Tag: Startup

Last year, when venture capital’s fiery streak cooled, climate tech held strong with tens of billions in deals despite geopolitical instability, hiked-up interest rates and crypto chaos. Still, the state of the sprawling, tricky-to-define sector was never easy to pin down; that’s as true as ever today.   So, where do things stand? Depending on what…

Suffolk Technologies wants to have its cake and eat it, too. Corporate VCs and traditional investors help startups in different ways. While venture capitalists are better equipped to help startups land their next funding round or make their next hire, CVCs can ask their corporate overlords to serve as early product testers or customers. Suffolk…

The Tesla-loving ETF sought to answer a simple question: Can Threads and Twitter exist at the same time…

Lucid’s future was already cloudy, but lately the EV startup’s name is practically a misnomer.  On Wednesday, Lucid told investors that it delivered 1,404 of its Air sedans during the second quarter, missing Wall Street analysts’ expectations by nearly 600 vehicle deliveries. The startup also said it built 2,173 vehicles during Q2, down from 2,314…

Google has updated its mobile software marketplace policy to allow application developers to integrate digital assets like NFTs into their games through its Play app store, the company’s group product manager Joseph Mills announced on Wednesday. As part of the policy update, Mills stated that apps must be “transparent with users about tokenized digital assets”…

Netflix is updating its Profile Transfer feature to allow members to switch to an already existing account, the company noted today in a blog post. Now users can transfer their profile preferences to another existing account instead of starting a brand-new one. “Starting today, the Profile Transfer feature has been updated to allow transfers to…

Meta announced today that users can now use their avatars to answer and make video calls on Instagram and Messenger. The company says the new functionality will allow users to take part in video calls in instances where they’re not camera-ready. The result is an animated video call where you and your friends are looking…

Florida and Tennessee are both in the top-5 of states with the highest percentage of Prime Day phishing scam victims, but neither claimed the top spot…

Jeremiah Stone Contributor Every company needs to be thinking about how to make artificial intelligence (AI) a seamless extension of its team. How often has an employee said, “I wish there were more hours in the day to get all my work done,” or “This is too much work for just one person.” AI has…

The U.S. government accused a cybersecurity professional of hacking a cryptocurrency exchange and stealing around $9 million in cryptocurrency, in what looks like a case of an ethical hacker turning rogue, then trying to appear ethical again. In a press release on Tuesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office of the Southern District of New York announced…