In April, NASA awarded Elon Musk's SpaceX a contract to build a lunar lander for a manned mission as early as 2024. Blue Origin had contended NASA gave SpaceX an unfair advantage by letting it revise its pricing.
Beijing ByteDance Technology sold a 1% stake to WangTouZhongWen (Beijing) Technology, which is owned by three state entities. The deal does not give the Chinese government any stake in TikTok.
Taliban's rapid takeover of Afghanistan poses a new challenge for Facebook, WhatsApp, Twitter and YouTube on handling content created by a group considered to be terrorists by some world governments.
The Bengaluru-based company, which helps users measure their metabolic fitness through a wearable device, will use the funds for geographical expansion and to improve its biomarker technology.
Many startups that hit a valuation of $1 billion or more just this year have already doubled or tripled their valuations with fresh rounds since joining the unicorn club.
A consortium of lenders, including freshly minted unicorn OfBusiness, Innoven Capital, and Alteria Capital, have also committed capital to the platform.