Nickie Louise

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Nickie is a writer, editor, and co-founder of TechStartups.com based in the Washington Metropolitan Area. She covers early-stage startups, AI, emerging technologies, cryptocurrencies, gaming, and gadgets. When she’s not writing about innovation, Nickie enjoys crafts, spending time with her family and children, hiking, and exploring God’s majestic creation.

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Top tech startup news for Thursday, January 26, 2023: Elaborate, Inscribe, Renaissance Fusion, SAP, and ZOLA

Nickie Louise Posted On January 26, 2023

Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, January 26, 2023. Surgeons in Galway have successfully carried out the first robot-guided coronary intervention in Ireland and the UK Galway University Hospital (UHG) becomes the […]

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Tesla shares pop 15% after crushing its critics on better-than-expected earnings results

Nickie Louise Posted On January 26, 2023

On January 3, Tesla stock tumbled to start 2023 with shares trading at $108.10. It didn’t take long before the so-called analysts started to blame Musk’s acquisition of Twitter for Tesla’s stock free fall. For many years, experts have repeatedly […]

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Ex-Google CIO joins the board of Tesla-backed renewable energy startup ZOLA

Nickie Louise Posted On January 26, 2023

Tesla and Total-backed renewable energy startup ZOLA Electric said today that former Google Chief Information Officer Ben Fried has joined its board of directors. In an announcement on Thursday, the San Francisco-based ZOLA Electric said that Ben has been appointed as […]

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Top tech startup news for Wednesday, January 25, 2023: DailyPay, IBM, Microsoft, RapidDeploy, Tesla, ZenGo

Nickie Louise Posted On January 25, 2023

Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, January 25, 2023. Tesla reports record revenue, beats analysts’ expectations Elon Musk’s electric vehicle maker Tesla beat Wall Street targets in its fourth-quarter revenue and profit […]

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Artificial intelligence could make divorce easier and faster, family law attorney says

Nickie Louise Posted On January 25, 2023

When we look back a decade from now, 2022 might be remembered as the year artificial intelligence (AI) went mainstream. The sudden popularity of dialogue-based artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT has led to renewed interest in artificial intelligence as more than […]

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ZenGo becomes the first seedless crypto wallet on Polygon

Nickie Louise Posted On January 25, 2023

The “seed-phrase” problem has been raised a few times by thought leaders such as Binance Changpeng Zhao (CZ) and Udi Wertheimer (who’s been very vocal about it in the past few months) after a massive wave of exiting CEXs that […]

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Microsoft cloud outage hits users around the world; Users of Teams and Outlook impacted

Nickie Louise Posted On January 25, 2023

Millions of Microsoft users around the world were hit with an outage on Wednesday after a networking outage took down its cloud platform Azure along with services such as Teams and Outlook. The tech giant said it had since recovered […]

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Crypto exchange Gemini lays off 10% of its employees, third round of layoffs in less than a year

Nickie Louise Posted On January 24, 2023

Gemini, a crypto exchange founded by the Winklevoss twins, is laying off 10% of its total workforce. Gemini now joins a long list of crypto companies that have announced or planning to freeze hiring as FTX contagion spreads across the […]

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French quantum computer startup PASQAL raises €100 million to usher in a new era of neutral atoms quantum computing

Nickie Louise Posted On January 24, 2023

Since 1882 after Charles Babbage invented the first computer known as Babbage Difference Engine, today’s computers still use integrated circuits or semiconductors (also known as chips) which are based on bits in the form of binary 1s and 0s. Integrated […]

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Amazon launches a $5/month generic drug prescription plan for U.S. Prime members

Nickie Louise Posted On January 24, 2023

Just two years after Amazon entered into the pharmacy business with the launch of Amazon Pharmacy to enable customers to order prescriptions online, Amazon announced today the launch of its low-cost subscription plan for generic drugs, furthering the e-commerce giant’s […]

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Interview with HotDrop Co-founders, Max Goldberg and Steven Segel

Nickie Louise Posted On January 24, 2023

We’re excited to kick off our 2023 Startup Spotlight series with Max Goldberg and Steven Segel, the Co-Founders of HotDrop, a music startup that connect undiscovered artists with superfans. Music discovery app, HotDrop, was also recently featured in The Wall […]

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Sterling Investment Partners raises $934M in funding for its Fund IV to invest in middle market companies

Nickie Louise Posted On January 23, 2023

The global macro events and the global economic slowdown is making it increasingly harder for startups to raise funding. Founders are scrambling to get more cash than the amount VCs are willing to deploy. The problem is not just limited […]

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Bank of America is investing up to $150 million in middle-income housing preservation fund to help preserve over 3,000 affordable homes

Nickie Louise Posted On January 23, 2023

Collaborating with Enterprise Community Partners and Developers to Preserve Housing for Middle-Income Earners Bank of America Community Development Banking is investing up to $150 million in equity to preserve more than 3,000 affordable homes nationwide for middle-income households in partnership with […]

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London-based eco-friendly clothing startup bags £1M to meet demand for its sustainable fashion care products

Nickie Louise Posted On January 23, 2023

Some have called it a fashion crime but the amount of waste in the fashion industry is unfathomable until you start peeling away the layers. The $2.4 trillion fashion industry — with its short trend cycles and massive production rates — was […]

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Spotify to lay off 6% of its employees as chief content officer departs the music streaming giant

Nickie Louise Posted On January 23, 2023

Spotify is the latest tech company to lay off its staff as tech companies battle with the global economic slowdown. Spotify announced on Monday that it plans to lay off 6% of its employees, or about 600 jobs, adding to […]

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Demoleap is Providing Sales Teams with AI Guided Selling in Real Time

Nickie Louise Posted On January 23, 2023

Closing sales has never been easy, even for the most experienced of sellers. In the B2B SaaS space, there is so much riding on the first impression a seller makes with a prospect. How a seller handles the sales funnel […]

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Top tech startup news for Friday, January 20, 2023: Chord, CNET, Fanatics, FTX, Genesis, Google, and WTF

Nickie Louise Posted On January 20, 2023

Good evening and happy Friday! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Friday, January 20, 2023. Feds seize about $700 million of FTX assets in Sam Bankman-Fried criminal case Federal prosecutors seized around $700 million in […]

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Chord, a tech startup led by former Glossier execs, raises $15M to expand its headless eCommerce platform

Nickie Louise Posted On January 20, 2023

Delivering great content to online users is no longer about just implementing responsive design, companies also want their content to be easily distributed over different communication channels: websites, web and mobile applications, and connected objects. Most websites today still use […]

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