Sony Corp. announced today it has invested $250 million in Epic Games, the owner and the creator of the popular video game Fortnite and the mobile app Houseparty. Bloomberg first reported last month that Epic was close to securing funding at […]
Docket, an Indianapolis, IN-based tech startup and a software-as-a-service (SaaS) productivity platform for managing effective meetings, has secured $1.25M in funding to grow meeting productivity platform. The new funding came from new investors Sequoia Capital, Emergence Capital, Horizons Ventures and Maven […]
Bringing a new tech product to life is not an easy undertaking. Creating new products involves a lot coordination with so many moving parts. To help tech startup founders and entrepreneurs, IndieGogo, the popular crowdfunding website, has partnered with Arrow Electronics […]
About half of the people in the world are not connected to the internet. Nearly 3.8 billion people don’t have access to the internet, and many more lack what we would consider meaningful access. The unconnected are missing out but […]
Tesla is “very close” to achieving level 5 autonomous driving technology, Tesla CEO Elon Musk said on Thursday, referring to the capability to navigate roads without any driver input. According to NHTSA, level 5 autonomous refers to a fully-autonomous system […]
Amazon sellers in the U.S. will soon be required to provide their business contact information including names and addresses. Today, the e-Commerce giant informed U.S. sellers on Wednesday that it will soon require them to disclose their business name and […]
It’s been a while since we last wrote about Xometry, the world’s largest marketplace for On-Demand manufacturing. Xometry is changing the way you order custom parts with custom manufacturing on demand services for 3D printing, CNC machining, Injection molding, and more. Late last year, […]
Before the coronavirus pandemic, the trends show some increased interest in use of telemedicine and telehealth services among patients and healthcare providers around the country. In the first half of 2020, healthcare providers have seen a sharp increase in utilization of […]
Micro social platform Twitter is reportedly working on a new subscription platform under the codename Gryphon, according to two online job postings. Twitter revealed little about the new platform, though it said it will work with its Payments and Twitter.com […]
It’s been a bad few weeks for TikTok. Last month, the Chinese social app TikTok was caught reading data from user clipboards. The ByteDance-owned app was caught after TikTok users were notified by Apple that TikTok was reading data from their […]
Last week, China passed a controversial national security law on Hong Kong, which many fear could be used to override existing legal processes and end China’s “One country, two systems” policy. In response, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Monday that the United States […]
OwnBackup, a New Jersey-based cloud-to-cloud business continuity platform that provides backup and security services for Salesforce clients, today announced a $50 million in follow-on funding led by Insight Partners, with participation from Salesforce Ventures, Vertex Ventures, and existing investor Innovation Endeavors. This latest round, which […]
Fake news websites, commonly known as hoax news websites, are websites that deliberately publish fake news—hoaxes, propaganda, and disinformation purporting to be real news. The sites often use social media like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram to drive web traffic and […]
Questo, a Bucharest, Romania-based tech startup and a developer of the platform for city exploration games, has raised €300,000 to help travelers and locals explore destinations by going on tours in game form, called quests. The round was led by Sparking Capital […]
Tesla is on a tear, with no sign of slowing down. As we reported last week, the electric car company is now the world’s number one automaker by market capitalization surpassing Japanese automaker, Toyota. Its soaring stock price, thanks to record […]
Last month, we wrote about TikTok after a new study found the ByteDance-owned app to be overtaking YouTube and Instagram as children and teens abandon the two most popular video-sharing platforms. Now, it seems Facebook has thrown the towel. Last […]
Harvard University announced Monday it will implement digital online learning for all its courses during the coming academic year, while tuition for the prestigious Ivy League school will remain at about $50,000. Harvard’s endowment is currently valued at over $40 billion, […]
Back in April, we told you about Huawei after the Chinese flagship technology company its 5G came under threat from mounting opposition to the Chinese company in Boris Johnson’s own ruling Conservative Party. Despite criticism from the United States, the UK government back […]
Data Dynamics, a Teaneck, New Jersey-based tech startup and a provider of unified unstructured data management platform, today announced it has recently closed on a $9 million financing round to support its strong product traction and market adoption. The round was led […]
Last week, we told you about Tesla after the electric car company surpassed to become the world’s most valuable automaker; market cap hits $206 billion. Now, Tesla CEO Elon Musk has taken time out to poke fun at the company’s naysayers […]
