Premier early-stage global startup accelerator K-Startup Grand Challenge (KSGC) is looking for innovative technology entrepreneurs and startups to participate in the sixth installment of its yearly competition located in Pangyo Techno Valley, the Silicon Valley of South Korea. Open to […]
For decades, lawyers had immunity from disruptive change; at least from anything outside their competitors. There was no great force rocking the boat. Every market player was happy to reap the rewards of inefficient processes that clients could do little […]
NUAIR recently put the Aerial Vehicle Safety Solutions Inc. (AVSS) drone parachute recovery system through rigorous safety and failure scenarios over multiple days at the New York UAS Test Site in Rome, New York. The tests were successful on the […]
Overhaul, an Austin, Texas-based logistics tech startup, has raised $35 million Series B funding led by Macquarie Capital, with participation from Edison Partners and Avanta Ventures (a venture arm of CSAA Insurance Group). Overhaul will use the fresh capital infusion to […]
Government, news, and social media websites around the globe were unavailable on Tuesday after an apparent widespread outage at cloud service company Fastly. Dozens of high-traffic websites including the New York Times, CNN, Independent, and the site for the UK Government […]
The story of Apple and its ambition to develop its own electric cars is not going away. Early this year, Hyundai said it was in early talks with Apple to develop self-driving electric vehicles and batteries, according to a report […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is currently the second richest person in the world and bitcoin’s biggest influencer. As we noted last week, cryptocurrency lives and dies by Elon Musk’s tweets. While some crypto investors accused Musk of abandoning bitcoin after Tesla […]
Last month, Colonial Pipeline surrendered to the Darkside hacker group after it paid nearly $5 million in ransom via an untraceable cryptocurrency, contrary to what the company first told the general public. Today, we have some good news. The U.S. law enforcement […]
Microstrategy made the headlines in 2019 after it sold the domain name Voice.com to Block.one for $30 million for its new blockchain-based social media platform. As we reported back then, MicroStrategy is a Virginia-based tech company founded by the renowned Bitcoin investor Michael […]
Today, with the rising cost of healthcare and drugs, patients continue to demand more transparent, affordable, and convenient pharmacy experiences and often turn to discount card solutions to meet their needs instead of their payer or PBM. Enter Truepill, a digital health […]
EmiSwap, a Dubai, UAE-based crypto tech startup, announced today it has closed $1.38 million in private funding for the world’s first community-governed decentralized exchange (DEX) with gamified NFT mechanics. The round was led by some of the major crypto leaders. Founded […]
Every few decades an unexpected development in semiconductor availability will arrive to have a wide-reaching negative effect on the technology market. The last time this occurred was in 2011, where the Japanese earthquake created a limited supply for parts in […]
It’s been more than a year since we last wrote about Flipkart, a Walmart-owned Indian e-commerce tech startup. In 2018, Walmart Inc. invested $16 billion for a majority stake in the company. Just at the beginning of the covid-19 crisis in February 2020, Walmart […]
Cryptocurrencies are gradually changing the landscape of financial markets by introducing a decentralized architecture. The past few years have seen a growing interest in the digital asset space, with both retail and institutions making a debut. While the adoption has […]
PlanetWatchers, a London, England-based crop monitoring startup that uses advanced machine learning to provide detailed insurance claims assessment, has closed $3.5 million in the Pre-A series funding round. The round was co-led by Seraphim Capital and Creative Ventures, a Deep Tech venture fund, […]
There’s an ongoing debate around the death of fossil fuels and how they contribute to global warming which eventually leads to climate change. Unknown to many, more than 6,000 products are estimated to be made from fossil fuels. Clothing is a […]
Four months ago, TikTok was caught harvesting and selling personal data of minor children without parents’ permission. The ByteDance-owned company later agreed to pay $92 million to settle the class-action lawsuits. The settlement, which lawyers in the case have called among […]
Croptimistic Technology, a Saskatchewan, Canada-based AgTech startup announced today it has closed $3.5M in Series A investment from Forage Capital Partners (Forage) to complement an additional $1.7M in funding from the founders and institutional debt. Croptimistic is the company behind SWAT (Soil, water, […]
As big tech companies continue to censor free speech and de-platform many, some countries are now fighting back. Nigeria announced Friday that it had indefinitely suspended Twitter’s activities in the country, just two days after the social media giant removed […]
Over the last year, there has been an increase in the use of video conferencing tools as businesses and organizations use them to connect with remote workers, customers, and employees during the coronavirus pandemic period. Apart from the pandemic, many […]
