Sony Corp is in final talks with AT&T to acquire San Francisco-based animation-streaming service Crunchyroll in a deal worth more than $957 million (100 billion yen), according to a Friday report from Reuters, citing Nikkei business daily. Crunchyroll is a San Francisco-based […]
Whoop, the Boston-based health tech startup and the maker of a wearable device that tracks sleep among other health metrics, has raised $100 million Series E funding with back from investors including venture capital firm IVP, SoftBank Vision Fund, and athletes […]
Over the years, the number of startup investments at the seed and early-stage has dropped off, according to data provider PitchBook. And even when the funding is available, some venture firms simply follow the mantra of “invest to divest,” meaning […]
Jen Gennai is Google Head of Responsible Innovation. In June 2019, Gennai published a Medium blog post titled, “This is not how I expected Monday to go!” The piece was written after she returned to the US from an overseas trip, and […]
UC Berkeley SkyDeck, the startup accelerator of the University of California at Berkeley (UC Berkeley), today announced today that it is launching its fall 2020 startup cohort program with 16 tech startups from eight countries and the U.S. The new group […]
Last week, hackers stole $2.3 million from President Trump re-election funds in Wisconsin. The cyber hackers created fake invoices to look like vendors that the Wisconsin Republican Party worked with, the state’s Republican Party said on Thursday. According to a report […]
TAIA is a Slovenian-based machine translation platform that helps businesses translate their content more efficiently using artificial intelligence and experienced translators. Using its proprietary technology, TAIA fills the void between translation agencies and Google Translate to automatically translates content in a matter of minutes. Unlike Google Translate, […]
Smallholder farmers managing up to five hectares produce more than 50% of the global fruit supply1, yet agricultural workers still make up 65% of all poor working adults and many smallholder farmers suffer from hunger and extreme poverty. Fresh fruits […]
Today, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg made a stunning revelation during the Section 230 hearing with big tech companies. During the questioning from lawmakers at a Senate Commerce Committee hearing, Zuckerberg said on Wednesday that a warning from the FBI on hack-and-leak operations […]
VentureIsrael announced today the launch of a new venture capital fund to invest in Israel based, early-stage deep-tech startups. The fund investment strategy focuses on the companies with clear-cut technological advantages, an experienced management team, and a flexible business strategy. […]
Twitter founder Jack Dorsey and executives of Facebook, and Google found themselves in the hot seat as US Senators grilled them regarding censoring of users’ content on their platform. During the hearing, Senator Ed Markey asks Zuckerberg if he can commit […]
As the second wave of coronavirus spreads across Europe, France and the UK recorded the highest daily COVID-19 cases ever. The EU warned that some countries have worse outbreaks than during the peak in March. French President Emmanuel Macron is planning […]
Mark Cuban does not need any introduction. For those of you who don’t him, Mark Cuban is an American billionaire businessman and investor. He is the owner of the National Basketball Association’s (NBA) Dallas Mavericks. He is also one of […]
We’ve all heard of chatbots, once promised to provide human-like customer service at much faster speeds. They later lost much of their hypes after customers found out that they could not completely replace human agents. However, one San Francisco-based tech startup is […]
With millions of unemployed people out there you might think it would be easier for companies to find the perfect candidate. Think again. Finding the perfect candidate is like looking for a needle in a haystack. Besides, the traditional ways […]
U.S. President Trump’s campaign website – https://www.donaldjtrump.com – was hacked by cryptocurrency scammers. The hackers took over the site at around 1920 Eastern Time and replaced the landing page with the following threat. On entering the donaldjtrump.com, a page popped up […]
Back in August, we wrote about the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) after the agency reported its updated provisional death counts for the reporting period 2/1/2020 through 8/22/2020. According to the stats, CDC said that only 6% of the […]
Last week, we wrote a piece about the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data which showed that the number of influenza (flu) cases has dropped by 95 percent from the same time last year. We later asked whether there was […]
In early October, we wrote about Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) after the Semiconductor designer was reportedly in advanced talks to buy rival chipmaker Xilinx for over $30 billion. This morning, AMD announced it would buy Xilinx in a $35 billion all-stock […]
Ordermark, a Los Angeles, CA-based food tech startup and one of the leading providers of online ordering management solutions for restaurants and virtual restaurant concepts, has closed a $120 million in Series C funding round led by Softbank Vision Fund […]