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Colossal Joins Ranks Of SpaceX, OpenAI With $10.2 Billion Valuation
Wednesday, January 15, 2025 - 9:00am | 483In a world where the next big breakthrough often feels a little too far-fetched, Colossal Biosciences is making headlines by achieving something straight out of science fiction. The world's first de-extinction company has just secured a hefty $200 million in Series C funding. The funding,...
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Fintech Focus For July 12, 2021
Sunday, July 11, 2021 - 10:02pm | 2090Quote To Start The Day: “The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won't. It's whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.” Source: Barack Obama One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood...
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Fintech Focus For May 26, 2021
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 - 8:32pm | 1722Quote To Start The Day: “Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.” Source: William Shakespeare One Big Thing In Fintech: Just as broadband is now considered core to America’s national infrastructure, the cloud will play an important...
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Fintech Focus For July 17, 2020
Friday, July 17, 2020 - 10:21am | 1949Daily Perspective: If we go through this period where we are reopening and reclosing and opening and reclosing, this, in my mind, will have a very negative effect on consumer confidence. - Harker Fintech Movers: Apps like Robinhood are impacting markets in a huge way. - Mohamed El-Erian Intern...
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Uber Has New Competition In London
Wednesday, June 12, 2019 - 11:37am | 388Will there be a changing of the guard in who gives rides to Buckingham Palace? Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE: UBER) got a new competitor for ride-hailing in London with Bolt returning to the market. The new competition is more bad news for Uber following high profile executive departures. Bank of...
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Here's Every Feature Facebook's Platforms Have Aped From Snapchat
Friday, February 24, 2017 - 12:24pm | 792Snapchat may not be as big as its bigger brethren Facebook Inc (NASDAQ: FB). Compared to Facebook's annual revenues of $27.64 billion in 2016, Snapchat earned only $404.48 million. But at least it has the technological superiority in making the latter want to evolve copycat versions of each of...
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Tesla Model 3 Makes Chevy Bolt 'Dead-On-Departure,' Chowdhry Says GM Should Cancel The Project
Monday, April 4, 2016 - 10:52am | 376Trip Chowdhry of Global Equities Research said the Model 3 from Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) makes General Motors Company (NYSE: GM)'s Bolt "Dead-On-Departure." Tesla CEO Elon Musk Tweeted over the weekend, "276k Model 3 orders by end of Sat" and Chowdhry says the...
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It's Tesla Vs. GM In Indiana
Tuesday, February 23, 2016 - 12:15pm | 359Indiana is the new battleground for General Motors Company (NYSE: GM) and Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA), Autoblog wrote, and the point of contention is a new law that would prohibit any manufacturer from being able to hold a dealer license after December 31, 2017. Tesla said the law HB1254 is...
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Facebook's Inspiration Is Another Social Network's Innovation
Sunday, August 3, 2014 - 11:10am | 239Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) announced a handful of new apps and features last month, bringing a piece of Twitter, Amazon and Snapchat to the world's largest social network. "I would say Facebook is becoming more like Twitter through these kinds of innovations, rather than Twitter becoming...
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Facebook's New Snapchat Feature
Thursday, July 31, 2014 - 1:11pm | 544After failing to acquire Snapchat for $3 billion, Facebook (NASDAQ: FB) decided to compete head-on with its own set of features. The company started by launching Slingshot, a Snapchat-style image/messaging app that requires users to send back an image before they can open one they've...