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SparkLabs and Mirae Asset Launch a Venture Capital Fund for Central Asian Startups
During this past week, South Korea and Kazakhstan signed commercial agreements worth US$18.95 billion. Kazakhstan is a country of 20 million people with its core industries being oil and gas, and among the highest producers of iron and silver in…
Trump and sons invest heavily in AI economy as he resists calls for slowdown
President Donald Trump's sprawling family business empire has become increasingly intertwined with the boom in artificial intelligence, at the same time that he has resisted calls to slow the development of the technology, a Washington Post…
Solar Power Is Getting So Cheap That It's Almost Unbelievable
Though the price to install new solar panels has been trending downward for a while, it's officially reached a new milestone: “offensively cheap.” Provocative new reporting by the Financial Times highlighted the new paradigm around…
India's biotech start-ups need patient capital to drive novel drug innovation, industry leaders say
India's biotech start-ups need larger and more patient pools of capital to take novel drug candidates through the long and high-risk development cycle, while stronger links between academia, investors and industry are needed to build a domestic…
Business founder wants to cut real estate agents out of the rental market
About a third of Australia's 2.2 million residential rentals are now being leased out without a real estate agent, according to property platform RentBetter, in a trend that it says is accelerating as the market tightens in the wake of the federal…
UK startup snares $20m to recreate gigs with 'hyper-realistic' digital avatars
The former chief executive of Andrew Lloyd Webber's entertainment group has obtained a near-£15m investment for his UK music tech startup that hopes to recreate classic concerts by manifesting musicians as digital avatars. Unit1 was set up…
Mangaluru Technovanza 2026 to focus on global capability centres, data centres, startups, medtech
The sixth edition of Mangaluru Technovanza 2026, which begins here for two days on September 22, will focus its deliberations on four key growth engines: global capability centres (GCCs), data centres, start-ups and medtech, according to the…
Gemini's exchange business is shrinking. Its regulatory licenses may be the real prize
Gemini's stock has fallen about 80% since its public debut, reducing its market value from roughly $4 billion at its peak to $753 million as trading volume, revenue and platform assets have declined. Although there is no indication of an active…
Two Years In, Starbucks (SBUX)'s CEO Niccol has Won Back Customers. Now Wall Street Wants Margins
On September 9, 2026, Reuters reported that CEO Brian Niccol's first two years as Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ: SBUX) CEO have succeeded in bringing customers back to the coffee chain. Comparable sales rose 7.9% in the fiscal third quarter for a…
How a bunch of swashbuckling tech bros upended the way America fights its wars
At 11:16 a.m. local time on Sept. 28, 2008, operating from the Kwajalein Atoll in the central Pacific Ocean, the Space Exploration Technologies Corporation — a privately-funded company, founded by a 37-year-old South African emigree named…
China slows humanoid robot IPO rush as hype outruns reality
Chinese regulators are putting the brakes on a rush of humanoid-robot companies seeking listings, people familiar with the matter said, as they scrutinise whether soaring valuations and revenue tied to state-backed projects reflect commercial…
San Francisco's AI growth shadows layoffs and tech workers struggles | Arkansas Democrat Gazette
The coming IPOs of Anthropic and OpenAI are set to rain down riches in San Francisco. Just across the Golden Gate bridge, a recent gathering captured the flip side of the AI boom. A group of more than four dozen laid-off workers gathered at 11 a.m.
China Slows Humanoid Robot IPO Rush as Hype Outruns Reality
FILE PHOTO: A humanoid robot by Unitree Robotics competes during a Wushu contest at the 2026 World Humanoid Robot Games at the National Speed Skating Oval in Beijing, China August 26, 2026. REUTERS/Tingshu Wang/File Photo Chinese regulators are…
As White House shields the AI gold rush, Trump family and other allies strike it rich - with few guardrails
Donald Trump 's sons, through a series of AI -linked defense and technology ventures, have picked up a $620m Pentagon loan, a Marine Corps robotics contract and an undisclosed air force drone deal in the past year. His longtime friend Michael Dell…
The Architecture of Community Capital: Analysis of Recent Closed Impact Crowdfunding Campaigns
You can advertise in Superpowers for Good. Click to learn more about our affordable options. The democratization of private capital markets under Regulation Crowdfunding (Reg CF) continues to alter how emerging enterprises access growth capital…
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