Month: April 2020

For two weeks, Boston Dynamics’ Spot robot has been walking the halls of local hospital Brigham and Women’s. Telemedicine wasn’t generally listed as one of the primary applications for the company’s first commercial product, but Boston Dynamics is only one in a long list of tech companies that’s found itself shifting on the fly as … Continue reading Boston Dynamics’ Spot finds a new career in telemedicine amid COVID-19 pandemic Continue Reading →

Image Credits: Chris Zhang (opens in a new window)/ Unsplash (opens in a new window)(Image has been modified) Today SingleOps, an Atlanta-based software startup, announced that it has raised $6 million in new capital. The startup’s service is built to support companies that deal with outdoor work like landscaping, tree care and lawn maintenance. It’s an example of the vertical … Continue reading Atlanta’s SingleOps raises $6M for its outdoor-care-focused software business Continue Reading →

Image Credits: Maskot / Getty Images Miro is a company in the right place at the right time. The makers of a digital whiteboard are seeing usage surge right now as businesses move from the workplace and physical whiteboards. Today, the company announced a hefty $50 million Series B. Iconiq Capital led the round with help from Accel and … Continue reading Miro lands $50M Series B for digital whiteboard as demand surges Continue Reading →

Image Credits: MANPREET ROMANA / AFP / Getty Images The race to win the ubiquitous neighborhood stores is on in India. A day after Facebook  invested $5.7 billion in Reliance Jio Platforms to serve tens of millions of neighborhood stores in the country, the world’s largest e-commerce firm has launched “Local Shops on Amazon.” The program will help customers discover products from local … Continue reading Amazon begins selling items from neighborhood stores in India amid Facebook’s deal with Jio Continue Reading →

Virgin Orbit  has secured an Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its ventilator, which the small satellite launch company designed and prototyped within the past few weeks in response to growing need for ventilator hardware to address the most severe cases of COVID-19 infection. Virgin Orbit anticipates deliveries of the ventilator … Continue reading Virgin Orbit’s ventilators gain FDA authorization, deliveries to hospitals will start within days Continue Reading →

Musk holds an 18.5 percent stake in Tesla shares that has soared over 73 percent since the beginning of the year. The combined wealth of America’s billionaires, including Amazo founder Jeff Bezos and Tesla chief Elon Musk, increased nearly 10 percent during the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, according to a report published by the Institute for … Continue reading Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos among US billionaires gaining net worth in pandemic: Report Continue Reading →

Image Credits: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg / Getty Images In a blog post today, Google’s Director of Product Management, Ads Integrity. John Canfield, announced that the company will be extending its identity verification policy for all advertisers. Introduced in 2018, the feature required political advertisers to go through a verify their identity, which was then displayed as part of the … Continue reading Google is extending identity verification requirements to all advertisers Continue Reading →

Image Credits: Justin Sullivan / Getty Images Even as Mark Zuckerberg touted the “hundreds of thousands of pieces of misinformation related to COVID-19” that the site had pulled in recent months, Facebook continued to offer targeted ads classified as “pseudoscience.” It was an odd choice from a social network so publicly declaring its own campaigns to remove junk … Continue reading Facebook pulls ‘pseudoscience’ from its list of targeted ad categories Continue Reading →