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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is raising $750 million at a $137 billion valuation, from $127B valuation 6 months ago

Nickie Louise Posted On January 3, 2023

Elon Musk’s space company SpaceX is raising $750 million in a new round of funding that values the company at $137 billion, CNBC reported late Monday. The announcement comes just three days after the SpaceX Falcon team achieved a major milestone […]

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Top tech startup news for today, Monday, January 2, 2023: Amazon, Baidu, Gemini, Tesla, Wickr Me, Zomato

Nickie Louise Posted On January 2, 2023

Happy New Year! It’s been a while since we last covered the top startup news of the day. We listened closely to you and overwhelmingly, a majority of you want us to resume the series. What better time to resume […]

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Indian food delivery startup Zomato’s co-founder Gunjan Patidar resigns, the second co-founder to quit in less than 2 months

Nickie Louise Posted On January 2, 2023

The co-founder and Chief Technology Officer of Indian food delivery startup Zomato Gunjan Patidar has resigned, the latest in a series of top-level executive exits to leave the 12-year-old startup. Patidar’s exit comes just two months after another co-founder, Mohit Gupta, resigned from […]

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Top Startups of 2022

Nickie Louise Posted On December 30, 2022

2022 is finally drawing to a close. This year is probably one of the worse years we’ve seen in decades. In the last 12 months, we saw the worst inflation in 40 years, economic downturn, global uncertainties, recession, and war. […]

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Wolters Kluwer acquires London-based tech startup Della AI to shore up its Legal & Regulatory software unit

Nickie Louise Posted On December 30, 2022

With just one day left in 2022, Madrid-based Wolters Kluwer is ending the year with a bang. Today, Wolters Kluwer Legal & Regulatory, the global provider of information services, legal solutions, and consulting for companies, announced it has acquired Della AI, bringing the four-year-old startup […]

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FTX and its founder Bankman-Fried diverted $200 million of customer money to fund investments in 2 tech startup companies

Nickie Louise Posted On December 29, 2022

The collapsed crypto exchange FTX and its former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried diverted $200 million of customer funds to make two venture capital investments, according to complaints filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The announcement comes just a few […]

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Kraken crypto exchange to shut down its Japan operations amid a weak global crypto market

Nickie Louise Posted On December 28, 2022

Crypto exchange Kraken announced today it will shut down its operations in Japan in January next year as crypto winter takes a toll on the entire crypto industry. The announcement comes just a month after the Kraken laid off 1,100 employees, […]

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Hacker ‘Ryushi’ demands Twitter pay $200,000 ransom to avoid releasing personal data of over 400 million Twitter users

Nickie Louise Posted On December 28, 2022

A hacker by the name ‘Ryushi’ claimed to have the data of 400 million Twitter users and is offering it for sale unless Elon Musk pays a ransom. While security firms are still working to verify the authenticity of the data, Ryushi is […]

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Remembering failed startups of 2022

Nickie Louise Posted On December 26, 2022

We’ve been covering failed startups for five years but this year is unlike any other year in our ten-year history. The past 12 months were unprecedented for tech companies, especially for tech startups. To put things in perspective, the tech industry lost […]

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Indian fintech startup Money View raises $75 million at $900 million valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On December 26, 2022

Money View, a fintech startup that simplifies access to credit for billions of people in India, has raised $75 million in a Series E funding round to grow its credit business, grow its team, and expand its product portfolio with new […]

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Web3 infrastructure startup AAG taps Coinbase Pay as a fiat on-ramping solution for the MetaOne Wallet

Nickie Louise Posted On December 23, 2022

The popularity of bitcoin has led to a rise in the use of fiat “on-ramp,” a service that allows for the exchange of fiat currencies like the US dollar (USD) and Euros for cryptocurrencies. For example, you could exchange USD […]

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LastPass Hacked: LastPass says hackers stole its customers’ encrypted password vaults; “worst breach”

Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022

“Stop using LastPass as your password manager. Move to any other one, and please change any passwords you have on there now,” that was a dire warning from the Director of Engineering at SpotAi. LastPass, the startup that’s supposed to users’ passwords safe, […]

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Binance introduces new features for web3-centric social platform Binance Feed

Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022

Binance, the world’s largest crypto exchange, has endured wild weeks in wake of the collapse of FTX. While the company was doing its best to fend off the onslaught of media reports about its digital asset holdings, Binance was still […]

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Okta source code stolen as a result of GitHub repositories hack. Was remediation possible?

Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022

Back in March, we wrote about single-sign-on cybersecurity firm Okta after the company confirmed that hundreds of its customers were hit by a data breach from the Lapsus$ hacking group. Okta, one of the leading providers of authentication services and Identity […]

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TIDEFI partners with All Time High (ATH) Vodka for real-world tokenization agreement

Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022

While the crypto industry may be through a “historic moment” of decline and “crypto winter,” one sector that continues to experience exponential growth in mainstream adoption is decentralized finance or DeFi. Between 2020 and 2022, the DeFi space grew by a […]

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FTX co-founder Gary Wang and Alameda Research CEO Caroline Ellison pleaded guilty to fraud and cut a deal with federal prosecutors for $250,000 bail

Nickie Louise Posted On December 22, 2022

While the disgraced FTX founder and former CEO Sam Bankman-Fried may likely be spending his life in prison, the question everyone was asking is where is Caroline Ellison? As we reported early this month, the former CEO of FTX’s sister company […]

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SaaS startup Gynger launches from stealth with $21.7M in funding to change how businesses buy software

Nickie Louise Posted On December 21, 2022

Every business today is dependent on software and infrastructure to get their business off the ground and cannot launch, build or scale without the right tech stack. With global software spend expected to grow to $879 billion in 2023, these […]

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Bitcoin miner Core Scientific files for bankruptcy as crypto winter takes toll on crypto mining companies

Nickie Louise Posted On December 21, 2022

Core Scientific, one of the largest publicly traded bitcoin mining companies in the U.S., is the latest casualty of the ongoing crypto winter. The company is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection today in Texas early, according to a report from CNBC, […]

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The Guardian newspaper hit by a suspected ransomware attack

Nickie Louise Posted On December 21, 2022

Hackers strike again. This time, their latest victim is The Guardian, a British daily newspaper founded about two centuries ago. Today, the Guardian confirmed its systems have been hit by a “serious IT incident,” which it believes is likely a ransomware […]

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Israeli EV startup unveils AIR ONE, a personal ‘flying car’ to fly commuters on short trips

Nickie Louise Posted On December 21, 2022

The concept of the flying car is nothing new. For decades, Hollywood and science fiction writers have been toying with the idea of adding wings to wheeled motor vehicles decades. As appealing as it may sound, attempts to develop economically-viable flying […]

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