Over the weekend, Tesla CEO Elon Musk called GoFundMe ‘professional thieves’ after the fundraising website withheld $10 million from the Canadian anti-vaccine trucker protest. It all started last week when GoFundMe removed a fundraiser for Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest against […]
Happy Sunday! Here’s the past week in a review just in case you missed some of the top technology and startup news. Here are the most popular stories on TechStartups for the week of January 30, 2022. Sign up to receive […]
On August 7, 2015, Terra Nullius minted what’s now widely believed to be the first non-fungible token (NFT) on the Ethereum blockchain. According to a post on Reddit, it appears that Nullius built the project to allow users to stake […]
Yesterday, the fundraising website GoFundMe removed a fundraiser for Canada’s “Freedom Convoy” protest against the country’s COVID-19 policies. In a statement released Friday that it will withhold any donations made to support the Canadian anti-vaccine truckers and their allies. Although GoFundMe […]
The Beijing 2022 Winter Olympic is finally here. Thousands of athletes have arrived in China to compete in the Winter Games that officially opened yesterday February 4, 2022. The Games are will come to an end at the Closing Ceremony, scheduled […]
As tension between Russia and Ukraine escalates, today Russia received the backing of China in its showdown with the United States over Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in China on Friday ahead of the Beijing Winter Olympics opening ceremony. […]
Boston-based Regent first made a splash in early 2021 when the tech startup announced the world’s first electric seaglider, a 100 percent all-electric vehicle that’s partly an aircraft and a hydrofoil boat. The vehicle uses wing-in-ground-effect technology to travel at an […]
It looks like the diversity recruiting platform Canvas.com is going to have to change its brand and domain name after losing the second round of a legal battle with Salt Lake City, Utah-based Instructure. Late last year, Instructure, which offers a learning […]
Joe Rogan is the world’s most popular podcaster with an estimated 11 million listeners per episode. He made name for himself discussing controversial topics and interviewing popular guests including the former NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, astrophysicist and author Neil deGrasse Tyson, and the world’s […]
UK marketing technology company SegmentStream has attracted seed funding worth $2.7 million, which the company announced in January 2022. Identified as lead investors for this seed capital round were Fort Ross Ventures, a seven-year venture capital fund based in Israel […]
The non-fungible token (NFT) boom that started early last year continues without any sign of slowing down. NFTs have become one of the undisputed success stories of the last year. From relatively meager sales under $100 million in 2020, NFT […]
Thanks to advances in artificial intelligence and machine learning, speech recognition technologies such as Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Microsoft Cortana, and Apple Siri in iPhone are changing the way we interact with our devices, homes, cars, and jobs. The first speech […]
Early this week, we wrote about FTX after the crypto exchange startup raised $400M in new funding. The deal gives the startup an eye-popping valuation of $32 billion, up from $25 billion in October 2021 when we covered the company. At […]
Even if you’ve been living under a rock, the news of Tesla’s recall has taken over the headlines. You know it’s bad for the mainstream media when the mom of the richest person in the world has to step in […]
As you may recall just a few hours ago, we told you about Meta after Facebook’s parent company lost 20% of its market value as users abandon the social media platform. For the first time ever, Meta reported declining users causing […]
TTTech Auto, a Vienna, Austria-based tech startup that provides software platforms for automated driving, has raised $285 million in funding co-led by Auto technology supplier Aptiv PLC and Volkswagen AG’s Audi brand. The latest round gives the four-year-old startup a valuation of $1 billion, […]
What you need to know • A new report says Apple’s privacy changes have erased some $278 billion from the market value of four social media companies. • Apple updated its iOS in 2021 so that users have to opt-in […]
Facebook is in trouble and CEO Mark Zuckerberg knows it. The rebranding to metaverse might also not save the company from the external pressures the social giant now faces. For the first time ever, Facebook parent company Meta reported declining […]
UK-based distributed ledger company, Millicent announced the latest funding raise from one of the government’s most prestigious and competitive research and development grants. The blockchain company was awarded the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Innovate UK SMART Award with an […]
In May 2021, President Joe Biden visited the Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan plant to celebrate American-made electric muscle cars. Although Tesla is the most popular and the largest automaker by market value, Biden has a problem acknowledging that Tesla is leading the electrification […]
