The ongoing coronavirus has not deterred investors from pouring millions of dollars into promising startups. Ingrid is a Stockholm, Sweden-based tech startup that offers services for e-com companies such as customized checkout and transparent tracking. The company provides SaaS solutions for e-commerce shipping […]
Deerfield, a healthcare investment management firm committed to advancing healthcare through investment, information and philanthropy, today announced the closing of $840 million in Deerfield Healthcare Innovations Fund ll, which will invest in advancements in science that may lead to important therapeutic […]
April 10 Update: Dr. Didier Raoult published new results of 1,061 coronavirus patients treated using hdroxychloroquine with 91% success rate. Dr. Raoult found: “Hydroxychloroquine Azithromycin combination, when started immediately after diagnosis, is a safe and efficient treatment for COVID-19, with a […]
As organizations embrace data analytics and move to modern data platforms such as cloud data lakes, having a centralized platform to protect and manage sensitive data at scale becomes essential in order to reduce the time it takes to make […]
Over the past three weeks, we have been reporting about anti-malaria hydroxychloroquine and how it is effective in the treatment of coronovirus. Today, a Democratic state representative from Detroit is crediting hydroxychloroquine for saving her in her battle with the coronavirus, according […]
U.K Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been moved to intensive care after his after condition COVID-19 worsened, Downing Street has said. The 55-year old prime minister has asked Foreign Secretary Dominic Raab to deputize for him “where necessary.” According to Downing Street, “The […]
Social giant Facebook announced today it is launching new tools that use anonymized location data collected from users to show whether people are adhering to social distancing measures designed to stop the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus. Facebook said its Data for […]
Over the years, Apple has been investing heavily in augmented reality and virtual reality, with rumors swirling around that the tech giant is working on some form of AR or VR headset, or smart glasses. Now, according to a report […]
As we reported late month, Tesla is one of the many U.S. companies retooling its operations to make ventilators to help people with coronavirus. Yesterday, Tesla engineers showed footage of a prototype ventilator the company is trying to make with […]
There is an urgent public health need to understand CoV2 as a virus, COVID-19 as a disease, and COVID-19 as a frightening epidemiological phenomenon. The world is literally scrambling to develop countermeasures, including therapeutics aiming to lessen disease severity and to come up […]
Are people with lupus protected against COVID-19? This is the question everyone has been asking and many looking to use hydroxychloroquine as prophylactic drug to prevent themselves from getting the deadly virus are asking for answer. So far, the simple answer […]
With coronavirus continues to spread worldwide, more than 1.5 billion students are affected by school closures worldwide due to COVID-19. Together with Minecraft and Blockworks, EIT InnoEnergy has made Lumen, a game-based learning module that teaches youth about sustainable energy, available […]
Kickstart, one of Europe’s largest innovation platforms, is welcoming applications for the fifth iteration of its annual B2B scale-up program aimed at late-stage start-ups interested in entering the Swiss market. According to the announcement, around 100 entrepreneurs will join the […]
We first wrote about MIT Biologist Dr. Shiva Ayyadurai almost a month after he said “fear mongering on coronavirus will go down as biggest fraud to manipulate economies.” Dr. Shiva, who holds four PHDs from MIT, has done extensive research at the […]
The number of infections and deaths in New York, the epicenter of coronavirus outbreak the United States, is dropping for the first time, officials say. However, New York still accounts for about 40% of coronavirus cases in the U.S. But Governor […]
Yesterday, we wrote about how video conferencing app Zoom sends encryption keys to China and potentially compromise the confidentiality of Zoom meetings. Many companies are now taking actions to ban their employees from using the popular teleconference app. SpaceX, Elon […]
In a time when thousands of companies are laying off their employees and millions of Americans losing their jobs, Palo Alto Networks CEO, Nikesh Arora, instead chose to give up his salary and keep all of the company’s employees. On […]
Privacy is dead! As part of its effort to show the level of social distancing taking place in various locations, tech giant Google announced the launch of a new website that uses anonymous location data collected from users of Google […]
April 13 Update: The Chinese laboratory at the center of scrutiny over a potential coronavirus leak has been using U.S. government dollars to carry out research on bats from the caves which scientists believe are the original source of the deadly […]
Contrary to what health officials in the U.S. are telling the public, a new study by researchers at the University of Hong Kong found that wearing surgical masks prevent spread of virus and significantly reduce the transmission of coronavirus. The study, which was […]
