Jasper Card (formerly CreditStacks), a New York-based fintech startup that’s challenging how traditional financial institutions make money, today announced it has raised $34 million in Series A financing to grow its AI technology to further develop its underwriting model and […]
SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk has sucked the oxygen out of the news cycle in the last 24 hours with news coverage ranging from space flight to a court appearance. Over the weekend, Musk was with Richard Branson, the billionaire […]
Tesla CEO Elon Musk gets a day in court today to defend his role in Tesla’s $2.6 billion acquisition of SolarCity in 2016. Shareholders filed a lawsuit against Musk alleging that the deal amounted to a SolarCity bailout that enriched […]
COVID-19 wasn’t a time-limited experience that would affect our lives and then leave us to get back to normal. Even when we succeed in relegating the novel coronavirus to the level of “just another virus” that really is no more […]
While fossil fuels were formed 360 million years ago, we’ve only been using them for fuel for a fairly short period of time – just over 200 years. The world has a limited amount of fossil fuels and very soon, we […]
No day goes by without another negative headline about TikTok, a Chinese popular video-sharing app launched in 2017 by ByteDance for markets outside of China. TikTok is also notorious for privacy violations. Early this year, TikTok was caught harvesting and selling personal […]
The recent rise in the popularity of bitcoin has driven record investments into the crypto market with millions of naive crypto investors betting their hard-earned money on speculative digital assets like bitcoin, Ether, Dogecoin, and other meme coins. As more […]
Steve Wozniak, the co-founder of Apple and the technical brain behind the original Apple, expressed his strong support for the “Right To Repair” movement. Wozniak voices his support for the movement in a recent Cameo video appearance made in response to […]
Grocery delivery startup app Instacart announced today it has hired Fidji Simo, one of the highest-ranking female Facebook executives, as its new CEO. Simo will succeed Instacart founder Apoorva Mehta on Aug. 2, and Mehta will transition to executive chairman […]
Early this month, we wrote about Wise (formerly TransferWise), after the London-based fintech startup launched a new service that lets Indian users send money to 44 countries around the world, including places like Singapore, the U.K., the United States, the United Arab […]
Noom, a New York-based health tech startup and the operator of the popular weight loss app, has hired investment bank Goldman Sachs to lead its preparations for an initial public offering (IPO), according to a report from Reuters, citing people […]
In a week where two big news focused on non-fungible tokens (NFTs) made headlines, a blockchain startup Valuart announced plans to drop its first digital artwork. The startup, founded in March this year by Etan Genini, Vittorio Grigòlo, and Michele […]
Over the weekend, Kaseya IT management software, a tool commonly used in Managed Service Provider (MSP) environments, was reportedly hit by the REvil ransomware attack, a ransomware hacker group believed to operate out of Russia. As we reported on Monday, the initial […]
As an owner, creating voiceover for all your digital content could provide another avenue to further engage with your customers and grow your business. Voiceover translation also offers more benefits compared to using subtitles or transcripts in your video. However, voiceover can […]
Early this year, the internet erupted when Bill Gates called on all the rich countries to change entirely to 100% lab-grown meat to save the planet from climate change disasters. Americans love beef and most don’t want to give up their […]
Just two days ago, China was reportedly in talks to acquire UK’s largest and last remaining advanced chip factory in England through a Chinese-owned Dutch company Nexperia. It was part of China’s plan to dominate the semiconductor market as the semiconductor shortage […]
The red-hot Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) market continues to grow with no sign of slowing down. So far this year, there are more than 362 SPAC IPOs of the 463 IPOs, a 70 percent increase, according to data from […]
For many years, tech startups have seen a steady inflow of funding from global investors. Tech Startups’ analysis of data from Statista and Pitchbook shows a number of major categories — including internet, healthcare, and fintech blockchain (especially NFT) — are some […]
As businesses feel the pressure from consumers to be sustainable, as well as short-term renting being at an all-time high, the practice of renting items is becoming increasingly popular. Retailers are also realizing that more sustainable practices — practices that include […]
We last covered Volocopter back in September 2020 after the German flying taxi startup partnered with logistics group DB Schenker. The two companies teamed up together to deploy Volocopter’s heavy-lift drones, in a project that will gather vital practical flying experience […]
