Trukkr, a fintech platform for Pakistan’s trucking industry, has raised $6.4 million in a seed funding round to roll out lending products for truckers in Pakistan. The latest funding is in addition to the $600,000 seed funding Trukkr raised in […]
Do you want to support a strong and determined woman who is breaking down barriers in Egypt? Meet Eman Al-Adawi, one of the few women riding scooters on the busy streets of Giza. Eman has been driving her scooter for a […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today Monday, March 6, 2023. Google warns employees that the company won’t promote as many employees to senior staff positions this year Google won’t be promoting as […]
Self-driving truck company Embark announced Friday it would lay off 70% of its employees and start evaluating options, including “shutting down completely.” The job cut is expected to impact about 230 employees. The company lost nearly a third of its […]
Michael Duncan is a Detroit, Michigan native who led the development of payment systems for the states of California and Oregon. Later, also worked as a software developer at a local credit union called Michigan First Credit Union. As part […]
In January, we wrote about Qualtrics after the company’s owner SAP announced it was laying off 3,000 employees, or about 2.5% of its workforce. At the time, the German enterprise software giant also said it was exploring the sale of […]
Cryptocurrencies have come a very long way since their inception back in 2008. Since the monumental launch of Bitcoin, which still remains the most popular crypto and blockchain network, this industry has only become even more complex. All transactions that […]
Tenderly, an all-in-one web3 development platform that enables developers to build, debug, test, and run reliable dapps, announced today that it has now fully integrated with the first multichain Layer-2 blockchain scaling solution Boba Network. The announcement comes just four […]
Tech layoffs surge past 100,000 as 454 tech companies laid off a total of 123,882 employees so far in 2023. The good news is that tech companies aren’t letting go of their employees at the scale recorded in January when 65,000 […]
The metaverse became the latest buzzword in October 2011 after Facebook changed its corporate to Meta to emphasize its new focus on building its technologies around the virtual world ecosystem. The metaverse, a term originally coined by Neal Stephenson in the […]
The price of Bitcoin has seesawed from its peak of $68,990 in November 2021 to $22,352.50 as of the time of writing. The fallen price has not stopped Bitcoin enthusiasts from continuing to mine the world’s most popular cryptocurrency. What […]
LinkedIn co-founder and OpenAI’s long-time backer, Reid Hoffman, is stepping back from the company’s board of directors. In a Linked post on Friday, Hoffman said he’s leaving the OpenAI board to avoid conflicts of interest with other artificial intelligence (AI) […]
Remember when Elon Musk used to tweet about Dogecoin? It seems Musk is now abandoning crypto if we go by his latest tweet. In a post about an hour ago, Musk told his 130 million Twitters fans: ‘“I used to […]
Did you know that mattresses are a global environmental nightmare? Every year, the United States throws away 18.2 million mattresses, according to a report from The Guardian. However, the US only has 56 facilities available to recycle them, further increasing […]
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has acquired One River Digital as it looks to expand its footprint beyond its core retail trading offering. The financial details of the deal were not disclosed. In an announcement on Friday, Coinbase said the acquisition is […]
About a year ago we wrote about BlocPower, a Brooklyn-based climate tech startup that’s decarbonizing buildings across the U.S. by removing greenhouse gases and emissions associated with existing and new buildings and replacing them with green heating and cooling. According […]
Good evening! Below are some of the top tech startup news stories for today Thursday, March 2, 2023. London-based startup OnePlan raises $6M to digitally map venues for event planning Event and venue platform OnePlan has closed $6 million to a […]
Late last year, Argo AI suddenly ceased operations and shut down. Parts of the company were absorbed into its two major backers Ford and Volkswagen. The self-driving startup burst on the scene in 2017 after raising $1 billion from Ford. […]
The National Basketball Association (NBA) has partnered with AI-based video-tracking startup Videocites as it looks to take more ownership stakes in businesses that could benefit the league in a private equity push. Videocites, which tracks clips across social media and […]
Global event and venue platform OnePlan has closed $6 million to a new strategic investment led by Elysian Park Ventures and Verance Capital. The startup will use the fresh cash infusion to accelerate its plan to support live event venues, […]
