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Space startup successfully tests water plasma propulsion
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Earlier this month, space industry-based startup Momentus had just reported the successful testing of its water plasma propulsion technology for its upcoming in-space…
Forever 21 to close down stores in US, Europe, and Asia
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares After heavily rumored to be soon filing for bankruptcy, fashion retailer, Forever 21, confirmed that the company has already “voluntarily” filed a Chapter…
Medtech app, Amboss, scores €30M in Series B funding
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares German medical resource app, Amboss, has scored a massive €30 million in Series B funding. The startup which started as a supplement medical…
Nasdaq to go after IPOs of small-scale Chinese companies
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Based on regulatory filings, investment bankers, and corporate executives, Nasdaq is going after initial public offerings or IPOs of small Chinese companies through…
Forever 21 files Chapter 11 bankruptcy
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The retail giant Forever 21 has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy last Sunday. The company said it will be filing a motion to…
Hacker accessed data of 4.9M DoorDash customers and partners
TweetShare1SharePin1 Shares Popular food delivery start-up, DoorDash, is once again in hot water after a hacker has gained access to its database and compromised the…
Unbabel, a translation platform, raised $60M in new funding to be used for expansion and tech development
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Unbabel, a startup company that helps companies with translations through the power of AI, just earned $60 million in new funding. Founded out…
Built Robotics raises $33 million to build smart bulldozers
TweetShare1SharePin1 Shares Built Robotics had just announced its successful round of series B funding this month, raising a total of $33 million. The company will…
U.S. pulling investments will result in “‘unmitigated disaster”
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The trade talks between the U.S. and China might be running into another roadblock. The White House is said to be restraining U.S….
Tesla, Elon Musk broke labor laws, judge ruled
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A U.S. labor law judge has ruled against Tesla and its Chief Executive Officer, Elon Musk, for violating and interfering in the rights…
Logitech buys Streamlabs for $89 million, and more
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Logitech announces in its official press release page that it will be acquiring Streamlabs for $89 million. The acquisition is considered as a…
US to install ‘virtual wall’ to stop drug-carrying drones from entering the borders
TweetShare4SharePin4 Shares The U.S. government partnered with Citadel Defense, a counter-drone technology company, to build a “virtual wall” that prevents drones carrying drugs, contrabands, and…
Adam Neumann steps down as WeWork CEO
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The CEO of WeWork, Adam Neumann, has left his position as CEO. Neumann’s departure from the position comes after the company’s plans to…
Amazon introduces virtual medical clinic called Amazon Care
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Amazon established a virtual health clinic with in-home follow-ups called Amazon Care for employees in Seattle. The information can be found on a…
Chinese commodity demands rising in the last four decades
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In just four decades, the Chinese has managed to become the largest buyer of numerous commodities in the world. Its appetite for various…
Uber gets reprieve in London for two months
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Uber has failed to secure a maximum five-year operating license in London. The transportation network company was only given two months by regulators….
It’s final: Mac Pro will be manufactured in Texas
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares After a series of conflicting reports regarding where the new Mac Pro will be manufactured, Apple finally confirmed that they have decided to…
Hyundai and Aptiv join forces to develop autonomous cars
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Korean automotive giant Hyundai, in cooperation with autonomous driving technology firm Aptiv, plans to develop its own self-driving technologies that will be acceptable…
Facebook acquires CTRL Labs, a startup building mind control software
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares CTRL Labs, the technology start-up that is on its way to building a groundbreaking software that allows people to control a virtual avatar…
Thomas Cook collapses; thousands of jobs at risk
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The British airline and tour operator, Thomas Cook, has collapsed last Sunday. This has left thousands of passengers stranded around the globe. In…
Microsoft renews vow to fight climate crisis, plans to make carbon-neutral Xbox
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Following the growing pressure from customers and their employees, Microsoft joins other tech companies like Apple, Amazon, and Google, in renewing its commitment…
China to increase government presence in private corporations
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares China move to increase government presence in the private sector, including huge corporations like Alibaba. Specifically, the government of China’s tech city, Hangzhou,…
Chinese yuan will not back Facebook Libra
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares San Francisco tech giant, Facebook, revealed that its cryptocurrency called Libra would be backed by a basket of currencies around the world with…
Nextiva welcomes new CFO and CPO
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Nextiva, a leading business communications company based in Scottsdale, Arizona, welcomed two new executives in September, showcasing the fast-growing company’s competitive market position…
Indian startup that works via WhatsApp just earned $5M in new funding
TweetShare3SharePin3 Shares Digi-Prex an e-pharmacy startup in India that works using WhatsApp just became $5 million richer in new funding round. Digi-Prex is a young…
Chinese trade negotiators cancel U.S. farm visits
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The U.S. farm visits by Chinese trade negotiators have been called off. After wrapping trade talks in Washington this week, Chinese officials, led…
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos commits to climate change
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The CEO of Amazon, Jeff Bezos, has announced that the company is committed to tackling climate change. In cooperation with Global Optimism, Amazon…
Airbnb to join the stock market in 2020
TweetShare1SharePin1 Shares Airbnb has said that it will be ready to join the stock market as it will be having its initial public offering in…
Trump gives China warning to make trade deal before elections
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The President of the United States, Donald Trump, has sent a warning to China about making a trade war deal before the elections…
General Motors strike can cause $100 million loss per day
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares General Motors (GM) is estimated to lose hundreds of millions of dollars as a result of the ongoing strike by the United Auto…
Oil prices increase following Saudi oil field attacks
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares There has been an oil price hike following the attacks on two of Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities last Saturday. On Monday, oil prices…
Grab set to boost growth and profits with food delivery business
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The ride-hailing company, Grab, is capitalizing on its food delivery business, Grab Food, for long-term growth and profitability. Grab started with its food…
Apple TV+ can compete with rivals
TweetShareSharePin11 Shares At its annual fall event last September 10 launching the new iPhones, Apple also announced more details about its upcoming Apple TV+ streaming…
Saudi’s Aramco shuts down half of production after attacks
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Saudi’s Aramco is reportedly shutting down half of its oil production after drone attacks that targeted the world’s largest oil processing facility in…
Gap Inc. has plans of expanding its Athleta and Janie & Jack brands
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The clothing and accessories retailer, Gap Inc. has announced its plans to expand its Athela and Janie & Jack brands outside the United…
Disney CEO Bob Iger leaves Apple board over conflict on streaming
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The CEO of Disney, Bob Iger, has resigned from Apple’s board. This was revealed through Apple’s SEC filing last Friday. Apple is set…
Purdue Pharma reaches proposed settlement to settle opiod cases
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The maker of Oxycontin, Purdue Pharma, has reportedly reached a tentative settlement agreement in the United States to resolve some 2,000 lawsuits filed…
Lyft sued over sexual assault by drivers
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A class-action suit has been filed against the popular ride-hailing platform, Lyft, over its alleged failure to protect women passengers from the predatory…
What happens to U.S. companies after Trump’s tariffs?
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares When September started, the first round of President Donald Trump’s tariffs on Chinese-made goods kicked off. China responded by imposing its tariffs on…
Hong Kong Stock Exchange makes US$36.6 billion for LSE
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing Limited (HKEX) has made a surprise $36.6 billion bid to take over the London Stock Exchange Group (LSE)….
McDonald’s buys AI tech company Apprente
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares McDonald’s announced that it has acquired AI tech company, Apprente. This is the third tech-centered deal that the world’s leading global foodservice retailer…
Jack Ma steps down from Alibaba chairmanship
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Alibaba’s Jack Ma has officially stepped down as the company’s executive chairman today at the age of 55. His departure will be celebrated…
Bankrupt Wow Airlines will be making a comeback
Wow Airlines finds new footing but now faces challenges to keep standing
Drivetime secures $11 million to make voice-based in-car games
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Hands-free game developer Drivetime had just raised $11 million to further develop new audio-based titles that players can interact purely by sound. Makers…
Students engineered plastic-eating bacteria
BioCellection is part of the growing market that addresses plastic pollution.
CocoPallet uses the coconut “Tree of Life” scraps into reusable materials
CocoPallet will be producing pallets, which will be used in Asian countries but this time, it will be produced from the same region of the world.
British Airways cancels flights after pilots go on strike
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The pilots of British Airways have started their very first strike since the 1970s last Sunday. This has led to travel disruptions including…
Volocopter raises $55m to launch its flying taxi service
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Volocopter announces that it had just secured funding for its latest roundup. With a total of $55 million, the company plans to pave…
Apple allegedly broke Chinese labor laws
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A New York City-based watchdog, China Labor Watch (CLW), published a report last Sunday that alleges that Apple and its manufacturing partner, Foxconn,…
J.P. Morgan is set to win lead role in the biggest IPO in history
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares J.P. Morgan is expected to win the lead advisory role in what could be the biggest IPO in history. Saudi Aramco, the world’s…
Tourism in South East Asia slows down as Chinese tourists opt to stay home
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In the past couple of years, Chinese tourists have contributed to the tourism boom in Southeast Asia. However, there has been an abrupt…
Slack stocks down by 12% after first earnings report since going public
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Shares of the workplace chat app, Slack, fell as much as 16% last Wednesday. After the bell, its share price went down to…
TSA reverses ban on Star Wars-inspired Coca-Cola bottles
Fans have argued with the TSA saying that the soda bottles were not a replica of a human hand grenade but of fictional thermal detonators
Advocates want PayPal to take down accounts of hate groups linked to Ku Klux Klan
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Rights and anti-bigotry groups in social media have been reporting accounts associated with white supremacists and hate groups, saying that these individuals and…
China slowly implementing new tariffs; lodges case against the U.S. at WTO
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares China has started imposing retaliatory tariffs on U.S. products. The Chinese government has pushed ahead of its plan to increase the duties on…
Electronic companies has lost $10 billion over US-China trade war; expected to worsen by September 1
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On September 1, consumers will be greeted with the imposition of the Trump administration’s tariffs on billions of dollars worth of imports from…
Best Buy shares drop after missing Q2 expectations and incoming tariffs
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares After missing analysts’ expectations of its second-quarter revenue and same-sales growth and the looming tariffs, Best Buy’s shares dropped to 8%, closing at…
Hang Seng Index drops; U.S. and China expects talk to resume in September
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Stocks in Asia plummet following the intensifying trade war between the US and China. Just recently, the Hang Seng Index fell 1.7% for…
India pursues foreign companies amid the US-China trade war
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares As the trade war between the United States and China intensify, India is targeting foreign companies in its attempt to encourage them to…
TSA puts these Coca-Cola Star Wars-inspired bottles in the no-fly list
Arguably, the Coca-Cola bottles collaboration with Star Wars are replicates of grenades, which allows the TSA to put a ban of them in flights
Satellite plasma thruster startup Orbion raises $9.2 million
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Michigan-based space tech company Orbion has just reported that it had secured $9.2 million in a Series A Funding roundup within the week….
Russian Firm Sues Boeing Over Max Jet Issue
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A Russian aircraft leasing company confirmed last Tuesday that it filed a lawsuit against Boeing. Avia Capital Services, a subsidiary of Russian conglomerate,…
Elroy Air successfully demonstrates heavy cargo drone
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Earlier this month, Elroy Air successfully flew its autonomous delivery drone. This wasn’t just any drone, as it was several magnitudes more massive…
Judge orders Johnson & Johnson to pay the state of Oklahoma $572 Million
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares A judge in Oklahoma ruled that Johnson & Johnson is liable for intentionally overselling opioid benefits and ordered the company to pay a…
Satellite startup Astranis preps for its Falcon 9 launch
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Astranis Space Technologies Corp. is now finally making headway preparations for the scheduled launch of its smallsat aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket. The…
Nvidia unveils VMware partnership in cloud GPU virtualization
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Nvidia revealed in an announcement yesterday that VMware was an official business partner with its new updates to its virtual GPU technology. Namely,…
Thailand to Tax eCommerce Businesses
TweetShare28SharePin28 Shares Thailand seeks to introduce value-added-tax to eCommerce businesses by next year, intending to collect ฿3 to ฿4 billion or around $98 to $131…
China’s yuan falls to its lowest in 11 years
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares On Monday, China’s yuan fell to its lowest since February 2008. The value of the Chinese currency slid to its lowest point in…
US and France close to a compromise deal over digital tax, Trump said
TweetShareSharePin11 Shares Amid the escalating tension between the U.S. and France over the latter’s proposal to levy a digital tax that would affect tech companies…
Hasbro to buy Entertainment One for $4 billion
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares US toymaker giant Hasbro will acquire Entertainment One, owner of long-running children’s series Peppa Pig, for $4 billion. According to Hasbro, the arrangement…
Disney stores are opening inside Target
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Target has announced the opening of Disney stores within its stores. Starting this October, shoppers would be able to shop for Disney merchandise…
Hostinger may have exposed data of 14 million users
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Popular website hosting platform, Hostinger, has initiated a password reset on all accounts after the company has been notified that there was a…
FTC, AT&T reached a settlement over internet throttling
TweetShare2SharePin2 Shares The legal battle between the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the telecom giant, AT&T, has come to a conclusion after the two parties…
BTC exchange, BitPay, blocks Amazon fire donations
TweetShare9SharePin9 Shares Bitcoin exchange company, BitPay, caught Twitter fire presumably as large as the Amazon rainforest fire after the platform has rejected a $100,000 donation…
Huawei’s phone division set to lose $10 billion following US ban
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Huawei is set to lose about $10 billion from its phone division. This was revealed during a news conference held at Huawei’s headquarters in…
At Google, employees can’t talk about politics anymore
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Amid the polarizing, political and social issues surrounding the world these days, California-based tech giant, Google, told their employees that they could no…
Amazon also says Tesla solar panels caught fire
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Technology and manufacturing giant, Tesla, came under fire earlier this week after retail giant Walmart filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit regarding the shoddy…
Cloud app giant VMware acquires Pivotal and Carbon Black for $5 billion
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares VMware has just revealed via official documentation the finalization of its proceedings to acquire both Pivotal Sofware and Carbon Black, for $2.7 billion…
China announces $75 billion tariff on U.S. goods
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The trade war between the United States of America and China has further intensified. On Friday, Beijing announced that it would be imposing…
Amazon vows to stop using tips to pay drivers minimum wage
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares While food delivery startup, DoorDash, is trying to rebuild its reputation after the company came under fire earlier this week for not changing…
DoorDash makes new promise to pay tips next month
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Following the backlash against DoorDash after reports that the company, who previously did not pay their employees their tips, is still not implementing…
Indian startups are now exempted from ‘angel tax’
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares India is finally closing the books for a long-standing dispute that has affected the country’s booming startup industry, after the country has decided…
Netflix expected to lose market share to streaming rivals
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares In the latest report by eMarketer, Netflix is still the top subscription streaming service in the United States. However, Netflix’s competitors have started…
Walmart files a lawsuit vs Tesla after solar panels start fire
Walmart accuses Tesla of breach of contract and systemic negligence.
Court favors Ryanair Airline’s bid to stop Irish strike
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares The Dublin based low-cost airline Ryanair has won a high-court injunction that would stop its Irish pilots from striking this coming Thursday and…
DoorDash is still ‘stealing’ their riders’ tips
Riders for DoorDash are now asking their customers to tip them in cash instead.
AI open source leader H2O.ai secures funding worth $72.5 million
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares H2O.ai, a leading name in Open Source artificial intelligence and automatic machine learning, announced that it has secured $72.5 million from a Series…
Amazon faces backlash over single-use plastic packaging
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares While the rest of the world is starting to succumb to the popular pro-environment sentiments, Amazon, on the other hand, started using single-use…
Binance set to launch new open blockchain project ‘Venus’
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Cryptocurrency exchange giant, Binance, announces today in an official press release that it will launch Venus, a brand new open blockchain project designed…
‘Mahmee’ is a startup that wants to help new mothers through an app
TweetShareSharePin0 Shares Mahmee aims to help new mothers to safeguard their health through an app that connects them to healthcare services and other resources to…
TuSimple self-driving trucks is the future of cargo delivery
TweetShare4SharePin4 Shares Cargo and mails have been delivered inside Arizona by self-driving trucks that people don’t even know about as UPS has only announced this…