Nickie Louise

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Nickie is a writer and editor for TechStartups.com. Nickie loves writing about early-stage startups, new technologies, cryptocurrencies, gaming, and gadgets. When not writing about technology, Nickie enjoys crafts, spending time with family, hiking, and exploring God's majestic creation.

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Crypto.com enables first-ever onsite crypto payments at Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix

Nickie Louise Posted On May 1, 2025

For the first time, fans at the Formula 1 Miami Grand Prix will be able to pay with crypto. Crypto.com announced Thursday that it’s enabling cryptocurrency payments at the event, giving attendees the option to use digital assets for food […]

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Stately Bio, a biotech startup founded by an ex-Google ML engineer, raises $12M for AI-powered cell imaging platform

Nickie Louise Posted On May 1, 2025

For years, scientists trying to understand cells have been stuck with a frustrating trade-off: if you want to know what a cell is doing, you usually have to kill it. That’s been a major roadblock for regenerative medicine and cell […]

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Apple loses appeal in 4G patent lawsuit over iPhones and iPads, must pay Optis $502 million

Nickie Louise Posted On May 1, 2025

Apple has been ordered to pay $502 million to Texas-based Optis Cellular Technology after losing a long-running patent dispute in London’s Court of Appeal. The case centers on the use of 4G patents in Apple devices, including iPhones and iPads. […]

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Tesla denies report that the EV maker is looking for a new CEO to replace Elon Musk

Nickie Louise Posted On May 1, 2025

Tesla has denied a Wall Street Journal report that claimed the company’s board was actively looking to replace Elon Musk as CEO. Tesla chair Robyn Denholm took to the social platform X to shut down the story, saying the report […]

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Tesla board begins CEO search to succeed Elon Musk, WSJ

Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2025

Tesla’s board is reportedly taking early steps to find a successor to CEO Elon Musk, according to a scoop from The Wall Street Journal. The report suggests the board is responding to a mix of shareholder anxiety, political distractions, and […]

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Teladoc acquires mental health startup UpLift for $30M to strengthen BetterHelp amid declining revenue

Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2025

Teladoc Health is doubling down on mental health. The virtual care company announced Wednesday it has acquired UpLift, a digital therapy and psychiatry platform, for $30 million in cash. The move comes just two months after Teladoc revealed plans to […]

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Nvidia CEO: “China is not behind the U.S. in AI”

Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2025

For over two years, Western media has pushed the narrative that China is trailing the U.S. in AI—and that the U.S. holds the lead in AI supremacy, thanks to OpenAI, ChatGPT, and a wave of homegrown breakthroughs. But Nvidia CEO […]

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Cutting Dev Time in Half: The Power of AI-Driven Frontend Automation

Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2025

Imagine a world where your frontend prototypes are ready in days, not weeks. Where tedious code revisions vanish into the background, and developers channel their energy into building game-changing experiences. This isn’t a vision for 2030 — it’s happening now, […]

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Cast AI raises $108M led by SoftBank and G2 to automate cloud efficiency amid surging AI costs, hits $850M valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2025

Cloud costs are eating into AI budgets, and businesses are fed up. Cast AI wants to fix that—with automation that does the hard work humans no longer have time for. Today, the Miami-based startup announced it has closed a $108 […]

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AI now writes 30% of Microsoft’s code, CEO Satya Nadella says

Nickie Louise Posted On April 30, 2025

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella on Tuesday said that as much as 30% of the company’s code is now written by artificial intelligence. Speaking onstage at Meta’s inaugural LlamaCon event, Nadella told a live audience that a growing portion of Microsoft’s […]

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Meta’s Llama AI models hit 1.2 billion downloads as open-source bet starts paying off

Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2025

Meta announced Tuesday that its Llama AI model family has been downloaded 1.2 billion times—a staggering number that highlights how quickly developers are adopting the company’s open-source models. The update was shared during the first-ever LlamaCon developer conference. The news […]

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Mastercard wants AI bots to handle your online shopping. Here’s what that could mean

Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2025

Mastercard is teaming up with Microsoft and a few big names in AI to change how online shopping works. The company just announced its new initiative, called Agent Pay, which lets AI agents make purchases and handle payments on your […]

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Meta launches standalone AI app in bold challenge to ChatGPT

Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2025

Meta is stepping up its AI ambitions with the launch of a standalone Meta AI app, putting it in direct competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. The timing is hard to ignore. The announcement comes less than a month after Meta’s longtime […]

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Zest Equity raises $4.3M pre-Series A to digitize private market deals across emerging markets

Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2025

Most private market deals under $100 million get ignored by big investment banks. For founders and investors trying to close these transactions, it often means dealing with messy spreadsheets, scattered emails, and slow-moving legal paperwork. That’s where Zest Equity comes […]

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Alibaba launches Qwen3, China’s boldest open-source AI response to U.S. models yet

Nickie Louise Posted On April 29, 2025

Just a month after rolling out its Qwen2.5-Omni-7B model, the Chinese tech giant is back with Qwen3—a new family of large language models that’s already generating buzz in China’s thriving open-source scene. In a blog post on Tuesday, Alibaba described […]

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Nexo re-enters the U.S. market with high-profile endorsements

Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2025

Nexo, the global digital assets wealth platform, has officially announced its return to the United States. The news was unveiled at an exclusive business event featuring keynote addresses from Donald Trump Jr., Executive Vice President of The Trump Organization; Gila […]

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Palo Alto Networks to acquire AI security startup Protect AI to strengthen AI defense

Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2025

Palo Alto Networks is making another big move. The cybersecurity giant announced today that it plans to acquire Protect AI, a fast-rising name in AI and machine learning security. The news comes a year after Palo Alto Networks acquired IBM’s […]

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Flare launches USD₮0 to boost cross-chain stablecoin liquidity for XRP DeFi

Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2025

Flare is stepping up its interoperability game with the launch of USD₮0, the omnichain deployment of USDT, the world’s most widely adopted stablecoin. Now that USD₮0 is live, Flare is connecting the world’s largest stablecoin directly to XRP, the second-biggest […]

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London AI startup Nscale seeks $2.7B in funding to build global data centers in partnership with ByteDance

Nickie Louise Posted On April 28, 2025

London-based AI startup Nscale is seeking $2.7 billion to build global data centers in partnership with ByteDance, aiming to power the next wave of AI development. Nscale, which launched from stealth in May 2024, is already setting its sights high. […]

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