Online fraud is costing U.S. merchants more this year than it did a year before. In addition, the average number of both attempted and the cost of fraud for online merchants continues to go up. Every $1 of fraud now […]
Sony Music Africa has partnered with a not-for-profit pan-African women empowerment platform, The Women of Music Business (WOMB), to launch a new ‘masterclass’ training program, supporting women working in the African music industry and helping to build the next generation […]
We covered Medable late last year after the Silicon Valley-based health tech startup raised $91 million in Series C funding to revolutionize clinical trials and reduce clinical trial timelines by 50 percent. Medable is transforming clinical research and predictive medicine […]
Carl Sagan once said, “All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.” Space transportation is now a reality, thanks to private spaceflight companies like Virgin Atlantic, SpaceX, and new innovative technology startups like Phantom Space Corporation, a Tucson, Arizona-based tech startup focused on space transportation including […]
Fate loves irony is a phrase that describes events in our lives when the opposite of what we expect happens. A famous example is a fire station that burns down. In the early 1990s, way before he became a millionaire and […]
Forget the crowded gym and say hello to a smarter home gym with a one-on-one AI-powered fitness trainer. Enter Tempo, the first home fitness gym that uses advanced 3D sensors and AI to analyze users’ motion to provide a personal training […]
As we reported back in February, Fortnite maker Epic Games unveiled to the world the first glimpse of its MetaHuman Creator, a browser-based app to create stunning digital humans in less than an hour using its UnrealEngine. Today, Epic Games announced […]
Crosspoint Capital Partners is a newly formed private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries. The firm has assembled a group of highly successful technology visionaries, investors, and operators to partner with foundational technology companies, transform the […]
Why rent when you can own? This is a question that often gets asked. However, in today’s world where technology changes almost every minute, maybe it is better to rent than to own. Just like car leasing, renting gives you the […]
The crypto exchange startup Coinbase is what everyone is talking about. The startup’s highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) is finally taking place tomorrow when Coinbase is set to go public in a direct listing that could value the cryptocurrency exchange […]
Every year, about 305 million total startups are created globally. 1.35 million businesses out of those startups are tech-related. Each one of these businesses starts out with an innovative idea and a passion for the solution they’re providing to the market. Yet […]
Forget about coronavirus vaccines. The U.S. government is working on futuristic technology that will continuously monitor your body for signs of the coronavirus before you even realize you had one. Yesterday, the Pentagon’s Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) revealed that it […]
With the U.S. government spending of $10 trillion in the last 12 months and the interest rate at almost zero, rich investors and venture capitalists are sitting on trillions of dollars in cash. As worries about coronavirus continue to go […]
Yesterday, we wrote about a report that Microsoft was in talks to buy AI and speech technology company Nuance Communications for about $16 billion. This morning, Microsoft confirmed in an announcement that it will buy speech recognition company Nuance Communications in […]
Microsoft Corp is reportedly in advanced talks to buy artificial intelligence and speech technology company Nuance Communications Inc at about $16 billion, according to Reuters, citing a source familiar with the matter. Microsoft has been on a buying spree lately. Just […]
LinkedIn, a Microsoft-owned professional networking site, announced that some user data including publicly viewable member profiles have been scraped and posted for sale online. LinkedIn also added that the incident was not a data breach and no private member account data from the […]
Facebook users, rejoice! Your friends and fans will soon be able to know that you have received COVID-19 vaccines. In a post early this month, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announced that his company is working with the CDC to launch a new […]
After four years of relative peace under former President Donald Trump, the U.S military may be getting the country into a new war on two fronts–Russia and China. Yesterday, an unnamed US defense official told CNN the warships would be deployed […]
We covered ATAI Life Sciences (ATAI) back in the winter of 2020 after the Peter Thiel-backed startup raised a $125 million round to develop psychedelics treatment for people suffering from mental health disorders. Based in Munich, Germany, ATAI is developing psychedelic and […]
KKR, a New York-based private equity firm KKR is making a $500 investment in Box.com to help the cloud content management company buy back shares from activist investor Starboard Value. Since 2019, Box has faced pressure from Starboard after the […]
