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xentral, an ERP platform for SMBs, raises $75M Series B from Tiger Global and Meritech

Enterprise Resource Planning systems have traditionally been the preserve of larger companies, but in recent years the amount of data small medium sized businesses can generate has increased to the po

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US government launches formal investigation into Tesla's Autopilot

A federal agency responsible for highway traffic safety says it has identified 11 crashes in which Tesla vehicles on Autopilot hit vehicles parked around the site of an emergency.

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High temperatures, floods and fires: Extreme Mediterranean weather

A man in Algeria on August 13 watching a fire in the Ait Daoud area of northern Algeria. /Ryad Kramdi/AFP Fires, death and destruction: The anticyclonic weather system causing extreme temperat

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The cost of Velodyne’s internal drama is starting to add up

Velodyne Lidar, the sensor company that went public a year ago when it merged with special purpose acquisition company Graf Industrial Corp., reported its second quarter earnings Thursday, results tha

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Verifiable secures $17M for its API that manages healthcare provider information

Less than a year after its $3 million seed round, Verifiable snapped up another $17 million for its healthcare provider credentialing API toolkit.The Austin-based company’s technology creates an infra

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First lady leaves Walter Reed after foot procedure

First lady Jill Biden left Walter Reed National Military Medical Center on Thursday evening after undergoing a procedure on her foot to remove an object she stepped on

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Violent protests mar funeral of slain Haiti president

Haiti bid a rowdy farewell to assassinated president Jovenel Moise on Friday as his funeral was roiled by nearby gunfire and protests, prompting a high-level U.S. deleg

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Little Spoon scoops up $44M to grow its children’s nutrition delivery service

The quest to disrupt the traditional baby food aisle continues as more of today’s parents seek out nutritional food for their children.One of the startups taking on the $100 billion children’s health

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Velodyne Lidar CEO resigns in latest internal drama

Velodyne Lidar CEO Anand Gopalan is leaving the lidar company at the end of July as the sensor supplier continues to struggle with internal drama.Gopalan, who was previously CTO, is leaving the top le

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Hancock’s Successor Sajid Javid Mocks Ex-Health Secretary Over Illicit Snog Caught on Leaked Footage

New UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid appeared to take a swipe at his predecessor Matt Hancock on Thursday afternoon.Hancock was forced to quit his position in the wake o

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Biden headed to Florida to grieve with families of condo collapse

U.S President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, planned to travel on Thursday to Surfside, Florida, site of the deadly condominium collapse, to offer condolences to f

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Miami condo rescue put on hold

An aerial view of the rescue operation in the partially collapsed 12-​story Champlain Towers South condo building in Surfside, Florida, U.S., June 29, 2021. /CFP The search and rescue work at

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Lapid arrives in UAE on first official visit by an Israeli minister: AFP

Israel's top diplomat Yair Lapid arrived in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday on the first ever official visit by an Israeli minister, after the two nations normalise

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4G Clinical’s clinical trial management software attracts over $200M in new funding

The pandemic significantly changed how we do medical research, and now companies are trying to figure out what trends will stay and which ones will go. One that 4G Clinical is hoping will survive the

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One of his former executives says Trump 'deserves to go to jail' ahead of New York prosecutors potentially filing criminal charges

A former executive vice president for the Trump Organization said former President Donald Trump "deserves to go to jail" ahead of potential criminal charges filed by Ne

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Mike Gravel, former US senator for Alaska, dies at 91

Mike Gravel, a former U.S. senator from Alaska who read the Pentagon Papers into the Congressional Record and confronted Barack Obama about nuclear weapons during a lat