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China’s IoT tech startup G7 raises $200M to transform and open the Internet of Things to the freight industry
Daniel Levi Posted On February 15, 2022


G7, a Beijing, China-based internet of things (IoT) tech startup that specializes in fleet management, has raised $200 million in funding led by Trustbridge Partners and CS Capital, with participation from existing investors. As G7 looks to harness the latest technologies including […]


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Directed-energy weapon tech startup Epirus gets $200M cash infusion to build drone-zapping weapons for the U.S. military; now valued at $1.35 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On February 15, 2022


Epirus, a Torrance, California-based Epirus tech startup that develops directed energy systems, has raised $200 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total financing raised to date to $287 million. The latest cash infusion brings the company’s valuation to $1.35 billion. […]


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The White House asks major tech platforms to do more to fight misinformation; singles out Spotify to do more to censor Joe Rogan
Daniel Levi Posted On February 14, 2022


Just when you thought the Joe Rogan-Spotify saga was over, the White House joined the call for Spotify to rein in on Joe Rogan to stop the covid misinformation. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki told a reporter that tech […]


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AMD buys rival chipmaker Xilinx for nearly $50 billion, making it one of the largest deals in the semiconductor industry
Daniel Levi Posted On February 14, 2022


Late last year, semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced its to buy rival chipmaker Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal as part of its efforts to challenge Intel in the data center chip market. Today, AMD announced it has […]


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7 Common Mistakes to Avoid When Launching a New Software Startup
Nickie Louise Posted On February 14, 2022


This is a guest post by Ethan Drower, co-founder and Operating Partner of CiteMed, a Chicago-based tech startup that’s disrupting and revolutionizing the European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) process). In the business arena, software remains one of the fastest-growing […]


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Jio Platforms invests $200M in Glance to serve media content, news, and casual games on the lock screen of smartphones
Nickie Louise Posted On February 14, 2022


Over a decade since the launch of the iPhone, smartphone users are now inundated with a deluge of mobile apps, making it difficult to know which one to choose from. Today, an average smartphone user probably has about a dozen […]


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Berlin-based clean energy tech startup Sunhero raises $4 million to make it easier for homeowners to go solar
Nickie Louise Posted On February 14, 2022


In 2019, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) came out with alarming statistics which found that over 80% of global energy still comes from fossil fuels despite trillion dollars investments in renewable energy. Today, climate change awareness has led millions of […]


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Precision medicine startup Variantyx lands $41.5M in funding to treat rare diseases using whole-genome sequencing
Daniel Levi Posted On February 14, 2022


One in ten Americans suffers from a rare disease, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The agency found that there are approximately 7,000 rare diseases affecting between 25 and 30 million Americans. That’s why Framingham, Mass-based Precision medicine startup Variantyx is […]


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Huckletree launches its ninth Alpha Accelerator for underrepresented founders and diverse startups in ‘Urban Futures’
Daniel Levi Posted On February 14, 2022


Founding a startup is daunting and challenging, but even more so when the founders are minorities, women or people of color. Although a lot of progress has been made over the years, however, a 2020 report by Fortune Magazine found […]


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Robot Apacolypse: What Jobs Will AI Replace, and How Fast?
Nickie Louise Posted On February 14, 2022


We are literally on the cusp of a new era in human civilization in which robots start doing much of our work for us. This will radically change society from the model’s setup in the last industrial revolution: the labor […]


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London-based stationery tech startup Papier secures $50M in Series C funding to fuel expansion into the US market
Nickie Louise Posted On February 14, 2022


Who would have thought stationery was a big business? But not for British-Iranian Taymoor Atighetchi who saw what most people didn’t see. Today, the global stationery industry is a $200 billion market. Born in London, Taymoor grew up on Portobello Road where he […]


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Coinbase spent $14 million on a Super Bowl ad for a color-changing QR code that bounces around on the screen for 30-seconds; now the website just crashed
Nickie Louise Posted On February 13, 2022


Super Bowl commercials are always a stage to get your products and services in front of millions of viewers. This year is no different as some of the biggest tech companies including Google, Amazon, Salesforce, and Uber lined up Hollywood hotshots […]


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66% of bitcoin investors lost money, contrary to the popular stories of overnight crypto millionaires
Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2022


In the late 1990s, there was a popular American television game show called “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” The show was adapted from the same-titled British program created by David Briggs. The show features a quiz competition with several contestants […]


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George Soros buys $2 billion stake in Amazon-backed electric truck startup Rivian
Nickie Louise Posted On February 12, 2022


We covered Rivian back in November last year after the Amazon-backed electric truck startup lost nearly all its IPO gains following the announcement that it’s no longer working with Ford Motor to develop electric vehicles together. At the time, Rivian saw […]


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Biden warns of “World War” as US submarine enters Russian waters
Daniel Levi Posted On February 12, 2022


Tensions between the United States and Russia are at their highest point since the Cold War. Yesterday, US President Joe Biden called on all American citizens living in Ukraine to leave the country as soon as possible. “American citizens should leave […]


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Canadian police are now monitoring their citizens’ social media activities: Ontario police visited a woman’s home after she commented on an anti mandate protest on Facebook
Nickie Louise Posted On February 11, 2022


Imagine sitting at home going through Facebook pages and you came across a post in your group. You went ahead, commented on it, and moved on with your life. A few days later, the police showed up at your door. You […]


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Elon Musk says he’s ‘highly confident’ the 36-story Starship, designed to take humans to the moon and Mars, will reach orbit this year
Daniel Levi Posted On February 11, 2022


SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday he was “highly confident” his new SpaceX36-story Starship, the world’s most powerful rocket ever built designed for voyages to the moon and Mars, will reach Earth orbit for the first time this year. Despite a […]


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London-based trading tech startup ThinkMarkets raises $40M in funding to grow its multi-asset online trading platform
Daniel Levi Posted On February 11, 2022


Nauman Anees is a name you’ve probably never heard of. Nauman co-founded a home-grown proprietary trading platform ThinkForex in 2010 after graduating from De Paul University about two decades ago. Then in 2016, ThinkForex rebranded to ThinkMarkets. Since launching ThinkMarkets in 2010, […]


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Northspyre raises $25M in Series B funding to modernize antiquated spreadsheet-driven workflows with AI-power solutions for real estate teams
Nickie Louise Posted On February 11, 2022


Artificial intelligence has disrupted every industry and real estate is no exception. That’s why New York-based tech startup Northspyre is on a mission to help modernize spreadsheet-driven workflows in the antiquated real estate project delivery process. CEO William Sankey and his co-founder […]


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Diversity recruiting startup Canvas rebrands to Untapped.io after losing Canvas.com in a trademark dispute
Nickie Louise Posted On February 11, 2022


Last week, we wrote about Canvas after the diversity recruiting startup lost its domain name Canvas.com in a trademark dispute with Salt Lake City, Utah-based tech company Instructure. As we said back then, “The startup has no other choice but to either […]


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