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Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss
Meta has tapped Indian fintech founder Kunal Shah as the new head of WhatsApp, as the US tech giant seeks ways to monetise the messaging app's massive user base. The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead…
Google Taps Employee Alumni Network With AI Startup Incubator
Alphabet Inc.'s Google is backing a new incubator for former employees building artificial intelligence startups, deepening its ties with one of Silicon Valley's largest and most influential alumni groups. The 12-week program, supported by Google's…
Desperate AI Startup Now Cleaning Messy Apartments for Free
Can't-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech The adage, “data is the new currency,” has taken on a whole new meaning in a society obsessed with AI. The prevailing thinking is that with more data, AI models will…
MrBeast has hired a team from an A16z-backed startup as he races to build a creator platform
MrBeast has been on a hiring spree as he builds a platform to match brands with creators for sponsorship deals — and diversify his company beyond YouTube. His company, Beast Industries, recently hired a team from the creator-commerce startup…
Crypto analytics startup Allium raises $40 million to tame blockchain data for Wall Street
Blockchains are public databases, but that doesn't mean they're legible. Even experts struggle to read their complicated strings of letters, numbers, and transactions. Still, with enough savvy, the troves of data on blockchains become more…
WhatsApp gets new chief as Meta taps India's CRED founder Kunal Shah, and invests $900M in startup
Meta is betting on India for WhatsApp's next chapter, naming entrepreneur Kunal Shah to lead the messaging app and succeed Will Cathcart, who is stepping down after nearly seven years at the helm to take on a new product-building role at the…
How a $4 billion Indian startup won Meta's backing but lost its founder to WhatsApp
Indian fintech startup Cred will raise $900 million in funding at a valuation of over $4 billion on Monday. Meta led the funding round and will be a minority investor in Cred. Meta will not have access to CRED's customer data as part of the deal.
Indian startup head appointed as new WhatsApp boss
The announcement, made Monday night, was accompanied by news that Meta would also lead a $900 million funding round in Shah's consumer finance firm CRED. 'Kunal built CRED into one of India's most important technology companies,' Meta chief Mark…
Startup looks to reshape shipping | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
A Bay Area startup is trying to reinvent the semitruck by making the gas-guzzling giants electric, autonomous and designed for efficiency. Humble Robotics, founded last year in San Francisco, has raised $24 million to develop a cabless freight…
How astronomy, fireflies and forests become a business model for a village startup in Pune
The landscape decides where people want to stay. For many decades, Shilimb, located beside the Pawna Dam backwaters in Mawal taluka of Pune district, was a village that ambitious young people wanted to escape. Tucked into the rocky terrain of the…
Can reflecting the Sun buy time for net zero? A startup has raised $US75m to try
Private firms are making plans to cool the planet by releasing reflective particles high into the atmosphere, an idea known as solar geoengineering or solar radiation modification (SRM). With a war chest of private capital estimated at more than…
How Yann LeCun's Startup Challenges the Logic Behind Today's A.I. Race
Meta 's former chief A.I. scientist, Yann LeCun, helped lay the groundwork for the modern A.I. boom long before chatbots became an industry obsession. Now, after leaving Meta in late 2025, he is building a multibillion-dollar startup under the…
SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion
SpaceX has signed a major computing power deal with Reflection AI for access to Nvidia GB300 chips at Elon Musk's Colossus 2 data center. The open-source AI startup will pay Musk's company $150 million per month starting July 1, 2026, with payments…
Why India's wealthy families are betting on startups as venture capitalists pull back
MUMBAI: When the family behind Indian real estate developer Sattva Group decided to diversify its investments, it turned its attention to technology startups. Adrija Agarwal - who graduated from Cornell University in the United States in 2016 and…
Qualcomm nearing deal for AI chip startup Modular, Bloomberg News reports
23 Jun 2026 05:57AM (Updated: 23 Jun 2026 06:03AM) June 22: Qualcomm is in advanced discussions to acquire Modular Inc in a transaction valuing the AI chip company at about $4 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Monday, citing people familiar with…
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