Solestial promises solar panels in space for a tenth of the cost and lines up $10M seed

October 11, 2022

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 Cloud expands to six more countries

October 11, 2022

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

Google opens up Workspace with new integrations and APIs

October 11, 2022

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

October 11, 2022

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

NocoDB takes on Airtable with open source no-code platform that connects to production databases

October 11, 2022

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

October 11, 2022

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