Most Americans are not aware of how much data Google collects about their activities online. Last month, Google finally revealed how much personal data it collects in Chrome and its Google app. The data Google collects will frighten you. However, […]
Late last year, San Francisco-based fintech startup Stripe acquired Nigeria’s Paystack for over $200 million to expand its footprint in Africa. Paystack was founded in 2015 by two Nigerians Ezra Olubi and Shola Akinlade to let businesses in Africa accept payments by anyone, […]
Robinhood, a commission-free trading platform, is back at what it does best: restricting users from trading surging assets. We all remember back in January when Robinhood restricted its users from buying surging stocks like GameStop, AMC Entertainment, and BlackBerry. Robinhood founder and CEO […]
As we reported early this week, venture capitalists (VCs) poured a record $64 billion into tech startups in the first quarter of 2021. That equals 43% of the total fundraising in all of 2020, which was a record year. But what […]
Back in January, we wrote about Daimler AG’s Mercedes-Benz after the German automaker threw its hat in the ring with the launch of an EQA compact electric SUV with 300 miles range in an effort to take on Tesla. The EQA was […]
There is no denying that big tech companies now control our lives. From online search to the products you buy online, artificial intelligence has permeated into our everyday lives. Unlike the United States where our leaders don’t have the courage […]
We live in a world where boardrooms are mostly full of men. At the same time, we’ve made progress over the years and women are beginning to take up executive chairs at Fortune 500 companies. The situation is improving, but it […]
Online fraud is costing U.S. merchants more this year than it did a year before. In addition, the average number of both attempted and the cost of fraud for online merchants continues to go up. Every $1 of fraud now […]
We covered Medable late last year after the Silicon Valley-based health tech startup raised $91 million in Series C funding to revolutionize clinical trials and reduce clinical trial timelines by 50 percent. Medable is transforming clinical research and predictive medicine […]
Carl Sagan once said, “All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.” Space transportation is now a reality, thanks to private spaceflight companies like Virgin Atlantic, SpaceX, and new innovative technology startups like Phantom Space Corporation, a Tucson, Arizona-based tech startup focused on space transportation including […]
Forget the crowded gym and say hello to a smarter home gym with a one-on-one AI-powered fitness trainer. Enter Tempo, the first home fitness gym that uses advanced 3D sensors and AI to analyze users’ motion to provide a personal training […]
As we reported back in February, Fortnite maker Epic Games unveiled to the world the first glimpse of its MetaHuman Creator, a browser-based app to create stunning digital humans in less than an hour using its UnrealEngine. Today, Epic Games announced […]
Crosspoint Capital Partners is a newly formed private equity investment firm focused on the cybersecurity and privacy industries. The firm has assembled a group of highly successful technology visionaries, investors, and operators to partner with foundational technology companies, transform the […]
Why rent when you can own? This is a question that often gets asked. However, in today’s world where technology changes almost every minute, maybe it is better to rent than to own. Just like car leasing, renting gives you the […]
The crypto exchange startup Coinbase is what everyone is talking about. The startup’s highly anticipated initial public offering (IPO) is finally taking place tomorrow when Coinbase is set to go public in a direct listing that could value the cryptocurrency exchange […]
Every year, about 305 million total startups are created globally. 1.35 million businesses out of those startups are tech-related. Each one of these businesses starts out with an innovative idea and a passion for the solution they’re providing to the market. Yet […]
We covered ATAI Life Sciences (ATAI) back in the winter of 2020 after the Peter Thiel-backed startup raised a $125 million round to develop psychedelics treatment for people suffering from mental health disorders. Based in Munich, Germany, ATAI is developing psychedelic and […]
Data is growing exponentially which creates both opportunities and obligations for enterprises. Jumbled up with this exponentially growing data is ‘sensitive data’ that attackers perpetually go after, can be inadvertently misused by insiders and regulators incessantly want to govern. The […]
It’s been a while since we wrote about TrueLayer, a London, England-based fintech startup that builds universal APIs or application programming interfaces to allow companies to capitalize on new Open Banking initiatives in the UK, and beyond. TrueLayer lets fintech apps like […]
Prosus is an Amsterdam-based technology investor and internet conglomerate. Prosus’s parent company, Naspers Ltd., is Africa’s largest listed company and a global consumer internet group, and one of the largest technology investors in the world. In 2001, Naspers made an early, successful […]
