January 22, 2026
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Nickie Louise

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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London-based cybersecurity startup OutThink raises $10 million to tackle human errors behind data breaches
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Every year, businesses and organizations around the world spend enormous amounts of money on cybersecurity and data protection, but still lose billions of dollars to data breaches. A recent IBM study conducted by the Ponemon Institute found that data breaches cost […]


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Facebook’s Meta accepts UK order to sell GIF search engine Giphy just 2 years after acquiring the startup for $315 million
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Facebook parent company Meta finally admits defeat after many months of antitrust battle that led Britain’s competition regulator to block the $400 Giphy deal. The UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) issued its final verdict on Tuesday ordering Meta to sell its animated […]


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Co-CEO of South Korea’s largest chat app Kakao resigns after mass outage locked 53 million users out
Nickie Louise Posted On October 19, 2022


Namkoong Whon has stepped down from his position as a Co-CEO of South Korea’s largest mobile chat app Kakao. His resignation comes after a fire at a data center led to a mass outage over the weekend that left 53 million of its messenger users […]


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Terra founder Do Kwon says charges against him are ‘politically motivated,’ refuses to reveal his location
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


Do Kwon, the founder of Terra and creator of the failed Terra blockchain project, has been hiding from the public eye since May after a dramatic $60 billion LUNA cryptocurrency crypto collapse. In early October, South Korean prosecutors froze $39.6 million in crypto […]


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Blockchain startup ChainSafe bags $18.75M in Series A funding to accelerate Web3 adoption
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


The Web3 revolution is slowly taking over the internet. The past few years have seen more companies embracing the potential of a decentralized web following the debut of blockchain technology and cryptocurrencies. Web3 is a new iteration of the Internet that […]


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Elon Musk tweets: “In retrospect, it was inevitable”
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


Just yesterday, billionaire rapper and fashion designer Kanye West agreed to buy the free-speech social media platform, Parler as part of the effort “to make sure we have the right to freely express ourselves.” It didn’t take long before Tesla […]


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Walken, a move-to-earn mobile app, is launching its first hyper-casual game Walken Runner in early October
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


Walken is a rising star in the move-to-earn industry and a gaming startup that connects real-life sports activities with online gaming and earning crypto. We covered Walken last month when the company unveiled a new roadmap and shared in-game statistics. Today, the […]


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Microsoft confirms cutting about 1,000 of its workforce as layoffs and hiring freezes hit the tech sector
Nickie Louise Posted On October 18, 2022


After a great year for tech, the industry now faces a new crisis as layoffs and hiring freezes hit the sector. As of the middle of October, more than 44,000 US tech workers have already lost their jobs, with more almost certainly […]


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Vodafone, Altice launch FibreCo, a €7 billion broadband startup joint venture to challenge Deutsche Telekom
Nickie Louise Posted On October 17, 2022


Vodafone has joined forces with the French telco giant Altice to launch FibreCo, a joint venture that will deploy a broadband network to seven million homes in Germany. As part of the agreement, the new startup company FibreCo aims to […]


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TikTok rival Triller launches metaverse platform Metaverz
Nickie Louise Posted On October 17, 2022


TikTok rival Triller becomes the latest company to join the metaverse bandwagon with the launch Monday of Metaverz, a new metaverse that provides virtual spaces where users can gather to watch live music and sporting events. In an exclusive report […]


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Kanye West to buy free-speech social media platform Parler
Nickie Louise Posted On October 17, 2022


Billionaire rapper and fashion designer Kanye West has agreed to buy the Twitter alternative and the free-speech social media platform, Parler. The total amount of the deal was not disclosed. On Monday, Parlement Technologies, the company behind Parler, said it […]


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Sony music producer and songwriter MAFFIO releases the video for the single “Blessings” in partnership with metaverse platform CEEK
Nickie Louise Posted On October 15, 2022


The multi-award-winning Sony music producer and songwriter MAFFIO today released the video for his single “Blessings,” which is part of his most recent album “Eso Es Mental.” The video was released in collaboration with the metaverse platform, CEEK. In partnership with CEEK, […]


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Australia’s Woolworths suffered a major data breach after hackers stole personal data of 2.2 million users from its MyDeal website
Nickie Louise Posted On October 14, 2022


Australia’s Woolworths Group announced Friday that the data of 2.2 million customers of a website it owns has been exposed. The company said its majority-owned online retailer owned, MyDeal, “identified that a compromised user credential was used to gain unauthorized access to […]


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El Salvador lost $60 million on its $425M bitcoin experiment as the country faces high deficit and glooming economic growth
Nickie Louise Posted On October 14, 2022


In June 2021, the Latin American nation of El Salvador made history to become the first country in the world to adopt bitcoin as a legal tender after Congress approved President Nayib Bukele’s proposal to embrace the world’s most popular […]


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Bitcoin startup NYDIG lays off 33% of its workforce less than a year after raising $1 billion in funding
Nickie Louise Posted On October 14, 2022


NYDIG, a bitcoin company that offers Bitcoin services to institutions and banks like JP Morgan, has laid off some of its employees. NYDIG laid off about a third of its total workforce last month to cut costs, The Wall Street Journal reported […]


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TikTok’s parent company ByteDance to expand into music-streaming service to take on Spotify, report
Nickie Louise Posted On October 13, 2022


China’s technology juggernaut ByteDance appears to be making its foray into the music-streaming business to take on podcast giant Spotify. According to a report from the Wall Street Journal, TikTok’s parent company ByteDance is currently in talks with music labels to expand its […]


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Volkswagen to acquire 60% stake in China’s AI chips maker startup Horizon Robotics for $2 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On October 13, 2022


Cariad, a software unit of German automaker Volkswagen, announced today it is acquiring a 60% stake in China’s  AI chips maker Horizon Robotics for $2 billion as the company aims to tackle two big challenges: software and the Chinese market. Horizon Robotics, a […]


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Elon Musk sells $1 million worth of new perfume, ‘Burnt Hair.’ Now urging fans to buy more perfume so he can buy Twitter
Nickie Louise Posted On October 12, 2022


In what everyone thought was a joke, Tesla CEO Elon Musk announced yesterday that his tunnel-digging venture, The Boring Company, is now selling a cologne called Burnt Hair. Musk first teased the product yesterday and became available for purchase late Tuesday. “The […]


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Microsoft launches Designer, its answer to $40 billion design startup Canva
Nickie Louise Posted On October 12, 2022


Microsoft today announced the launch of Designer, a simple graphic design app that will be available for free and as part of Office productivity software subscriptions, the tech giant said Wednesday. The Designer app is part of Microsoft’s attempt to capture […]


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Corporate travel startup TripActions raises $304 million in equity funding, pushing its valuation to $9.2 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On October 12, 2022


While technology has disrupted and transformed the travel and tourism industry, corporate travel is still plagued with antiquated products and services. Unlike personal travel, corporate travel has many limitations. And one startup is on a mission to revolutionize the sector by […]


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