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Lydia adds stock and crypto trading to its payment app
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
French startup Lydia is entering a whole new category by adding trading to its financial super app later this year. The company is partnering with Bit...
Mmhmm eats Macro
22 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mmhmm has perhaps the noisiest take on the future of video-conferencing: virtual meetings will be fun, flexible, and, as shown by its most recent acqu...
Zuma takes in fresh capital to convert your next apartment tenant lead into a contract
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Given its product market fit in real estate, Zuma now aims to implement its business model into other industries with sales teams, like healthcare, au...
Biliti bets US market is primed for electric tuk tuk deliveries
19 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Biliti Electric, a startup founded less than a year ago, wants its electric tuk tuks to become a common sight in densely packed cities in the United S...
Cross-selling startup Carro secures $20M to connect brands with each other, influencers
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carro enables brand partnerships to sell each other’s products without having to purchase inventory or manage logistics and returns. Learn more abou...
VR glove startup says Meta’s recently unveiled prototype is ‘substantively identical’ to their own device
18 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook, errr Meta, showed off a new prototype haptic feedback glove yesterday which they detailed could eventually bring a new generation of AR/VR u...
QuEra Computing emerges from stealth with $17M to launch quantum device
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
QuEra Computing, a Boston-based quantum computer developer, is coming out of stealth mode today with $17 million in funding from Rakuten, Day One V...
Lambda School shakes off its brand with new name
17 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Lambda School, a buzzy coding bootcamp that has landed over $122 million in known venture capital to date, is rebranding to Bloom Institute of Technol...
EasySend raises $55.5M for a no-code platform to build online interactions with customers
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No-code continues to permeate the many layers of enterprise IT, where traditionally non-technical workers have had to rely on technical experts to get...
Mark Cuban’s Fireside app attracts NFL stars and others as backers
16 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Cuban’s Fireside, an audio platform that is helping creators share their stories with audiences through live, interactive and virtual shows, is...
Apple offers $30 million to settle off-the-clock bag search controversy
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
California's supreme court ruled Apple broke the law by failing to pay employees while they waited for mandatory bag and iPhone searches. Now, Apple h...
Oxygen, a neobank for freelancers and small businesses, in talks to raise funds at over $500 million valuation
15 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Oxygen, a startup that is bringing digital banking services to freelancers and micro-and small-sized businesses, is in talks to raise a new round at a...
Starlink’s new rectangular satellite broadband dish is smaller and lighter than before
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Starlink has introduced a new user terminal customers can get with their starter kit. The company now offers a rectangular option that's smaller and l...
GM plans to build a military vehicle based on the Hummer EV
12 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The Hummer H1 was based on a military truck, and now it appears GM is ready to return the favor: GM plans to build a military vehicle prototype based ...
Tencent shares its metaverse vision for the first time
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
How could Tencent not jump on the metaverse bandwagon when Facebook is hinging its future on the new buzzword? At this stage, Tencent’s approach see...
Ample raises $30M to take battery swapping business to Europe
11 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ample, a startup developing battery swapping technology for electric vehicles, has scored another $30 million from The Blackstone Group and Spanish mu...
Digital restaurant startup Zak orders up new capital on mission to be ‘Toast of LatAm’
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
As food operators themselves, ZAK founders saw first-hand last year the toll it was taking on restaurants that needed to quickly reinvent themselves d...
fuboTV to acquire streaming platform Molotov for $190 million
10 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
fuboTV is making a significant move in Europe with plans to acquire Molotov, a French startup with a leading television streaming service. fuboTV also...
AudioMob, which serves audio ads inside mobile games, raises a $14M Series A
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
AudioMob is a startup that provides ‘non-intrusive’ audio ads within mobile games. It turns out that gamers don’t seem to mind little ads like t...
Instagram’s creator subscriptions nearing launch, App Store listing reveals
09 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Instagram earlier this year said it would explore the idea of creator subscriptions and was later spotted developing a feature that would offer exclus...
Edtech startup BrightChamps comes out of stealth mode with $63 million funding
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
BrightChamps, an Indian edtech startup that is attempting to bridge the learning gap left by K12 schools, said on Monday it has raised $51 million in ...
US government offers $10M bounty for DarkSide ransomware hackers
08 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The U.S. Department of State is upping the ante in its fight against ransomware by offering a reward of up to $10 million for information that helps i...
An accelerator and fund says it’s giving away its voting rights to scientist founders: “They lose control”
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SciFounders, an accelerator program and fund launched back in January with $6 million in backing, has a new proposition for the scientist founders who...
Rivian hit with gender discrimination lawsuit that alleges toxic ‘bro culture’
05 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rivian, the electric automaker that recently filed for an IPO, has been sued by a former sales and marketing vice president for alleged gender discrim...
Nintendo releases Animal Crossing update a day early
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Grab your Nintendo Switches and start downloading the “Animal Crossing: New Horizons” update, because it’s going to be a late night. Nintendo...
As Allbirds goes public, sustainability is the mantra of the future
04 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Allbirds started with a humble, natural wool shoe, but it is not merely an apparel company today. It has become a materials innovation company disrupt...
Femtech startup illumigyn secures $33M to provide women with accessible and affordable medical care
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
According to World Health Organization, cervical cancer, the fourth most common cancer among women, affected approximately 570,000 women and result...
Facebook says it will delete facial recognition data on more than a billion users
03 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Just days after rebranding itself, Facebook announced plans to delete a trove of the most worrisome data that the world’s biggest social network col...
137 Ventures, which buys equity from private company shareholders, just raised a new fund
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
137 Ventures, a 10-year-old, San Francisco-based investment firm that mostly buys private company shares of founders, executives, early employees, and...
Epic pulls plug on Fortnite in China
02 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Epic Games announced today that its work to bring video game mega-title Fortnite to the Chinese market is shutting down. The company said in an offici...
Six-month-old Zepto, a 10-minute grocery delivery startup in India, raises $60 million
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Two Stanford dropouts in their late teens, who have previously collaborated on a number of projects including a ride-hailing commute app for school ki...
MIT’s CSAIL self-driving water taxis launched in the Amsterdam canals
01 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Granted, there aren’t many cities where self-driving water taxis are a viable option, but Amsterdam may just be one of those places. Learn more abou...
Google and Jio’s smartphone with custom Android OS for India launches November 4 for $87
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Google and top Indian telecom network Jio Platforms said on Friday that their much-anticipated budget smartphone, JioPhone Next, will go on sale in th...
Facebook changes its corporate branding to Meta
29 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Well, it’s official. After 17 years of being called Facebook, the social networking parent company behind Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Oculus h...
N!CK’S grabs $100M to create better-for-you snacks
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new funding will accelerate the company’s goal of doubling its stores in the U.S. and Europe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastcho...
Apple now lets you review more default apps like Phone, Messages, Photos and Safari
28 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Apple finally put itself on equal footing with rivals by allowing users to rate and review its own, first-party apps for the first time this fall, ami...
Skyryse brings in $200M to make flying an aircraft as simple as swiping a touchscreen
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Five-year-old startup Skyryse has raised a $200 million Series B to develop FlightOS, a flight automation technology stack that the company says will ...
DeHaat raises $115 million in the largest agritech round in India
27 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
DeHaat, an online platform that offers full-stack agricultural services to farmers in India, has raised $115 million in what is the largest funding ro...
India’s Chalo acquires Amazon-backed bus aggregator Shuttl
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Chalo, an Indian startup that is digitizing bus commutes in India and which recently raised $40 million in a financing round, has acquired Amazon-back...
YouTube rolls out personalized ‘New to you’ feed to help users discover content
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
YouTube is rolling out a designated “New to you” tab on its platform after testing the feature earlier this year. The new tab is now available on ...
Asymmetric Capital Partners hits ground running with $105M debut fund targeting B2B startups
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The new firm brings together a foursome with operator, venture capital and private equity expertise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastch...
Voyager, Nanoracks and Lockheed’s “Starlab” is the latest sign that the low Earth orbit economy is coming
25 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The era of private space stations is officially here as Nanoracks, Voyager Space and Lockheed Martin announce plans to launch a commercial station in ...
Pledge raises $4.5M Seed round to build a carbon-measurement and removal API
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
With the Climate Crisis looming, lots of companies want to do their part. But asking customers to “offset the CO2 emission of this delivery” is us...
Twitter rolls out the ability for anyone to host a Space
22 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After steadily expanding access over the course of the year, Twitter announced today its audio chatroom feature known as Twitter Spaces is now open to...
Blume Ventures and AWI back Indian exporter SaaS startup SourceWiz
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Small and medium-sized exporters in India struggle to communicate their designs with buyers. They can’t list those designs publicly on their website...
Olympus US hack tied to sanctioned Russian ransomware group
21 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
An “ongoing” cyberattack against the Japanese technology giant Olympus was caused by a Russian ransomware group sanctioned by the U.S. government,...
NASA and Boeing confirm Starliner won’t fly until first half of 2022 as valve investigation continues
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
NASA and Boeing provided an update on the beleaguered Starliner capsule Tuesday, confirming that the earliest the spacecraft will fly will be sometime...
Biden’s QSBS tax plan would have unintended consequences for startups
20 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Buried in Biden’s 2021 tax plan are new amendments to the U.S. Qualified Small Business Stock (QSBS) program, which, if passed, will impact early-st...
Zoba wants to help micromobility companies get more rides, increase profitability
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Micromobility companies that aim to turn a profit have to juggle running a tight ship, adhering to constantly shifting local regulations and getti...
Apple to release macOS Monterey on October 25
19 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Apple has unveiled some new MacBook Pro models at a virtual conference today. And the company is timing the release of the next major release of macOS...
Dispute resolution platform Immediation raises $3.6M AUD to expand in the U.S.
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The pandemic forced the legal profession to cobble together remote work strategies, often through a combination of video conferencing and emails. Foun...
Pandora is partnering with SoundCloud to launch a new station
18 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SiriusXM-owned Pandora is partnering with SoundCloud to launch ‘The Lookout by SoundCloud,’ a new station available on Pandora that aims to showca...
Clubhouse gives musicians a new high quality audio mode
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Clubhouse added a new “music mode” this week, doubling down its commitment to centering social audio in all its permutations. The new music mode w...
McDonald’s will serve Beyond Meat McPlant burgers in select US locations next month
15 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After announcing a deal with Beyond Meat back in February, McDonald’s this morning announced that it is set to start selling plant-based Beyond Meat...
European point of sale provider SumUp acquires customer loyalty startup Fivestars for $317M
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SumUp, a European-based competitor to Square, PayPal/iZettle and others that provide mobile-powered card readers and other sales technology to merchan...
Instagram adds scheduling and ‘practice mode’ features for Live creators
14 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Instagram today announced the launch of a couple of new tools aimed at addressing the needs of Live creators. Now, creators will be able to build up b...
Global Processing Services raises $300M its API-based payments and embedded finance platform
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Embedded finance continues to be a major theme in the world of fintech, with a wide swathe of new financial services companies tapping APIs built by o...
Twitter will now let you remove followers without blocking them
13 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
After testing last month, Twitter is rolling out a feature to all web users that will let them remove followers without blocking them. Learn more abou...
Google and Temasek back Indian neobank Open in $100 million fundraise
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Google has invested in Bangalore-based Open, becoming the latest high-profile investor to back a neobanking platform. Open said on Tuesday it has rais...
Facebook’s Oversight Board will meet with the Facebook whistleblower
12 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Facebook’s external policy review board will meet with Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee who went public with her concerns about the compan...
Gogoro launches battery swapping stations in China
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Five months after announcing a deal with two of China’s biggest two-wheel vehicle makers, Gogoro officially launched there today, opening 45 battery...
The mystery of Elon Musk’s missing gas
11 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Experts say an environmental document that needs U.S. Federal Aviation Administration approval before SpaceX can begin testing the world’s largest r...
Elon Musk announces Tesla to move headquarters to Austin
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tesla CEO Elon Musk said the company would be moving its headquarters from Palo Alto, California to Austin, Texas, a city that has recently seen a flo...
RoboTire raises $7.5M to automate tire replacement
08 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
RoboTire crossed our radar in February of last year, just before much of the world was brought to a complete standstill courtesy of the pandemic. Thin...
Indian cloud kitchen startup Rebel Foods valued at $1.4 billion in $175 million fundraise
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Rebel Foods, which operates a large network of dark kitchens in nearly a dozen markets, is the latest Indian startup to attain the unicorn status. The...
OpenStack gains new momentum, as deployments increase during the pandemic
07 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
OpenStack, the open-source project that gives large enterprises and public cloud providers the tools to run their own AWS-like private clouds in their...
Uber pilots new features to reserve rides at airports
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Uber is piloting new app features aimed at making air travel more hassle-free, including the ability to reserve rides from airports, gain access to en...
Technical interview platform Byteboard spins out of Google’s Area 120, takes on new funding
06 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Byteboard, a service designed to replace the on-site technical interview part of a company’s hiring process with a web-based alternative, will be sp...
Kobo refreshes e-reader line with Sage and Libra 2, adding Bluetooth and stylus support
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
A pair of new e-readers from Kobo iterate on the company’s high-end options, adding Bluetooth audiobook and stylus support to the now familiar asymm...
NFT startup Dapper Labs acquires virtual influencer startup Brud
05 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dapper Labs, the NFT startup behind NBA Top Shot which was recently valued above $7.5 billion, made an interesting acquisition this morning, telling D...
Five Seasons Ventures pulls in €180M fund to tackle human health and climate via FoodTech
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
FoodTech is booming in Europe has grown exponentially. In 2020, €3 billion went into European FoodTech companies (State of European Tech Report, Mar...
Current and former employees raise major safety concerns, allegations of sexual harassment at Blue Origin
04 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Bezos just can’t get away from labor issues. The beleaguered billionaire, who has faced repeated and persistent criticism over working conditio...
SquadPal is a social app to help remote working teams gel
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The future of office work, post-COVID-19, is driving plenty of startup activity. Not just around core business needs like comms (Zoom, Slack et al) —...
Clubhouse adds clips, replays for asynchronous listening, better search, and spatial audio for Android
01 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Clubhouse announced today that it is unveiling four new features: Clips, Replay, Universal Search, and spatial audio for Android (which already exists...
Matternet’s automated drone-docking station makes its real-life debut in Switzerland
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
No one knows exactly how drone delivery will fit into the future of logistics, but one thing is for sure: the aircraft aren’t going to drop off impo...
General Motors’ new software platform Ultifi is coming to vehicles starting in 2023
30 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
General Motors is rolling out a new end-to-end software platform in vehicles starting in 2023 that executives say will usher in a sweeping set of capa...
Employee leave startup Cocoon launches after raising $20M in new funding
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The platform is available in across all 50 states and is designed for any type of employee leave, like parental, medical, caregiver or bereavement. Le...
Amazon reveals Halo Fitness and Halo Nutrition programs for Halo subscribers
29 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon is introducing two new services tied to user health and fitness, and its Halo personal health devices. They include Halo Fitness, a new service...
Indian food delivery giant Swiggy in talks to raise funds at over $10 billion valuation
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Indian food delivery startup Swiggy is in talks to raise over $500 million in a new financing round that could value it at over $10 billion, two sourc...
LinkedIn is testing a new, paid ticketed events service
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
LinkedIn earlier this month unveiled a new push around creators to bring more original content (and engagement) to its platform, but that’s not the ...
D-ID launches ‘Speaking Portrait,’ a way to turn photos into custom, photo-realistic videos
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The company whose tech powered the sensational MyHeritage app that turned classic family photos into lifelike moving portraits is back with a new impl...
California makes zero-emission autonomous vehicles mandatory by 2030
27 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Starting in 2030, California will require all light-duty autonomous vehicles operating in the state to emit zero emissions, thanks to a new bill signe...
China says all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal and must be banned
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
China’s central bank said on Friday that all cryptocurrency-related transactions are illegal in the country and they must be banned, citing concerns...
Unagi’s $2,440 smart scooter includes turn-by-turn directions and GPS tracking
24 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Unagi Scooters has revealed what it claims is the first 'smart scooter' in the Model Eleven. It includes a bunch of intriguing features, such as audib...
Cybersecurity startup Sternum raises $27M to ‘immunize’ IoT devices
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Sternum, a three-year-old IoT cybersecurity startup based in Tel Aviv, has secured $27 million in Series B funding, led by Spark Capital. Internet ...
AeroFarms is supplying the hops for Goose Island’s latest IPA
23 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The world of vertical farming has seen a massive uptick in interest over the past decade, as the world grapples with concerns over resource use, farma...
Google Meet will automatically adjust webcam brightness in your browser
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The web version Google Meets can soon detect when someone is underexposed due to bad lighting. Meet will then increase the brightness so it's easier t...
GM details the motors that will power its electric Hummer and other EVs
22 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Igor Bonifacic Contributor Igor Bonifacic is a contributing writer at Engadget. More posts by this contributor Rivian announces membership plan with c...
MIT study finds Tesla drivers become inattentive when Autopilot is activated
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
By the end of this week, potentially thousands of Tesla owners will be testing out the automaker’s newest version of its “Full Self-Driving” bet...
Following SEC lawsuit threat, Coinbase cancels launch of ‘Lend’ product
21 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Coinbase efforts to play hardball with the Securities and Exchange Commission didn’t last too long. The cryptocurrency exchange had garnered the ire...
Amazon starts probe over bribe to gov’t officials by its lawyers in India, report says
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Amazon has launched an investigation into the conduct of its legal representatives in India following a complaint from a whistleblower who alleged tha...
OpenSea released an app — but it’s for browsing, not buying and selling
20 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
It’s a big day for the Amazon of the decentralized internet — OpenSea now has an app for iOS and Android. For most companies, having a mobile app ...
In internal memo, Apple says it is monitoring legal challenges to Texas abortion law
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
In a message posted on an internal employee message board today, Apple said that it was monitoring the legal challenges to what it refers to as the “...
Mirantis launches cloud-native data center-as-a-service software
17 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Mirantis has been around the block, starting way back as an OpenStack startup, but a few years ago the company began to embrace cloud-native developme...
Alphabet’s Project Taara is beaming high-speed internet across the Congo River
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
The high speed wireless optical link technology Alphabet originally developed for its shuttered Loon balloon company is currently being used for anoth...
Clubhouse hires a head of news from NPR to build out publisher relationships
16 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Clubhouse has hired a veteran editor from NPR to lead news publishing for the app. Nina Gregory will serve as Clubhouse’s Head of News and Media Pub...
The iPhone 13 Pro and Pro Max features 120Hz display, better cameras
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Apple has announced its new lineup of phones at its virtual conference. In addition to the regular iPhone 13 and iPhone 13 mini, the company has two P...
Spaceflight will be ferrying payloads from Orbit Fab, GeoJump to lunar orbit next year
15 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Space rideshare service provider Spaceflight Inc. is going to be shuttling customers on a lunar flyby mission next year, part of its long-term vision ...
SpaceX launches its first batch of Starlink satellites aimed at new coverage areas from California
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 51 of its Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Monday night at 8:55 PM PDT (...
Ford hires new chief digital information officer as it seeks to expand into software and services
14 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ford Motor has hired Mike Amend as its chief digital and information officer as the automaker seeks to expand into software, subscriptions and in-vehi...