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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 Tuesday, January 10, 2023: BioNTech, Coinbase, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Virgin Orbit
Nickie Louise Posted On January 10, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Tuesday, January 10, 2023. Virgin Orbit rocket launched from a jumbo jet suffered an anomaly that prevented it from reaching orbit UK space industry suffered a major […]


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Building Blocks event for web3 startups announced for ETH TLV with Collider, Fireblocks, and MarketAcross
Nickie Louise Posted On January 10, 2023


Building Blocks 23, a web3 builder-focused event, will be hosted in central Tel Aviv on February 7, 2023. Hosted by top Israeli companies as part of ETH TLV, the one-day Building Blocks event will bring together Ethereum developers and communities. […]


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BioNTech to acquire British AI startup InstaDeep for £562M to speed up drug discovery and bolster its drug development
Nickie Louise Posted On January 10, 2023


Over the years, AI and machine learning have been getting better and smarter in speeding up drug discovery. That’s why BioNTech, a German biotech company known for the development of covid vaccines with Pfizer, has decided to scoop up British artificial intelligence startup […]


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Coinbase to lay off around 1,000 employees as crypto contagion deepens
Nickie Louise Posted On January 10, 2023


Just a few days after Coinbase agreed to pay $100 million to settle with US regulators over anti-money-laundering law violations, the crypto exchange giant announced Tuesday that it will reduce its workforce by about 950 employees as part of the cost-cutting measures […]


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Microsoft in talks to invest $10 billion for 49% stake in ChatGPT owner, OpenAI
Nickie Louise Posted On January 10, 2023


Unless you’ve been living in a cave, you’ve definitely heard of ChatGPT, the best dialogue-based artificial intelligence chatbot ever released to the general public by OpenAI. However, Microsoft was one of the few companies that saw the potential in OpenAI before it became […]


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Top tech startup news for Monday, January 9, 2023: Ant Group, BlockFi, Microsoft, and Monogram Health
Nickie Louise Posted On January 9, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today, Monday, January 9, 2023. Monogram Health closes $375 million in growth funding to support continued expansion Monogram Health, a Brentwood, Tennessee-based health tech startup that provides evidence-based, whole-person, in-home […]


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Microsoft acquires data center chip startup Fungible to power its Azure cloud platform using Fungible DPUs
Nickie Louise Posted On January 9, 2023


Microsoft today announced it has acquired Silicon Valley-based data center chip startup Fungible to bolster its Azure data center infrastructure using the Fungible data processing units (DPUs). However, Blocks and Files reported that the deal was valued at $190 million. Reports about […]


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Wolters Kluwer acquires US-based startup NurseTim to enhance portfolio of nursing education solutions
Nickie Louise Posted On January 9, 2023


Wolters Kluwer is on an acquisition spree. As we reported last week, The Netherlands-based company started the year with the acquisition of London-based tech startup Della AI to shore up its Legal & Regulatory software unit. Today, Wolters Kluwer Health announced it has […]


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January is already breaking tech layoff records as 18,392 tech workers lost their jobs in the first week of 2023
Nickie Louise Posted On January 9, 2023


The year is just getting started and large tech companies including Amazon, Salesforce, and Stitch Fix have already laid off 16,420 of their workers, according to Crunchbase. January 2023 became the second-largest layoff month since November 2022, when about 44,570 U.S. tech workers lost […]


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Ant Group postpones its $37 billion IPO as founder Jack Ma gives up control in major revamp
Nickie Louise Posted On January 9, 2023


Ant Group, a Chinese fintech giant founded by Alibaba owner Jack Ma, said it does not have a plan for an initial public offering (IPO), Reuters reported, citing an emailed statement from the company. Ant Group’s $37 billion IPO, which would have […]


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Top tech startup news for today, Friday, January 6, 2023: FTX, Mastercard, Mercedes-Benz, Polygon, Stitch Fix
Nickie Louise Posted On January 6, 2023


Good evening and happy Friday! It’s a super light news day so we’re not going to cover much ground today. With that, below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Friday, January 6, 2023. Mastercard launches web3-focused artist […]


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Biotech startup Perceive Bio closes $78M in Series B funding led by Johnson & Johnson to prevent the largest causes of irreversible blindness
Nickie Louise Posted On January 6, 2023


TL;DR Perceive Biotherapeutics, a Silicon Valley biotech tech startup focused on technologies and therapeutics in ophthalmology, has raised $78M in Series B funding led by Johnson & Johnson Innovation. Using decades of academic research, Perceive Biotherapeutics uses novel therapeutics to prevent the largest […]


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Stitch Fix to fire 20% of its employees as CEO steps down
Nickie Louise Posted On January 6, 2023


Tech layoffs continue unabated as a slew of big tech companies — ranging from Facebook’s Meta to Twitter— are letting employees go due to the ongoing recession and global economic slowdown. Stitch Fix is the latest to join the layoff phenomenon after the […]


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Crypto exchange Huobi to lay off 20% of staff as crypto winter worsens
Nickie Louise Posted On January 6, 2023


Just like an angel of death knocking at the door of every crypto company, crypto winter has come for Huobi. The crypto exchange is laying off 20% of its staff, Reuters reported Friday. The layoff is the latest sign of deep […]


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Electric Car  / Electric Vehicles  / Startup Spotlight  / Technology News  / Transportation
BMW unveils ‘i Vision Dee,’ a talking car with a ‘digital soul’ that shifts colors like a chameleon
Nickie Louise Posted On January 5, 2023


In what the German luxury automaker called “the next level of human-machine interaction,” BMW today unveiled a prototype for its i Vision Dee concept car during the automaker’s keynote at CES on Wednesday evening.  The four-door futuristic sedan talks like a […]


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Forj lands $15M in funding to help communities grow their membership; announces merger
Nickie Louise Posted On January 5, 2023


Building and growing an online community can be challenging and time-consuming. You not only have to understand the needs of your community members, but you also have to think about community engagement, management, and a slew of other things to grow […]


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Amazon to lay off more than 18,000 employees, a bigger number than initially planned
Nickie Louise Posted On January 5, 2023


Amazon said Wednesday that it will lay off more than 18,000 employees, a bigger number than the retail giant announced back in December when the New York Times reported the company was cutting 10,000 jobs. The news is a further indicator […]


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AAG launches MetaOne Wallet to simplify and streamline the Web3 user experience
Nickie Louise Posted On January 5, 2023


In December, we covered AAG when the fast-growing web3 software company integrated Coinbase Pay into its MetaOne Wallet to improve the fiat on-ramping feature for investors. The integration would make it easier for users, many of whom never previously owned cryptocurrencies, to […]


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Top tech startup news for today, Wednesday, January 4, 2023: ACI, Candy Digital, Coinbase, Fanatics, Gatik, Microsoft, and Salesforce
Nickie Louise Posted On January 4, 2023


Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for Wednesday, January 4, 2023. Sports platform Fanatics divests 60% stake in NFT company Candy Digital Fanatics, a sports platform founded by Michael Rubin, is divesting its 60% stake in NFT […]


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Microsoft to invest over $10M in autonomous delivery tech startup Gatik, pushing its valuation to $700 million
Nickie Louise Posted On January 4, 2023


Tech giant Microsoft Corp is in advanced talks to invest in San Francisco, California-based startup Gatik, Reuters reported, citing two people familiar with the discussions. The investment is part of Microsoft’s cloud partnership with autonomous middle-mile logistics startup. According to the report, Microsoft […]


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