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Nickie Louise

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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Amazon secretly acquires UK-based tech startup Veeqo, an inventory and shipping platform for eCommerce businesses
Nickie Louise Posted On March 7, 2022


Amazon has acquired Veeqo, a UK-based tech startup that makes inventory and fulfillment tools to help online businesses sell products on and off Amazon. The retail giant quietly acquired the e-commerce software startup back in November 2021 but didn’t publicize the acquisition. Veeqo […]


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US-French space tech startup Interstellar Lab raises $5M to build closed-loop sustainable living systems on Earth and in space
Nickie Louise Posted On March 7, 2022


Interstellar Lab, a Los Angeles and Paris-based tech startup that is developing controlled-environment pods for crop cultivation on Earth and life-support in Space, has raised $5 million in a seed round with investment from Urania Ventures, Auxxo, 7percent Ventures, Seldor Capital, […]


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AutoFi raises $85 million to provide online auto finance for buyers and dealers; now valued at $700 million
Nickie Louise Posted On March 7, 2022


AutoFi, a San Francisco-based tech startup that provides dealership systems to support online vehicle sales and financing, has raised $85 million to expand its operations. The round, which values the company at nearly $700 million, was backed by Santander Holdings USA, […]


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Silicon Valley boycotts Russia as Big Tech companies pull most widely-used tech product and services from the country
Nickie Louise Posted On March 7, 2022


As the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine reaches its 11th day, Russia is now facing an onslaught of attacks from the tech community. Just last week, more than 400,000 global hackers join forces to unleash hell on the Russian military, […]


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Australian NFT tech startup Immutable valued at $2.5 billion after raising $200M in funding led by Singapore’s Temasek
Nickie Louise Posted On March 7, 2022


Investors continue to pour billions into the red non-fungible token (NFT) space as VC firms, celebrities, and blue-chip companies have doubled down on crypto investments, betting on the potential of cryptocurrencies and the rapidly growing market for NFTs. Today, the […]


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About half a million global hackers join forces to unleash hell on Russian military, banking, and communication networks
Nickie Louise Posted On March 7, 2022


Just a day after the Russian forces invaded Ukraine, the hacktivist group Anonymous launched a cyberwar against Russian websites, including the website state-controlled TV network Russia Today. The group said the attacks are a part of a cyberwar they declared against Russia in retaliation […]


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Israel cybersecurity startup Cider Security emerges from stealth with $32M to bring the world’s first AppSec operating system to market
Nickie Louise Posted On March 7, 2022


Cider Security, an Israeli cybersecurity tech startup that has been operating in stealth mode for over a year now, announced today it has emerged from stealth with $32 million in Series A funding to revolutionize continuous security for continuous integration […]


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Nexo Review 2022 – Everything You Need To Know
Nickie Louise Posted On March 6, 2022


A platform like Nexo introduces a solution to crypto holders looking to put idle assets to work. An existing crypto asset holder can use their assets as collateral for a loan or lend it out to collect interest. Earnings are […]


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Kraken crypto exchange CEO fires back at requests to freeze Russian crypto: “Step 1 would be to freeze all U.S. accounts” for unjustly attacking and provoking violence around the world
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


On Tuesday, we wrote about Coinbase and Binance after two of the world’s biggest cryptocurrency exchanges rejected the calls to ban Russian users from their platforms so as to put more economic pressure on Moscow to withdraw its troops from Ukraine. […]


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Meet NuCalm, The world’s first clinically proven neuroscience technology that relieves chronic stress at the midbrain level, and helps you make better decisions
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


Americans are more stressed than they were in the 90s. New research published in February examined the impact of stress on people who are middle age. The new paper, which was published in the journal American Psychologist, Penn State researchers found a stark increase […]


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Twitter accused of double standard for banning Trump but not sitting US Senator who calls for Russian President Putin to be assassinated
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


As the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine reaches a new level, a sitting U.S. Senator has called on the Russian people to assassinate their own President. In a tweet Thursday night, Sen. Lindsey Graham said that Russian President Vladimir Putin […]


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Elon Musk sends a serious warning to the people of Ukraine
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


Like billions of people around the world, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk is closing monitoring the ongoing war between Russia and Ukraine. As you may recall, early this week Musk sent hundreds of Starlink terminals to Ukraine, ten hours after the […]


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Investment in female-founded tech startups breaks record in 2022, already surpassed total funding for both 2019 and 2020
Nickie Louise Posted On March 4, 2022


In recent years, women-founded startups have seen an inflow of billions of dollars as VC firms and accelerators pour money to encourage and support the once-neglected group. Just yesterday, we covered Mindshift Capital, a women-led VC fund that has attracted leading […]


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Technology News
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s son died at the age of 26, company says
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


Microsoft announced that the son of the company’s CEO Satya Nadella has died at the age of 26. Zain Nadella, who was born with cerebral palsy, died Monday, February 28 at the age of 26, the tech giant said in heart-breaking […]


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Women-led VC fund Mindshift Capital invests in global empowerment brand Rebel Girls as part of its $13M funding round
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


As we all know, female-led ventures are disproportionately overlooked by venture capitalists at multiple stages of the entrepreneurship pipeline. But women-led startups are creating more jobs than ever. In 2017 alone, for example, more than 1.1 million women-led businesses generated nearly $1.5 […]


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Ford sells its e-scooter unit Spin to German ride-sharing startup Tier in exchange for equity
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


As competition heats up in micro-mobility space, Ford Motor Company has decided to sell its e-scooter unit Spin, to Softbank-backed European rival Tier in exchange for equity. Ford said in a statement that the merger will provide the scale that’s “desperately […]


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Sports platform Fanatics hits a $27 billion valuation after raising a staggering $1.5B in new funding, adds BlackRock, Michael Dell as investors
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


Fanatics, a Jacksonville, Florida-based sports merchandise retailer that manufactures fan gear and jerseys across retail channels, has raised a massive $1.5 billion in new financing, valuing the sports platform at $27 billion. The announcement comes a little over a month after Fanatics purchased […]


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London-based tech startup Ocushield raises $1.34M to build the world’s first medically-rated screen protectors that block harmful blue light that comes from our tech devices
Nickie Louise Posted On March 3, 2022


Smartphones, tablets, and computer screens emit blue light, causing headaches, blurred vision, fatigue, and dry eyes. Blue light can also negatively affect your sleep hormones. With screen time rising due to the pandemic, harmful blue light is having a huge impact […]


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Quaise Energy, a geothermal energy startup spinoff out of MIT, is planning a sci-fi style WAVE ‘drill’ that will penetrate 12.4 miles into the Earth’s crust and help release unlimited clean energy
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


Back in 2020, we wrote about Kola Superdeep Borehole, the world’s deepest manmade hole ever dug. Located in Murmansk Oblast, Russia, the remote region of the Russian Arctic, the Kola hole reaches approximately 7.5 miles (12 kilometers) below the Earth’s surface and yet still only reaches […]


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AdaSwap, a Cardano DeFi ecosystem builder, raises $2.6M in funding from leading VCs and top angel investors
Nickie Louise Posted On March 2, 2022


AdaSwap, an ecosystem builder that will establish one of the first DeFi protocols on the Cardano network, has announced today that it has raised $2.6 million in a round of funding led by iAngels. Shima Capital, Pluto Digital, GBV, Stardust, […]


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