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forbes.com - Alison Coleman - When Outsourcing Social Media Is The Right Move For Startups
When Outsourcing Social Media Is The Right Move For Startups
Forbes

Effective social media management relies on strategy, collaboration and measurable results. Every startup founder thinks they can handle social media, until they realize they're competing with creators, AI-generated content and algorithms that…

forbes.com - Josipa Majic Predin - Hydration Startups Raise Millions While The Category Leader Stalls
Hydration Startups Raise Millions While The Category Leader Stalls
Forbes

FIFA's mandatory World Cup hydration breaks are a $250 million ad goldmine, underscoring the commercial boom in hydration. This trend drives massive investment into companies like Waterdrop, Cirkul, and air up, which have raised hundreds of…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
TechCrunch

A new report from the U.K.'s Imperial College and France's Emlyon Business School has mapped out the ways Silicon Valley's VC-backed founders commit fraud — and the role investors play. For the report, published online in June, researchers…

gizmodo.com - Tom Hawking - A London Startup Is Selling Permanent Stick-On Tattoos-and It Wants to Do Mail Order
A London Startup Is Selling Permanent Stick-On Tattoos-and It Wants to Do Mail Order
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here

Today's entry to the ranks of “technologies that are cool in a technical sense but also don't seem like a particularly great idea” comes from London-based startup CipherX, which describes itself as “a biotech start-up…

axios.com - Ryan Lawler - Prediction market startups pick their layer
Prediction market startups pick their layer
Axios

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arstechnica.com - Nate Anderson - Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
Ars Technica

Everyone knows that great gimmicks are the key to hiring top developers for your startup. That's why small AI startup LemonLime—which “optimizes your existing data to work with AI”—has so many of them. Want a job…

indianexpress.com - Johnson T A - The many challenges for ISRO: Rise of startups, launch setbacks, attrition
The many challenges for ISRO: Rise of startups, launch setbacks, attrition
The Indian Express

What is the attrition situation at ISRO? A July 14 Department of Space memo, signed by a joint secretary with the Union government, addressed “a spate of requests for voluntary retirement and resignation from Group A scientific technical…

fortune.com - Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez - Y Combinator-backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized
Y Combinator-backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized
Fortune

A startup founder said he offered instant interviews to anyone who got company tattoos at a recent event—and several people apparently took him up on it. Jordan Zietz, the CEO and cofounder of Y Combinator-backed startup LemonLime, said in a…

refreshmiami.com - Nancy Dahlberg - AI compliance startup plants HQ in Miami area, plans to hire 20 to start
AI compliance startup plants HQ in Miami area, plans to hire 20 to start
Refresh Miami

A fast-growing AI startup has made the Miami area its permanent home. Comp AI, an AI-native compliance and security platform for software companies, announced Friday that it has opened its new headquarters in Aventura and plans to hire about 20…

forbes.com - Roman Gurskiy - Five Venture Capital Trends: Where Gaming Capital Is Moving In 2026
Five Venture Capital Trends: Where Gaming Capital Is Moving In 2026
Forbes

Roman Gurskiy is Managing Director of GEM Capital, a leading Cyprus-based investment firm with a focus on game studios. After a three-year period of stagnation in venture capital investment, the market began to recover in 2025. According to…

theguardian.com - Guardian staff reporter - Don't let Jodrell Bank Observatory become another industrial museum | Letters
Don't let Jodrell Bank Observatory become another industrial museum | Letters
The Guardian

Readers respond to reports that the world-famous big dish is facing closure due to spending cuts by UK Research and Innovation Throughout my long life, Jodrell Bank Observatory has been a source of wonder and pride (Jodrell Bank Observatory facing…

techcrunch.com - Dominic-Madori Davis - Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn't.
Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn't.
TechCrunch

For Arlan Rakhmetzhanov, 19, there is no middle ground. Either he builds a company as valuable as Google, he says, or he fails and ends up on the streets. He started coding at 15 in his native Kazakhstan, completed a couple of summer programs in…

forbes.com - Gerui Wang - Why OpenAI's 80% Price Cut Could Trigger A Race To The Bottom In AI
Why OpenAI's 80% Price Cut Could Trigger A Race To The Bottom In AI
Forbes

WASHINGTON, DC - MARCH 11: OpenAI CEO Sam Altman speaks during the BlackRock Infrastructure Summit on March 11, 2026 in Washington, DC. The global investment management company held the summit consisting of leaders from government, business, and…

nypost.com - Ariel Zilber - NY sues Kalshi over alleged illegal gambling operation as prediction market war heats up
NY sues Kalshi over alleged illegal gambling operation as prediction market war heats up
New York Post

New York on Friday sued Kalshi, accusing the federally regulated prediction market operator of running an illegal gambling business in the Empire State in the latest legal challenge to one of the country's hottest startups. The lawsuit, filed in…

abc.net.au - Lin Lin - Chinese AI shakes up global markets
Chinese AI shakes up global markets
Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Posted Sat 1 Aug 2026 at 4:43am Chinese-developed AI models are becoming more advanced and cheaper to deploy, which is threatening US dominance. Financial markets are rattled, adding to concerns about whether massive investment in AI will generate…

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