MicroStrategy Buys 1,070 BTC, Plans to Raise Up to $2B Through Preferred Stock Offering

Disclaimer: The analyst who wrote this piece owns shares of MicroStrategy (MSTR). MicroStrategy (MSTR) has increased its bitcoin (BTC) holdings for the ninth consecutive week. MicroStrategy holds more bitcoin than any other publicly traded company. In the week ending Jan. 5, MicroStrategy purchased a further 1,020 BTC for $101 million, bringing its total bitcoin holdings … Read more

TiVo-powered TVs are coming to the US

Image: TiVo More than a year after launching its smart TV platform in Europe, TiVo is now bringing it to the US. The company’s putting its TiVo OS platform inside a new Sharp TV arriving as soon as February, rivaling the likes of Roku, Google TV, and Amazon’s Fire TV. TiVo first announced TiVo OS … Read more

The ElliQ companion robot can now send health updates to a caregiver

Image: Intuition Robotics Intuition Robotics introduced the ElliQ Caregiver Solution on Monday, an AI-powered system that includes the ElliQ companion robot and a new Caregiver app to help caregivers monitor the health of homebound seniors. Originally, the bobblehead-esque animatronic was mainly a friendly looking Amazon Alexa-like voice assistant designed to offer companionship to seniors living … Read more

Dutch Regulator Awards EU MiCA License to 4 Companies

Four digital assets companies have just secured Markets in Crypto Assets (MiCA) licenses in the Netherlands, letting them operate across the entire 27-nation European Union. Crypto platform MoonPay, digital asset management company BitStaete, bitcoin lightning FinTech ZBD and prime brokerage and clearing company Hidden Road attained the much desired crypto asset service providers license from … Read more

Elvie unveils an app-controlled smart bouncer that transforms into a bassinet at CES 2025

Elvie, a female-founded hardware startup, has unveiled a new app-controlled smart bouncer that gently transforms into a bassinet — while the baby is still in it. With the new Elvie Rise, announced at CES 2025 on Monday, parents and caregivers don’t have to move their baby between soothing, sleep, and play products.  The startup is … Read more

AI Is Making it Easier to Engineer Better Products—Here’s How

Building applications that focus on tackling complex business problems and at the same time ensuring scalability, performance, and user-centricity may prove to be tricky. Artificial intelligence (AI) is indeed the technology that brings this change, which enables teams to put out data-driven insights plus fast-paced innovation. Our article will describe how AI-powered insights bring about … Read more