The cloud can enable organisations to quickly scale out enhanced security to a suddenly remote workforce, as part of efforts to ensure business continuity and disaster recovery – this is according to Patrick Grillo, Senior Director and Solutions Marketing at Fortinet. The pandemic had created…
Since launching in South Africa in October 2019, myFanPark has been connecting heroes – ranging from TV personalities, movie stars and musicians, to sporting greats, DJs, comedians and social influencers – with their fans through personalised, video-recorded messages. Now, fans in Germany, Switzerland and Austria…
The lack of compelling online content has been identified as one of the major reasons why millions of people are still digitally excluded especially in Sub – Saharan Africa. On an online Mobile Broadband Inclusion Roundtable organized by Huawei recently, Head of Sub-Saharan Africa for…
It’s the edible urban legend that just won’t go away. Yes, we’re talking about that mango & cannabis rumor. The only question is, what are the real facts? Will eating mangoes enhance your cannabis high? According to many budtenders, marijuana users, and CBD therapeutics users,…
How about booking your ride an hour early? Uber has announced a feature that will let you book a ride for up to 7 hours ahead for $50 an hour. The new hourly feature dubbed “Hourly booking” that will let the company restructure and survive…
As South Africa enters the tenth week of the nationwide lockdown, the business focus has shifted from enabling employees to work remotely to now planning for what the new normal is likely to look like. This requires CIOs to balance existing organisational priorities with ways…
There is a “trust deficit” among the masses – deficit in trusting and subsequently using Fintech products in their daily lives. This notion is a direct result of a spike in financial service companies that have adopted technology to improvise and automate their services. The…
With the development of human intellect, technology, and the rising importance of ideas or creativity over products or resources, a need for laws to protect the valuable ideas and creativity emerged. This led to the awareness regarding intellectual property and intellectual property laws in various…
With Covid-19 taking precedence over all other aspects of our lives currently, unpredictability runs high across sectors. If I were to ask the usual ‘where do you see yourself in the next five years’ question in an interview, nobody would have a clue. In fact,…
As the coronavirus continues to ravage the globe, Indian unicorns hungry for investment are running into a problem – Chinese capital is drying up. And given the fact that many of India’s billion-dollar firms have already introduced cost-cutting measures such as lay-offs, pay cuts and…
We bring to you the latest edition of News Roundup: Indian Startup Stories Of The Week! As India’s unemployment rate surges, the Uttar Pradesh government announced that it will have ‘startups’ as a subject in colleges and universities to boost young entrepreneurs in the state….
Ten countries in Southeast Asia have been embracing the digital economy both from the private and public sectors. Each nation has its challenges and unique approaches to technology disruption. For example, Singapore is considered a financial hub with the majority of people living in the…
Neobanks and fintech lenders such as Xinja, Judo, Get Capital, Society One and Volt Bank dominated Australian startup sector funding in the first quarter of 2020 in a boom-time beginning to the year. Startup sector analysts Techboard hve been monitoring Australian startup and tech sector growth…
SpaceX is taking a second shot at launching astronauts, but rain and storm clouds are threatening more delays
Russia’s space agency says it will send a team of specialists to South America to investigate the leak of toxic fuel from a Russian rocket stage at the Guiana Space Center
Archaeologists have briefly revealed a well-preserved mosaic floor of an ancient Roman villa first discovered almost a century ago near the northern Italian city of Verona
The European Space Agency says its Solar Orbiter will unexpectedly pass through the tail of a comet in the coming days
People and culture platform Culture Amp has been forced to shed 8% of its workforce as global impact of coronavirus hits the international arms of the business. CEO and co-founder Didier Elzinga announced the redundancies to the team on Thursday, with 36 positions going. While…
UK-based Exscientia has closed a Series C financing round of €54M ($60M) to develop its artificial intelligence (AI) technology to guide drug discovery. The Danish investor Novo Holdings led the round with its first investment in the company. Additional funding also came from existing investors…
A team of college students from Enactus, Netaji Subhas University of Technology have set out to revive the once flourishing and intricate art of Urdu and Arabic Calligraphy through their flagship project, Project Kitabat. The team recognised the need to preserve and foster an integral…
A team of college students from Enactus, Netaji Subhas University of Technology have set out to revive the once flourishing and intricate art of Urdu and Arabic Calligraphy through their flagship project, Project Kitabat. The team recognised the need to preserve and foster an integral…
Slovakian startup GymBeam, one of the fastest growing fitness brands in Europe, has landed an investment of around €6 million, which it will use to push its brand across Central and Eastern Europe. Founded in 2013, the Slovak e-commerce platform focuses on fitness, nutritional supplements,…
Italian startup IntendiMe, which has created technologies for the deaf and hard of hearing, has closed a round of €2.3 million. The round was led by VV3TT (Vertis Venture 3 Technology Transfer), a venture capital fund focusing on technology transfer, which is managed by Vertis…
The Dutch biotech argenx has cashed in on recent positive phase III results by launching an enormous €784.7M ($862.5M) global share offering. Argenx’s fundraise swiftly follows the announcement of phase III trial results earlier this week, where its lead candidate antibody drug, efgartigimod, improved motor…
LatamList – Accountfy, a Brazilian SaaS platform recently announced a new round of $6.5M (R$33M) in funding led by Redpoint eventures and HDI Seguros. The SaaS platform facilitates the management of financial indicators for safe decision-making in the areas of accounting, controllership, and finance. Accountfy…
LatamList – President Jair Bolsonaro vetoed a government bill that allows the use of fintechs for the $110 (R$600) payment of emergency aid to families in need during the COVID-19 pandemic. The President vetoed the proposal stating there is no indication of how expenses for…
Contxto – Accountants at Brazilian, Accountfy, recently added US$6.5 million onto the startup’s “assets” column in its balance sheet. The Brazilian SaaS platform recently closed an equity round for this amount and made the announcement today. Lead investors are Redpoint eventures and HDI Seguros (an…
Contxto – It is often said that crises bring out the best and the worst in people. I prefer to think that they bring out the strengths and weaknesses within our societies. So, to solve collective problems, people tend to react in unison, as delivery…
Contxto – Mexican fintech, albo, is all in. Though the startup is best known for its banking app for individuals, it’s been quietly rolling out a new service to help businesses too: albo empresas (“businesses,” for those of you whose Spanish is on the rusty…
En los últimos meses le he dedicado ocho horas de mi día a conectarme con personas de todo el mundo para aprender Full-Stack Web Development a través del programa de Microverse. Comencé el proceso de admisión en Microverse en abril de 2019, después de ver…
Zoniah Ahmad recently made waves by becoming the first female student from Pakistan to secure a prestigious opportunity at CERN. The Masters student has been selected for international training at the European Organization for Nuclear Research in Switzerland, where she will be working in the…
ⓘ Featured image: A file-photo of BookMyShow Co-founder & CEO Ashish Hemrajani; Credits: Zee Business India’s online ticket-booking platform BookMyShow has reportedly let go its 270 employees in a wake of economic crisis due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Ashish Hemrajani, the CEO of BookMyShow in…
Stack Overflow’s annual survey of programming languages and developers is in, and it brings us some very interesting results. Notably, Rust grabs the top spot in the ‘Most Loved’ programming language category for 2020, with TypeScript and Python close behind. On the other side of…
Pakistan is using one of the intelligence services to locate the people infected by the coronavirus. The surveillance tool is used to locate the militants normally. The government of Pakistan has recently contacted the ISI or Inter-Services Intelligence and asked for help in controlling the…
TCL, the second-largest LED TV brand in the world dazzles with its newly launched TCL 10 series. Well-known in the electronic appliances department, TCL 10 series consists of TCL 10 Pro, TCL 10L and TCL 10 5G, which are fully-equipped with stunning features. With these…
In the era of Lockdown, to fill the gap created by the COVID -19 Pandemic, Softbeats PVT Ltd took the initiative to start Free of Cost WEBINARS on Enterprise Resource Planning Software & It’s effectiveness for organizational efficiency for students and professional to increase their…
Each month, Amazon Canada adds new movies and TV shows to its Prime Video streaming service. Here are all of the movies and shows coming to the service in June. Amazon has also provided information regarding the shows and movies coming to its Prime Video…
A new report states that YouTube is currently in talks with Hulu and Netflix to sell the third season of Cobra Kai. The show focuses on the main characters from 1984’s Karate Kid as they live their lives in modern-day California. While it doesn’t exactly sound…
Dell is running a sale on several Inspiron and XPS laptops, as well as desktops, monitors and more. There are a surprising number of deals on the company’s Canadian website. I’ve picked out a few highlights for you below, but it’s worth checking out for…
BIOS Health will partner with Mila, McGill University and the Université de Montréal to develop an AI-controlled closed-loop neuromodulation system for chronic cardiac conditions. The $800,000 partnership will expand BIOS’ involvement with Mila, the Montreal-based AI research institute. BIOS is developing a full-stack neural interface…
Google Stadia Pro subscribers are getting a few goodies next month. Altogether, six free games are coming to the subscription service this June. Next month’s free Google Stadia Pro games include Get Packed, Little Nightmares, Power Rangers: Battle for the Grid, Superhot and Panzer Dragoon…
China-based company ZTE has submitted a patent to the China National Intellectual Property Administration (CNIPA) for a new foldable smartphone. Overall, this folding handset is pretty strange. It’s a vertical folding smartphone, but instead of folding like the Razr or the Galaxy Z Flip, it…
Zoom has announced that it will “strengthen encryption of video calls” to help boost security for users. As reported by Reuters, the company plans to roll out this stronger encryption only to users who pay for Zoom, not those who use the free tier of…
Microsoft shared some details of its plan to become a carbon negative company in 10 years with Morgan Stanley. Microsoft plans to invest enough in green technologies and initiatives that by 2050, it’s removed from the environment all the carbon emitted by its operations between…
Amira Yahyaoui founded Mos, an education startup helping college students apply for and manage financial aid, near the end of 2017 after experiencing the hardships many students feel throughout the application process. The company has raised $17 million from investors like Sequoia Capital, basketball star…
Stack Overflow, a popular Q&A site for developers, surveyed 65,000 users about the programming languages they use and if they’re interested in continuing to develop with them. Using those responses, Stack Overflow compiled a list of the “most loved” programming languages. This survey was conducted…
Gagan Biyani cofounded Udemy, an online education company worth $2 billion. He also started the Growth Hackers Conference and worked as interim head of growth at Lyft when it was less than 30 people. Gagan also had a massive failure with Sprig, where he was…
Salesforce lowered its full year guidance by $1 billion when reporting first quarter earnings on Thursday, taking a conservative approach because it’s considering the potential uncertainty for the rest of the year. Despite the revision, Salesforce still expects to grow 20 percent this year, and…
You’d think if there was ever a time to show appreciation for grocery delivery workers, it would be now. But some Instacart shoppers are doing the exact opposite: cheating the people who deliver their food … more… The post Some Instacart shoppers cheating workers by…
DISNEY+ arrived on TVs in the UK last month and if you haven’t already signed up to this streaming service then now could be a very good time to do just that.
A new report from CNBC offers a deep dive into how the contact tracing partnership between Google and Apple came to be. Perhaps most interestingly, the report details the speed at which Apple developed the technology. more… The post CNBC details how Apple + Google…
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Quest Diagnostics is letting people sign up for antibody tests for the novel coronavirus online. Starting today, people in the US can order the tests on Quest’s consumer testing site without visiting a doctor. At $119, the kit is one of the more expensive offered…