Tencent, the China’s web giant, has partnered with education startup Age of Learning, to bring the popular ABCMouse English learning app to China. ABCMouse is an expert-designed immersive language learning app that provides Chinese children with an essential foundation for English […]
Whether you agree with it or not, the current education system is broken. The cost of education has been skyrocketing over the past 10 years. It’s not just the tuition costs at elite universities like Harvard, in 2015, the average cost […]
Be careful what you post on social media. The United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is planning to start tracking and collecting data about social media users. According to the latest solicitation put out by DHS, the department is […]
You’ve probably heard the phrase “unicorn startups.” As Wikipedia defines it, “a unicorn is a privately held startup company with a current valuation of US$1 billion or more.” Most of these startups are based mostly in the United States and […]
Happy weekend! Here is a roundup of the top startup news of the week. If you want this weekly update in your inbox every week, please subscribe to the TechStartups Newsletter using the form at the right corner of this […]
U.S Federal law enforcement authorities has seized the controversial classified-ad website, Backpage.com, the second largest online marketplace in the United States after Craiglist.org. Visitors to the site are now greeted with a message that said “Backpage.com and affiliated websites have been […]
Wallets are everywhere. Unlike buying a car, making a decision to purchase a wallet, for some people, is simply a matter of going to the nearest store and buy the wallet that best meets your need. Sometimes we lose our wallets […]
As the battle between Instacart and Amazon rages on, unicorn startup, Instacart, announced the closing of its Series E financing round led by Coatue Management, a leading investor in high growth technology companies, with participation from Glade Brook Capital and […]
Back in 2015, a Chicago entrepreneur went to Kickstarter to ask for $20,000 in funding for his travel jacket called BAUBAX. The response was overwhelming. He ended up raising over $9 million for what he called Baubax 1.0 with 15 features. […]
Are you looking to launch a new technology startup? Do you have the entrepreneurial skills it takes to get your startup off the ground? Most startup founders with technology background underestimated the importance of the business skill required to build […]
There is a popular saying that goes like this: “If you’re not paying for a product; you’re the product.” That is exactly the situation with Facebook and its users. In a sit-down interview with NBC, Facebook COO, Sheryl Sandberg said that Facebook […]
Everyone knows about Bitcoin. But, how many cryptocurrencies are really out there, you may ask? According to CoinMarketCap, the online site that tracks all the cryptocurrencies, there are now a total of 1559 cryptocurrencies with at total market cap of […]
Blockchain application is on the rise. Companies, organizations and governments are beginning to see the value in the technology that underpins major cryptocurrencies. On monday, we wrote about how companies could leverage blockchain for business transformation. One small startup is […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, April 6. Unicorn startup Pinduoduo is a $1.5 billion startup challenging E-Commerce giant Alibaba in China’s towns and villages. While Alibaba and Tencent are dominating China’s […]
The demand for artificial intelligence skills is rising. Employers are facing challenges finding qualified candidates with AI and data science skills. The situation is even compounded with the current labor climate. The unemployment rate is at one of the lowest […]
In its latest transparency report, Twitter Inc. announced Thursday that it has suspended 1.21 million accounts from its social media platform between August 2015 and the end of 2017 for “violations related to the promotion of terrorism.” Between July 1, […]
Orion Span is taking luxury to the next level. Orion Span is a space technology startup company based in Houston, Texas and Silicon Valley, California. The company’s mission is to build and sustain human communities in space. During the Space 2.0 Summit […]
Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is leveling the playing field and making it easier for startups to raise funding for their projects in the form of crowdsale. The crowdsales give startup founders access to funding from the crowd, and token buyers, in […]
Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, April 5. Facebook finally admitted that the data of most of its 2 billion users had probably been scraped by “bad actors.” Facebook data scandals is […]
The bike-sharing competition is heating up. As we wrote earlier today, Mobike, a bike sharing company considered to be one of China’s most valuable startups, acquired for $3.4 billion by tech giant Meituan-Dianping. Now a Brazilian startup is about to shake […]
