TECH
Alibaba’s autonomous driving lab to focus more on monetization
Alibaba founded Damo Academy in 2017 to carve out a program focused on cutting-edge research that is relatively free of short-term...
UK pension startup Smart banks $95M
Smart, a London-based startup that helps employers and their employees manage and monitor their pensions, said that it has closed...
Blackstone sells IBS Software stake to Apax for $450 million
Blackstone has reached a definitive agreement to sell its stake in the Indian SaaS startup IBS Software to Apax for $450 million,...
UK’s Space Forge debuts new reentry tech for in-space manufacturing...
Welsh in-space manufacturing startup Space Forge has developed a satellite reentry system to enable rapid recovery and reuse of its...
Apple releases satellite-based emergency SOS feature in...
Apple made its emergency satellite communication features available to users in Australia and New Zealand on Monday. The company said...
Cold-chain startup Figorr raises $1.5M, backs the roll...
Oghenetega Iortim built Nigerian-based cold chain startup Figorr after imagining better means of storage and transportation of temperature-sensitive...
M-KOPA snaps up $250M+ debt, equity for its asset financing...
M-KOPA, the asset financing platform that offers underbanked African customers access to “productive assets” and the ability to pay...