In just a century, technology and scientific discoveries have forever changed our ways of life. From penicillin to genome editing to CRISPR, billions of people around the world now have access to life-prolonging drugs and vaccines. However, these breakthroughs did not […]
Customers are the lifeblood of every business. No company can survive without customers. In recent years, customer acquisition has become one of the biggest challenges faced by every new business. With increased competition and even with billions of users now […]
In recent months, Google has been facing a fast and furious pace of lawsuits and antitrust scrutiny. In the second quarter alone, the search giant faced its highest volume of regulatory pressure from lawsuits, which alleges it abuses monopoly power while […]
In March, we wrote about Roblox when the San Francisco-based gaming startup went public with an eye-popping $38 billion market cap to usher in a new era of Metaverse. Unlike other gaming companies, Roblox is building on the “metaverse” concept or […]
Chinese tech giant Baidu announced Tuesday that its artificial intelligence (AI) voice assistant Xiaodu Technology has closed Series B financing at a $5.1 billion valuation. The exact amount of the funding was disclosed. Xiaodu Series A was completed in November 2020 […]
Global payments giant Visa revealed Monday it bought CryptoPunk,” one of the thousands of non-fungible token (NFT)-based digital avatars for $165,000. According to the company’s official news-based Twitter account, Visa told its 114,000 followers it paid 49.5 ethereum ($165K) for the […]
SoftBank Group’s Vision Fund is the world’s largest technology-focused venture capital fund with over $100 billion in assets. Since its inception 39 years ago, the Japanese giant has invested billions of dollars in technology startups around the world, except in […]
Adobe announced Thursday that it plans to acquire video workflow startup Frame.io for $1.275 billion. Frame.io is a maker of cloud-based software that enables multiple people to provide input on videos. The acquisition is expected to close during the fourth quarter of Adobe’s 2021 […]
As you may recall, PayPal announced in March the launch of “Checkout with Crypto” to enable PayPal customers in the U.S. to checkout with cryptocurrency alongside other payment methods in the PayPal wallet. At the time, the payment giant said it […]
David Lidstone, 81, known as “River Dave,” was arrested and jailed on July 15 for allegedly squatting on a property for nearly 30 years in Canterbury, New Hampshire. His shack was mysteriously burned down to the ground on August 4. The news of his […]
Yesterday, Tesla CEO Elon Musk unveiled Tesla Bot, a humanoid robot that runs on the same AI used by Tesla’s fleet of autonomous vehicles. The unexpected revelation came at the end of Tesla’s AI Day, during which engineers gave highly technical presentations […]
We all have people who helped make us who we are. Call them mentors, godparents, great bosses, or just wise friends; no one makes their way to success completely on their own. In business, this concept is similar. Incubators aren’t […]
In May, a study conducted by crypto exchange company Gemini found that 14% of American adults — roughly 21 million people — now own cryptocurrency. The sudden rise in crypto ownership coincided with Elon Musk’s appearance on Saturday Night Live (SNL) […]
SenseTime, the AI facial recognition startup that is used by the Chinese government to surveil its citizens, is planning for an up to $2 billion initial public offerings (IPO) in Hong Kong stock exchange as soon as the end of […]
Remember Second Life back in the dot com boom? There is a new virtual world with an immersive experience called Metaverse. It’s seen as the successor of the Internet from Second Life to Horizon. Metaverse is the rage these days, and every […]
In the past decade alone, 1.7 billion consumers have joined the world’s middle class, with over 90% of the new middle class in emerging markets (Brookings Institute, 2020). Many of the world’s new middle class in Asia, Latin America, Africa, […]
Since the introduction of visual programming, developers and designers have been at loggerheads over user interface designs, user experience (UX), look-and-feel, among others. These days, more and more designers are being tasked with non-design-related tasks like frontend coding and UX designs rather than graphic […]
Hackers strike again. On Monday, a hacker offered for sale personal data from T-Mobile customers. Now the phone carrier is confirming the hack. T-Mobile said this morning that an ongoing investigation into the attack on its systems found that some personal data […]
On December 29, 2020, Boston Dynamics released a video of its dancing robots to usher in the New Year. The Massachusetts-based robotics firm welcomed us into the new year with new dance moves from Atlas and its two robotic friends. In the three-minute video, Atlas […]
In April, Moloco became the first Korean startup in Silicon Valley to reach unicorn status. We featured Moloco back then after the programmatic ad tech startup founded by former Google engineers after it raised new funding for its mobile performance advertising platform. […]
