In the latest sign that boundaries between Big Tech and financial firms continue to blur, Microsoft is investing $2 billion in the London Stock Exchange in exchange for a 4% stock in the firm, which further strengthens their longstanding relationship. In an […]
Last month, Twitter paused the rollout of Twitter Blue following the impersonation abuse from trolls who took advantage of the blue checkmark verification feature. Following the first unsuccessful attempt at paid account verification, Twitter announced on Saturday it will start rolling […]
You were sick but you didn’t exactly know what it was. It was in the middle of the night and you couldn’t reach your doctor. What about if you could check your symptoms and find possible causes for free in just three […]
There’s a big jump in the number of Americans with a negative view of cryptocurrency after a series of bankruptcies, crypto collapses, and scandals rocked the crypto industries. Americans’ views on cryptocurrencies have suddenly soured following the collapse of the […]
Amid massive tech layoffs and struggles to raise new funding, some startups are still raising millions of dollars from deep-pocket investors and venture capital firms, although no one knows when the funding well may dry up. Today, Walmart-backed Indian digital payment […]
Swedish electric and autonomous freight tech startup Einride has raised $500 million in additional funding for its electric self-driving truck that has no room for a human driver. We covered Einride a year ago after the startup made its debut in […]
According to the latest data from the World Bank, only 48.4% of people in Sub-Saharan Africa have access to electricity. The situation is even far worse in West Africa where only about 42% of the total population, and 8% of […]
Slack CEO Stewart Butterfield announced on Monday that he plans to step down from the chat software developer company a little over a year after Salesforce acquired it for $28 billion. Butterfield will be replaced by Lidiane Jone, who worked […]
The global cryptocurrency market reached an all-time high of $2.9 trillion in late 2021. But this year, it has shed around $2 trillion as a string of high-profile corporate failures and a perfect storm of geo-political tension, increased interest rates, […]
2022 is shaping out to be a terrible year for not just cryptocurrencies but also for crypto companies. While all eyes are on the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX, UK-based crypto lender Nexo said on Monday it is phasing out its products […]
In February, fintech startup Circle doubled its valuation to $9 billion following a deal with blank-check company Concord Acquisition Corp, doubling its value since July 2021 when the initial agreement valued the company at $4.5 billion. Fast forward ten months after […]
With growing urbanization across Africa, multi-property developments have emerged as the preferred mode of delivering residential and commercial real estate. Of the 2.5 million households in Nigeria that earn more than $1,000 per month, 80 percent live in multi-property communities. […]
Over the weekend, the former CEO of FTX’s sister company Alameda Research Caroline Ellison was spotted in a New York coffee shop just 6 minutes away from FBI headquarters after many weeks of speculation that she was on the run in Hong […]
ChatGPT took the internet by storm on Wednesday after OpenAI released its dialogue-based AI chatbot that has been hailed as a potential game-changer in the world of artificial intelligence (AI). The new chatbot-powered AI is the latest from the Elon Musk-founded independent research body […]
Nikola Tesla first theorized the idea of wireless power in the late 19th century. It was the idea that electricity could be transmitted wirelessly through the air over long distances. Today, wireless power transmission is all around us. Most of today’s smartphones […]
The wild news coming out of the crypto market triggered by the collapse of the now-bankrupt crypto exchange FTX has had a negative impact on the overall traders’ confidence. The scandal has reignited the calls for increased regulations in the crypto […]
Elon Musk is known to work at least 16 hours a day. While working tirelessly to revamp Twitter after acquiring the social giant for $4 billion in October, that has not kept him from working on his other projects including […]
The spat between Elon Musk and Apple appears to be over. Yesterday, Elon Musk revealed that he went to Apple’s headquarters and met with Apple CEO Tim Cook. The duo was able to resolve the misunderstanding that Apple wanted to remove […]
Over the years, there’s been an increase in climate change awareness as governments and organizations put in place various measures to address global warming and the ongoing climate crisis. One of the ways to reduce climate change is through forestation. […]
Drought, insect outbreaks, extreme weather, and increased wildfires, are just a few of the results of climate. The impacts of climate change are global in scope, unprecedented in scale, and can no longer be denied. According to the EPA, carbon dioxide (CO2) […]
