According to the latest estimates, Google controls a little more than 92% of the search engine market share worldwide, which includes 72% of the desktop market and 92% of the mobile search engine market. Google’s nearest competitor, Bing, only controls 2.5% of […]
Data governance tech startup Collibra announced Tuesday it has raised $250 million in a late-stage investment round of funding that values the 13-year old startup at $5.25 billion. The round was led by Sequoia Capital and Belgium-based holding company Sofina, with […]
With the electric car market is getting more crowded, automakers around the world are beginning to set their sights on a new smaller portion of the market: the electric trucks. Unlike the electric cars, there are a few handful companies in […]
Artificial intelligence pioneer Andrew Ng is an adjunct professor at Stanford University Department of Computer Science and Department of Electrical Engineering and the brain behind the Google Brain research lab. In 2011, he co-founded Google Brain, a deep learning artificial intelligence […]
Less than 10 months after emerging from stealth, San Diego-based compliance and security automation startup Drata joins the coveted unicorn club after raising $100 million in Series B funding. The round, which was led by ICONIQ Growth, makes Drata one of the fastest SaaS companies […]
Over the weekend, we wrote about Elon Musk’s first-ever Twitter poll when he asked Twitter users if he should sell 10% of his Tesla stock to pay billion in taxes. Now the results are in 24 hours after the poll […]
Up until two decades ago, machine learning (ML) was a topic of discussion for a few members of academia. At the time, machine learning applications were mostly confined to large corporations or governmental organizations. Today, ML is everywhere. However, building machine […]
China’s Evergrande Group has been in the headlines for over a month now. The company is the second-largest property developer in China by sales. Evergrande woes started more than a year ago. Then on Sept. 23 and Sept. 29., on its […]
Carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions are the major causes of climate change. According to scientists, man-made greenhouse gasses emissions add more than 20,000,000,000 tons to the atmosphere each year from electricity generation, deforestation, heating, transportation, and industry. In April, we wrote about Bill Gates’ […]
In April, Blue Origin lost to SpaceX after NASA selected Elon Musk’s space company to build the astronaut lunar lander (HLS). NASA awarded Elon Musk’s SpaceX with a sole $2.89 billion contract to build the next crewed lunar lander under its Human […]
Alphabet’s Google announced Thursday it has signed a partnership agreement with CME Group to accelerate CME Group’s move to the cloud and transform how global derivatives markets operate with technology. As part of the deal, Google invested $1 billion in CME Group […]
Big tech companies love to collect data on their users. Your personal data is a hot commodity for brands and companies that want to target a specific customer segment and optimize their services. For instance, the email address of a […]
TradeStation, a fintech startup best known for its technical analysis software and electronic trading platform, announced Thursday it would go public through a merger with a blank-check firm Quantum FinTech Acquisition Corporation in a deal that values the combined company at about […]
The driverless revolution is here and many are wondering what the future would look like. Now, we don’t need to look so far. Today, Swedish electric and autonomous freight tech startup Einride has entered the U.S. market with its fleet of electric self-driving trucks […]
HoneyBook, a business software tech startup and a provider of customer relationship management platform aimed at freelancers and small businesses in creative fields, announced today it has raised $250 million in funding led by investment giant Tiger Global Management. The […]
Back in May, we wrote about Zhang Yiming, founder of TikTok parent company ByteDance, after he announced his resignation as CEO because he lacked the social skills to be an ideal manager. “I’m not very social,” Zhang said in a statement. […]
In 2021, the world population is estimated to be 7.87 billion people. By 2050, the number is expected to rise to 9 billion people, 70 percent of these will live in cities. The rapid urbanization boom will be a challenge to […]
Nuro, a developer of autonomous driving technology backed by two former Google engineers, has raised an additional $600 million in Series D funding round to speed up efforts to commercialize its robotic delivery services. The announcement comes two years after […]
For decades, organizations rely on traditional application security testing (AST) to find and eliminate vulnerabilities in their software. However, as these organizations move to the cloud, they quickly realized that their legacy AST approach is not only unscalable but also […]
In late August, China banned kids from playing online games for more than 3 hours per week to safeguard their physical and mental health. The new policy, which went into effect September 1, applies to companies providing online game services to minors, […]
