GGD Startup: Calendly
To create Calendly, Tope Awotona emptied out his personal savings in 2013. The founder was determined to build a scheduling automation tool that was intuitive and simple to use.
Planet Labs Secures $230M Deal to Build Next-Gen Satellites
Planet Labs, a leader in Earth imaging and satellite technology, has secured a $230 million contract to develop and deploy a new generation of satellites. The deal, announced earlier this week, marks a significant milestone in the company’s mission to provide high-resolution, real-time imaging of our planet.
Apollo Funds Acquires Barnes Group Inc. for $3.6B
Apollo Global Management is making another bold move in the industrial sector, acquiring Barnes Group Inc. for $3.6 billion. The deal, announced this week, positions Apollo to expand its influence in aerospace, manufacturing, and engineered products.
World’s Largest EV Producer Agrees to Invest $1B in Turkey
OpenAI has announced the launch of SearchGPT, an AI-powered search engine. Even as Google continues to dominate the search engine market, the tool aims to use AI tech’s conversational models to help users produce faster, more relevant search results.
Synchron Implants Enable Mind-Driven Control of Amazon’s Alexa
Next week, Apple will launch ‘Glowtime,’ a special live stream event. The iPhone 16 is expected to drop, but the tech giant remains tight-lipped on official details. Rumors of new features have been swirling. Out of the many predictions buzzing online, here’s what we believe you’ll see at Glowtime.
Nintendo Music is now Streaming
Buying a CD and reading song credits, rewinding a mixtape or finding your parents old vinyl records around the house have become uncommon experiences. The Audio-Technica LP70XBT caters to digital audiophiles who desire a more visceral, throwback connection to music.
GGD Startup: Modern Fertility
Fertility testing used to be an expensive, time-consuming process; regulated to private labs and boxed in by specialist recommendations. In 2017, founders Afton Vechery and Carly Leahy developed a simple, at-home fertility testing kit; allowing women to check for up to 7 hormones through a simple prick.
Halliburton Hit by Cyberattack
Oil services giant Halliburton experienced a cyberattack on Wednesday, at the company’s headquarters in north Houston, Texas. Very few details have been released, but the attack is believed to have impacted part of Halliburton’s business operations in Houston as well as global connectivity networks.
McDonald’s Instagram Account Gets Hacked
Hackers took over McDonald’s official Instagram account this week, advertising a Solana meme coin to followers. As a result of their promotion, the hackers were able to make approximately $700K.
Election Websites in Florida Crash
Multiple election websites across Florida crashed on Tuesday, shortly after polls closed. The websites were supposed to publish county election results, but due to what has simply been described as “tech outages” residents of several counties could not directly access sites or were timed out and thereby blocked.