Today, an estimated one-third of all the food produced in the world goes to waste. According to new UN research, an average of more than 900 million tons of food is thrown away every year. The Food Waste Index Report 2021 also […]
Getir, an Istanbul, Turkey-based tech startup that provides on-demand delivery services, has raised $550 million in a Series D investment round, pushing the company’s valuation to a whopping $7.5 billion. Getir was last privately valued at $2.6 billion in a May funding round. The […]
Back in February, we wrote about Bill Gates after the Microsoft co-founder and Amazon Jeff Bezos invested in nuclear fusion startup Commonwealth Fusion Systems (CFS). CFS is an MIT spinoff research company that focuses on bringing fusion energy technology to the market. Unlike […]
U.S.-based cybersecurity firm FireEye announced Wednesday that it’s selling its products business, including the FireEye name, to a consortium led by private equity firm Symphony Technology Group for $1.2 billion in cash. The transaction is expected to close by the end […]
Oil and gas giant Total has rebranded as TotalEnergies to mark its shift from crude oil to renewable energy sources. The company shareholders also voted overwhelmingly in favor of its rebrand as TotalEnergies to mark its shift to renewable energy. Along with […]
With non-fungible token (NFT) mania sweeping across the Internet, new startups are answering the challenge to meet the growing demands for specialty NFT marketplaces. Even GameStop, the video game chain with brick-and-mortar game stores, wants a piece of the action. As we reported last […]
As employers scramble to fill open jobs, many companies are turning to EdTech startups to train new people and bring them to the workforce. One of the biggest beneficiaries of the training boom is Guild Education, a Denver, Colorado-based EdTech startup […]
Oak9 is a Chicago-based tech startup that provides a cybersecurity SaaS platform for developers. Backed by a seed round of $5.9 million in funding, Oak9 today announced the launch of its Infrastructure as Code (IaC) security platform to help businesses accelerate […]
In artificial intelligence, the use of synthetic data is critical for businesses due to privacy, product testing, and training machine learning algorithms. As such, synthetic data does not contain any personal information. Instead, it contains sample data that has a similar […]
Mobile gaming continues to explode worldwide and represents one of the fastest-growing forms of digital entertainment, accounting for 52% of the global games market, which reached $177.8 billion in value in 2020 and is expected to surpass $200 billion in […]
E-commerce giant Etsy announced Wednesday that it is buying Gen-Z-focused fashion reseller Depop for $1.63 billion as part of its effort to attract younger shoppers. Depop is a U.K.-based second-hand fashion marketplace app that caters to a younger audience. Founded in 2011 […]
Over the last 14 months, people have been discredited and de-platformed for questioning the origin of the COVID-19 and also for reporting about the theories that the deadly coronavirus might have originated and escaped from the Wuhan Institute of Virology […]
No day goes by without headlines about cyber-attacks and data breaches. Just last month, cyber hackers successfully hacked into Colonial Pipeline Co, the operator of America’s largest fuel pipeline system that takes fuel from the refineries of the Gulf Coast to the […]
Remittances into low and middle-income countries were worth $508 billion in 2020, according to an estimate from the World Bank. Early this month, Wise (formerly TransferWise) teamed up with Google Pay to allow users in the U.S. to send money to […]
The U.S. Security Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged five individuals involved in the crypto startup BitConnect of Ponzi Scheme alleging that they promoted a global unregistered digital asset securities offering that raised over $2 billion from retail investors. According to the […]
Arabic is one of the widely spoken languages around the world. Today, it is estimated that there are more than 420 million Arabic speakers globally with 30 different dialects. Egypt has the highest population of Arabic speakers with the highest […]
In March, we wrote about Antimatter rocket, a future spacecraft that could reach the speed of 72 million miles per hour and potentially makes future interstellar travel a reality. But for some of us who have no desire to visit Mars […]
Constellation Network announced a partnership with Givebox to help facilitate fiat to crypto payment processing as well as give money to charity. The partnership, which is in collaboration with the Stardust Collective, will enable Givebox to serve as an onramp for card payment […]
Police in the United Kingdom have uncovered an illegal bitcoin mine during an industrial unit raid of a cannabis farm. The massive mine, which is located in an industrial unit on the outskirts of the English city of Birmingham, was stealing thousands of […]
Divide et impera is a Latin phrase for “divide and conquer” or “divide and rule.” According to historians, the maxim “divide et impera” was attributed to Philip II of Macedon who ruled between 382–336 BC. The maxim was later used by the Roman […]
