In the last few days, Russia has moved more than 25,000 troops to Crimea and the border region of Ukraine, which has resulted in threats and counter-threats between the two countries. The Russian military build-up has raised fears of a possible Russian […]
Data is growing exponentially which creates both opportunities and obligations for enterprises. Jumbled up with this exponentially growing data is ‘sensitive data’ that attackers perpetually go after, can be inadvertently misused by insiders and regulators incessantly want to govern. The […]
It’s been a while since we wrote about TrueLayer, a London, England-based fintech startup that builds universal APIs or application programming interfaces to allow companies to capitalize on new Open Banking initiatives in the UK, and beyond. TrueLayer lets fintech apps like […]
Prosus is an Amsterdam-based technology investor and internet conglomerate. Prosus’s parent company, Naspers Ltd., is Africa’s largest listed company and a global consumer internet group, and one of the largest technology investors in the world. In 2001, Naspers made an early, successful […]
Peter Thiel is a renowned billionaire tech investor and a co-founder of PayPal, Palantir Technologies, and Founders Fund. He was the first outside investor in Facebook. He currently sits on Facebook’s board after making an early investment. Often colloquially referred […]
Homes, offices, restaurants, grocery stores, and gyms, have one thing in common: germs. They travel from one thing to another in a heartbeat, just by opening doors, hanging onto the bus railing, working out at the gym, paying for coffee, […]
insightsoftware, a Raleigh, North Carolina-based tech startup and a global provider of financial reporting and analytics for the Office of the CFO, announced today that it has acquired Mclean, Virginia-based Logi Analytics, the leading provider of embedded analytics solutions for software providers. The […]
Early this year, we told you about SoFi after the fintech giant and the online loan startup company announced plans to go public via a merger with a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, backed by venture capital investor Chamath […]
illumy, a San Ramon, California-based tech startup and hyper-communication platform that unifies email, messaging, and calling together into the stream of a single communication, announced today the closing of a $2.2 million angel funding round. illumy will use the new capital […]
In January 2020, we wrote about Plaid after payment giant Visa agreed to buy Plaid for $5.3 billion. As we later learned, the Department of Justice (DOJ) later sued to block the deal alleging that it would create a monopoly and […]
GiGstreem, a New York-based startup and premier in-building gigabit internet service provider, announced that it has secured a $50-million investment from Crestline Investors to deploy its Ubiquitous WiFi platform to multifamily properties and also help meet remote work-fueled demand for […]
Just last week, we wrote about the war brewing in the Luhansk & Donetsk region of Ukraine. It all started on March 24 when Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky signed a declaration of war against Russia in a document you won’t find […]
“The Emperor’s New Clothes” is a literary folktale written by Danish author Hans Christian Andersen in 1837 about a vain emperor who gets exposed before his subjects. For those of you who have read the book, the emperor was finally […]
Just a little over two weeks after raising a whopping $600 million at a $95 billion valuation, Stripe makes its first expansion into the Middle East and North Africa with Dubai launch. The latest launch in UAE is part of the […]
Forbes Magazine just published its annual list of the world’s billionaires. This year’s list includes a record-breaking 2,755 billionaires, with Amazon.com Inc founder Jeff Bezos topping it for the fourth consecutive year at $177 billion. Tesla CEO Elon Musk often called people’s […]
SoftBank announced today that it’s investing $2.8 billion to get a 40% stake in Norwegian warehouse automation startup AutoStore, according to news first reported by The Wall Street Journal on Monday and later confirmed by AutoStore in an update on its website. […]
Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are all the rage. Celebrities and artists cashed in millions of dollars as NFT artworks became mainstream about three weeks ago when Christie’s Auction sold digital artist Beeple’s NFT for a record-setting $69.3 million, making it the most expensive […]
Bitcoin continues to defy gravity and there is no sign of slowing down. Thanks to the support from institutional and retail investors, bitcoin has been sitting at a little under $60,000. As bitcoin popularity rises so is the entire cryptocurrency market. […]
The last time we wrote about DraftKings was back in the winter of 2019 when the fantasy sports startup filed to go public in a $3.3 billion merger deal. Much has changed since our last coverage. The startup finally went public […]
infiniDome, a Caesarea, Israel-based wireless security startup has raised $2.4 million in pre-series A funding round to scale its customer engagements in the Commercial Aircraft, UAS/UAV, and UAM market segments. The round was led by Next Gear Ventures, with participation from Honeywell […]
