February 2023

3 Medical Stocks with Excellent Vital Signs and 1 to Avoid

February 14, 2023
Amid strong demand for medical products, technological advancements, and government support, the healthcare industry’s growth prospect looks promising in the near future. Therefore, quality medical stocks UnitedHealth Group (UNH), Abbott…

Joby flies towards 2025 commercial launch with final assembly of eVTOL

February 14, 2023

Electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) company Joby Aviation has taken another step on its path to start a commercial air taxi service by 2025. The company said Tuesday that it’s begun final assembly on its “company-conforming” eVTOL, which is essentially a prototype that’s a couple steps away from the final version. Joby expects to […]

Joby flies towards 2025 commercial launch with final assembly of eVTOL by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

1 Tech Stock to Buy Now for Under $5

February 14, 2023
Network solution company Nokia (NOK) reported solid fourth-quarter results. Moreover, the company expects robust sales this year as it should keep benefitting from 5G roll-outs. Given the company’s expanding market…

Monad Labs raises $19M to grow its smart contract platform and improve the Ethereum space

February 14, 2023

Monad Labs, the team supporting the Monad blockchain, has raised $19 million in seed funding led by Dragonfly Capital, it exclusively told TechCrunch. “Monad is an effort to fundamentally optimize smart contract platforms,” Keone Hon, co-founder and CEO of Monad Labs, said to TechCrunch. “We’re ultimately building a platform to optimize both consensus and execution […]

Monad Labs raises $19M to grow its smart contract platform and improve the Ethereum space by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Microsoft ditches Yammer brand and goes all-in on Viva Engage

February 14, 2023

Microsoft has confirmed that it’s finally killing off Yammer, the enterprise social network it procured more than a decade ago for $1.2 billion. Yammer was initially created out of San Francisco back in 2008, with cofounder David Sacks formally launching the startup at a TechCrunch startup event. The company went on to raise north of […]

Microsoft ditches Yammer brand and goes all-in on Viva Engage by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

Why you shouldn’t trust AI search engines

February 14, 2023
This story originally appeared in The Algorithm, our weekly newsletter on AI. To get stories like this in your inbox first, sign up here. Last week was the week chatbot-powered search engines were supposed to arrive. The big idea is that these AI bots would upend our experience of searching the web by generating chatty answers…

Tiger Global and Ribbit invest another $100 million in PhonePe

February 14, 2023

PhonePe said it has raised another $100 million as part of an ongoing round, a deliberation that has so far pulled $450 million despite the market slump, as the Indian fintech giant bulks up its war chest following the recent separation from the parent firm Flipkart. Ribbit Capital, Tiger Global and TVS Capital pumped the […]

Tiger Global and Ribbit invest another $100 million in PhonePe by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch