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Waymo, Driverless Taxi Start-Up From Google's Parent Firm, Raises $5.6 Billion
Alphabet's self-driving unit, Waymo, said on Friday it had closed a $5.6 billion funding round led by the Google parent, as it looks to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service.
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IIT Madras Collaborates With French Firm To Set Up 100 Million Euros Start-up Hub
This collaboration aims to position India as a leading hub for ASD innovation, facilitating export promotion, and providing a gateway for Indian startups to explore international markets.
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India's Skyroot Aerospace in Talks With French Firm to Launch Nanosatellites
French space sector firm Promethee on Friday said it was exploring the possibility of placing its nanosatellites in orbit using the Vikram-series of launch vehicles being developed by Indian start-up Skyroot Aerospace. Skyroot co-founder Pawan Kumar Chandana held discussions with Promethee President Olivier Piepsz on the sidelines of the official ...
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Indian Clothing And Fashion Start-Up Meesho Lays Off 15% Of Its Employees
E-commerce firm Meesho has laid off 251 employees constituting 15 per cent of its workforce to cut costs and as part of its efforts to achieve profitability, a top company official said on Friday.
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Israeli Start-Up Creates World's First 3D-Printed Fish Fillet - See Pic
The company, named Steakholder Foods, states that they are growing fish fillets in laboratory, using cells of grouper fish.
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Japan Lunar Lander Likely Crashed On Moon: Company
An attempt by Japanese start-up ispace to become the first private firm to put a lander on the Moon has ended in failure, the company said Wednesday.
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Blockchain Impact Lab Launched in Hyderabad-Based Indian School of Business: Details
A blockchain-focussed impact lab has been set up in the Hyderabad campus of the Indian School of Business (ISB). DLabs, which was set up within the ISB campus last year to incubate potential start-ups, has teamed up with S&P Global, an intelligence and tech firm, to back up the Blockchain Impact Lab.
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Chinese Firm Invents Long-Distance Kissing Machine For Remote Lovers
A Chinese start-up inspired by lockdown isolation has invented a long-distance kissing machine that transmits users' kiss data collected through motion sensors hidden in silicon lips, which simultaneously move when replaying kisses received.
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Spotify Needs to Profit From a Music Revolution
Spotify has never turned an annual profit; it seems to be in “perennial start-up mode,” as music royalties expert Phil Bird recently put it. The firm seems to be pursuing an alternative course, disrupting its own core product by folding into a new kind of tech offering pitched as the “Spotify machine” to investors. Here's why Spotify needs ...
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UGC Asks Universities, Colleges To Create State-Of-The-Art Digital Experience For G20 Meetings
The Ministry of Electronics and lnformation Technology (MeitY), is inviting Expressions of lnterest from interested entrepreneurs, start-ups, firms, and college students for conceptualising the digital experience using the latest emerging technologies for the G20 meeting to be held in various cities
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This Singapore Group Will Invest $100 Million Via Fund For Digital Assets
Singapore's Whampoa Group, a multi-family office with investments in global tech firms, aims to deploy about $100 million through a venture capital fund in start-ups in the burgeoning digital assets segment, its senior executives said.
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MS Dhoni-Backed Drone Firm To Provide Expertise To Indian Army
Drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace is all set to provide expertise to the Indian Army for carrying out special missions by detecting, deterring, and disrupting transnational organized criminal networks.
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Digital Lending Startup EarlySalary In Talks To Raise $110 Million: Report
Indian digital lending startup EarlySalary is in talks to raise $110 million in a round led by private equity firm TPG, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told
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Aptos Labs Raises $150 Million in Series A Funding, Plans to Expand Staff
Aptos Labs, a blockchain start-up founded by former Meta employees, Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, has secured $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,196 crore) in a Series A funding round. FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto led the funding round. Griffin Gaming Partners and Franklin Templeton are among other venture capital firms that participated in the round. With t...
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You Can Withdraw Payments From Abroad In Parts From October: Startup Firm
Fintech startup PayNearby will start a facility of inward cross-border remittance by October, allowing beneficiaries to withdraw the amount as per their requirement rather than taking the whole amount in one go.
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Waymo, Driverless Taxi Start-Up From Google's Parent Firm, Raises $5.6 Billion
Alphabet's self-driving unit, Waymo, said on Friday it had closed a $5.6 billion funding round led by the Google parent, as it looks to expand its autonomous ride-hailing service.
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IIT Madras Collaborates With French Firm To Set Up 100 Million Euros Start-up Hub
This collaboration aims to position India as a leading hub for ASD innovation, facilitating export promotion, and providing a gateway for Indian startups to explore international markets.
-
India's Skyroot Aerospace in Talks With French Firm to Launch Nanosatellites
French space sector firm Promethee on Friday said it was exploring the possibility of placing its nanosatellites in orbit using the Vikram-series of launch vehicles being developed by Indian start-up Skyroot Aerospace. Skyroot co-founder Pawan Kumar Chandana held discussions with Promethee President Olivier Piepsz on the sidelines of the official ...
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Indian Clothing And Fashion Start-Up Meesho Lays Off 15% Of Its Employees
E-commerce firm Meesho has laid off 251 employees constituting 15 per cent of its workforce to cut costs and as part of its efforts to achieve profitability, a top company official said on Friday.
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Israeli Start-Up Creates World's First 3D-Printed Fish Fillet - See Pic
The company, named Steakholder Foods, states that they are growing fish fillets in laboratory, using cells of grouper fish.
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Japan Lunar Lander Likely Crashed On Moon: Company
An attempt by Japanese start-up ispace to become the first private firm to put a lander on the Moon has ended in failure, the company said Wednesday.
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Blockchain Impact Lab Launched in Hyderabad-Based Indian School of Business: Details
A blockchain-focussed impact lab has been set up in the Hyderabad campus of the Indian School of Business (ISB). DLabs, which was set up within the ISB campus last year to incubate potential start-ups, has teamed up with S&P Global, an intelligence and tech firm, to back up the Blockchain Impact Lab.
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Chinese Firm Invents Long-Distance Kissing Machine For Remote Lovers
A Chinese start-up inspired by lockdown isolation has invented a long-distance kissing machine that transmits users' kiss data collected through motion sensors hidden in silicon lips, which simultaneously move when replaying kisses received.
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Spotify Needs to Profit From a Music Revolution
Spotify has never turned an annual profit; it seems to be in “perennial start-up mode,” as music royalties expert Phil Bird recently put it. The firm seems to be pursuing an alternative course, disrupting its own core product by folding into a new kind of tech offering pitched as the “Spotify machine” to investors. Here's why Spotify needs ...
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UGC Asks Universities, Colleges To Create State-Of-The-Art Digital Experience For G20 Meetings
The Ministry of Electronics and lnformation Technology (MeitY), is inviting Expressions of lnterest from interested entrepreneurs, start-ups, firms, and college students for conceptualising the digital experience using the latest emerging technologies for the G20 meeting to be held in various cities
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This Singapore Group Will Invest $100 Million Via Fund For Digital Assets
Singapore's Whampoa Group, a multi-family office with investments in global tech firms, aims to deploy about $100 million through a venture capital fund in start-ups in the burgeoning digital assets segment, its senior executives said.
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MS Dhoni-Backed Drone Firm To Provide Expertise To Indian Army
Drone manufacturer Garuda Aerospace is all set to provide expertise to the Indian Army for carrying out special missions by detecting, deterring, and disrupting transnational organized criminal networks.
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Digital Lending Startup EarlySalary In Talks To Raise $110 Million: Report
Indian digital lending startup EarlySalary is in talks to raise $110 million in a round led by private equity firm TPG, a source with direct knowledge of the matter told
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Aptos Labs Raises $150 Million in Series A Funding, Plans to Expand Staff
Aptos Labs, a blockchain start-up founded by former Meta employees, Mo Shaikh and Avery Ching, has secured $150 million (roughly Rs. 1,196 crore) in a Series A funding round. FTX Ventures and Jump Crypto led the funding round. Griffin Gaming Partners and Franklin Templeton are among other venture capital firms that participated in the round. With t...
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You Can Withdraw Payments From Abroad In Parts From October: Startup Firm
Fintech startup PayNearby will start a facility of inward cross-border remittance by October, allowing beneficiaries to withdraw the amount as per their requirement rather than taking the whole amount in one go.
