The world’s first industrial-scale plant for green steel promises a cleaner future
Solestial promises solar panels in space for a tenth of the cost and lines up $10M seed
The coming wave of satellite constellations all need power, but solar panels built for space are extremely expensive and difficult to manufacture. Solestial is ready to change that with space-grade panels built using inexpensive, scalable processes, and it just raised $10 million to take its tech from lab to orbit. The company, formerly known as […]
Solestial promises solar panels in space for a tenth of the cost and lines up $10M seed by Devin Coldewey originally published on TechCrunch
Google Meet gets automatic meeting transcriptions
Meetings — nobody wants them but everybody has them. So for those times when you’re in a meeting but mostly just surfing the web, it’s nice to have a transcript to make sure you didn’t miss that one important nugget of information that actually pertains to your job. Google knows this, so the company today […]
Google Meet gets automatic meeting transcriptions by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Google Cloud expands to six more countries
Google today announced its plans for a major expansion of its physical Google Cloud infrastructure. The company plans to launch new Google Cloud regions in six new countries: Austria, Czech Republic, Greece, Norway, South Africa and Sweden. That’s on top of the regions in Milan, Paris, Madrid, Columbus and Dallas the company already announced and […]
Google Cloud expands to six more countries by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
As crypto regulation looms ahead, here are the bills to look out for
The CFTC and the SEC’s roles around cryptocurrency regulation have been somewhat blurred, and each of these bills aim to provide greater clarity on that front.
As crypto regulation looms ahead, here are the bills to look out for by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs
Google Workspace, the company’s set of productivity tools most recently known as G Suite, is getting a major update at the company’s Cloud Next conference this week. This includes quite a few customer-facing features, but maybe even more importantly, Google is using this occasion to open up Workspace with new integrations and developer tools that […]
Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs
Small and medium businesses, long overlooked in the building of innovative technology, have lately become a key focus in the world of B2B software. Now, a startup called Factorial — one of the bigger players in the area of building HR technology for SMBs — is announcing a big fundraise at a “unicorn” valuation that […]
Factorial adds $120M and doubles valuation to $1B to build enterprise-quality HR for SMBs by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Wishlink Raises $3 Million In Seed Funding Round
NocoDB takes on Airtable with open source no-code platform that connects to production databases
A new company is setting out to challenge Airtable, the 10-year-old company recently valued at a whopping $11 billion, with a slightly different take on what it means to be a no-code database platform. NocoDB is one of a number of startups to emerge on the scene with plans to usurp the mighty Airtable, with […]
NocoDB takes on Airtable with open source no-code platform that connects to production databases by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
GM is in the energy business now
General Motors is launching a new line of energy products to homeowners, businesses and utilities — the next step in an EV offensive designed to generate revenue beyond making and selling electric vehicles and aimed directly at Tesla. The product line will be housed under a new business unit called GM Energy and covers the […]
GM is in the energy business now by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch