Electronic Arts (EA), a global leader in interactive entertainment, is on a buying spree in recent months. In December 2020, we covered the gaming giant after it acquired U.K. racing game developer Codemasters for $1.2 billion. Codemasters is a developer and publisher of […]
Early this week, Tesla announced it bought $1.5 billion in bitcoin and planned to start accepting bitcoin for its products. The price of bitcoin surged immediately after the news. Then yesterday, America’s oldest bank BNY Mellon said it is adopting cryptocurrencies and […]
Expedia Group Inc, the company that operates the online travel platform Expedia.com, today reported its fourth straight quarterly loss, as coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on the travel industry. In the financial results released Thursday for Fourth Quarter 2020, the company […]
UpEquity, an Austin, Texas-based startup and a provider of tech-enabled mortgage platform creating a better way to buy a home, today announced it closed $25 million in Series A funding. The round, which consists of $7.5 million of equity financing and […]
Back in October 2020, we wrote about Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates after he warned that climate change is “even scarier” than the COVID-19 pandemic. The once world’s richest person warned at the time that the ‘shutdown’ was ‘nowhere near sufficient’ […]
We featured Smarthop back in July 2020 when the Miami, Florida-based tech startup raised $4.5 million in seed funding to empower small trucking companies with AI-powered freight dispatch solutions. You may be wondering want Smarthop does. In the United States, 91% […]
Social giant Twitter announced on Wednesday its financial results for the fiscal year 2020, saying it recorded a net loss of $1.136 billion against net income a year earlier. According to the company, “2020 net loss was $1.14 billion, representing […]
Fresh off a successful IPO, DoorDash announced it has acquired Chowbotics, the creator of the Fresh Food Robot. The financial terms of the deal weren’t disclosed, but the Chowbotics team have all become DoorDash employees, and the company will operate independently […]
Remember back in January when Elon Musk urged his 44 million Twitter followers to ditch Facebook and use the secure messaging app Signal? The two-word tweet was all it took for Signal and Telegram to skyrocket. Immediately after Musk’s tweet, Signal and Telegram […]
As people continue to practice social distancing to stem the spread of coronavirus, many people are staying away from restaurants to avoid human contact for fear of being infected with the deadly virus. Now, Dubai has found an innovative way […]
To steal Musk’s phrase, “It’s getting real.” Creating truly convincing digital humans is hard. It takes a huge amount of time, effort, and skill, not to mention costly equipment and staff. There have been some great examples running in Unreal Engine […]
Tyler Technologies announced Wednesday it will buy Olathe, Kansas-based payments company NIC Inc for about $2.3 billion, as the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a shift to online services and electronic payments by governments. Founded in 1992 by Jeff Fraser, NIC is […]
The global eSports market is booming. According to Newzoo, the global esports will top $1 billion in 2020, a year-on-year growth of +15.7%, up from $950.6 million in 2019. The number of eSports players has also doubled from 2018 to 2021. […]
Are you tired of being tracked online? Maybe it’s time to consider privacy-focused search engines. Yesterday, we wrote about how Google is tracking you on 86% of the top 50,000 websites online. The more people learn about how Google tracks […]
Every day, Google processes over 3.5 billion searches. Have you ever wondered how Google makes its money? The bulk of Google’s 162 billion dollar revenue in 2019 came from its proprietary advertising service, Google Ads. According to data from research firm […]
It seems like it was just yesterday when Facebook admitted to the inadvertent exposure of up to 87 million users’ information to the political analysis firm Cambridge Analytica in 2018. A year later, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) fined Facebook $5 billion […]
This past year has been one for the history books, not just for people in the U.S. but for everyone around the world. COVID-19 shut down the entire world in March 2020 with people dying from this mysterious sickness. Emergency […]
Jüsto, a Mexico City-based FoodTech startup and an online supermarket delivery-only grocery store chain, today announced it has raised a $65 million Series A funding to fuel its expansion into a leading online grocer across Mexico and Latin America. The latest round, which […]
Adapdix, a Silicon Valley-based tech startup that offers a software platform that optimizes Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) at the edge, announced today that it has received new funding from SoftBank’s Opportunity Fund, bringing the total investment amount […]
With the growing success and popularity of Bitcoin and the broader cryptocurrency space, the world’s central banks are becoming increasingly worried that the cryptocurrency market, which is currently valued at over $1 trillion, is posing a big threat to the global financial system. […]
