There is a viral hoax story that has been circulated off and on during the last decade. The hoax has to do with a claim that the Earth will go dark for six days in December 2020. It all started […]
There is a viral hoax story that has been circulated off and on during the last decade. The hoax has to do with a claim that the Earth will go dark for six days in December 2020. It all started […]
We’ve been covering the cyber attack on Solarwinds Orion products over the past two days. It appeared the hack was widespread as we learned more about the impact of the attack. Late yesterday night, Microsoft confirmed it was a victim […]
On Wednesday, Facebook launched a full-page newspaper ad attacking Apple over ad-tracking. Claiming to be standing up to the iPhone maker on behalf of small businesses, Facebook claimed in the ad that Apple’s upcoming mobile software changes around data gathering and targeted advertising are […]
The healthcare sector continues to attract record levels of venture funding as early-stage startup companies rise to the forefront of delivering critical innovations. Wall Street giant J.P. Morgan’s goal is to bring value to venture capital (VC) firms that are supporting […]
We first covered Zoox back in July 2018 when the self-driving tech startup raised a massive $500 million at a $3.2 billion valuation. Then in June, Amazon acquired Zoox in a deal valuing the autonomous-car startup at a little over $1.2 billion. The San […]
We’ve covered Bolt for at least three years now. Just last month, the Estonian ride-hailing startup announced over €100 million investment in the European e-scooter market. The 7-year old startup said it would invest over 100 million euros ($118 million) in 2021 to […]
On the first day of this month, we wrote about bitcoin after the world’s most popular cryptocurrency defied gravity and surged to a record $19,800, topping 2017 high. This is not a small feat. Today, bitcoin achieved a new milestone since the […]
GoDaddy is back on a buying spree. Early this year, we wrote about the world’s largest domain registrar acquired a competing domain registrar and marketplace, Uniregistry, and its domain portfolio for a reported $196.9 million. Then in September, GoDaddy acquired SkyVerge, […]
We wrote about Toast back in February after the restaurant management platform startup raised $400 million in Series F funding at a $4.9 billion valuation. The Boston-based Toast is an all-in-one point-of-sale and restaurant management platform for businesses in the food service and […]
Public.com is a New York-based fintech startup and a commission-free stock brokerage firm that enables companies and individuals to buy public stock with any amount of money. Public.com aims to accelerate all people’s prosperity. Unlike other brokerage firms out there, […]
A little over two years ago, we wrote about Baidu after the China search giant teamed up with U.S. automaker Ford to collaborate on a two-year joint autonomous vehicle test project to develop and test self-driving vehicles on designated roads […]
Technology has permeated every aspect of our daily lives. The impact is even more felt among major companies that now have to rely on technology to automate their process and internal operations. Unlike ten or twenty years ago, however, these […]
Electronic Arts (EA) announced today it reached an agreement on Monday to buy U.K. racing game developer Codemasters in a deal worth $1.2 billion, marking the biggest deal in EA’s history. EA outbid rival publisher Take-Two Interactive to snag the highly-coveted startup […]
Back in May, a couple of Silicon Valley tech companies announced their plan to move out of California to Austin, Texas, due to the state’s draconian lockdown laws and poor handling of the stay-at-home order. Since then, at least a […]
Cryptos are back! After about a year of lackluster, investors are now pouring billions of dollars into digital currencies. The renewed interest in cryptos is partly due to a sudden rise in the value of Bitcoin, the world’s most popular […]
ControlUp, a Silicon Valley-based SaaS tech startup that helps companies to detect, troubleshoot, and remediate IT related issues in their hybrid cloud deployments, today announced it has acquired Avacee, a cloud-first, scalable platform for managing systems and devices everywhere. The […]
Edge is a new tech buzzword. No day goes by without another headline about edge computing or edge AI. In a very simple term, Edge computing is what I called “power to the devices.” As enterprises move IT compute to the […]
We covered IDnow a little over a year ago when the Luxembourg-based tech startup raised $40M in funding to accelerate the growth of its Identity Verification-as-a-Service (IVaaS) platform. IDnow has experienced exponential growth since our last article. As a sign […]
Cisco announced early this morning that it has agreed to buy London-based cloud communications software company IMImobile for 595 pence per share in cash in a deal valued at about $730 million, including debt, according to a report from Reuters. […]
Greenhouse production is experiencing significant growth. In North America, the greenhouse fruit and vegetable market is growing more than 20 percent annually. As greenhouses expand their square footage to meet demand, however, labor shortages and rising labor costs pose challenges […]