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When Outsourcing Social Media Is The Right Move For Startups
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…
Hydration Startups Raise Millions While The Category Leader Stalls
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…
VC-backed startups commit more fraud, and researchers think they know why
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…
A London Startup Is Selling Permanent Stick-On Tattoos-and It Wants to Do Mail Order
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…
Would you get tattooed just to interview at a 7-days-a-week AI startup?
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…
The many challenges for ISRO: Rise of startups, launch setbacks, attrition
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…
Y Combinator-backed AI startup is under fire after its founder offered instant interviews to partygoers who got company tattoos, then apologized
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…
AI compliance startup plants HQ in Miami area, plans to hire 20 to start
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…
Five Venture Capital Trends: Where Gaming Capital Is Moving In 2026
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…
Don't let Jodrell Bank Observatory become another industrial museum | Letters
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…
Silicon Valley loves young founders. Until it doesn't.
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…
Why OpenAI's 80% Price Cut Could Trigger A Race To The Bottom In AI
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…
NY sues Kalshi over alleged illegal gambling operation as prediction market war heats up
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…
Chinese AI shakes up global markets
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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