Boeing today donated $10.6 million to a group of 20 nonprofits working to address racial equity and social justice in the United States. The funding package is part of the company’s previously announced multi-year commitment that includes a mix of […]
The United States continues to dominate technology space. Thanks in part to the trillion-dollar tech club companies like Apple, Amazon, Google, and Microsoft. Their dominance is reflected in their market capitalizations on Wall Street. According to a report released today by Bank […]
What once seemed like something out of a science fiction movie is becoming a reality. About four years ago, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk came up with the idea of a hyperloop and high-speed tunnel to address the traffic […]
According to a 2018 study by McKinsey, the market for ID verification-as-a-service will grow from $10 billion in 2017 to between $16 billion and $20 billion in 2022. The COVID-19 pandemic is accelerating the trend toward social isolation and it […]
In May, Dr. Risch, a renowned epidemiologist and Yale professor, wrote an opinion study titled: “Early Outpatient Treatment of Symptomatic, High-Risk Covid-19 Patients that Should be Ramped-Up Immediately as Key to the Pandemic Crisis.” The study, which was published in the American […]
ACTO is a Toronto-based drug and medical device company that uses AI-powered mobile experiences and agency partnerships. ACTO helps to improve treatment access by disrupting how drugs and devices are commercialized globally. Today, ACTO announced it has closed $11.5 million Series […]
On July 1, Tesla passes Toyota to become the world’s most valuable automaker at a market capitalization of $206 billion. But not many people are happy with the company’s success. It turns out some state actors and foreign hackers are out […]
We wrote about Y Combinator (YC) back in June after the startup incubator relaunched its Startup School as a Continuous Program. Y Combinator is a startup incubator that provides funding for early-stage startups. Since its inception in 2005, over 2,000 companies have […]
Renewable energy generation is expected to account for more than half the world’s power supply by 2035, rising to 75% by mid-century. The cost of lithium-ion batteries has decreased quickly and markedly, enabling more enterprises and utilities to harness renewable […]
As the day goes by, the future of TikTok’s presence in the US is becoming more uncertain. With less than 20 days to go, Microsoft and other big tech companies are reportedly competing to buy the TikTok’s U.S. operations. Other bidders competing […]
It’s 2020, companies around the globe are still struggling to find the best candidates for their organizations. One of the startups helping to solve this problem is Pune, India-based Mocha Interview, a SaaS-based digital skills assessment solution platform that helps organizations assess, […]
Just when you think things can’t get worse for TikTok, its CEO, Kevin Mayer, told TikTok employees in a letter Thursday that he’s leaving the company. Kevin Mayer said his decision to leave the ByteDance-owned social app comes was influenced by […]
On July 12, we wrote about a new mysterious pneumonia ‘more deadly’ than coronavirus that was sweeping across Asia. Back then, Chinese officials said mysterious pneumonia which was understood to have broken out in Kazakhstan, killed over 450 deaths reported in just […]
We covered Palantir Technologies back in February after the Peter Thiel-backed big data analytics startup secured a four-year contract worth as much as $823 million to provide software to the Department of Defense. Just a week earlier, Palantir won a whopping $800 million Pentagon battlefield […]
Back in July, we wrote about Neuralink after Elon Musk’s neurotech company announced it was hiring engineers to develop a brain-machine interface. Now, it appears that Neuralink is one step closer to achieving the feat than originally thought. In a […]
It’s been a while since we last wrote about Moderna. Late last month, Moderna announced it has begun the final-stage testing of its mRNA vaccine which it says could be ready for use by the end of 2020. Today, the company […]
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) updated its COVID-19 testing guidelines on Monday. The change, which puzzled many doctors, CDC said it’s no longer recommending testing for most people without symptoms, even if they’ve been in close […]
AccrueMe is a New York-based fintech startup revolutionizing the lending industry. AccrueMe offers growth capital with no interest payments and no loss of ownership. Unlike any other type of financing available today, AccrueMe doubles an Amazon seller’s capital with no […]
Juni Learning, a San Francisco-based digital education platform that offers courses for kids taught online by live instructors, today announced it closed $10.5 million in Series A funding to continue hiring exceptional instructors and expanding the number and types of […]
Yesterday, we wrote about Amwell after the Boston-based telehealth startup filed for an initial public offering (IPO). Adding to a growing number of tech companies debuting this year, Peter Thiel-backed workplace startup Asana announced today it plans to list its shares on the […]