Yes Lender, a King Of Prussia, Pennsylvania-based fintech startup today announced it has acquired Edge Funder to create an AI-powered funding portal for small businesses. The total amount of the transaction was not disclosed. The New York-based Edge Funder is an invite-only platform that provides […]
Europe’s startup space is heating up as investors and governments poured billions to bolster FinTech startups on the continent. Europe is now home to the world’s 720 unicorn startups with Klarna on top as Europe’s most valuable tech startup at $45.6 billion. […]
Amazon founder and CEO Jeff Bezos officially stepped down today as CEO exactly 27 years after he founded the company that changed e-commerce and online shopping forever. Former AWS executive Andy Jassy has taken over as the CEO of the […]
Another day, another cyberattack. SolarWinds, Colonial pipeline, JBS meat processing, Cyber Polygon, and now Kaseya. With no one to stop them, cyber attackers are now roaming freely across the internet wreaking havoc on mostly American companies. As Americans celebrated Independence Day, the notorious […]
Yesterday, the internet erupted after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg shared a dramatic Fourth of July video of himself toting an American flag while riding an electric surfboard across a lake. In the video, Zuckerberg appears to be riding a $12,000 motorized hydrofoil surfboard […]
While everyone is talking about the coronavirus pandemic, the semiconductor shortage is another global crisis that has been brewing for over six months now. Technology has permeated every facet of our lives. We now depend on semiconductors for almost everything […]
According to the Experian Consumer Credit Review, the average American has up to four credit cards on them at any given moment. When you consider the mountains of loyalty cards, reward programs, and discount coupons that individuals carry, it’s no […]
And so it begins. Is Binance becoming the new Mt. Gox? Even though Bitcoin is a decentralized digital currency without a central bank or single administrator, today, it’s still impossible to buy or sell bitcoin directly without going through some kind […]
About two and a half years ago, we wrote about Amazon after the e-commerce giant unveiled a fully autonomous delivery device called Amazon Scout. Just the size of a small cooler, Scout can roll along sidewalks, delivering packages safely to a […]
This is a guest post from Jørgen Christian Juul, the founder of Danish fintech startup Cardlay and has extensive experience from holding executive positions in listed companies and other corporate organizations, and at the same time being an entrepreneur. Starting a […]
Last year, we featured the top 500 unicorn startup companies of 2020. The list includes the top 500 unicorn startups with a valuation of $1 Billion or more. The term unicorn, which was first popularized by venture capitalist Aileen Lee, is used […]
After enduring 17 months of working from home due to a coronavirus pandemic, many employees no longer get involved in office settings and miss out on face-to-face mentoring and social interactions which are vital to their mental and personal growth. […]
Last month, we wrote about DarkPulse, a Scottsdale, Arizona-based tech startup that is transforming the Brillouin Sensors with distributed fiber sensor solutions. For some of our audience who may not be familiar with DarkPulse’s technology, for many years optical fibers have commonly […]
We wrote about DiDi Chuxing yesterday before the Chinese ride-sharing startup made its official debut at the New York Stock Exchange. As we reported, instead of the planned 288 million shares, DiDi sold 316.8 million American Depository Shares (ADS) at $14 apiece, […]
ION Energy, a Mumbai, India-based energy-tech startup said today it has raised $3.6 million in Pre-Series A funding to grow its team and invest in product development and expand the software business in North America and Europe. Backers in this round […]
Remember Robinhood, an online broker and free-trading app that restricted thousands of retail investors from trading Dogecoin back in April? The company’s past always is now catching up with the founders. Today, U.S. financial regulator, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), has […]
Having a solid credit history is key to building future financial health. However, for many people, the hardest part about building a credit history is getting access to it in the first place. Enter Kikoff, a San Fracisco-based fintech startup […]
Over the past three decades, the price of lithium-ion batteries has declined by 97 percent. For example, a battery with a capacity of one kilowatt-hour that used to cost $7, 500 in 1991, fell as low as $181 in 2018. […]
As competition in the app space heats up, tech giants like Amazon, Apple, and Microsoft are providing new incentives to attract more app developers to their app stores. Today, Shopify, a subscription-based software platform that allows anyone to set up an […]
Onboarding new hires has always been a critical step in converting new hires into long-term employees, which in turn increases employee engagement and retention rates. Unlike bigger companies, however, several studies have shown that most small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) […]
