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Good news, startups: Q3 software results are changing the tech narrative

New data from Salesforce, Zuora, Okta, Nutanix and Snowflake makes it plain that several tech sectors are doing better than a lot of people expected.

This small French company wants to build the open alternative to Kindle and Kobo

For the past decade, three companies have been building full-fledged ebook ecosystems with devices, apps and digital bookstores all working perfectly together — Amazon, Rakuten and a tiny compa

Nucleos puts secure, tablet-powered education in the hands of inmates

Inmates in correctional facilities around the country have wildly varying levels of opportunity to prepare for life after release. Nucleos is a startup that hopes to make the kind of e-learning tools

Practical advice for B2B startups raising a Series A

In conditions today, completing even a Series A round is a powerful symbol of your fintech project's promise.

Salesforce Ventures and Female Founders Fund back Kenyan climate-tech Amini in $4M seed round

Amini, a Kenya-based climate-tech startup bridging the environmental data gap in Africa, has raised $4 million seed funding in a round led by Salesforce Ventures and the Female Founders Fund. Climate-

Amazon CTO Werner Vogels on culturally aware LLMs, developer productivity and FemTech

By tradition, Amazon CTO Werner Vogels caps off the AWS re:Invent conference with his last-day keynote. A more recent tradition is that he also uses that day to publish his predictions for the coming

Tech-enabled warehousing startup Huboo raises another $36.6M amid continued e-commerce growth

When consumers switched to home deliveries and “digitized” their lifestyles during the pandemic, it led to a surge in e-commerce sales and thus, also, in the need for warehousing and shipping. But

Here’s your reminder that Google is deleting inactive accounts tomorrow

As Google ramps up its security measures, the company is deleting inactive accounts that haven’t been touched for two years as a way of protecting users from security threats, such as identity theft

One year later, ChatGPT is still alive and kicking

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s viral AI chatbot, turns one today. A year ago, OpenAI released ChatGPT as a “low-key research preview” — reportedly spurred in part by an intense rivalry with

As Google Drive struggles with missing files bug, it redesigns its homepage to find files faster

Google Drive is rolling out a new homepage that aims to make it easier and faster for you to find files, even as the company is facing an issue that saw files go missing from users’ drives. Goog

Kognitos raises $20M to help businesses automate back-office processes

Businesses will never not (forgive the double negative) push to improve efficiency. It’s their commercial imperative. Sometimes, that takes the form of budget cuts. Other times, it’s more

South Korea to launch digital currency pilot with 100,000 residents next year

The Bank of Korea (BOK) rolled out details on its pilot program for its retail central bank digital currency (CBDC), stating that 100,000 selected Korean citizens will join the trial in the fourth qua

NomuPay, formed out of Wirecard’s ashes, acquires Total Processing for tooling and customer service

NomuPay — the payments startup that was formed out of some of the healthier pieces of the dramatically failed fintech Wirecard — has made an acquisition as it continues on its trajectory o

Meta reportedly set to launch Threads in the EU next month

Since its launch in July, Meta’s text-based social network Threads has gained many features, but a major missing part in the puzzle has been the app’s availability in the EU. The company,

What’s up with Tesla’s Cybertruck? Everything to know about much-hyped electric pickup

Tesla is moving forward with the long-awaited launch of its Cybertruck electric pickup. The boxy vehicle is Tesla’s first new model since 2020, when it started delivering the Model Y. Yet, Cybertruc

Zubale bags new capital for software to help retailers scale e-commerce in Latin America

The new investment will be deployed into growing Zubale's three e-commerce productivity offerings, continued product development and strategies to consolidate its presence in Mexico and Brazil.

As Temu shakes up global ecommerce, PDD nears overtaking Alibaba

PDD, the firm behind the fast-growing shopping app Temu, is shaking up China’s Big Tech club. On Thursday, news of Alibaba’s market cap sliding under that of PDD made headlines all over th

It’s official: Evernote will restrict free users to 50 notes

Days after Evernote started testing a free plan with access to only one notebook and 50 notes with limited users, the company has now made this its new default free plan. The notetaking app said that

Robinhood brings its stock-trading platform to the U.K., its first international market

We knew it was coming, but stock-trading platform Robinhood is finally open for business in the U.K. — its first international market since debuting in the U.S. more than a decade ago. Robinhood

European consumer groups band together to fight Meta’s self-serving ad-free sub — branding it ‘unfair’ and ‘illegal’

Days after a privacy complaint was lodged against Meta in the European Union over its latest controversial shift of legal basis claimed for processing people’s data for ads, consumer groups acr
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