Hollywood’s writers already had a mechanism in place to rebuff what they consider to be unfair changes to their compensation and employment. Tech workers don’t have that muscle.
Tech workers could take labor lessons from Hollywood’s writers by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Hello and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Today, we are talking about meme coins, unicorns and the latest from India! […]
Shrinking unicorns and the embarrassment of meme coins by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
NextGen Healthcare, a U.S.-based provider of electronic health record software, admitted that hackers breached its systems and stole the personal data of more than 1 million patients. In a data breach notification filed with the Maine attorney general’s office, NextGen Healthcare confirmed that hackers accessed the personal data of 1.05 million patients, including approximately 4,000 […]
NextGen Healthcare says hackers accessed personal data of more than 1 million patients by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
When mHub opened its doors in Chicago seven years ago, the vision was to create a traditional incubator for people making things. It would involve a prototyping lab, offices, shared workspaces, meeting rooms and classrooms. In those seven years, the accelerator says it has supported more than 500 startups, 200 manufacturers, been awarded around 450 […]
mHub opens much bigger facility to kick Chicago startups into high gear by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
PermitFlow has software for developers and general contractors to streamline the construction permit application and management processes.
PermitFlow advances construction permitting automation with $5.5M in new capital by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
When an NFT series commemorating the handover of Hong Kong from the U.K. to China generated $260,000 in sales, Artifact Labs, the startup that launched the collection, saw the long-term potential of tokenizing historical artifacts and making them immutable and accessible to the public. Artifact was born out of South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s […]
NFT spinoff from newspaper SCMP gets funded to tokenize historical artifacts by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. First, it is snapping up Blinkist, a startup out of Berlin that had built a […]
Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Qualcomm’s longer term bet on the automotive sector as a lucrative customer base for its chips and related communications technology is getting a significant push today: the company announced that it is acquiring Autotalks, a fabless chipmaker out of Israel that builds semiconductor and system-on-a-chip technology to aid in automotive safety; sources tell us Qualcomm […]
Qualcomm acquires Autotalks to boost Snapdragon’s automotive safety technology, reportedly for $350-400M by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Partners of 3one4 Capital, a venture capital firm in India, recently went on a road show to raise a new fund. Within two and a half months, at the height of the worsening global economy, they had secured $200 million. It’s the fourth marquee fund for the Bengaluru-headquartered fund, whose portfolio includes four unicorn startups. […]
3one4 Capital, driven by contrarian bets, raises $200 million new fund by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch