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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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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Friday, April 6
Nickie Louise Posted On April 6, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Friday, April 6. Unicorn startup Pinduoduo is a $1.5 billion startup challenging E-Commerce giant Alibaba in China’s towns and villages. While Alibaba and Tencent are dominating China’s […]


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Microsoft opens up free on-demand Artificial Intelligence (AI) training courses to the public
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018


The demand for artificial intelligence skills is rising. Employers are facing challenges finding qualified candidates with AI and data science skills. The situation is even compounded with the current labor climate. The unemployment rate is at one of the lowest […]


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Legit raises $2.6M for AI Intellectual Property platform
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018


Creating intellectual property at scale is the next source of competitive advantage Cambridge, MA – April 4, 2018: Legit, the market-leading AI company in Intellectual Property, today announced the close of a $2.6M Seed round led by Eniac Ventures, with […]


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Twitter suspended 1.2 million accounts for terrorism-promotion violations
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018


In its latest transparency report, Twitter Inc. announced Thursday that it has suspended 1.21 million accounts from its social media platform between August 2015 and the end of 2017 for “violations related to the promotion of terrorism.” Between July 1, […]


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First-Ever Luxury Space Hotel Launched
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018


Orion Span is taking luxury to the next level. Orion Span is a space technology startup company based in Houston, Texas and Silicon Valley, California. The company’s mission is to build and sustain human communities in space. During the Space 2.0 Summit […]


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Cryptocurrency startup CoinList raises $9.2 million in funding to expand services for investors and vetted blockchain companies
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018


Initial Coin Offering (ICO) is leveling the playing field and making it easier for startups to raise funding for their projects in the form of crowdsale. The crowdsales give startup founders access to funding from the crowd, and token buyers, in […]


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Neurosurgeons successfully used robotic technology derived from International Space Station to perform brain tumor surgery
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018


On February 22, 2018, NASA showcased Synaptive’s Robotics Modus V digital robotic surgical microscope, in a documentary titled: “Benefits for Humanity: From Space to Surgery.” The documentary explores the space robotics origins of Synaptive Medical’s robotic digital microscopes, Modus V  […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Thursday, April 5
Nickie Louise Posted On April 5, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Thursday, April 5. Facebook finally admitted that the data of most of its 2 billion users had probably been scraped by “bad actors.” Facebook data scandals is […]


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Social fundraising platform startup GoFundMe acquires YouCaring to expand its global reach
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


GoFundMe is the world’s largest social fundraising and crowdfunding platform. Launched in 2010, GoFundMe platform allows people to raise money for events ranging from life events such as celebrations and graduations to challenging circumstances like accidents and illnesses. GoFundMe has helped raised […]


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Sustainable company Humanscale makes the world’s first task chair from ocean plastic waste
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


According to the latest data from EcoWatch, plastic constitutes approximately 90 percent of all trash floating on the ocean’s surface, with 46,000 pieces of plastic per square mile. Billions of pounds of plastic can be found in swirling convergences in the oceans […]


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Watch a Russian’s first postal drone crashed into a building on its maiden flight
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


In what was supposed to be Russia’s postal service demonstration of using drone for parcel delivery across the country, the Russian postal drone’s first day on the job was also its last. The drone flew out of control during its […]


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The future of Space: NASA’s is investing in latest technologies, like Shapeshifters and Biobots to help with future space exploration missions
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


NASA is once again leading the way in space technology.The agency announced that it’s investing in technology concepts that include meteoroid impact detection, space telescope swarms, and small orbital debris mapping technologies that may one day be used for future […]


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Colorado leading incubator Innosphere announces new batch of tech startups to join its cohort of 2018
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


Venture capital (VC) activity in the United States reached its highest level in 2017. According to a report from PitchBook-NVCA Venture Monitor, VC firms invested a total of $84.2 billion last year in 2017, up 16 percent from 2016 and […]


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Brazilian bike-sharing service startup Yellow secures $9 million for the first dockless bike-sharing service in Brazil
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


The bike-sharing competition is heating up. As we wrote earlier today, Mobike, a bike sharing company considered to be one of China’s most valuable startups, acquired for $3.4 billion by tech giant Meituan-Dianping. Now a Brazilian startup is about to shake […]


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Facebook finally lets you BULK delete bad apps to prevent them from using your data (How to remove multiple Apps at once)
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


Facebook users, rejoice! You can now remove third-party “vampire apps” sucking live out of your mobile devices. Facebook finally makes it possible to remove multiple apps at once. Facebook has made it possible to delete those logins for years, but it […]


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Cryptocurrency startup BitKan raises $10 million Series B Funding to support global expansion
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


The volatility and uncertainties surrounding Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies do not prevent forward-thinking startups from investing in cryptocurrency. BitKan is one of China’s leading provider of cryptocurrency services. The  startup provides the latest pricing information for bitcoins and the mining difficulty charts […]


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Top tech startup news stories you need to know this Wednesday, April 4
Nickie Louise Posted On April 4, 2018


Good morning! Here are some of the top tech startup news stories today Wednesday, April 4. MIT is severing ties with Nectome, a startup promoting fatal brain uploading. MIT announced it’s severing ties with Nectome, a startup promoting fatal brain uploading. Nectome has […]


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This 16-Year-old Indian girl just sold her crypto app to a California venture investment firm, Redwood City Ventures
Nickie Louise Posted On April 3, 2018


Harshita Arora is not your typical 16-year old. When other teenagers were busy playing games, Arora was busy developing crypto tracker app. Harshita  was formerly at Salesforce and MIT Launch before she created Crypto Price Tracker which has just been by California […]


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NASA awards $247.5 million contract to Lockheed Martin to build a supersonic aircraft without the traditional sonic boom
Nickie Louise Posted On April 3, 2018


We are still not giving up on the idea of supersonic air transportion. The last civilian supersonic flight was Air France Flight 4590 that was on international charter flight from Paris to New York City, on the Aérospatiale-BAC Concorde. The flight […]


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Genvid raises $6 million to fuel international expansion and grow its eSports interactive streaming engine
Nickie Louise Posted On April 3, 2018


Interactive streaming engine developer Genvid Technologies startup announced raised total of $6 million in Series A round of financing.  The new funding will be used to fuel the international expansion of the company’s existing pipeline of developers, expanding from esports […]


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