With technology disrupting various industries and many aspects of our lives, the legal sector, to some extent, is still lagging behind. An example of this can be found in the day-to-day operations of the in-house legal teams. Traditionally, the limited technology […]
Two years ago, Germany’s Delivery Hero acquired South Korea’s top food delivery app Woowa for a whopping $4 billion in what was described as the world’s biggest food app deal. The acquisition enabled Delivery Hero to expand its global footprint, […]
2020 was one of the worst years in recent history. So far, at least 4.27 million people worldwide have died from the deadly coronavirus. But while the pandemic and vaccines are dominating headlines around the world, a cold war is brewing […]
Just last month, Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi was up 4 percent in sales overtaking Apple in the second quarter to become the world’s second-largest smartphone maker. Back then, South Korea’s Samsung maintained its first position in the second quarter with a market […]
TikTok was the most downloaded non-gaming app worldwide for July 2021 with over 63 million downloads, according to the data from app research firm SensorTower. Facebook came in second place with 53 million installs. Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp rounded out the top […]
Back in 2019, we wrote about 50 tech startups with the most chance of becoming unicorns. One of the startups on the list is Bukalapak, a Jakarta Indonesia tech startup that operates an e-commerce shopping portal intended to offer a wide range […]
Russia officially begins to lay its first undersea trans-Arctic fiber optic communications cable that will run along Russia’s entire Arctic coastline from the village of Teriberka, on the Barents Sea, to the far eastern port of Vladivostok. The project is part of a state-run […]
Forget about big tech censorship. Now, Apple now wants to monitor all U.S. iPhones for images of child sex abuse. In an announcement today, Apple unveiled plans to scan U.S. iPhones for images of child sexual abuse, drawing praises from child […]
The ongoing chip shortage is beginning to ripple across every sector and has led to increasing demands for used electronic products. Even before the chip shortage, research shows that the refurbished market for consumer electronics, which includes many of the […]
Throughout history, it’s known that most great companies are born out of recessions. For instance, General Electric was launched in 1892, General Motors in 1908, IBM in 1911, Disney in 1929, and HP in 1939. The same applies to tech startup companies. An example of […]
DOKU is Indonesia’s largest and one of the fastest-growing online payments providers in Asia. DOKU enables e-Commerce merchants to accept a wide range of online payment options, from credit cards to emerging payment types. Today, DOKU announced it has raised $32 million […]
The internet has forever changed the world and our ways of life. In the early 1990s when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. Who would have thought back then that the internet would account for 30 percent […]
Since the pandemic began over 18 months ago, there has been an uptick in the number of teachers leaving public schools. According to the World Bank, some 40 million teachers around the world have left the sector. Their departure has also […]
The edge is an essential layer of the manufacturing technology stack. Machines on the factory floor collect vast amounts of raw data from various sources using numerous protocols, which all need to be processed quickly to gain actionable insight. By […]
Pico, a New York-based startup that provides technology services for the global financial markets around the world, announced today it is going public in a SPAC deal with Cohen’s FTAC Athena Acquisition Corp. According to the agreement between the two companies, the merger […]
On Sunday, Jack Dorsey’s Square announced it is acquiring Australian fintech startup Afterpay for $29 billion. It’s a huge validation for the fast-growing “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) market that many are saying is poised to disrupt the $8 trillion US credit card […]
Aspen Digital is a Hong Kong-based fintech startup and a crypto asset management platform that provides wealthy investors and High-Net-Worth Individuals a single portal to manage their crypto investments. Today, Aspen announced it has raised $8.8 million in funding led by RIT […]
From 2011 to 2020, there were an average of 62,805 wildfires annually and an average of 7.5 million acres impacted annually in the United States, according to wildfire statistics from the Congressional Research Services (CRS). Data also showed that in 2020, […]
In 2020, nearly 20,000 people were murdered by guns, and another 40,000 were injured. The number does not include the approximately 24,000 suicides by gun in 2020. In other words, guns are involved in 75 percent of all murders and […]
Most of us don’t comply with the CDC-recommended minimum amount of time to wash our hands. Now, e-commerce giant Amazon just unveiled a smart soap dispenser with a 20-second timer that also works with Alexa. The $54.99 dispenser, which is now available on […]
