Nickie Louise

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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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Pentagon lends $700M to Vulcan and ReElement to boost domestic rare earth magnet production amid China tensions

Nickie Louise Posted On November 21, 2025

The Pentagon is stepping directly into the supply chain battle, and this time the focus is smaller than fighter jets or satellites but just as decisive. Rare earth magnets — the silent muscle behind everything from missile systems to AI […]

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Bitcoin crashes to $80,760 as BlackRock clients dump holdings and $1.4 trillion wipes from crypto markets

Nickie Louise Posted On November 21, 2025

Bitcoin hit another wall Friday morning. The price of the world’s most popular cryptocurrency plunged as low as $80,760, wiping out Thursday’s short-lived rebound and extending a brutal month-long slide that has erased more than $1.4 trillion from the broader […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – November 20, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On November 20, 2025

It’s Thursday, November 20, 2025, and we’re back with the top startup and tech funding news stories across AI music generation, humanoid robotics, legal automation, enterprise finance systems, creator-economy infrastructure, agritech digitization, and next-generation language models. Momentum stretched across late-stage […]

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Verizon lays off 13,000 employees, the largest job cuts in company history as new CEO launches major restructuring

Nickie Louise Posted On November 20, 2025

Verizon is embarking on a sweeping overhaul under new CEO Dan Schulman, and the shift is affecting the company harder than many expected. The carrier confirmed it will cut more than 13,000 jobs—its largest single layoff on record—as it tries […]

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Bitcoin crashes to $86,000 as over $1 trillion wiped out from crypto markets

Nickie Louise Posted On November 20, 2025

The crypto market’s downturn that started last week intensified on Wednesday as Bitcoin sank to its lowest level in seven months, extending a wipeout now exceeding $1 trillion across digital assets. The latest slide has rattled every layer of the […]

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Archetype AI raises $35M to bring physical AI agents to the real world, claims breakthrough over GPT-5 and Gemini

Nickie Louise Posted On November 20, 2025

AI startup Archetype AI is trying to solve one of the hardest problems in modern automation: giving machines the ability to read the physical world with the same fluidity that software agents read a webpage. And the company now has […]

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Luma AI lands $900M led by Saudi Arabia’s HUMAIN to challenge OpenAI and Google with frontier multimodal models

Nickie Louise Posted On November 20, 2025

Luma AI just pulled in one of the year’s biggest AI funding rounds, landing $900 million and a valuation north of $4 billion. The scale of the raise signals how aggressively capital is shifting into multimodal systems and giant compute […]

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Top 10 Startup and Tech Funding News – November 19, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On November 19, 2025

It’s Wednesday, November 19, 2025, and we’re back with the top startup and tech funding news stories across AI infrastructure, consumer AI platforms, healthcare automation, fintech underwriting, cybersecurity, and life-science tools. The momentum today cut across both late-stage scale-ups and […]

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Bitcoin crashes from $126,000 to $89,500 as short-term holders dump BTC — new data reveals the real trigger behind the sell-off

Nickie Louise Posted On November 19, 2025

Bitcoin’s slide over the past week has rattled the market in a way traders haven’t felt since last year’s deep pullbacks. The drop from $126,000 to $89,512.31 didn’t just wipe out billions in paper value — it forced a harder […]

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Forget Franchising Restaurants – The New Small Business Is Building Your Town’s 5G Network

Nickie Louise Posted On November 19, 2025

Web3 users are familiar with the concept of digital land, sometimes mapped to real-world cities, which allows them to purchase plots, build properties, engage in commerce, and hang out with their neighbors. It’s fun, creative, and can even be rewarding. […]

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Adobe acquires Semrush for $1.9B in major push into AI-powered marketing tools

Nickie Louise Posted On November 19, 2025

Adobe is making one of its boldest moves of the year. The company said Wednesday it has agreed to acquire Semrush in a $1.9 billion cash deal, signaling a clear push to strengthen its marketing software and sharpen its position […]

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Bitrue exchange brings accessible AI trading to its 40 million global user base

Nickie Louise Posted On November 19, 2025

The cryptocurrency exchange platform Bitrue is making “AI trading” more accessible to users by integrating six of the world’s most powerful large language models with its copy trading service. According to a press release shared with TechStartups, starting tomorrow, Bitrue’s […]

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Top Tech News Today, November 19, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On November 19, 2025

Top Tech News Stories Today — Your Quick Briefing on the Latest Technology News, Global Innovation, and AI-Driven Shifts Reshaping the Future It’s Wednesday, November 19, 2025, and we’re back with your in-depth look at the most important developments shaping […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – November 18, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On November 18, 2025

It’s Tuesday, November 18, 2025, and we’re back with the top startup and tech funding news stories across AI, aerospace, enterprise software, biotech, education, fintech, and emerging consumer platforms. The momentum was broad and deep, spanning late-stage growth rounds, strategic […]

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AI chip startup Tenstorrent in talks to raise $800M in funding at a $3.2B valuation led by Fidelity

Nickie Louise Posted On November 18, 2025

Toronto-based AI startup Tenstorrent is drawing investor attention once again as the race for AI compute intensifies. The company is reportedly in advanced talks to raise $800 million in new funding at a valuation close to $3 billion, with Fidelity […]

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Lovable surges to $200M ARR in 12 months as AI vibe-coding startup eyes a $6B valuation

Nickie Louise Posted On November 18, 2025

Lovable’s rise hasn’t followed the usual startup arc — it’s torn straight through it. The Stockholm-based AI coding startup confirmed on November 18 that it has hit $200 million in annual recurring revenue, a figure backed by Bloomberg and Reuters. […]

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Microsoft and Nvidia to invest up to $15B in Anthropic as the Claude maker commits $30B to Azure

Nickie Louise Posted On November 18, 2025

Anthropic just pulled two of the biggest forces in AI even closer into its orbit. Microsoft and Nvidia are preparing fresh investments in the Claude developer under a new tie-up anchored by Anthropic’s massive $30 billion commitment to use Microsoft’s […]

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Bitcoin falls to $89,369 as crypto market loses $1 trillion in six weeks amid tech bubble fears

Nickie Louise Posted On November 18, 2025

The crypto market hasn’t seen a stretch like this in months. Bitcoin slipping into the $89,000s has pulled sentiment into a darker corner of 2025, shaking both retail traders and institutional desks. As of 7:05 AM EST, Bitcoin fell to […]

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Cloudflare down: Cloudflare outage takes down parts of the internet, causing outages at X, OpenAI

Nickie Louise Posted On November 18, 2025

Cloudflare outage knocks X, ChatGPT, and major platforms offline — and exposes how fragile the internet’s backbone has become. For a few tense hours, large sections of the internet slipped into chaos. Pages stalled, apps froze, and users across continents […]

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Top Startup and Tech Funding News – November 17, 2025

Nickie Louise Posted On November 17, 2025

It’s Monday, November 17, 2025, and we’re back with the top startup and tech funding news stories across AI infrastructure, fintech, biotech, space technology, semiconductors, climate-tech, and emerging enterprise platforms. The momentum was broad and deep, spanning late-stage expansion rounds, […]

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