Ever wondered how deep the world’s deepest hole really is? The Kola Superdeep Borehole is the deepest manmade hole humans ever dug. Located in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, the remote region of the Russian Arctic, the Kola hole reaches approximately 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) below the […]
Salesforce is in talks to acquire Slack, an enterprise software platform that allows teams and businesses. The deal could be announced as soon as next week, according to news first the Wall Street Journal, citing a person familiar with the matter. If […]
Localz, a Melbourne, Australia-based tech startup that provides digital customer engagement for small businesses, today announced it has raised £2 million in funding to further develop its product portfolio to support businesses with new safety measures and procedures as well as putting a customer-centric […]
Coronavirus pandemic which began in Wuhan, China reached a new milestone today topping 60 million worldwide. While the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is urging Americans to stay home for Thanksgiving this year, the U.S. reported almost 13 million […]
Late last month, Tesla recalled nearly 50,000 Model S and X cars exported to China due to safety concerns over faulty suspensions. The China State Administration for Market Regulation announced that two models, which were made in the U.S. and sold to […]
Back in July, we wrote about Hippo after the Silicon Valley-based insurtech startup raised $150 million in a Series E funding round to accelerate growth. Now, the company just announced it has another $350 million capital investment from Mitsui Sumitomo Insurance. Mitsui […]
Unacademy, a Bangalore, India-based startup that provides educational content such as video lectures and examinations, has raised a new round of funding to democratize education and make it more affordable and accessible. The round, which now values Unacademy Group at $2 […]
In September, the Indian government banned 100 Chinese apps, including PUBG, Baidu, and Tencent’s hit games, as border tensions accelerate. The ban came after India’s Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, and UC Browser. Citing national […]
In 2019, Facebook was under criminal investigation by federal prosecutors for data-sharing deals with other major technology companies, according to the New York Times. The investigation added to the laundry list of inquiries since the Cambridge Analytica revelations in 2018. Now, […]
The future of work is changing. In September, we published a guest post about how technology is changing the way we work. Now, with the coronavirus pandemic, the old way of work is likely not going to be coming back. […]
We covered N26 back in May when the Peter Thiel-backed digital bank startup raised $100 million funding to prepare for the economic uncertainty from the coronavirus pandemic. N26 currently offers its services in 22 European countries and the United States. N26 has […]
While the United States is still the only country to have successfully conducted crewed missions to the Moon, China formally launched a “historic” mission to Moon this week to collect and bring back rocks samples from the unvisited area. In what […]
According to a 2019 survey conducted by FDIC, 5.4 percent of U.S. households (approximately 7.1 million households) were unbanked. Another data tells a different story. In a piece published in Forbes, 88 million Americans are either unbanked or underbanked. To address […]
In 2018, the global haircare market is estimated to be worth about $90 billion, according to the latest data from research firm Statista. Haircare is one of the least appealing verticals for technology startups. However, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for […]
According to a survey conducted by Invesp, acquiring a new customer can cost five times more than retaining an existing customer. The survey also finds that increasing customer retention by 5% can increase profits from 25-95%. A customer loyalty program is one […]
Almost a billion people suffer from mental health problems worldwide, according to the World Health Organization. ATAI Life Sciences is a biotechnology startup founded in 2018 in response to the clear and growing unmet needs of mental health patients worldwide. ATAI […]
Morse Micro is an Australian semiconductor company and creator of the Wi-Fi HaLow chip; an ultra-low-power, long-range and secure Wi-Fi chip specifically designed for IoT environments. Its team includes original inventors of Wi-Fi and designers of the world’s first Wi-Fi […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk overtakes Bill Gates to become the world’s second-richest person. Musk’s net worth soared from $7.2 billion to $127.9 billion, driven by yet another surge in Tesla’s share price. Bill Gates’ net worth is currently $127.7 billion. […]
Over the five years, the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) has been using mass surveillance to monitor and track the lives of its citizens. Back in March, we wrote a piece about how a small unknown tech startup is helping the Chinese government to […]
With governments around the world imposing a new round of lockdowns to stem the tide of the second wave of coronavirus, Dr. Mike Yeadon, the former Chief Science Officer for the pharmaceutical giant Pfizer says “there is no science to suggest a […]