Tag: Startup

Roblox, the community-focused gaming platform popular amongst kids, has downsized a substantial portion of its talent acquisition team, signaling a shift in the company’s focus from expansion to the bottom line. In a statement to TechCrunch, Roblox confirmed that about 30 employees in its talent acquisition organization were let go on Monday. No other teams…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Amazon and Target will add on a combined 350,000 employees for the upcoming holiday shopping season, according to announcements by both companies on Tuesday, while Amazon said it will invest more than $1 billion to increase average hourly wages. Amazon announced the seasonal hires in addition to wage…

The retail giant wants a bigger piece of the technology hardware pie — and it’s going to have to fight for it…

Google-backed audio content platform Kuku FM has raised $25 million in a new funding round as it looks to make deeper inroads with its audiobook offerings in the South Asian market. Indian billionaire and technologist Nandan Nilekani’s Fundamentum Partnership led the Series C funding in Kuku FM with International Finance Corporation, part of the World…

When HashiCorp announced it was changing its Terraform license in August, it set off a firestorm in the open source community, and actually represented an existential threat to startups who were built on top of the popular open source project. The community went into action and within weeks they had written a manifesto, and soon…

Share to FacebookShare to TwitterShare to LinkedinTopline Starbucks must face a lawsuit arguing it has violated consumer protection laws by misleading customers into believing its popular “refresher” drinks contain all of the fruits in their names, a judge ruled last week, marking the latest lawsuit over food advertising techniques. Starbucks must face a lawsuit alleging…

This is the lowest price they’ve been in over a year, so you can expect them to sell out…

As it stands today, the technology to test fully autonomous vehicles is not feasible…

French startup Stoïk offers a cyber insurance product to small and medium companies — a bit like Coalition in the U.S. And things have been working well in France. So the company just announced that it plans to expand to Germany as its second country with Franziska Geier heading the team there. The company also raised…

The two retail giants have never met this kind of challenge before and it could be good for consumers…