Uber has bought San Francisco-based food-delivery service Postmates for $2.65 billion in stock, the two companies announced in a joint statement Monday. Postmates is the fourth-largest delivery food service in the U.S. Last month, we told you about Uber’s attempt to […]
Do you have what it takes to design a futuristic toilet that will work on the moon? National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is looking for people to help design and innovate space toilet concepts as part of its Lunar Loo […]
Esports consultant and journalist Rod “Slasher” Breslau said Bernstein’s death was confirmed by his ex-girlfriend and roommate. He was 31. Byron died a couple of hours after he proposed to his girl friend on Twitter. At 8:25 AM EST, Byron […]
Anduril Industries, a 3-year-old Southern California startup that builds technology for military agencies and border surveillance, today announced it has closed $200 million in fresh funding round led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Peter Thiel’s Founders Fund and other VCs. […]
The Mom Project, a digital talent marketplace and a career destination for moms, today announced it has closed $25 million Series B funding to help women remain active in the workforce and also help businesses attract and retain female talent. The round, which brings […]
Revenued, a Jersey City, NJ-based financial technology startup announced today it has acquired Sky Bridge Business Funding to further establish the company’s vision of helping small businesses have access to the tools and solutions needed for growth. Founded in 2017, Sky […]
America is back! With all the bad news about coronavirus, for the first time in the history of this great country, the nonfarm payrolls jumped by 4.8 million in June and the unemployment rate fell to 11.1% as the U.S. […]
Kennet Partners, a London-based European technology growth equity investor focused on bootstrapped and capital efficient technology startup companies, has raised $250 million (€223m) for its fifth fund, Kennet V* in partnership with Edmond de Rothschild. The Fund exceeded its target […]
Last month, we wrote about Tesla’s after the electric car company’s stock eclipsed $1,000 per share valuing the company at $188 billion as of market close today. Today, Tesla officially became the world’s most valuable automaker by market cap, after […]
Hunters, a Tel Aviv, Israel-based cybersecurity startup and a provider of SaaS-based autonomous threat hunting solution, today announced it has closed $15 million in Series A funding to boost development of its XDR technology and expand North American operations. Backers include Microsoft’s venture […]
Formerly known as The Foundation for Blended and Online Learning, Future of School announced today that it will help fund up to 10 schools to participate in the newly formed Resilient Schools Project (RSP)—a program to assist K-12 schools and districts […]
Late last year, we wrote about Mirror, when the fitness tech startup founded by Harvard grad, raised $34 million to revolutionize the in-home fitness experience. Mirror is the world’s first nearly invisible, interactive home gym featuring live and on-demand fitness […]
Dr. Anthony Fauci is back with a new prediction on coronaavirus. Fauci and the rest of the elite class have been wrong on issues over and over again. Today, the nation’s top infectious disease expert warned members of Congress that the […]
With the rising cost of new homes and increasing awareness to build environmentally friendly homes, a Belgium-based startup is simplifying home construction and offering a simple and efficient kit house system. Gablok is a Belgian company specializing in insulated formwork blocks […]
The adoption of cloud-based email by companies large and small is now mainstream. According to Gartner’s Email Security Market Guide, more than 70 percent of corporate email will be cloud-native — principally Microsoft Office 365 and Google Gmail — by […]
Has China overplayed its hand? The Communist country has disputes with many countries around the world, including the United States, Germany, India, and many African countries where China conducts operations. The India government on Monday bans 59 Chinese apps amid a huge […]
Researchers have completed a new study of how well a variety of natural and synthetic fabrics filter particles of a similar size to the virus that causes COVID-19. Of the 32 cloth materials tested, three of the five most effective […]
Many Fortune Global 2000 companies have thousands of vendors with contracts that have been neglected for long periods of time because the value of the contracts are too small and too numerous to warrant proper procurement specialists’ time. Enter Pactum, a […]
Codefresh, a Mountain View, CA-based startup and a continuous delivery and collaboration platform for containers and microservices, today announced it has raised $27 million in Series C funding to accelerate growth and push their competitive advantage further as the first Kubernetes-native CI/CD […]
Over the past three months, an all-out war was waged on malaria drug hydroxychloroquine after several anecdotal reports from doctors that the drug was successfully used to treat many coronavirus patients. The drug got a publicity boost after it was promoted […]
