Venture capital firm Decisive Point announced Wednesday an investment in Asylon, Inc., a manufacturer of infrastructure and software for the deployment and operation of autonomous surveillance and defense systems. Decisive Point is a venture capital firm focused on technology for government, public safety, and defense. The amount of the investment was not disclosed. Philadelphia based […]
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Anghami announced on Wednesday its merger with Vista Media Acquisition to become first Arab technology company to list on the NASDAQ, according to statement from the company, a leading music streaming platform and service in the Middle East and North Africa. Vistas Media Acquisition Company Inc. is a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company led […]
In a report released this week, the “Saudi Arabian Online Food Ordering and Delivery Market” was valued at $511.21 Million in 2020 and is forecast to grow at 10.05 percent CAGR during 2021 – 2026, according to Research and Markets. Even after the challenges of the pandemic, the market showed consistent growth. Going forwards, digitization, […]
Autodesk, the CAD/CAM software titan, announced Thursday the hiring of Debbie Clifford as chief financial officer and Raji Arasu as chief technology officer. The corporation makes software products and services for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, education, life science and entertainment industry sectors, and has been an industry leader for decades. “We are thrilled […]
It was last week’s longest distance phone call, with International Space Station Astronaut Victor Glover welcoming VP Kamala Harris for a virtual chat in honor of U.S. Black History Month. In the video recorded Feb. 24 and shared by NASA on Saturday Feb. 28, the long-distance phone call ranged from the legacy of human spaceflight […]
Scope AR, an enterprise-class augmented reality (AR) solutions, announced Wednesday the launch of WorkLink Create, a new web-based application for quickly creating and sharing AR content within the workplace. WorkLink Create empowers aerospace, medical device, and industrial professionals to quickly create their own AR content without any coding or 3D modeling expertise, the company said […]
It’s been a busy week for NASA, with early Monday morning seeing the docking of the Northrop Grumman Cygnus N-G15 resupply mission spacecraft to the ISS, which includes thousands of pounds of food and science experiments, including a joint HPE/Microsoft collaboration to bring advanced computing power and AI to the station with the Spaceborne Computer-2. […]
A recent survey reported that more than half (56 percent) of small businesses in the U.S. engaging on social media on at least a weekly basis are projecting revenue growth in 2021, despite continuing COVID-related business limitations, according to B2B services group Visual Objects. “If small businesses want to genuinely connect with consumers in their […]
NASA’s Perseverance rover landed Thursday on Mars after traveling 293 million miles (472 million kilometers), and entering the Red Planet’s stratosphere at supersonic speed, only slowing in the final minutes of the 203-day journey. Confirmation of the successful touchdown was announced in mission control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Southern California at 3:55 p.m. EST […]
Facebook was hit Wednesday with a 7 million euro fine ($8.5 million) by Italy’s competition watchdog after the social media titan failed to comply with an earlier request to change commercial usage of private data. The previous request was made in November 2018 after Italy’s anti-trust agency ruled that Facebook had failed to inform users […]