YouTube Shorts are now available in 100 countries globally Expect to see a lot more of the video format now. I. Bonifacic @igorbonifacic YouTube After a limited release in India late last year and a US beta at the start of 2021, YouTube is expanding the availability of Shorts, its TikTok competitor, to 100 … Continue reading Google buys an AI avatar startup to take on TikTok
By Ryan Agresta October 10, 2022 If you’ve been following the hiring trends over the past several months, you’ve seen a dramatic shift in tone as start-ups and big tech prepare for a possible recession. Layoffs, rescinded offers, and dwindling job postings have shifted the tides, especially in the tech and startup spaces. … Continue reading 3 ways to look for a job at a startup in uncertain times
7 Strategic Tips for Startup CMOs to Stay on Top Abeer Raza / 07 Oct 2022 We all are in a race, striving to get ahead of everyone and anyone. Sometimes, we invent new strategies to propel ourselves further, and we mostly rely on proven tactics to improve our scores. Who Bears the Heaviest … Continue reading 7 Strategic Tips for Startup CMOs to Stay on Top
5 Signs That Indicate Your Startup Is Ready To Scale Up Deanna Ritchie / 24 Sep 2022 Concerns surrounding the current changing economic cycle amid rampant running inflation, a tightening monetary policy, and an even tighter labor market has seen small business sentiment reach a new low against the backdrop of tumultuous conditions. Across the … Continue reading 5 Signs That Indicate Your Startup Is Ready To Scale Up
Larry Page’s air taxi startup loses one of its key designers It’s also buying drone maker 3D Robotics. J. Fingas @jonfingas Kitty Hawk Kitty Hawk might have the backing of Google’s Larry Page, but that doesn’t mean things are going smoothly. Forbes has learned that Kitty Hawk dropped key engineer Damon Vander Lind in … Continue reading Larry Page’s Kitty Hawk air taxi startup is shutting down
By Clint Rainey August 24, 2022 Jamie Earl White grew up in a rural Texas town near Uvalde where there was a clear resources divide between “the ranching class and the non-ranching class.” As an MIT student, he took careful notes during Occupy Boston and helped lead the “Justice for Janitors” campaign—a lesson … Continue reading ‘We still have a lot to prove’: VC-backed union startup responds to skepticism around its model
By Adele Peters August 10, 2022 During a trip to Thailand on his honeymoon, while swimming above a coral reef, Wil Srubar was thinking about the beauty of nature—but he was also thinking about cement. In the reef, microalgae were growing calcium carbonate, a key material used to make cement, the glue that holds … Continue reading This startup is using microalgae to make carbon-neutral cement
How to Find the Perfect Startup Niche Deanna Ritchie / 25 Jul 2022 Millions of would-be entrepreneurs dream of the opportunity to launch a successful startup. But before you spend your first dollar or land your first client, you need to find a niche for your business. It’s not enough to have a good … Continue reading How to Find the Perfect Startup Niche
By David Salazar July 13, 2022 Digital pharmacies looking to set themselves apart in a crowded field are taking a page—and executives—from the biggest names in tech. Case in point: SoftBank-backed startup Alto Pharmacy, which just landed a top Amazon exec as its next CEO. Alicia Boler Davis will take the reins of the company … Continue reading Why an Amazon executive just signed on to lead this digital pharmacy startup
By Sy Mukherjee June 20, 2022 Ling Shao’s 3-year-old autistic son struggles to communicate. “My youngest son, he has almost a calcified part of his forehead because he bangs it on the floor so much because he’s frustrated, and he can’t communicate what he wants,” she says. “It’s heartbreaking.” Shao, who is the … Continue reading How a tech startup is using AI to find better treatments for autism
