SME-focussed neo-banking platform Open on Monday said that it has partnered with Visa, to launch ‘Founders Card’ – a business credit card that will help startups and SMEs manage their expenses and vendor payouts easily. The announcement was made at the Singapore Fintech Festival. The card will be integrated with tools like expense management and ... Read More »
Facebook said Monday it’s acquiring CTRL-labs, a neurotechnology startup, as part of efforts to develop a wristband for controlling smartphones, computers and other digital devices without having to touch a screen or keyboard. The moonshot project underscores the world’s largest social network’s efforts to transform how we communicate with one another. ... Read More »
Homeownership is considered a core part of achieving the American Dream. However, that achievement is slipping out of reach of many Americans these days. U.S. homeownership has been at record lows throughout this decade. More Americans are renting as a response while managing with stagnant wage growth. The path to ... Read More »
The Next Billion Edtech Prize 2019, run by UK-based Varkey Foundation, recognises the most innovative technology destined to have a radical impact on education in low income and emerging world countries.(Getty Images) India’s education technology startup ‘Dost Education’ has bagged a $25,000 tech prize along with two other winners from ... Read More »
The digitisation amongst enterprises leads to increasing adoption of startup technologies. With 50 percent of enterprise-ready startups, banking, retail, and healthcare are the top adopters of the enterprise technology solutions, according to the Ecosystem Report on Enterprise ReadyStartups 2016 released by Microsoft Accelerator. In the wake of digital transformation across ... Read More »
Time for some great news! A three-year old startup from Hyderabad, Tuplejump, is being acquired by Apple. They were in the big data space building a product that allowed use of nosql databases. This bring us to one question — when starting up, how does one pick the idea to ... Read More »
Penny Kim, a marketing professional with a short one-month career at a Silicon Valley startup, shared a detailed account of one of the ugliest startup stories we’ve ever heard. Her tale started with a job offer in July of $135,000 a year plus equity, a $10,000 signing bonus for relocation ... Read More »
Apple has acquired Gliimpse, a personal data collection startup, for an undisclosed sum. The move, which was earlier reported by Fast Company, should bolster Apple’s broader ambitions to expand its presence in the health industry. Gliimpse was founded in Silicon Valley in 2013. According to its website, the company’s goal ... Read More »
Apple’s ambitions in the health sector continue to expand, with its digital health team making its first known acquisition—personal health data startup Gliimpse,Fast Company has learned. Silicon Valley-based Gliimpse has built a personal health data platform that enables any American to collect, personalize, and share a picture of their health ... Read More »
In my role as an advisory board member for several startups, I’m always excited to see that initial surge of revenue from a great rollout campaign. Unfortunately, many passionate entrepreneurs read this initial surge as success, and charge ahead with more of the same passion, leading to a series of ... Read More »
The multinational professional services firm, Ernst & Young (EY), recently announced a Startup Challenge in London, to “explore how blockchain technology can tackle challenges in digital rights management and energy trading.” With headquarters in London, EY has more than 700 offices in over 150 countries. The company employed212,000 people in ... Read More »
At a time when getting funding has become harder more than ever, it’s only a wonder if they do more than that. To everyone’s surprise, raising a funding of 112 Cr in the Series B is the Bengaluru-based technology-enabled chain, Treebo Hotels. The round was led by Bertelsmann India Investments (BII), the strategic ... Read More »
