With funding drying up, deep-pocket companies are scooping up promising and high-growth tech startups before their IPOs. Earlier today, we wrote about Wolters Kluwer, an Alphen aan den Rijn, the Netherlands-based global that has acquired two startups in just a week. But Wolters […]
Wolters Kluwer is on an acquisition spree. As we reported last week, The Netherlands-based company started the year with the acquisition of London-based tech startup Della AI to shore up its Legal & Regulatory software unit. Today, Wolters Kluwer Health announced it has […]
As you may recall, last week we wrote about Meta and Apple after the two tech giants were fined for breaking EU data rules with their targeted ads. Facebook’s Meta was fined over $400 million by the EU privacy regulator for […]
The year is just getting started and large tech companies including Amazon, Salesforce, and Stitch Fix have already laid off 16,420 of their workers, according to Crunchbase. January 2023 became the second-largest layoff month since November 2022, when about 44,570 U.S. tech workers lost […]
Text-to-speech (TTS) technology has come a long way since its early days over five decades ago. The first English text-to-speech system was invented by Japanese researcher Noriko Umeda at the Electrotechnical Laboratory in Japan in 1968 when he generated a computer […]
Ant Group, a Chinese fintech giant founded by Alibaba owner Jack Ma, said it does not have a plan for an initial public offering (IPO), Reuters reported, citing an emailed statement from the company. Ant Group’s $37 billion IPO, which would have […]
Since our inception five years ago, we have covered thousands of startups that have raised billions in funding from angel investors, accelerators and incubators, and venture capital firms. Any founder would tell you that starting a new business venture can […]
Good evening and happy Friday! It’s a super light news day so we’re not going to cover much ground today. With that, below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Friday, January 6, 2023. Mastercard launches web3-focused artist […]
The crypto market has lost over $2.1 trillion from its peak of over $3 trillion when Bitcoin hit an all-time high of $69,000 in November 2021. There is also no sign recovery is in sight anytime soon as weary investors […]
TL;DR Perceive Biotherapeutics, a Silicon Valley biotech tech startup focused on technologies and therapeutics in ophthalmology, has raised $78M in Series B funding led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Using decades of academic research, Perceive Biotherapeutics uses novel therapeutics to prevent the largest […]
Tech layoffs continue unabated as a slew of big tech companies — ranging from Facebook’s Meta to Twitter— are letting employees go due to the ongoing recession and global economic slowdown. Stitch Fix is the latest to join the layoff phenomenon after the […]
Just like an angel of death knocking at the door of every crypto company, crypto winter has come for Huobi. The crypto exchange is laying off 20% of its staff, Reuters reported Friday. The layoff is the latest sign of deep […]
A lot of people are always looking for the next big thing. With technology constantly evolving, there are always plenty of exciting additions coming to different sectors. It’s no different for those who have an interest in the world of […]
Back in August 2019, when we first put together a rundown of the world’s unicorn startups, we counted a total of 360 of these privately-held companies with valuations hitting the $1 billion mark or beyond. Fast forward to 2020, and […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, January 5, 2023. Twitter hacked, 235 million user email addresses leaked, researcher says Late last year, a hacker by the name ‘Ryushi’ demanded Twitter pay a […]
In what the German luxury automaker called “the next level of human-machine interaction,” BMW today unveiled a prototype for its i Vision Dee concept car during the automaker’s keynote at CES on Wednesday evening. The four-door futuristic sedan talks like a […]
Building and growing an online community can be challenging and time-consuming. You not only have to understand the needs of your community members, but you also have to think about community engagement, management, and a slew of other things to grow […]
TL;DR EVgo, one of the largest U.S. charging networks, teams up with Amazon to let EV drivers locate and pay for charging with Alexa EV drivers will soon be able to find and navigate to charging stations while on the […]
Amazon said Wednesday that it will lay off more than 18,000 employees, a bigger number than the retail giant announced back in December when the New York Times reported the company was cutting 10,000 jobs. The news is a further indicator […]
We’re all well aware of misinformation and fake news. But who would have thought of misinformation in cyber intelligence? For decades, cyber-defense systems have been used to automatically ingest Cyber Threat Intelligence (CTI) that contains semi-structured data or text to populate […]
