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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Fanatics, a sports platform founded by Michael Rubin, is in talks to buy the BetParx sportsbook, as the sports merchandising company looks to take a bigger position in sports betting, CNBC reported, citing sources close to the ongoing discussion. Fanatics, which recently divests its […]
Google’s parent Alphabet becomes the latest in a series of tech companies to announce a layoff. Today, Alphabet announced it is cutting about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, the company said in a memo to employees on Friday. The […]
For months, crypto lender Genesis has been seeking to raise $1 billion in an emergency loan to avoid bankruptcy. Now, the high-profile crypto lending company has fallen on a bankruptcy sword. Genesis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Thursday […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, January 19, 2023. Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as CEO Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from the CEO post at the company he founded […]
When it comes to PR for startups, we’re dealing with a good ol’ chicken or egg scenario… A new startup needs positive media coverage to create buzz. Buzz is needed to create a solid customer base and attract investors. Investors […]
With thousands of news sites out there, it’s almost impossible to get noticed online, especially for marginalized Black voices in entertainment. That’s why one media startup is on a mission to create spaces for Black voices and share the latest hottest news topics […]
While chatters about the metaverse have cooled off in recent months due to the global recession and ongoing economic slowdown, investors are seizing the opportunities to invest in promising startups that they’re hoping would dominate the space once the recession […]
While analysts are expecting the autonomous truck revolution to come sometime in the early 2030s, tech startups including San Diego-based TuSimple and China-based MoonX.AI have already completed more than 550 miles of fully driverless truck driving on public roads without a human […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Amazon is set to begin a fresh round of layoffs affecting more than 18,000 people Retail giant Amazon on Wednesday will begin a new […]
Cumul.io, a Belgium-based- data that lets users build interactive dashboards using its embedded analytics tools, has raised €10M in a Series A round of funding to provide a low-code platform for data analysis with integration into other SaaS platforms or applications. The round […]
“We’re living through times of significant change, and as I meet with customers and partners, a few things are clear.” Yesterday, we wrote about Microsoft after reports the tech giant was planning to cut thousands of additional jobs as layoffs […]
As we all know, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading cause of climate change. Today, the world’s carbon-neutrality goals are front and center right for institutions and governments—and agriculture has the opportunity to play a leading role. CO2 is also the […]
One of the challenges faced by eCommerce entrepreneurs is shopping cart abandonment. Research from Baymard Institute shows that about 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned. That means, for every 10 customers who add an item to their shopping cart, seven of […]
Last week, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced it recovered over $5 billion in cash and crypto assets. The lawyer representing the company disclosed the $5 billion includes cash and digital assets. What wasn’t disclosed at the time was there are still […]
While gaming has almost reached its saturation point here in the US and Asia, the mass adoption of mobile games is just getting started in Africa. With millions of Africans now having access to smartphones, the game penetration level in Africa […]
At a time when most homeowners didn’t think of automating their home thermostats to save on high energy costs, Matt Rogers left his high-paying job at Apple to start smart home thermostat startup Nest Labs in 2010 to enable users to control their […]