Fahim Saleh, the founder of the Nigerian ride-sharing app Gokada, has been murdered. The body of 33-year-old tech entrepreneur was found dismembered and decapitated inside his Manhattan apartment. The suspect, identified as a 21-year old Tyrese Devon Haspil, was arrested […]
Back in March, we wrote about the top 100 most innovative artificial intelligence (AI) startups, based on data from CB Insights, a research firm that predicts technology trends. Now, CB Insights has just released its 2020 report of the top-funded […]
We covered OpenPath in June 2018 after the Los Angeles-based startup raised $20 million in a series B funding round led by Emergence Capital. Touted as an “access control for the modern workplace,” OpenPath works by letting employees enter the office with their […]
The last time we wrote about Bolt was back in winter of 2019 after the unicorn startup and the world’s first checkout experience platform raised $68 million in funding to scale its engineering team and invest in additional enterprise functionality […]
With TikTok facing growing problems here in the United States and around the world, Facebook is looking to capitalize on the demise of the Chinese social video app with global launch of Reels. Facebook announced it will launch Instagram Reels, […]
Britain, the United States, and Canada accused Russia of trying to steal information from researchers seeking a COVID-19 vaccine. Britain’s National Cybersecurity Centre (NCSC) said Thursday that hackers backed by the Russian state are trying to steal COVID-19 vaccine and […]
Joshin, the Minneapolis-based tech startup that is bringing on-demand disability care to the masses via a mobile app, today announced a $1.55M funding round. The round was led by Anthemis, with participation from M25 and Sure Ventures. In addition to […]
It’s been a pretty bad month for Chinese 5G company Huawei. Earlier this month, we wrote about the Chinese tech giant after UK government reversed course to ban Huawei gear from Britain’s 5G networks in a major policy U-turn after U.S. […]
Thrasio, a Medfield, Massachusetts-based tech startup is changing the face of E-commerce as we know it. Thrasio is the largest acquirer of Amazon businesses and one of the top 25 sellers on Amazon. The startup acquires category-leading Amazon third-party private label businesses, and then […]
On April 21, we wrote about Reliance Jio after Facebook invested $5.7 billion for a 9.99% stake in the largest 4G network company in India. The investment is Facebook’s biggest investment in India to date. Yesterday, Bloomberg reported yesterday is in “advanced talks” to invest […]
Video conferencing company Zoom continues to ride the waves of success as the company to benefit from surge in remote work caused by coronavirus pandemic. Today, the leading videoconferencing platform announced it is expanding into hardware with $599 video chat gadget. Originally […]
Ravelin, a London, England-based fraud detection tech startup and a pioneer in the use of machine learning and graph network technologies to help online businesses accept more payments with confidence, announced today it has raised $20 million (£16.4 M) in Series C funding […]
We wrote about Digital Asset back in December of last year after the New York City-based blockchain startup closed $35 million in Series C funding to capture smart contract market with DAML. Since then, the startup has been attracting interest […]
Ponicode, a Paris, France-based AI startup announced today it has raised a €3 million ($3.4 million) in seed funding to continue to improve code quality with artificial intelligence. The round was led by Breega alongside Kima and Plug & Play Ventures, one of the most […]
Earlier today, we reported that Moderna will begin late-stage coronavirus vaccine trial on July 27, according to ClinicalTrials.gov. Now, we have another piece of good news about Moderna mRNA-1273 vaccine. Federal researchers said Tuesday that Moderna’s Covid-19 vaccine produced antibodies to […]
WhatsApp is currently experiencing a global outage. According to multiple reports, mobile and web WhatsApp users said the app is not ‘connecting’ when they try to send messages. Issues have been reported across the world, including Europe, US, India, Pakistan and […]
The Belgian Data Protection Authority (APD) has fined Google €600,000 for failure to comply European rules on a person’s “right to be forgotten” online. The fine, which is the highest fine ever imposed by the Belgian authority, came after Google rejected […]
Today, millions of American patients still struggle to get timely access to on-demand healthcare specialists. This results in poor outcomes and higher cost of care, impacting everyone across the healthcare spectrum. With non-emergency, proactive care and elective procedures being canceled […]
Another day, another billion dollars investment in technology startups. Today, Indian e-commerce startup Flipkart announced it has raised $1.2 billion in funding led by majority owner Walmart Inc as India emerges from the Covid-19 crisis. The new funding will help Flipkart to better compete with […]
We covered Citadel Defense back in March after the AI-powered drone startup expanded its manufacturing capabilities to support production of up to 50 Titan systems a month as drone attacks escalate. Citadel Defense is a counter-drone (C-UAS) technology company that builds industry-leading drone mitigation […]
