These days, leading grocers and retailers are constantly exploring smart cart technologies to meet the growing demand for frictionless shopping and cashier-less checkout. However, introducing purpose-built smart carts to a store is often operationally complicated and very costly. Enter Shopic, a […]
France’s Competition Authority (FCA) fined Alphabet’s Google $593 million (500 million euro) on Tuesday for violating the French regulator’s orders to negotiate paid deals with news publishers in France. The announcement comes just a month after the tech giant was fined €220 […]
Leading web accessibility solution provider accessiBe launched its first-ever TV ad campaign on US national TV. The Israeli startup debuted its 60-second long TV ad on July 12, 2021. It is airing across different parts of the US and is […]
Jasper Card (formerly CreditStacks), a New York-based fintech startup that’s challenging how traditional financial institutions make money, today announced it has raised $34 million in Series A financing to grow its AI technology to further develop its underwriting model and […]
Doctors and other officials in Japan, including those concerned about the safety of coronavirus vaccines, submitted a joint petition to the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare to halt the vaccinations, according to a report from Arab News Japan. According […]
In another setback to boost the vaccination rate in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is set to announce a new warning that Johnson & Johnson’s coronavirus vaccine can lead to an increased risk of a rare neurological […]
COVID-19 wasn’t a time-limited experience that would affect our lives and then leave us to get back to normal. Even when we succeed in relegating the novel coronavirus to the level of “just another virus” that really is no more […]
No day goes by without another negative headline about TikTok, a Chinese popular video-sharing app launched in 2017 by ByteDance for markets outside of China. TikTok is also notorious for privacy violations. Early this year, TikTok was caught harvesting and selling personal […]
Last month, we wrote about Flipkart after a report that the Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce tech startup was in talks to raise new funding from SoftBank and others. As we reported back then, Flipkart was planning to raise at least $3 billion […]
Early this year, Elon Musk’s friend and co-founder of PayPal Peter Thiel, warned that big tech companies are too cozy with China. Calling Google a ‘treasonous’ company,” Thiel said the tech giant is working with the Chinese military through its artificial […]
We wrote about the DiDi a week ago after the stock of the Chinese ride-sharing startup crashed from 18% high to near its original IPO price on the first day of its IPO debut. Uknown to many investors, the company […]
The recent rise in the popularity of bitcoin has driven record investments into the crypto market with millions of naive crypto investors betting their hard-earned money on speculative digital assets like bitcoin, Ether, Dogecoin, and other meme coins. As more […]
Grocery delivery startup app Instacart announced today it has hired Fidji Simo, one of the highest-ranking female Facebook executives, as its new CEO. Simo will succeed Instacart founder Apoorva Mehta on Aug. 2, and Mehta will transition to executive chairman […]
In early April, Clearbanc, a Toronto-based firm that invests in tech startups, entrepreneurs, and small business owners, rebranded to Clearco. The company also announced it raised $100M Series C funding to fuel its ambitious growth plans and making the startup a member […]
Early this month, we wrote about Wise (formerly TransferWise), after the London-based fintech startup launched a new service that lets Indian users send money to 44 countries around the world, including places like Singapore, the U.K., the United States, the United Arab […]
Noom, a New York-based health tech startup and the operator of the popular weight loss app, has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to lead its preparations for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report from Reuters, citing people […]
Over the weekend, Kaseya IT management software, a tool commonly used in Managed Service Provider (MSP) environments, was reportedly hit by the REvil ransomware attack, a ransomware hacker group believed to operate out of Russia. As we reported on Monday, the initial […]
So, it begins! You’re now a national security threat if you object to door-to-door vaccines, according to Dan Primack, a business editor at Axios. As we reported yesterday, Biden says the government will now be going door-to-door to Americans who have not […]
Early this year, the internet erupted when Bill Gates called on all the rich countries to change entirely to 100% lab-grown meat to save the planet from climate change disasters. Americans love beef and most don’t want to give up their […]
Just two days ago, China was reportedly in talks to acquire UK’s largest and last remaining advanced chip factory in England through a Chinese-owned Dutch company Nexperia. It was part of China’s plan to dominate the semiconductor market as the semiconductor shortage […]
