Startup funding: ETtech Deals Digest: Funding stays under $1 billion in Feb for startups, drops 84% YoY

Funding activity for Indian startups remained muted in the second month of 2023, as new-age businesses raised $809 million in venture funding, a significant drop of about 84% from the $5.2 billion they raised in February last year, data from market intelligence firm Tracxn showed. February 2023 was the driest month in at least a […]

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Volvo Group gathers startups for incubation

Not unlike startup accelerator company Y Combinator and venture capital firm 500 Global, the starting point for hundreds of young entrepreneurs, Sweden’s Volvo Group has its own version of finding and tapping tomorrow’s talent for trucking and its other businesses.  It’s called CampX, a physical location where more than 50 startups have explored and accelerated […]

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India: Startup funding: ETtech Deals Digest: Funding stays under $1 billion in Feb for startups, drops 84% YoY

Funding activity for Indian startups remained muted in the second month of 2023, as new-age businesses raised $809 million in venture funding, a significant drop of about 84% from the $5.2 billion they raised in February last year, data from market intelligence firm Tracxn showed. February 2023 was the driest month in at least a […]

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From Composable Experiences to Composable Enterprises

In a world where tech and accessibility are all-pervasive, enterprises recognize “customer experience” as the real brand differentiator. In particular, the digital face of the brand. Whether it be an employee onboarding app, new account creation for banking, a consumer online banking app, or an e-commerce platform, today’s users demand meaningful, relevant, frictionless, contextual, and personalized […]

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How Old Industries Can Embrace New Technology

Steve Brown is CEO of Nelson, Canada’s largest education technology company and developer of Edwin, a digital learning ecosystem. getty Technology is increasingly disrupting established industries and changing the way legacy companies deliver value to their team and clients. In a post-pandemic world, the need to incorporate technological innovations is more important than ever. Once […]

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Radio interference from satellites is threatening astronomy – a proposed zone for testing new technologies could head off the problem

Visible light is just one part of the electromagnetic spectrum that astronomers use to study the universe. The James Webb Space Telescope was built to see infrared light, other space telescopes capture X-ray images, and observatories like the Green Bank Telescope, the Very Large Array, the Atacama Large Millimeter Array and dozens of other observatories […]

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Women are going into tech but are also being driven out

By 2029, there will be 3.6 million computing jobs in the U.S., but there will only be enough college graduates with computing degrees to fill 24% of these jobs. For decades, the U.S. has poured resources into improving gender representation in the tech industry. However, the numbers are not improving proportionately. Instead, they have remained […]

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The northern lights appeared in southern England twice in one week

People across the UK, from the Shetland Islands to Somerset and from Norfolk to Northern Ireland, have been treated to a stunning display of the aurora borealis or northern lights recently. But what causes this beautiful phenomena and why has it appeared so far south? For thousands of years, people associated the ghostly northern lights […]

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Thinking of getting a second cat? Here’s how to make sure your first pet doesn’t feel threatened

Many people choose to live with a cat for companionship. As a social species, companionship is something we often crave. But this cannot necessarily be said of our feline friends. Domestic cats evolved from a largely solitary species, defending their territory from other cats. Although modern-day cats can live together in friendly groups (when there […]

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