stockpile. In a paper published by the Chicago, Illinois-based Bulletin, Atomic Scientists estimated that China has 350 nuclear […]
Earlier today, we wrote about Solarwinds after the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an emergency directive calling on all federal civilian agencies to review their networks for indicators of compromise and disconnect or power down SolarWinds Orion products […]
Monday is shaping out not to be a bad day for tech companies and government agencies alike. Earlier today, we told you about the Google outage which affected millions of Google’s YouTube, Gmail, and Drive users worldwide. Then just a […]
Hackers strike again. This time, hackers successfully breached and compromised SolarWinds Orion, a suite of network products that are used across all federal civilian agencies. On Sunday night, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an Emergency Directive calling on all […]
Reddit, a social media startup co-founded by Alexis Ohanian, has acquired Germany-based TikTok rival Dubsmash. The terms and total amount of the transaction were not disclosed. Now, the all-out war on TikTok is getting hotter as Reddit joins Instagram, Triller, and […]