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Chile receives new shipment of Sinovac COVID-19 vaccines

Chile received a new shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac on Friday. /VCG Chile received a new shipment of COVID-19 vaccines from the Chinese pharmaceu

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How Amazon EC2 grew from a notion into a foundational element of cloud computing

Fifteen years ago this week on August 25, 2006, AWS turned on the very first beta instance of EC2, its cloud-based virtual computers. Today cloud computing, and more specifically infrastructure as a s

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PSG could chase Lewandowski, Haaland or Richarlison if Mbappe leaves

Kylian Mbappe of Paris Saint-Germain looks on in the Ligue 1 game against Brest at Stade Francis Le Ble in Brest, France, August 20, 2021. /CFP Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) could try to chase Rob

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Making a splash in the marketing world

“There are three common blunders that most SaaS marketers make time and again when it comes to clarity and high-converting content,” says Konrad Sanders, founder and CEO of The Creative Copywriter, “1

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Mixed reactions in New York as kids head back to school

02:39 In the first year of the pandemic, schools in New York City returned in the fall with a hybrid model.Kids were in class a few days a week and learned remotely the rest.It worked f

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Tesla wants to sell electricity in Texas

Elon Musk’s Tesla is looking beyond electric vehicles, solar panels and energy storage and wants to now supply electricity directly to customers, according to an application filed with Texas electrici

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YC grad Buoyant wants to solve middle-mile delivery with cargo airships

A number of companies have emerged in recent years aiming to resurrect the airship, an early technology that was abandoned in favor of airplanes and helicopters.Flying Whales in France, Hybrid Air Veh

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Simbe’s robots will be deployed across midwestern grocery chain, Schnucks

St. Louis-based grocery chain Schnucks (one of those “With a name like Smucker’s, it has to be good” situations, one imagines) announced this week that it will be deploying technology from Simbe

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Taktile makes it easier to leverage machine learning in the financial industry

Meet Taktile, a new startup that is working on a machine learning platform for financial services companies. This isn’t the first company that wants to leverage machine learning for financial products

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The SEC and the DOJ just charged this startup founder with fraud, saying he lied to Tiger and others

Today, both the U.S. Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Manish Lachwani, cofounder of a mobile app testing company Headspin, with fraud. The SEC says he violated

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Peter Beck on Rocket Lab’s public listing debut, space SPACs and the Neutron rocket

Peter Beck’s earliest memory is standing outside with his father in his hometown of Invercargill, New Zealand, looking up at the stars and being told that there could very well be people on planets or

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Mindset, an artist-driven mental wellness audio platform, raises $8.7M from Scooter Braun’s TQ Ventures and others

Mindset, a platform featuring personal story collections from recording artists, announced today that it raised $8.7 million in seed funding.As co-founders of the K-pop-focused podcast production comp

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Cannabis e-commerce startup Jane Technologies raises $100M after stellar growth

Don’t call Jane Technologies the Amazon of weed. Instead, think of Jane Technologies as the Shopify of weed, and it’s an important distinction. While other startups attempt to build a dest

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Chinese, Dutch FMs exchange views on Afghan situation, bilateral ties

Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Dutch Foreign Minister Sigrid Kaag exchanged views on the situation in Afghanistan and bilateral ties during a

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Italian student gets COVID-19 health pass tattoo – and it works

01:19 While most people would rather forget living through a pandemic, Andrea Colonnetta, has got a permanent reminder – a tattoo of his COVID-19 vaccine certificate. The 22-year-old st

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Ai Palette raises $4.4M to help companies react faster to consumer trends

Developing new packaged foods and consumer goods can take a couple years as companies research, prototype and test products. In a society that runs on social media, however, people expect to see trend

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Walmart announces GoLocal, a last-mile delivery service for other retailers

Walmart today announced of a new delivery service business called Walmart GoLocal, which allows other merchants, both large and small, to tap into Walmart’s own delivery platform to get orders t