‘Good Career Move’: These 10 Jobs Will Most Likely Get Raises This Year
The roles were in fields ranging from healthcare to finance. Is your job on the list?
XOi raises $230M, acquires Specifx to expand its tech for field service technicians
Field service engineers may not be the first group of customers that come to mind when you think about lucrative opportunities in B2B technology. But that same blind spot speaks of the opportunity in the space for those who are stepping up and targeting “the job site.” One of the players in that space, XOi […]
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SpaceX catches Starship booster a second time, loses ship to an ‘anomaly’ in space
SpaceX caught the Starship rocket’s Super Heavy booster for a second time, after it launched the upper stage into space on Thursday during a seventh test flight of the system. Soon after the successful catch, SpaceX representatives reported the ship was lost after the company lost contact about eight and half minutes into the flight. […]
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Despite VCs investing $75B in Q4 , it’s still hard for startups to raise money, data proves
After two years of relatively muted investment activity, it seems that VCs are starting to pour capital into startups at pandemic-era levels once again. But a closer look shows that they aren’t really. In the fourth quarter of last year, investors funneled $74.6 billion into US startups, a substantial increase from the average of $42 […]
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New York powerhouse VC Insight Partners nabs another $12.5B after $8B in exits
Insight Partners closed another giant flagship fund after big returns in 2024.
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Failed fintech startup Bench racked up over $65 million in debt, documents reveal
Canadian Fintech Bench had over $65 million in debt but less than $3 million in cash, documents reveal.
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Apple pauses AI notification summaries for news after generating false alerts
Apple is pausing AI notification summaries for news and entertainment apps after facing backlash for generating inaccurate news alerts. In addition, the company is introducing changes to notification summaries as a whole to allow for greater transparency. With the latest round of developer previews for iOS 18.3, iPadOS 18.3, and macOS Sequoia 15.3, Apple is disabling […]
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Threads might let you add music to your posts in the future
Meta’s Threads is internally prototyping the ability to add music to posts, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. The option to add music to posts is already available on Meta’s other social apps, Instagram and Facebook. It looks like the company is now thinking about bringing the feature to Threads, its X competitor. The feature isn’t […]
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Duolingo Says It’s Seen ‘216% Growth in New Chinese (Mandarin) Learners’ as TikTok Users Try Out a Competing App
U.S. users are flocking to RedNote, a social media app set to a default language of Mandarin Chinese.
Is the Supreme Court Upholding the TikTok Ban? Here’s What We Know and What It Means for Your Business
TikTok says creators and small businesses could lose $1.3 billion in the first month.
Trump administration might give a boost to deep-sea mining for critical minerals
A string of nominees all previously said that they support the practice A string of nominees all previously said that they support the controversial practice.
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