Irish fintech Nomupay lands $40M at a $290M valuation from SoftBank
As global trade evolves, there’s an increasing demand for diverse cross-border payment options. That’s why an Irish-based fintech startup called Nomupay has raised a $40 million Series C round from SB Payment Service (SBPS), a subsidiary of Japanese telco giant SoftBank Corp, at a valua
Valla raises $2.7M to make legal recourse more accessible to employees
After a while, Danae Shell got tired of hearing the same story over and over again.
“Something bad would happen to someone at work, and the story always ended the same way,” she told technewss. “They just left, because doing anything else was incredibly complex and expensive.”
Console raises $6.2M from Thrive to free IT teams from mundane tasks with AI
If you’ve ever been locked out of your work computer, you know the urgent need to reach IT support. Unfortunately, help desk staff are often busy assisting others, which can mean a significant delay before you regain access.
Andrei Serban realized the critical importance of IT’s manual
Microsoft Bing gets a free Sora-powered AI video generator
Microsoft Bing announced Monday that it is introducing the Bing Video Creator to its app, which uses OpenAI’s Sora model to let users generate videos from text prompts.
OpenAI, which has a long-standing partnership with Microsoft, has locked down access to Sora‘s video generation for p
Snowflake to acquire database startup Crunchy Data
The surge in data company acquisitions continued Monday with Snowflake’s purchase of Crunchy Data.
Cloud data platform Snowflake announced its intent to acquire Crunchy Data, a Postgres database partner, late this afternoon. A source familiar with the matter estimated the deal to be worth ar
Digg’s founders explain how they’re building a site for humans in the AI era
The rebooted version of social site Digg aims to bring back the spirit of the old web at a time when AI-generated content is threatening to overwhelm traditional social media platforms, drowning out the voices of real people.
This presents an opportunity to build a social site for the AI era, whe
Chatbot platform Character.AI unveils video generation, social feeds
A platform for chatting and role-playing with AI-generated characters, Character.AI announced in a blog post on Monday that it is rolling out a slate of multimedia features. These features include AvatarFX, Character.AI’s video-generation model, plus Scenes and Streams, which allow users to c
Google Glass is back in the AI glasses game with Android XR smart glasses
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Remember Google Glass and the reign of the “glasshole”? Well, Google’s giving face tech another shot with Android XR glasses that look like actual glasses this time.
Salesforce buys Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring
Updated 1:13 p.m. Pacific: A Salesforce spokesperson told technewss that Moonhub has not, in fact, been acquired (by the company’s definition of the term). Rather, Moonhub is shutting down, and only some of the company’s team — not the whole team, as MoonHub implied in its post about
Chime, last valued at $25B, aims for $11B in upcoming IPO
Chime, whose pending IPO is expected to be one of 2025’s blockbuster hits, issued a share price range on Monday of $24 to $26.
That a market cap of up to $11.2 billion. At the midrange, the company will raise $800 million for itself and a handful of investors, including European VC powerhous
Breakneck data center growth challenges Microsoft's sustainability goals
Microsoft's new sustainability report, released late last week, shows how a carbon-heavy economy can weigh on a company that wants to be carbon light.
Since 2020, the company’s carbon emissions are up 23.4%, mostly a result of breakneck data center buildout to support its growing cloud a
IBM acquires data analysis startup Seek AI, opens AI accelerator in NYC
IBM on Monday said that it has acquired Seek AI, an AI platform that allows users to ask questions about enterprise data using natural language, for an undisclosed sum.
Seek CEO and founder Sarah Nagy said that the startup’s technology will be a key part of Watsonx AI Labs, IBM’s new N
Tesla files new ‘Robotaxi’ trademark applications after prior attempt stalls
Tesla has filed trademark applications for the term “Tesla Robotaxi,” after the company’s previous attempts to secure trademarks for its planned self-driving vehicle service hit roadblocks.
The company originally applied in October 2024 for the trademark of the words “Robo
Vanta bug exposed customers’ data to other customers
Compliance company Vanta has confirmed that a bug exposed the private data of some of its customers to other Vanta customers. The company told technewss that the data exposure was a result of a product code change and not caused by an intrusion.
Vanta, which helps corporate customers automate the