Xbox cloud gaming coming to iOS and PC in spring 2021
Microsoft has shared some details about the road map for its cloud gaming service. In addition to Android devices, the company confirms that it plans to add support for more platforms. In spring 2021, Microsoft will launch its cloud gaming service on iOS and on computers.
Originally called Project
Coinbase's backstory and future with ‘Kings of Crypto’ author Jeff John Roberts
No industry better epitomizes elite tech opinion as blockchain. Ignored for years in its infancy, the industry received intense interest from investors, engineers and the public five years ago, generating some of the most deeply devout evangelists that have emanated from startups since the advent o
With investors expecting a Latin American cryptocurrency boom, Mexico’s Bitso raises $62 million
Six years after the launch of the Mexico-based cryptocurrency exchange and financial services platform Bitso, the company revealed it has closed on $62 million in financing to capitalize on the cryptocurrency boom investors expect to hit Latin America.
The three major cryptocurrencies are all tra
HealNow raises $1.3 million to bring online payments to pharmacies
As the health tech landscape rapidly evolves, another startup is making its presence known. HealNow has closed a $1.3 million round of funding from SoftBank Opportunity Fund and Alabama Futures Fund.
The company was founded by Halston Prox and Joshua Smith. Prox has worked in healthcare for more th
Blue Origin’s space industry all-star team submits proposal for landing system to carry humans back to the moon
The Blue Origin-led “National Team” has submitted a proposal to NASA for its Human Landing System (HLS), which would be used to transport the next lunar astronauts to the surface of the moon during NASA’s forthcoming Artemis mission series. Blue Origin is one of three companies se
App stores to see 130 billion downloads in 2020 and record consumer spend of $112 billion
Consumers will have downloaded 130 billion apps in 2020 across iOS and Google Play, up 10% year-over-year, according to mobile data and analytics firm App Annie’s year-end forecast. Consumer spending across the two app stores will also grow by 25% year-over-year to reach $112 billion by year
China court blacklists cash-strapped apartment rental startup Danke
As financial troubles escalate at Danke, China’s authorities are stepping in to hold the once-promising apartment rental and sharing company accountable.
In recent weeks, landlords who did not receive payments from Danke, which functions as a sublessor, began to evict tenants. After a flurry
On encryption and counter-terrorism, EU lawmakers say they’ll work for ‘lawful’ data access
EU lawmakers have just unveiled a wide-ranging counter-terrorism agenda as they set out plans to beef up regional security.
The plan touches on some key tech topics — the most keenly watched of which is encryption.
Here, concerns have been mounting that the bloc could be movin
IonQ plans to launch a rack-mounted quantum computer for data centers in 2023
Quantum computing startup IonQ today announced its road map for the next few years — following a similar move from IBM in September — and it’s quite ambitious, to say the least.
At our Disrupt event earlier this year, IonQ CEO and president Peter Chapman suggested that we were onl
myInterview raises $5 million for its video-based job recruitment platform
Creating a resume is one of the most frustrating parts of job hunting. Though ubiquitous on social media, videos are still rare on job platforms, even though it’s difficult to capture your personality in a resume. Sydney, Australia-based myInterview wants to turn videos into an integral part
WorkRamp raises $17M to ramp up its enterprise learning platform
Remote learning and training have become a large priority this year for organizations looking to keep employees engaged and up to date on work practices at a time when many of them are not working in an office — and, in the case of those who have joined in 2020, may have never met any of thei
Career Karma raises $10M to connect students to coding bootcamps
As edtech churns out more and more MasterClass copycats and coding bootcamps, it's becoming glaringly obvious that students need better ways to navigate the crowded world of online learning.
Career Karma, founded in 2018 by Ruben Harris, Artur Meyster and Timur Meyster, wants to help. The start
Google quietly acquires Dataform, the UK startup helping businesses manage data warehouses
Dataform, a startup in the U.K. that was building what it dubbed an “operating system” for data warehouses, has been quietly acquired by Google’s Google Cloud division.
Terms of the deal aren’t being disclosed, although I understand this is mostly an acqui-hire, albeit one w
Firebolt raises $37M to take on Snowflake, Amazon and Google with a new approach to data warehousing
For many organizations, the shift to cloud computing has played out more realistically as a shift to hybrid architectures, where a company’s data is just as likely to reside in one of a number of clouds as it might in an on-premise deployment, in a data warehouse or in a data lake. Today, a s