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GitHub appears to have pulled back on hiring across certain parts of the organization, becoming the latest tech giant to refactor its recruitment strategy in anticipation of an economic downturn. According to reports on Twitter and several candidates technewss spoke with, GitHub has in recent days

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Just Eat Takeaway is cutting 390 jobs from its workforce in France, constituting part of a broader global restructuring effort as the food delivery giant looks to reverse its recent downturn. Just Eat Takeaway is the result of a $7.6 billion merger between the U.K.’s Just East and Dutch rival

Urban, a popular U.K.-based startup that allows customers to find self-employed massage therapists who can be booked to attend customers' homes, has been named in an investigation into alleged abuse by unlicensed freelance therapists. The startup has raised $35.7 million from investors that inc

Karti Chidambaram, an Indian lawmaker, has called for an investigation into the finances of Byju's, the country's most valuable startup, for not submitting its statements for the financial year that ended in March 2021, which he alleged violates a local law and other “loopholes.”

After spending years in London, matching Kenyans in the diaspora with investment opportunities back home, and later on as a credit portfolio manager at Barclays bank, Njeri Muhia sought a greater challenge within Africa. Already aware of the growing startup ecosystem in the continent and the fundin

Update: In a statement sent to technewss, Zipmex said it has enabled withdrawals from its trade wallet and “are actively working to resume trading.” But transfers from ZWallet to trade wallets are currently not available. “Ever since the black swan events surrounding the crypto s

We've written a few times about Alt, a platform that helps trading card collectors (think Pokémon, NBA, NFL, etc.) research, buy/sell and securely store high-value cards. This week, after a few months of quiet testing, the company is announcing a new product: Alt Advance. The idea? If you'

Google has announced they will be taking a two-week hiring freeze, according to an article published by The Information earlier today.  This comes after the company announced last week they would be slowing down their hiring process for the remainder of the year to take a fresh look at their overa

Here’s another edition of “Dear Sophie,” the advice column that answers immigration-related questions about working at technology companies. “Your questions are vital to the spread of knowledge that allows people all over the world to rise above borders and pursue their drea

Meatable, a Dutch biotech company developing cultivated “lab-grown” meat products, has revealed images of its inaugural pork sausage for the first time. Founded in 2018, Meatable is one of several companies developing cell-cultured meat products, one of several solutions touted to help

Conversational commerce isn’t exactly a new phenomenon, with countless companies using live chats, messaging apps, chatbots, voice assistants and more to encourage consumers to part with their cash. As part of that broader movement, the mighty WhatsApp, a dominant force in the messaging world

Google is expanding its photo and canvas prints service to Europe and Canada. Google has offered printed photo books in the U.S. since 2017, a service that started rolling out in Europe the following year. And then in 2019, Google started offering photo prints and canvas prints in the U.S. Starting

An industry group representing several tech giants has requested the Indian government to make a series of changes to the proposed amendments to the country's new IT rules, warning those amendments “negate” the government's commitment to ease of doing business. India last month proposed