If approved by authories, “taxi-drones” could be an operational entity in Dubai in 2018, thanks to EHang Inc., a Chinese startup, Arabian Business reported. Passengers of the taxi-type system which flies, can select a flight path that has already been programmed and the E-184 drone will take them to their destination. According to the company, […]

FreeForm, a startup founded by lawyer, Sonya Passi works to help women who are domestic violence survivors become financially secure to improve their livelihood and make their goals a reality. A quarter of women in the United States are subject to violence from their partner, with 98 percent of survivors also living without their own […]

With Indonesia being declared the second largest pollutant of plastic materials in water, and losing their beaches, well-known for their beauty, to pollution, one Indonesian startup has found a material to combat the use of plastic, seaweed. Evoware, co-founded by David Christian, uses chemical-free seaweed to make hand-made containers that would normally be made of […]

The newest solution thought up and brought forward for fighting the Zika virus, comes from WeRobotics, a startup founded by Adam Klaptocz and involves drones. “The main goal is vector control to eliminate infectious disease,” Klaptocz said to Digital Trends. “Suppressing mosquito population can be done with fumigation or insecticide, but both these techniques are […]

Three startups have won investments from Alibaba Group Holding Ltd., owned by Jack Ma through Jumpstarter, a competition for startups presenting new innovations and products. The funding won comes from a fund set up by Ma for entrepreneurs, Bloomberg Technology reported. The three startups won out of 600 pitches, from a variety of categories, that […]