With the looming war between China and Taiwan, Apple is shifting its manufacturing strategy and decided to start producing its flagship iPhone 14 in India. The tech giant has been producing iPhones in India since 2017 but they were usually […]
We covered PlanetWatchers In June 2021 after the London-based geospatial intelligence startup raised $3.5 million in Series A funding to provide Analytics as a Service (AaaS) to the crop insurance industry. The round was co-led by Seraphim Capital and Creative Ventures, […]
Well-link Technologies, a Chinese cloud gaming service provider, announced Monday it had raised $40 million in an early-stage or B2 funding round led by Singapore state investment firm Temasek. Temasek also confirmed the deal in an email. Despite the difficulties faced by Chinese startups […]
The use of LiDAR technology has accelerated in recent years as almost every single electric vehicle company working on self-driving cars right now uses LIDAR, with Tesla as an exception. While it is commonly used in autonomous driving cars, other areas including logistics, […]
FTX is in talks to raise up to $1 billion in fresh funding that would value the Crypto exchange giant at roughly $32 billion, according to a report from CNBC, citing people with knowledge of the matter. The valuation remains unchanged […]
The growing popularity of blockchain has led developers and builders to flock to networks like Ethereum and BNB Chain to build decentralized applications, also known as dApps. Unlike the regular apps in Apple App Store, dApps are built on a decentralized […]
In June 2018, we wrote about Kittyhawk when the unmanned aircraft systems startup backed by billionaire Google co-founder Larry Page raised $5 million from Boeing HorizonX Ventures and other investors to bring fast and compact flying cars to the masses. Four years […]
Lotus Technology, the tech company that spun out of British sports car maker Lotus and now owned by China’s automaker Geely, announced Wednesday it had completed fundraising that valued the startup at about $4.5 billion, according to a report from Reuters. […]
Boba Network is the first multichain Layer-2 blockchain scaling and augmenting solution that offers lightning-fast transactions and fees up to 60x less than Ethereum. Since its inception five years ago, Boba has been pushing boundaries, providing scaling and augmenting solutions, and building […]
Music streaming giant Spotify announced Tuesday the launch of audiobooks for U.S. listeners. With the launch, millions of U.S. Spotify users will now be able to purchase and listen to more than 300,000 different audiobook titles. The move puts Spotify in […]
Four years ago, CBDs and cannabis dominated the headlines as startups flocked to the space after some US states legalized the sale of recreational cannabis. Then about two years ago, investors pulled back from the space and set their sights […]
In just a few years, Web 3.0 has transformed the cryptocurrency industry and the fintech landscape as it creates new business models and opportunities for everyone, especially in developing countries. Unlike its predecessor, Web 3.0 changes the narrative through its distributed […]
With the growing threats of climate change, businesses and big corporations no longer focus on short-term profit but also on their impacts on the environment and the world at large. Over the past few years, some of these companies are […]
Rumble, a conservative video network backed by billionaire Peter Thiel, today becomes a publicly-traded company after a $2 billion SPAC merger deal with a blank-check firm CF Acquisition Corp. Trading under the ticker symbol “RUM” on NASDAQ Stock Exchange, the company shares […]
Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP has acquired a 9% stake in Wix.com, an Israeli-based eCommerce company that helps small businesses build and operate websites. The dollar amount of the stake was not disclosed. According to a regulatory filing on Friday […]
Even with the pandemic almost behind us, employers are still finding it increasingly difficult to find the right candidates to fill millions of open positions. The number of US job openings hit a record high of 11.55 million in March, […]
One of bitcoin’s selling points is that the world’s largest cryptocurrency is a hedge against inflation and immune from government regulations and rising interest rates. But as we’ve seen in recent months, the reality could not be further from the truth […]
Intuitive Machines, a Houston-based space tech startup building spacecraft to land on the Moon, announced Friday that it will go public in a US listing through a merger with a blank-check company Inflection Point Acquisition Corp. The deal, which values the space […]
Remember Parler, the free-speech social app that was censored and de-platformed over accusations that it helped incite U.S. Capitol attacks on January 6, 2021? It now appears the app is back and thriving. After many months of onslaughts from big tech giants […]
Uber has been hacked by a teenage hacker, forcing the ride-hailing giant to take several of its internal communications and engineering systems offline as it investigated the hack. Uber announced Thursday it’s conducting investigations into what led to the hack, […]
