One of the primary arguments made by supporters of Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies is that, unlike fiat currencies like the US dollar, they cannot be controlled by the government, banks, and other financial institutions. Unfortunately, what’s happening in Canada right is […]
Bill Gates is a busy man. When he’s not spending time on his Foundation that provides vaccines to save the lives of millions of kids in Africa and other developing nations, Gates is busy working and investing in global projects […]
Every year brings new data breach victims. The cost of a data breach continues to skyrocket. According to a recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute, data breaches cost American companies on average more than $8 million per incident, with big breaches […]
DappRadar, a global app store for decentralized applications, is out with their January blockchain games report reviewing on-chain metrics and macro events, signaling a positive outlook for games in the space. Seizing the play-to-earn narrative, game dApps like Axie Infinity, Splinterlands, and […]
About a year ago, Flutterwave, a Silicon Valley-based Africa-focused payments startup company started by Nigerian founders, teamed up with PayPal to enable PayPal customers to pay African merchants through its platform. A lot has changed since our last coverage of the six-year-old […]
Your startup business has grown. And with the increasingly tight talent market stateside, the message is clear. It’s time to start hiring internationally. But where do you start? Most organizations are set up to hire domestic employees, and most often […]
Putting together your video production equipment package is one of the most fun filming components. Because there are so many factors (budget, type of project, location, pro versus amateur, etc. ), there is no “one size fits all” equipment package. […]
The race is on. Just yesterday, semiconductor giant Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) announced its to buy rival chipmaker Xilinx for $35 billion in an all-stock deal as part of its efforts to challenge Intel in the data center chip market. Fresh off […]
Corporate social responsibility has become a central pillar of many businesses. CSR used to be viewed merely as a tool to improve brand image. However, changing consumer attitudes towards social responsibility have pushed companies to prioritize their efforts to give […]
MixMob, a Solana-powered Metaverse Game on Remix Culture that merges play-to-earn with user-generated content, has raised $7 million in its latest funding round. The round was led by DeFi-focused crypto-asset fund Defiance Capital. Also joining the round are several leading venture […]
Epirus, a Torrance, California-based Epirus tech startup that develops directed energy systems, has raised $200 million in Series C funding, bringing the company’s total financing raised to date to $287 million. The latest cash infusion brings the company’s valuation to $1.35 billion. […]
This is a guest post by Ethan Drower, co-founder and Operating Partner of CiteMed, a Chicago-based tech startup that’s disrupting and revolutionizing the European Union Medical Device Regulation (EU MDR) process). In the business arena, software remains one of the fastest-growing […]
Over a decade since the launch of the iPhone, smartphone users are now inundated with a deluge of mobile apps, making it difficult to know which one to choose from. Today, an average smartphone user probably has about a dozen […]
In 2019, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) came out with alarming statistics which found that over 80% of global energy still comes from fossil fuels despite trillion dollars investments in renewable energy. Today, climate change awareness has led millions of […]
One in ten Americans suffers from a rare disease, according to the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The agency found that there are approximately 7,000 rare diseases affecting between 25 and 30 million Americans. That’s why Framingham, Mass-based Precision medicine startup Variantyx is […]
Founding a startup is daunting and challenging, but even more so when the founders are minorities, women or people of color. Although a lot of progress has been made over the years, however, a 2020 report by Fortune Magazine found […]
We are literally on the cusp of a new era in human civilization in which robots start doing much of our work for us. This will radically change society from the model’s setup in the last industrial revolution: the labor […]
Who would have thought stationery was a big business? But not for British-Iranian Taymoor Atighetchi who saw what most people didn’t see. Today, the global stationery industry is a $200 billion market. Born in London, Taymoor grew up on Portobello Road where he […]
In the late 1990s, there was a popular American television game show called “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire.” The show was adapted from the same-titled British program created by David Briggs. The show features a quiz competition with several contestants […]
We covered Rivian back in November last year after the Amazon-backed electric truck startup lost nearly all its IPO gains following the announcement that it’s no longer working with Ford Motor to develop electric vehicles together. At the time, Rivian saw […]
