Shirtless, spear-wielding man allegedly stabs teen in Times Square
An apparently unhinged man stabbed a 15-year-old boy in the head with a makeshift spear in a random attack in Times Square on Friday...
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Chadwick Boseman, dead at 41 after 4 year battle with cancer.
Actor Chadwick Boseman, who brought the movie “Black Panther” to life with his charismatic intensity and regal performance, has died. Boseman has battled colon cancer since 2016 and...
Revolut raises $500 million at a $5.5 billion valuation
Fintech startup Revolut is raising a large Series D round of funding. TCV is leading the $500 million round, valuing the company at $5.5 billion. Over the past...
Investors in LatAm get bitten by the hotel investment bug as Ayenda raises $8.7 million
Some of Latin America’s leading venture capital investors are now backing hotel chains. In fact, Ayenda, the largest hotel chain in Colombia, has raised $8.7...
Tesla locks in stock surge with $2B offering at $767 per share
Tesla has priced its secondary common stock offering at $767, a 4.6% discount from Thursday’s share price close, according to a securities filing Friday. Tesla said...
Facebook Dating launch blocked in Europe after it fails to show privacy workings
Facebook has been left red-faced after being forced to call off the launch date of its dating service in Europe because it failed to give...
Trump acquitted on all charges in Senate impeachment trial
The Senate voted Wednesday afternoon to acquit President Trump on both articles of impeachment against him. The chamber first handily voted down the article...
Trump to halt immigration from Africa’s top tech hub, Nigeria
The Trump administration announced Friday it would halt immigration from Nigeria — Africa’s most populous nation with the continent’s largest economy and leading tech sector. The...
Watch this year’s tech-themed Super Bowl ads from Amazon, Google and more
Many of the companies spending big bucks on today’s big game have already released their ads (or teasers for those ads) on YouTube. So if...
Two-year-old Indian edtech startup Doubtnut raises $15M
Doubtnut, a Gurgaon-based startup that operates an app to help students learn and master concepts from math and science using short videos, has raised...
Skymind Global Ventures launches $800M fund and London office to back AI startups
Skymind Global Ventures (SGV) appeared last year in Asia/US as a vehicle for the previous founders of a YC-backed open-source AI platform to invest in...