Tech
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Karius raises $165 million for its liquid biopsy technology identifying diseases in a drop of blood
“What Karius is good at is identifying those novel microbes before they become an outbreak like coronavirus,” says Mickey Kertesz, a chief...
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422Sony announces its first 5G flagship, the triple lens Xperia 1 II
Sony has announced its first 5G smartphone: The Xperia 1 II — which, for the curious and/or confused, is pronounced ‘Xperia One,...
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437Petnet’s smart pet feeder system is back after a week-long outage, but customers are still waiting for answers
Petnet, the smart pet feeder backed by investors including Petco, recently experienced a week-long system outage affecting its second-generation SmartFeeders. While the...
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Created to help employees figure out health benefits, HealthJoy raises $30 million
HealthJoy, a platform designed to make it easier for employees to use their healthcare benefits, has raised $30 million in Series C...
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Microsoft launches 100X100X100 program to help Indian B2B SaaS startups
As Indian startups begin to make inroads in the world of SaaS, Microsoft has taken notice. The American tech giant today launched...
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Lightspeed leads Laiye’s $42M round to bet on Chinese enterprise IT
Laiye, a Chinese startup that offers robotic process automation services to several major tech firms in the nation and government agencies, has...
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What happens if a pandemic hits?
What happens if a Covid-19 coronavirus pandemic hits? It’s time to at least start asking that question. What will the repercussions be,...
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BharatPe raises $75M to help Indian merchants accept digital payments and secure working capital
BharatPe, a New Delhi-based startup that is enabling hundreds of thousands of merchants to accept digital payments for the first time and...
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Rallyhood exposed a decade of users’ private data
Rallyhood says it’s “private and secure.” But for some time, it wasn’t. The social network designed to help groups communicate and coordinate...
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How do we connect a child to technology?
We are now onto the fifth short story of nine in Ted Chiang’s collection Exhalations. This one is a very short one...