June 8, 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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Brookfield Asset bets $2 billion on music copyrights in a deal with independent publisher Primary Wave Music
Nickie Louise Posted On October 7, 2022


Do you know how much musicians actually make from their music? According to some data, an average working musician in the United States earns $35,300 in annual gross revenue from their music career. Data from “Spotify’s Year in Music” also shows how […]


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Elon Musk must complete Twitter $44 billion takeover deal by October 28 to avoid trial, judge rules
Nickie Louise Posted On October 7, 2022


A Delaware Chancery Court judge ruled Thursday that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has until October 28 to complete his acquisition of Twitter if he wants to avoid a trial, granting Musk a slight reprieve. On Tuesday, Musk shocked the world after he […]


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South Korea freezes $39.6 million in crypto belonging to Terra founder Do Kwon, but Kwon says it isn’t his
Nickie Louise Posted On October 6, 2022


South Korean prosecutors have reportedly frozen $39.6 million in crypto assets belonging to the founder of Terraform and the creator of the failed Terra blockchain project Do Kwon. The announcement comes less than a month after the country’s authorities issued […]


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Spotify acquires Irish tech startup Kinzen to combat online hate speech and protect against harmful content
Nickie Louise Posted On October 6, 2022


Audio-streaming giant Spotify has acquired Kinzen, an Irish media tech startup founded by former RTÉ journalist Mark Little and Áine Kerr, a one-time political reporter with the Irish Independent. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal is the […]


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Peloton to cut 12% of its global workforce in the fourth round of layoffs to ‘save’ the company from bankruptcy
Nickie Louise Posted On October 6, 2022


In February, we wrote about Peloton after the fitness technology company fired over 2,800 employees as the founder resigned as CEO. The writing has been on the wall for the once-valued $50 billion tech giant. But the company continues to kick the can down […]


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Cybersecurity tech startup Arctic Wolf raises $401 million in debt as it eyes IPO
Nickie Louise Posted On October 6, 2022


With the ongoing global economic downturn, tech startups continue to struggle to secure new funding as the glut of cheap money dries due to high-interest rates causing investors to pull back from risky bets. In the latest sign that pure equity financing is […]


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Cake DeFi launches Ethereum (ETH) Staking service with 5% yield
Nickie Louise Posted On October 6, 2022


As you may recall, last month, Cake DeFi announced the launch of a $50M global R&D hub in Singapore to develop best-in-class blockchain and digital asset technologies. That’s just one of the many ongoing efforts the Singapore-based fintech platform is working on. Now, […]


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NetSPI secures $410M in funding from KKR for its enterprise penetration testing and attack surface management platform
Nickie Louise Posted On October 5, 2022


With an ever-increasing attack surface, it’s a constant struggle for companies of all sizes to continue to protect their critical assets from bad actors and cyber hackers. That’s why Minneapolis-based cybersecurity startup NetSPI is on a mission to protect enterprises with […]


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Amazon shuts down its Glow video-calling device for kids just 6 months after rollout
Nickie Louise Posted On October 5, 2022


During its annual hardware event in September of last year, Amazon unveiled a curious-looking device called Amazon Glow, which combined video calling with games. Glow enables kids to play and video chat simultaneously. It also provides interactive entertainment and a video-calling […]


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Quantum communications startup Qunnect lands $8M led by Airbus Ventures to usher in the era of quantum internet
Nickie Louise Posted On October 5, 2022


The groundwork for today’s internet was laid in 1973 by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). At the time, the goal was to develop communication protocols that would allow networked computers to communicate transparently across multiple, linked packet networks. […]


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Elon Musk finally agrees to close the acquisition of Twitter for $44 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2022


Tesla CEO Elon Musk has reversed course and is again proposing to buy Twitter for $54.20 a share after his legal team sensed the judge would not rule in their favor and potentially avoid avoiding a courtroom fight, Bloomberg reported, citing sources […]


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Google shuts down its online translation service in China
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2022


Last Friday, Alphabet’s Google shut down its streaming service Stadia 3 years after its launch for failure to gain traction from gamers. Although the tech giant has maintained its global dominance in the search engine space, Google continues to struggle […]


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1inch teams up with Unstoppable Domains to enable users to use human-readable domain names when buying or sending crypto assets
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2022


We covered 1inch back in August after the DeFi tech startup joined forces with KuCoin Wallet to launch its native swap feature. 1inch is a distributed network for decentralized protocols on Ethereum, BNB Chain, Polygon, Avalanche, Optimistic Ethereum, Arbitrum, Fantom, and Gnosis […]


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Prepare Your Startup For 2023 With These 5 Tips
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2022


While the past few years have been something of a rough ride for business owners, it doesn’t look as though 2023 is going to offer much of a reprieve. In fact, a growing number of experts are anticipating a global […]


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Mastercard launches Crypto Secure, a new AI tool to help merchants combat crypto fraud
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2022


Crypto fraud is on the rise and there is no sign of slowing down. Crypto scams were 60 times more reported in 2021 than in 2018. According to blockchain analytics firm Chainalysis, illicit addresses received over $14 billion in cryptocurrency […]


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South Korea’s Naver buys online fashion marketplace Poshmark for $1.2 billion
Nickie Louise Posted On October 4, 2022


South Korean internet giant Naver Corp has agreed to acquire the popular online fashion marketplace Poshmark in a deal valued at $1.2 billion. Poshmark is a popular secondhand retailer and the largest fashion consumer-to-consumer platform in North America. Popular among Millennial and […]


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Prosus cancels $4.7 billion deal to acquire Indian payments startup BillDesk
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2022


In August, we covered Prosus after the Amsterdam-based Prosus made its biggest-ever bet in the Indian tech space with a $4.7 billion acquisition of payments fintech startup BillDesk, making it one of the biggest players in the country’s fast-growing fintech […]


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Unbanking the unbanked: Celsius founder Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10 million before the company filed for bankruptcy
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2022


In the weeks leading up to Celsius Network’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing, Celsius founder and former CEO Alex Mashinsky withdrew $10 million, according to a report from The Financial Times (FT), citing sources familiar with the matter. The revelation comes just […]


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LayerX emerges from stealth with $7.5M Seed round to launch user-first security platform for all browsers
Nickie Louise Posted On October 3, 2022


Cyberattacks are on the rise across all industries. And while hacking methods have evolved over the years, cybersecurity experts found that hackers continue to exploit browser vulnerabilities and leverage some of their most tried-and-true tactics— phishing and ransomware, among others. Browser exploits […]


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Jack told Elon Musk in private texts: Twitter “should have never been a company. That was the original sin”
Nickie Louise Posted On September 30, 2022


On November 29, 2021, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey stepped down from his role as chief executive officer of Twitter after 16 years with the company. Jack also confirmed in a tweet that he resigned from the company. “Not sure anyone has heard […]


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