The United States Justice Department (DOJ) today announced charges against four Chinese military intelligence officers with hacking the credit-reporting giant Equifax in one of the largest data breaches in history. The four Chinese spies were charged for allegedly hacking the credit bureau […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Monday, February 10, 2020. iPhone manufacturing in China is in jeopardy amid coronavirus outbreak. Coronavirus continues to spread around the globe. In addition to taking over 900 casualities, the virus […]
EmployStream, a provider of onboarding automation to the staffing industry, announced the close of its $7 million Series B funding round led by Plymouth Growth Partners, with support from several key investors including JumpStart, Rev1 Ventures, Ohio Innovation Fund and […]
Lake Turkana wind farm (LTWP), located in Kenya, is the single biggest operating wind farm in Africa. The wind farm provides 310MW of reliable, low cost energy to Kenya’s national grid. The LTWP consortium comprises of KP&P Africa B.V and Aldwych International […]
Snowflake, the San Mateo, Calif.-based data warehousing cloud service provider Snowflake Computing, today announced $479 million in additional growth funding co-led by new investors, Dragoneer Investment Group and Salesforce Ventures. Existing Snowflake investors, including Altimeter Capital, ICONIQ Capital, Madrona Venture […]
We all know about Apple App Store and Google Play. Many people may not be familiar with Slack App Marketplace, an app directory owned by Slack, a popular collaboration hub that brings the right people, information and tools together to get […]
A/O PropTech, Europe’s largest property technology venture capital firm, announced its official launch with €250 million capital to invest in startups disrupting real estate. PropTech backs and supports companies from late-stage seed to IPO. We’re comfortable with the rough imperfection of a new […]
BigProfiles, an Italian startup and a provider of SaaS B2B platform that enables companies to profile their customers and predict their behaviors with its proprietary Artificial Intelligence solutions, has closed $1.6 million (€1.5 million) investment to strengthen its leadership in the […]
Where did the coronavirus originate from? That’s one of the most asked questions since the virus started about two months ago. It is a lingering question everyone is asking about. According to a new report from Science Magazine, Wuhan seafood […]
Facebook’s Twitter and Instagram accounts were hacked Friday, by a Saudi-based hacking group that has been active in exposing vulnerabilities among high-profile social media users. The group, OurMine, claimed responsibility for the takeover. On its website, OurMine describes its team as […]
With changing economy and a new rebelliousness amongst the workforce, we are witnessing a re-surging startup revolution. Depending on the source of data, over 627,000 new businesses open each year in the United States, according to estimates from SBA. Over the […]
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak founded in Apple founded in 1976. Jobs was the ideas guy and handled the business side of things; Wozniak was the engineering guru. Jobs was later ousted from Apple after a failed boardroom coup. At just just […]
With talent and colleges that rival that of the United States, India has long been known to be the world’s favorite outsourcing destination for global companies. Already, India-born engineers and scientist are CEOs and leaders at Fortune 500 companies like Google, […]
Secure communications are at the heart of all successful operations, and especially critical for the Air Force and Department of Defense. Fluree is a four-year old North Carolina startup that wants to bring the immutability of blockchain to the database. The […]
Wall Street giant Goldman Sachs Group is reportedly planning to raise $8 billion in only its second buyout fund since the 2008 financial crisis, bolstering its ability to secure deals worldwide, according to a report from Reuters, citing two people […]
Coronavirus has spread so fast in short amount of time. As scientists and drugmakers race to get a vaccine for the coronavirus approved this year, two Israeli startups are working on new breakthrough technologies to help prevent the outbreak. The two startups are […]
Netskope, a Santa Clara, California-based cybersecurity startup that provides real-time data and threat protection for public cloud, websites, and private apps, has closed $340 million in a round of funding led by Sequoia Capital. The financing, which includes participation from existing investors, […]
Good morning! Below are the top tech startups news for today, Thursday, February 6, 2020. China’s mobile giants to take on Google’s Play store, report says. The top four China’s mobile giants are reportedly aiming to challenge Google’s Play store […]
Casper is a sleep startup that launches a comfortable mattress sold directly to consumers, eliminating commission driven, inflated prices. Casper makes its Wall Street debut with its shares surging nearly 30% following the company’s initial public offering Thursday morning, opening at $14.50, […]
A new report from UK Fires, an organization committed to achieving net-zero emissions by 2050, reported that breakthrough technologies such as carbon capture and hydrogen cannot be relied on to help the UK meet its climate change targets. The report, titled “Absolute […]
