November 17, 2024
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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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Top tech startup news for Friday, January 20, 2023: Chord, CNET, Fanatics, FTX, Genesis, Google, and WTF
Nickie Louise Posted On January 20, 2023


Good evening and happy Friday! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Friday, January 20, 2023. Feds seize about $700 million of FTX assets in Sam Bankman-Fried criminal case Federal prosecutors seized around $700 million in […]


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Chord, a tech startup led by former Glossier execs, raises $15M to expand its headless eCommerce platform
Nickie Louise Posted On January 20, 2023


Delivering great content to online users is no longer about just implementing responsive design, companies also want their content to be easily distributed over different communication channels: websites, web and mobile applications, and connected objects. Most websites today still use […]


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Fanatics in talks to acquire BetParx sportsbook
Nickie Louise Posted On January 20, 2023


Fanatics, a sports platform founded by Michael Rubin, is in talks to buy the BetParx sportsbook, as the sports merchandising company looks to take a bigger position in sports betting, CNBC reported, citing sources close to the ongoing discussion. Fanatics, which recently divests its […]


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Google parent to lay off 12,000 employees as companies stake their futures on artificial intelligence (AI)
Nickie Louise Posted On January 20, 2023


Google’s parent Alphabet becomes the latest in a series of tech companies to announce a layoff. Today, Alphabet announced it is cutting about 12,000 jobs, or 6% of its workforce, the company said in a memo to employees on Friday. The […]


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Crypto lender Genesis files for bankruptcy as FTX contagion spreads through the industry
Nickie Louise Posted On January 20, 2023


For months, crypto lender Genesis has been seeking to raise $1 billion in an emergency loan to avoid bankruptcy. Now, the high-profile crypto lending company has fallen on a bankruptcy sword. Genesis filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection late Thursday […]


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Top tech startup news for today Thursday, January 19, 2023: Coindesk, Netflix, Nexo, Outrider, and Playtika
Nickie Louise Posted On January 19, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Thursday, January 19, 2023. Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings steps down as CEO Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings is stepping down from the CEO post at the company he founded […]


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Getting Press Coverage for Your Startup – 4 Tips from a PR Pro
Nickie Louise Posted On January 19, 2023


When it comes to PR for startups, we’re dealing with a good ol’ chicken or egg scenario… A new startup needs positive media coverage to create buzz. Buzz is needed to create a solid customer base and attract investors. Investors […]


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Hollywood Unlocked raises $1.7M in seed funding for its entertainment news platform and spaces for Black voices
Nickie Louise Posted On January 19, 2023


With thousands of news sites out there, it’s almost impossible to get noticed online, especially for marginalized Black voices in entertainment. That’s why one media startup is on a mission to create spaces for Black voices and share the latest hottest news topics […]


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Blockchain Founders Fund leads seed investment in Virtualtech Frontier to build out its metaverse platform Mitoworld.io
Nickie Louise Posted On January 19, 2023


While chatters about the metaverse have cooled off in recent months due to the global recession and ongoing economic slowdown, investors are seizing the opportunities to invest in promising startups that they’re hoping would dominate the space once the recession […]


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Self-driving tech startup Outrider raises $73 million in funding to scale up its autonomous yard trucks
Nickie Louise Posted On January 19, 2023


While analysts are expecting the autonomous truck revolution to come sometime in the early 2030s, tech startups including  San Diego-based TuSimple and China-based MoonX.AI have already completed more than 550 miles of fully driverless truck driving on public roads without a human […]


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Top tech startup news for today Wednesday, January 18, 2023: Amazon, EarthOptics, Import.io, and Microsoft
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, January 18, 2023. Amazon is set to begin a fresh round of layoffs affecting more than 18,000 people Retail giant Amazon on Wednesday will begin a new […]


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Cumul.io raises €10M in Series A funding for its low-code business analytics platform
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


Cumul.io, a Belgium-based- data that lets users build interactive dashboards using its embedded analytics tools, has raised €10M in a Series A round of funding to provide a low-code platform for data analysis with integration into other SaaS platforms or applications. The round […]


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Microsoft is laying off 10,000 employees globally
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


“We’re living through times of significant change, and as I meet with customers and partners, a few things are clear.” Yesterday, we wrote about Microsoft after reports the tech giant was planning to cut thousands of additional jobs as layoffs […]


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EarthOptics raises $27.6M Series B funding to advance data-driven agriculture through actionable soil insights
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


As we all know, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the leading cause of climate change. Today, the world’s carbon-neutrality goals are front and center right for institutions and governments—and agriculture has the opportunity to play a leading role. CO2 is also the […]


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ThriveCart raises $35M in funding to help businesses build eCommerce carts and funnels
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


One of the challenges faced by eCommerce entrepreneurs is shopping cart abandonment. Research from Baymard Institute shows that about 70% of online shopping carts are abandoned. That means, for every 10 customers who add an item to their shopping cart, seven of […]


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FTX says $415 million of crypto was hacked from its accounts
Nickie Louise Posted On January 18, 2023


Last week, bankrupt crypto exchange FTX announced it recovered over $5 billion in cash and crypto assets. The lawyer representing the company disclosed the $5 billion includes cash and digital assets. What wasn’t disclosed at the time was there are still […]


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African gaming startup Carry1st raises $27M in funding to become next frontier in mobile gaming in Africa
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


While gaming has almost reached its saturation point here in the US and Asia, the mass adoption of mobile games is just getting started in Africa. With millions of Africans now having access to smartphones, the game penetration level in Africa […]


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Nest co-founder launches Mill, a sustainable kitchen bin that turns food scraps into chicken feed to combat food waste
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


At a time when most homeowners didn’t think of automating their home thermostats to save on high energy costs, Matt Rogers left his high-paying job at Apple to start smart home thermostat startup Nest Labs in 2010 to enable users to control their […]


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Microsoft to expand access to hugely popular OpenAI’s ChatGPT
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


Unless you’ve been living under a rock over the past few months, you’ve probably heard ChatGPT, the best dialogue-based artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public by OpenAI. Since its launch on November 30, 2022, ChatGPT has impressed many experts […]


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Europe’s digital bank startup N26 to expand crypto trading
Nickie Louise Posted On January 17, 2023


Late last year, Europe’s digital bank startup N26 made its foray into cryptocurrency last year with the launch of a new crypto trading service called N26 Crypto. Unlike its rival PayPal, the N26′s crypto service does not include support for custodial […]


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