In June 2020, we wrote a piece about Section 230 law after the U.S. Justice Department announced unveiled a plan to remove the Section 230 immunity that protects big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, and Google’s YouTube from being sued […]
Venmo, a mobile payment service owned by PayPal, is under investigation by U.S. consumer watchdog for unauthorized fund transfers and collections processes, according to a report from Reuters. On Friday, PayPal Holdings Inc announced that it received a civil investigative demand from the […]
As part of Microsoft’s effort to reimagine the fragmented $300 billion employee experience platform market, Microsoft on Thursday unveils Viva, a suite of apps to help people become more informed and avoid burnout. Viva provides online learning materials, internal announcements, an encyclopedia of […]
In a sign of the ongoing conflicts at Google over diversity and ethics, an engineering director and a software developer have resigned from the search giant over the firing of AI ethics researcher Timnit Gebru, according to Reuters, which first […]
That didn’t take long. Just a few days ago, Elon Musk said he was taking a break from Twitter, perhaps to focus on important things. “Off Twitter for a while,” Musk tweeted at 3:45 AM on February 2 without giving any […]
With the arrival of vaccines to combat the spread of the deadly coronavirus, millions of companies are preparing to return back to their office. Just in time when people start going back to the office, video conferencing company Zoom said Tuesday […]
While Google may be killing it in the search space, the search giant is not doing so well in other areas. Its cloud unit is bleeding money. In the earnings announcement yesterday, Google revealed that its cloud business lost $5.61 billion […]
You can now order alcohol via Uber. Today, Uber announced it is acquiring Boston, MA-based alcohol-delivery service startup Drizly for $1.1 billion in stock and cash. The deal is expected to close within the first half of 2021. Following the completion […]
Amazon announced today that Jeff Bezos will step down as CEO and “transition” to the role of executive chair in Q3 2021, who after 27 years at the helm of the retailer he founder, is ending an era at Amazon. […]
Two weeks ago, we wrote about Tesla after US regulators asked Tesla to recall 158,000 Model S and Model X vehicles over media control unit failures. Now, Tesla announced today it has voluntarily recalled 134,951 Model S and Model X vehicles […]
The last time we wrote about UiPath was back in July 2020 when the New York-based tech startup raised $225 million in a Series E funding. Today, UiPath announced it has closed another $750 million Series F funding round at a post-money valuation […]
Last week, it was the electric-vehicle startup Faraday Future. This week, another tech startup is joining the SPAC craze. Astra, a San Francisco, California-based rocket launch startup that provides satellite delivery service and launch service, announced Tuesday it is going public through […]
The global space tourism market is estimated to reach $1. 7 billion by 2027. The companies currently leading this market are Virgin Galactic, Airbus Group, Boeing Company, and others. Now SpaceX wants to make a foray into the nascent space tourism industry. Today, SpaceX […]
Today, Ford Motor Co. and Google sign a six-year multi-million dollar strategic partnership to accelerate Ford’s transformation and reinvent the connected vehicle experience. The deal will make Google responsible for much of the automaker’s growing in-vehicle connectivity, artificial intelligence, as well […]
Think about this for a moment. Who in his right mind wants to see ads on their mobile devices? Apparently, Facebook thinks so. The social media giant thinks we are sheep who need to be fed with more ads. As […]
Cellino Biotech, a Cambridge, MA-based startup that develops intracellular delivery lasers and nanotechnology for gene editing applications. announced today it has closed $16 million in seed funding to advance its AI-guided laser platform to automate and scale autologous cell-and tissue-based therapies. The […]
Hyundai Motor and UK-based tech startup Urban-Air Port just unveiled the world’s first eVTOL hub. Last week, Urban-Air Port has partnered with car giant Hyundai Motor to develop the infrastructure required for when flying cars take to the skies to ferry people […]
Illumina is one of the leading companies when it comes to DNA sequencing and array-based technologies. And today, the company announced a partnership agreement with Sequoia Capital China to launch a genomics incubator in China. Powered by Illumina, the collaboration aims to […]
Online casinos have been a growing industry for quite some time. With more and more people choosing to gamble from their couch rather than going to a casino, it’s easy to see why gambling companies are putting more money into […]
The Honest Company, a baby and beauty products startup co-founded by actress Jessica Alba, is reportedly seeking to raise $2 billion in an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report from Bloomberg BNN. Citing people familiar with the matter, Bloomberg said […]
