On October 28, 2021, Facebook announced it was changing its corporate name to Meta to reflect its focus on the metaverse. Meta’s version of the metaverse intends to expand beyond just Facebook but also span social presence, office work, entertainment, […]
Early this month, we wrote about GAMSTOP, a free service that lets UK residents exclude themselves from all online betting sites licensed in Great Britain and also put controls in place to help restrict their online gambling activities. GAMSTOP is an […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is the world’s richest person with a net worth of about $300 billion, according to Bloomberg Billionaire Index. In just over a decade, Tesla has gone from a one-car company that almost went bankrupt to becoming […]
Who said you can’t make billions while claiming to save lives? The pharmaceutical industry has minted at least nine billionaires since the covid pandemic started almost two years ago. The “booster jabs have become easy money for Pfizer and Moderna” as the two companies […]
According to the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), transportation was responsible for more than 29% of greenhouse emissions in the U.S in the year 2019. These emissions from transportation come primarily from burning fossil fuel in aircraft, trains, ships, and […]
It’s commonly known that Silicon Valley, San Francisco is the world’s tech capital. It almost feels like it’s spawning billionaire companies left and right. However, few people know that Stockholm is second only to Silicon Valley in terms of unicorns – startups valued […]
What started out as a conspiracy theory a few months ago has become a reality. In April, we ran a story asking if you are ready for a COVID monitoring microchip to be implanted under your skin. Back then, the Pentagon’s […]
Sinqia, a Brazilian fintech company that offers IT solutions to financial institutions, including banks, insurance companies, has acquired NewCon, a small tech startup and local developer of software for consortiums, in a transaction worth $74.73 million (422.5 million reais). The deal, which is Sinqia’s largest acquisition […]
Early this month, we wrote about SenseTime after the Chinese AI facial recognition startup finally announced the highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO). After several false starts, SenseTime Group said it was looking to raise up to $767 million in […]
About a week ago, Crypto pioneer and Tron founder Justin Sun announced his retirement from the company he started just four years ago to become an ambassador of the Grenada government to the World Trade Organization. In an interview last week, Sun said: “My […]
Early this month, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla said fourth Covid vaccine doses may be needed sooner than expected to fight the Omicron variant. However, that may no longer be necessary if the latest report from the US Army were to […]
2021 has turned out to be a great year for cryptocurrencies. During the past 12 months, bitcoin and other alt cryptocurrencies enjoyed a surge in mainstream adoption and support from institutional investors. Bitcoin went from $29,000 on January 1 to […]
We’ve been following the story of Nikola, a one-time Tesla competitor and the maker of zero-emission, hydrogen-powered electric trucks. As we reported back in July, Nikola founder Trevor Milton was charged with three counts of criminal fraud—for “lying about ‘nearly all aspects of […]
Eight months after Microsoft acquired Nuance Communications for $16 billion, the European Commission (EU) on Tuesday granted Microsoft unconditional antitrust approval for artificial intelligence and speech technology company, according to a report from Reuters, citing a statement from the Commission. The deal has […]
Alex Berenson was a former New York Times reporter, science writer, vaccine advocate, and the author of the book titled, “Unreported Truths about COVID-19 and Lockdowns.” We first wrote about Berenson back in June 2020 after his book was censored […]
2021 is a record year for tech startups with 943 unicorn startup companies now having a combined valuation of $3.053 trillion. One of these unicorn startups is New York-based Cockroach Labs that makes cloud-based database software for some of the world’s largest […]
Enterprise software giant Oracle is closing the year with the announcement of its biggest acquisition ever. Oracle said on Monday that it will buy electronic medical records company Cerner in an all-cash deal for approximately $28.3 billion in equity value (about $95 […]
Last year, we published a piece titled “40% of US dollars in existence were printed in the last 12 months,” where we highlighted the staggering increase in currency circulation. The article quickly became one of our most widely read articles, […]
Bitcoin is the world’s most popular cryptocurrency that many have speculated that will soon replace US dollars. However, Bitcoin is not backed by anything. After a careful analysis of bitcoin, it won’t take long to see that Bitcoin is just a […]
Meta (formerly Facebook) announced Thursday that about 50,000 Facebook users have been targeted by private surveillance companies. The tech giant said the seven companies carried out a combination of reconnaissance, engagement, and exploitation. In a blog post, Meta said, “We alerted around […]
