Visa announced Thursday that it is acquiring Swedish financial tech startup Tink for $2.1 billion (1.8 billion euros) which includes cash and retention incentives. The deal will help bolster the payment giant’s digital ambitions. The announcement comes after Visa abandoned the bid to buy […]
In late 2019, we wrote about 50 tech startups with the most chance of becoming unicorns. One of the startups on the list is Embark Trucks, a San Francisco-based tech startup that is building self-driving semi-trucks for freight and logistic services. Fast […]
It was just four months ago that Electronic Arts (EA) acquired gaming developer Glu Mobile for $2.1 billion. Since then, EA has been on a buying spree. Now with billions of dollars war chest, the company just announced another acquisition. This […]
With millions of software and apps out there on the Internet, finding the right software is like looking for a needle in a haystack. That was why G2 (formerly known as G2 Crowd) decided to help organizations find the right software […]
Thanks to vaccines, the economy is booming again and consumer spending is at a record high as more people leave home to buy services they were unable to buy during the lockdowns. The delivery space has also seen a big increase in […]
It’s almost one and a half years since the covid-19 pandemic began in Wuhan China. Here in the United States, the damage caused by this deadly virus is staggering. Apart from over 500,000 precious lives lost to this deadly virus, […]
Quarter4 is an Ontario, Canada-based tech startup and the developer of the world’s first AI-powered sports predictions and stats search engine. Quarter4 provides an artificial intelligence platform that generates thousands of daily predictions for sports, media, and betting companies. Today, Quarter4 […]
Our world is headed towards a future that will be powered by alternative energy sources. Governments around the world have begun legislating environmental regulations that will force industries to meet cleaner energy standards. As alternative energy adoption has increased, new […]
Heart disease is the leading cause of death among people of most racial and ethnic groups in the United States. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), one person dies every 36 seconds in the United States from […]
In October 2019, Unicorn fintech startup Revolut reported a £32.8 million net loss on revenues of £58.2 million for 2018. The reported loss was more than double the £14.8 million loss the 6-year old British started posted a year earlier. […]
As we reported a few hours ago, the price of Bitcoin tumbled Monday morning amid China’s recent crackdown on bitcoin mining in the country. That’s not all, the Chinese government also banned banks and financial institutions from providing services to any […]
Competition in the freight industry is heating up again. Early this month, Berlin, Germany-based digital freight-forwarding startup Sennder raised $80 million in funding to offer shippers access to a connected fleet of thousands of trucks and accelerate its growth across Europe as […]
Amber Group, a Coinbase-backed cryptocurrency fintech startup, announced Monday that it has raised a whopping $100 million in Series B funding as more mainstream investors are jumping on the crypto bandwagon. Amber will use the fresh capital infusion to accelerate […]
Bitcoin fell more than 7% to a price of $32,105 Monday morning, tumbling to its lowest level since June 8 as China crackdown rattles the crypto markets. The drop also affected ether, and other alternative crypto coins called altcoins. According […]
Less than three months after acquiring live audio app Locker Room maker Betty Labs to take on Clubhouse, Spotify has snapped up another tech startup in the podcast space. Yesterday, the Stockholm, Sweden-based Spotify announced it has acquired Podz, a tech […]
We’re currently on the cusp of the biggest energy transition in history: from oil to renewable energy which ushers in a new era of electric vehicle revolution. This transition is also disrupting the entire energy distribution value chain and the […]
Less than a year after goPuff acquired BevMo for $350 million, the Philadelphia-headquartered Consumer goods and food delivery service startup announced today that it has entered an agreement to buy San Francisco’s rideOS for $115 million to accelerate innovation and bolster its […]
What a difference a year makes. As we reported early last year, 23andMe, a home DNA-testing startup founded by the former spouse of Google founder Sergey Brin, laid off about 100 people, or 14 percent of its staff due to a decline in DNA […]
We featured Lexion back in 2019 after the Seattle, Washington-based artificial intelligence startup that provides voice-operated and intelligent assistant for professionals, closed $4.2 million for its AI-powered solution for managing contracts. Lexion has witnessed rapid growth since our last story. To further […]
Billionaire investor Mark Cuban says he lost money trading a DeFi (Decentralized Finance) token called TITAN that crashed from $60 to zero in under 24 hours. In a Twitter post, Cuban claimed he was “hit” by a cryptocurrency token market crash […]
