Part of our mission at Tech Startups is to promote the “underdog” and promising startups that are not covered by major tech news outlets. Today, we would like to share a story of a young tech startup from the remote city […]
We’ve written many stories about GameStop, a struggling video game chain brick-and-mortar game store across the U.S, which went from losing $470 million to become a $7.05 billion company by market cap. It all started late last year when a […]
Before now, you would need to have at least $10 million in investible assets to draw the attention of wealth managers at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. That all changed in 2016 when Goldman Sachs launched Marcus, a mobile banking app […]
Bitcoin rose above $50,000 on Tuesday setting a new record high. This marks the first time in the history of any cryptocurrency. Bitcoin hit a new high of $50,602, and was last up 5% at $50,300. It has risen around […]
Spotify joins the list of companies that are adapting to the “Work from Anywhere” model after the coronavirus pandemic broke out a year ago. In a blog post on Friday, Swedish music streaming company announced it will let employees work from anywhere […]
Last week, we covered the story of Germany’s ‘green’ energy failure as the country turned to ‘dirty’ coal and natural gas after millions of its solar panels are blanketed in snow and ice. As the bitter cold and snow sweep across western […]
In January, General Motors announced today it was ending the production of all diesel- and gasoline-powered cars, trucks, and SUVs by 2035 and shift its entire new fleet to electric vehicles as part of a broader plan to become carbon neutral by […]
Late last month, we wrote about Clubhouse, a new secretive invite-only social app that’s all the rage these days. Launched less than a year ago, Clubhouse allows users to spontaneously join group chats. You chat in real-time, share stories, collaborate, and bounce ideas off […]
Early this week, Tesla announced it bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin and planned to start accepting bitcoin for its products. The price of bitcoin surged immediately after the news. Then yesterday, America’s oldest bank BNY Mellon said it is adopting cryptocurrencies and […]
We wrote about Bumble back in September 2020 after the popular dating app announced its $6 billion IPO. Widely popular among professionals and millennials, Bumble is an app that brings dating, friend-finding, and career-building into a single social networking platform. The […]
German automaker Volkswagen announced Thursday that it will use Microsoft’s cloud computing services to help it streamline its software development efforts for self-driving cars, according to a report from Reuters. The financial or contractual details of the deal were not disclosed. […]
Bureaucracy is one of those words that gets thrown around so frequently but no one seems to know the true meaning of it. As someone with knowledge of how the U.S. federal government works, the true meaning of the word can […]
We featured Smarthop back in July 2020 when the Miami, Florida-based tech startup raised $4.5 million in seed funding to empower small trucking companies with AI-powered freight dispatch solutions. You may be wondering want Smarthop does. In the United States, 91% […]
Tyler Technologies announced Wednesday it will buy Olathe, Kansas-based payments company NIC Inc for about $2.3 billion, as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift to online services and electronic payments by governments. Founded in 1992 by Jeff Fraser, NIC is […]
Last year, we covered series of stories of how SoftBank Group went from losing billions of dollars in its investments in Uber, and other startups to ending the year with billions of dollars in profit. Just yesterday, the Japanese technology conglomerate […]
We love writing about startup success stories because that’s primarily what our site is about. It brings us joy when startups succeed. In addition, bootstrapping a startup from nothing to a multi-million business takes hard work, resilience, perseverance, focus, and […]
On January 21, Tesla CEO Elon Musk tweeted that he would be donating $100 million toward a prize for the best carbon capture technology with plans to provide details the following week. Now, we have all the details we’ve been […]
Reddit, a social news aggregation startup at the center of a recent stock market frenzy, announced it has raised $250 in Series E funding from existing and new investors, valuing the startup at $6 billion. Reddit plans to use the fresh […]
We wrote about CLEAR back in 2019 when the New York-based biometric-based identity startup CLEAR secured new funding to accelerate platform and network expansion. CLEAR makes it simple for users to self-identify themselves by using biometrics to build a connected world […]
Contrary to the reports that came out last week, South Korean carmakers Hyundai and Kia announced Monday they are not in talks with Apple to produce an Apple-branded autonomous electric vehicle. The two automakers made the announcement in regulatory filings on Monday. […]
