Unless you’ve been living in a cave, the news cycle has been dominated by the Big Tech assaults on free speech censorship and the permanent banning of people with opposing views from their platforms. In a coordinated attack, the Big Tech […]
Has there ever been a time when you’re craving ice cream only to out find out you have none left in the freezer and it’s too late to run the store? Now imagine a Keurig machine, but for ice cream! […]
At a time when the American news cycle is dominated by the coronavirus pandemic, politics, and the ongoing censorship of free speech by the Big Tech companies, the U.S. government unexpectedly released a highly declassified a foreign-policy document that lays out […]
Welcome to the brave new world. Are you planning to travel outside the country? You’re probably going to need more than just your U.S. passport. You may also have to show your COVID-19 ‘vaccine passport’ before you are allowed to […]
We covered Rapyd back in 2019 after the Fintech-as-a-Service startup raised $40 million in a Series B funding round to expand its technology platform that supports any local or cross-border commerce use case requiring local payments. A lot has changed since we last […]
As we noted yesterday, the electric air taxi space is beginning to get crowded. First, it was Lilium, a Munich, Germany-based aerospace startup developing a revolutionary on-demand air taxi service that is powered by the all-electric, vertical take-off and landing Lilium Jet. […]
Good morning! It’s been a while since we last featured the top tech news of the day. Back in March 2020, we decided to put a pause on daily briefing and focus more on news that affects everyone around the […]
Cockroach Labs, a New York-based software startup that develops a cloud-native SQL database, said Tuesday that it raised $160 million to accelerate its product development. The announcement follows other tech startups that have secured big funding during the coronavirus pandemic […]
The electric air taxi market is beginning to get crowded and the big tech companies are jumping into the eVTOL space before it gets too crowded. Early last year, we wrote about Volocopter after the flying taxi startup landed a $94 […]
Abu Dhabi is a city famous for its skyscrapers. Probably the last thing that would come to your mind when you think of Abu Dhabi is Silicon-Valley of the Middle East. In recent years, The UAE has produced some successful […]
We wrote about Xpeng back in November 2020 after the Chinese electric vehicle startup unveiled a new flying car. The Alibaba-backed electric car maker unveiled a flying car prototype at the Beijing Auto Show. Dubbed Kiwigogo, the new flying vehicle can carry two passengers […]
SellersFunding, a New York-based fintech startup that provides an alternative working capital solution for e-commerce marketplace sellers, announced today it has closed on a $100 million global eCommerce funding program with European alternative asset manager Fasanara Capital. The multi-currency deal will allow […]
Early this morning, Tesla and Space CEO Elon Musk tweeted a meme gif with a cryptic message that reads: “X.com/x.” A click on the link takes you to a page on the X.com website with just the letter “y.” For […]
Just yesterday, we wrote about Gab.com after the Twitter competitor and free speech social app reported a 750% increase in traffic and 18 million visits within 24 hours. Now, it seems Gab has suffered the same fate as Parler, another […]
European leaders expressed their shocks and outrage on Monday that a private technology company has the power to permanently ban a sitting world leader from its platform. Germany and France said they are shocked over Twitter’s decision to permanently ban President Trump. […]
Today, Elon Musk is the world’s richest person with a net worth of more than $185 billion, surpassing Jeff Bezos. His journey to riches was not always a smooth one. In our last year’s story titled, “10 things you probably […]
In late June, we covered a story about the Indian government after it banned 59 Chinese apps including TikTok, WeChat, and UC Browser. Since then tensions between China and India have escalated amid border disputes in the Himalayas. In June, a border clash […]
It’s almost a year since we wrote German LiDAR tech startup Blickfeld. At the time, the company closed its Series A financing round to ramp up production and qualify its LiDAR sensors for the automotive market. Since then, the team at Blickfeld has […]
When Elon Musk talks, people listen. Last week, Elon Musk urged people to ditch Facebook and use Signal, a secure messaging app developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger. It didn’t take long before investors started to pour millions […]
The ongoing assaults on free speech by big tech companies like Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, and others, reached a climax last week after the Big Tech de-platformed President Trump and all his supporters. The decision caused many people to move to […]
