Tad Brown, CEO of the Houston Rockets. /CFP Tad Brown, CEO of the Houston Rockets, will step down after the 2020-21 season, announced Brown himself on Friday."It's time to move on, and it's ti
Tel Aviv’s Orca AI, a computer vision startup that can be retrofitted to cargo ships and improve navigation and collision avoidance, has raised $13 million in a Series A funding, taking its total rais
The venue for a sub-forum of the Boao Forum for Asia (BFA) annual conference in Boao Town, south China's Hainan Province, April 17, 2021. /Xinhua Editor's note: Yuan Sha is an assistant resea
Samurai Incubate, a Tokyo-based venture capital firm, announced today it has closed its “Samurai Africa 2nd General Partnership” fund, totalling 2.026 billion yen (~$18.6 million).Accordin
Editor's note:Haider Rifaat is a writer for the South China Morning Post, Arabian Moda magazine, Good Times magazine and OK! Pakistan. The article reflects the author's opinions, and not necessari
The crypto industry as a whole has seen a momentous year of growth, heavily spurred on by the entrance of institutional investors adopting bitcoin due to its store of value properties. The 2020 spike
Protesters clash with police during a protest in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, March 28, 2021. /Getty Haiti's President Jovenal Moise vowed Monday to do more to combat the country's "scourge" of kidn
India has been gripped by a life or death race against Covid-19, as the country of nearly 1.4 billion people rolls out one of the fastest vaccination drives in the worl
Getty Editor's note:Amin Bagheri is a research fellow at the International Studies Association in Tehran. His primary research interest lies in international relations, transnational governanc
Getty Editor's note:Amin Bagheri is a research fellow at the International Studies Association in Tehran. His primary research interest lies in international relations, transnational governanc
The Japanese blooms usually take place in April, but arrived in March this year - the earliest blossom in 1,200 years.
Tesla favors battery charging while Nio favors battery swapping mode. /CGTN Tesla and its Chinese rival Nio are back in the spotlight for holding different opinions on how should home electron
Ajaib, the Indonesian investment app, has added $65 million to its Series A, bringing the round’s new total to $90 million. The extension was led by Ribbit Capital, the fintech investor that also led
The EU has been overly cautious and budget conscious over Covid vaccines and should step back from waging a “stupid vaccine war” with Britain, the former European commi
Augmented and virtual reality have been used for years in gaming, design and shopping. Now, a new battle for market share is emerging — inside vehicles.Safety-glass windshields offer a new opportunity
Saleor, a Poland and U.S.-based startup that offers a “headless” e-commerce platform to make it easier for developers to build better online shopping experiences, has raised $2.5 million i
From distributed homes in Cambridge, Mass. and Cambridge, England, inBalance Research is joining Y Combinator as it looks to accelerate its business as the oracle for independent energy providers, uti