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Author: Linda Ashok

As the Founding Editor of StartuptoEnterprise.com, Linda is interested in emerging tech startups operating in the intersection of innovation, profitability, and social impact. Her primary focus is Europe & China followed by the US & India.
Billionaires Fund Lithium Extraction to Sustainable Battery Technology
10Jul By Linda AshokNo Comments
Technology

Billionaires Fund Lithium Extraction to Sustainable Battery Technology

"The global electric vehicle market size is projected to grow from 4,093 thousand units in 2021 to 34,756 thousand units by 2030, at a CAGR of 26.8%." Source. Growing demand for low emission commuting and tax subsidies for long-range, zero-emission vehicles have spurred manufacturers to go aggressive about lithium mining to produce electric cars and renewable energy. Backed by market research, as of January 2010, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated the world's total economically extractable lithium reserves at 9.9×109 kg and potentially economic lithium reserves at 2.55 × 1010 kg, mostly available in the salars of Bolivia and Chile. However, in the U.S., Lithium Americas Corp (NYSE: LAC) got workers digging the clay at Thacker Pass in Nevada. Extracting lithium from seawat...
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Composting AR/ VR/ XR, Metaverse is Coming After You!
8Jul By Linda AshokNo Comments
Crypto & NFT, Technology

Composting AR/ VR/ XR, Metaverse is Coming After You!

2021 has little room for coincidences and chances; it is the opening of deliberate moves, and so that holiday offer is deliberate; it is a digital algorithm that mirrors your thinking—summarily, the Metaverse. The prefix "meta" means "beyond," and "verse" a backformation of "universe." According to Epyllionco Managing Partner Matthew Ball, Metaverse is "the convergence of online gaming, virtual reality, augmented reality, user generating content and social networking." Think of this Metaverse or AR/VR/XR technology as the quasi successor to mobile Internet. In the 90s, our mobile Internet today sprang to life how the technology is leading today. In AR/VR/XR technology, the iteration will take place in vast blobs of virtual worlds or virtual simulations, unlike mobile Internet, which suf...
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Spot the Missing Spider on the New Web of Science™
7Jul By Linda AshokNo Comments
Technology

Spot the Missing Spider on the New Web of Science™

On July 7, 2021, Clarivate (NYSE: CLVT) announced enhancements to its Web of Science™ solution for global researchers. The Web of Science™ is positioned as a trusted publisher-independent global citation database helping the research community track ideas across disciplines and time from almost 1.9 billion cited references from over 171 million records. The solution is guided by the legacy of Dr. Eugene Garfield, inventor of the world's first citation index; a powerful research engine, the new version of the Web of Science simplifies how world-class data and analytics are indexed, accessed, and used via improved UI experience. The enhancements are expected to help the research community. Clarivate's Enhanced Web of Science™ Technology Web of Science™ Beamplot A new visualization tool o...
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Software Design Startup Figma Draws a $10B Fortune
3Jul By Linda AshokNo Comments
Business

Software Design Startup Figma Draws a $10B Fortune

Software design startup Figma is the new enigma in the design technology sector.  Figma is a space-agnostic design platform for teams to collaborate on product design for the uninformed. The design software helps businesses create, test, and ship better designs faster. On a mission to make design accessible to all, Figma has some rich enterprise bonding with Airbnb, Spotify, Slack, Dropbox, New York Times, and Microsoft, helping them design success. As per Crunchbase, on Jun 24, 2021, the software design startup, Figma, raised its latest Series E investment of $200 million from nine investors, including Sequoia Capitals, Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Greylock, Founders Fund, etc. This latest round of funding drawn up by the software startup Figma raises its market valuation to $10 ...
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Dr. Azim’s Radical Move with Glocal Healthcare Systems
2Jul By Linda AshokNo Comments
India, People, Tech for Good

Dr. Azim’s Radical Move with Glocal Healthcare Systems

Almost 28 percent of India's poor lack access to medical treatment; they do not have doctors within 100 km; if there are hospitals, they lack modern infrastructure and doctors who take any interest in global medical advancements. The challenge with healthcare is telling. When one child grows up to be a doctor by the brush of determination and hard luck, they migrate to the cities—taking a dig at this complex situation: Dr. Sabahat S. Azim, a doctor and ex-Indian Administrative Service officer of the year 2000 batch, is now an entrepreneur—the Founder & Managing Director of Glocal Healthcare Systems. Dr. Sabahat S. Azim hails from a middle-class family in a small town in India where every parent aspires their children to become doctors and engineers. It wasn't any exception with Dr. ...
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AirCar Flying Car is not the First! It is PAL-V Liberty!
30Jun By Linda AshokNo Comments
Technology

AirCar Flying Car is not the First! It is PAL-V Liberty!

Not the first-ever, but the news is that on June 28, 2021, Klein Vision's patent-protected AirCar completed its 142nd successful landing in Bratislava, Slovakia, at 6:05 AM. AirCar executive informed that the dual-mode car-aircraft completed a 35-minute flight from Nitra international airport to Bratislava in a major milestone. The investor of AirCar, Professor Stefan Klein and co-founder, Anton Zajac, took the test flight, and on landing, it converted into a sports car. "The automated transition from road vehicle into an air vehicle and vice versa, deploying/retracting wings and tail is not only the result of pioneering enthusiasm, innovative spirit and courage; it is an outcome of excellent engineering and professional knowledge," said Dr. Branko Sarh, Boeing Co. Senior, Technical Fellow...
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A Trade-off to Counter Email Impersonation Attack on the Rise
17Jun By Linda AshokNo Comments
Business

A Trade-off to Counter Email Impersonation Attack on the Rise

Email Identity Theft & Misrepresentation It begins with me trying to create an Outlook email with my name, but someone else is already using it with a different phone number that I never used. The situation is anybody can misrepresent me, miscommunicate me using my credentials. As a digital marketer, writer, and journalist, there must be some verification process in place that ensures I am not misrepresented. This is not a vanity ask, but as we grow up to a seven billion+ population on the Internet, this is elementary. Email impersonation attack is not only a concern for people in media or public figures; it is, even more, a challenge for a non-public person. It can damage a person completely, destroy relationships, destroy market reputation, impact businesses and employment. This is s...
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Finland Beats Japan: WISA Woodsat World’s First Wooden Satellite
15Jun By Linda AshokNo Comments
Technology

Finland Beats Japan: WISA Woodsat World’s First Wooden Satellite

According to NASA, our space is riddled with more than 27,000 pieces of orbital debris, or "space junk," as tracked by the Department of Defense's global Space Surveillance Network (SSN) sensors. Albeit the junk is too small for tracking sensors, they are large enough to threaten human spaceflight and robotic missions. Moreover, since both the debris and spacecraft are traveling at extremely high speeds (approximately 15,700 mph in low Earth orbit), an encounter with a tiny piece of space debris can destroy missions. Space Debris Toxicity When we think of space junk, we look at metal bodies of disintegrating spaceships and other machinery. Space debris is non-biodegradable that may stay in space forever until such time it falls back on earth and burns up. According to the United Nations F...
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China’s New Data Security Law gets Tech Heavyweights Nervous
13Jun By Linda AshokNo Comments
Business

China’s New Data Security Law gets Tech Heavyweights Nervous

It has been a long day, and finally, China ensures it has the upper hand on large enterprises operating within the territory of the People's Republic of China. China's new data security law, w.e.f September 1, 2021, gives President Xi Jinping the power to shut down Chinese tech giants such as Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. and Tencent Holdings Ltd. If President Xi Jinping so wills can access the vast repository of data at the disposal of the two multinational technology companies. According to China's new data security law, businesses misusing "core state data," may expect a suspension of operations, revoking business licenses, and a penalty of up to 10 million yuan ($1.56 million). In addition, China's new data security law ensures that businesses do not transmit sensitive data abroad without...
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