Arduino exploring India manufacturing to limit counterfeit sales

December 22, 2023

Arduino is considering manufacturing in India. The startup, best known for its open-source microcontroller boards, hopes to restrict the rise of counterfeit boards and cater to the growing demand from India’s youth population. The Italian firm is currently exploring partnerships with electronic manufacturing service (EMS) companies in the South Asian nation to begin its local […]

Want to Find — and Keep — More Employees in 2024? Focus on Sustainability. Here’s How.

December 22, 2023

Finding and retaining employees remains a key concern for most small businesses. Joining sustainable organizations is one (surprising) way you can more easily attract and keep workers.

Micron share price to benefit from multi-year memory upcycle

December 22, 2023

Micron returns to growth and issues a solid outlook for 2024 supported by demand for AI-centric memory and end-market normalization.

It’s critical to regulate AI within the multi-trillion-dollar API economy

December 22, 2023

Various kinds of AI have been here for a while, but it’s generative AI (and LLMs) that completely changed the risk landscape.

Fintech’s biggest hits and misses of 2023

December 22, 2023

As 2023 comes to a close, we’re here to look back at the biggest fintech stories of the year. Silicon Valley Bank’s implosion felt like a fintech story in that a number of startups (Brex, Arc and Mercury, for example) in the space leapt to fill the hole left by its collapse. But it truly […]

Pitch Deck Teardown: HomeCooks’ $3.2M seed deck

December 22, 2023

Positioning itself as the “Etsy of food,” HomeCooks has raised $3.2 million in seed funding. What did it do right in its crowdfunding campaign slides?

Your Brand Will Flop If It Doesn’t Stand Out. Try the Contrarian Design Strategy That Worked for These 6 Founders.

December 22, 2023

From chocolate bars to pet care, you may recognize these brands when you see them — and their founders made deliberate decisions to make that happen. Here, they explain how they zeroed in on aesthetics that stand out.

Founder Wins $10K for Her Safety-Driven Lipstick Company. Here’s the Strategy She Used to Craft Her Pitch.

December 22, 2023

On this episode of the “Post-Pitch Podcast,” Joy Hoover discusses funding and growing Esoes, her cosmetics company with a mission.

OpenAI Introduces New Governance Model for AI Safety Oversight

December 22, 2023

Led by Aleksander Madry, a new team evaluates potential risks in unreleased AI models, focusing on cybersecurity threats and other dangers.

Spotify starts divesting from France in response to new music-streaming tax

December 22, 2023

Spotify is pulling support for two music festivals in protest against a controversial new tax directed at music-streaming platforms operating in France, and threatened more action will follow in the coming months. Antoine Monin, managing director for Spotify in the France and the Benelux regions, took to X this week to decry a new tax […]

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