The global B2B payment continues to grow at an exponential rate with no sign of slowing down. It is estimated that B2B payments volume totals approximately $120 trillion per year globally and roughly $25 trillion per year domestically. The growth is expected […]
Shanzhai is a Chinese term that literally means “mountain fortress” or “mountain village.” But the contemporary use of the term usually encompasses counterfeit, imitation, or pirated products, which can involve the imitation and trademark infringement of brands and companies. You […]
There is a wave of optimism in post-pandemic Africa. The recent coronavirus pandemic and China’s repression of Uyghurs in Xinjiang have led to a momentous shift in people’s attitudes toward China. Investors are beginning to move away from the communist country to business-friendly countries […]
Google-owned YouTube announced it will block all anti-vaccine content on its video platform as part of its effort to crackdown on anti-vaccine misinformation. YouTube is also moving beyond its ban on false information about the COVID vaccines to include content […]
Medical care is estimated to account for only 10-20 percent of a person’s health, according to research from the National Academy of Medicine. The other 80 to 90% can be broadly attributed to social determinants of health (SDoH) which affect a wide […]
Botco.ai, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based tech startup that provides AI-based conversational marketing solutions, announced today it has raised additional seed funding from VamosVentures to help accelerate growth. The funding brings the company’s total seed round to $3.6 million. Founded in 2017 by […]
Quantum computing has been around since the early 1980s when physicist Paul Benioff proposed a quantum mechanical model of the Turing machine. Unlike the conventional computers that store information using bits represented by 0s or 1s, quantum computers use quantum […]
Amazon on Tuesday unveiled its long-rumored home robot called Astro, a screen on wheels that works with the company’s Alexa voice software. The new personal robot helper, which was first reported under development in 2018, will only be sold by invitation […]
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have ushered in a new era of creative expressions. Creators, small and big, are now using social money to build up the dollar value of their communities and give it back to their users. Social tokens incentivize more inclusive […]
Deploying applications into the cloud is an easy task. It is riddled with inefficiencies and pitfalls, especially for developers. In addition, not all cloud platforms are created equal in terms of app development and deployment features. As such, this poses […]
Toyota Motor Corp’s Silicon Valley research arm Woven Planet announced it has acquired automotive operating system software company Renovo to help accelerate the development of fully autonomous connected vehicles. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. Founded over a […]
China is currently the most populous country in the world. As part of its effort to keep its 1.4 billion citizens in check, the Chinese government has developed a new “moral” system that ranks its citizens as ‘good’ and ‘bad’ based […]
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced today it has charged a Florida resident and his friend for engaging in a fraudulent scheme designed to collect liquidity rebates from exchanges by wash trading put options of certain “meme stocks” […]
Phiar (pronounced “fire”), an AI navigation startup that is on a mission to enable every vehicle to see its surroundings, announced today that Google’s head of Android automotive platforms Gene Karshenboym has joined the company as the new CEO. Phiar’s co-founder and […]
Would you like Google to know how long you brush your teeth? A newly unearthed Google patent provides us with a closer look at how Google plans to monitor our household activities. Filed five years ago, the new Google patent application gives […]
A top Chinese diplomat Sha Zukang said that China must be ready to use nuclear weapons and should abandon its ‘no-first-use’ policy to push back against new alliances forming in the Pacific and if the United States continues to defend […]
Even as technology continues to disrupt many industries, the financial and mortgage sectors still have a long way to go. For example, the current mortgage process is cumbersome and time-consuming, rife with filling out complicated documents which take days and […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk and his girlfriend Grimes have gone their separate ways after three years of relationship. The artist and the SpaceX founder were together for 3 years before they ended their relationship. In a statement, Musk told Page Six saying, […]
Progress, a tech company that offers software for creating and deploying business applications, today announced it has acquired New York-based tech startup Kemp for $258 million in an all-cash deal. The acquisition is expected to close in October 2021. In a statement, the […]
Hardly a day goes by without another headline of cyber-attacks and data breaches. Companies around the world are losing billions of dollars to cybercriminals. Governments and customers are also holding these companies into account forcing them to tighten their security measures. […]
