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It’s been a long time coming, but Google Cloud today announced its first Arm-based VMs, following AWS, with its Graviton instances, and Azure, which also recently launched Arm VMs. But whe AWS but its own custom chips, Google Cloud is following Azure’s lead here by using chips from Ampe

As Ukraine continues to be battered by Russia in an unprovoked war that has sent hundreds of thousands of refugees scattering elsewhere, a language learning startup hatched by Ukrainians has found traction growing outside of the country — and today it’s announcing a round of funding to

SendSprint, a money transfer startup based in the U.K. but with operations in the U.S. and Nigeria, has been launched today with the unique selling point of a $5 flat fee for all transfers. The fintech will in the first 18 months target 300,000 of the 1.7 million Africans in the U.K. and grow from

India’s Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, part of the country’s finance ministry, said on Wednesday phone-maker Oppo’s India unit evaded customs duty of $550 million, following similar probes into local units of other Chinese giants Xiaomi and Vivo that prompted Beijing to issu

Sundar Pichai, boss of Google and its parent Alphabet, told employees to “be more entrepreneurial” and work with “more hunger” in a staff-wide email that warned of consolidation, several news outlets reported. Citing the “uncertain global economic outlook,” th

The TikTok threat to Google’s business isn’t just limited to YouTube, as it turns out. Core Google services, including Search and Maps, are also being impacted by a growing preference for social media and videos as the first stop on younger users’ path to discovery, a Google exec

Another CEO is stepping back from the company he launched. This time, it’s famed serial entrepreneur Ev Williams, who said today that he is relinquishing his full-time role with Medium, an online platform that hoped to transform publishing on the internet by giving anyone with an interest in

As part of its second workforce reduction in a matter of months, virtual events platform Hopin has parted ways with its COO, CFO and chief business officer, technewss has learned from multiple sources. It's unclear if executives left voluntarily or were laid off. Now-former COO Wei Gao, CFO Ma

Virtual events platform Hopin, last valued at a $7.75 billion valuation, has laid off 29% of employees, or 242 people, a spokesperson confirmed to technewss over e-mail. The cuts come just four months after Hopin let 12% of its workforce go, at the time citing a goal of sustainable growth amid the

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Despite multiple overtures by the British government to woo tech companies and keep the largest ones from defecting to the U.S., the latest example of the failure of this policy comes with the news that Australian software giant Atlassian is to move its HQ to Delaware, USA, in its search for what i

Unacademy, one of India’s high-profile startups, is undertaking several cost-cutting measures, including salary reduction for founders and shutting down “certain businesses” as it pledges to become frugal and a public company in two years. In a company-wide Slack post on Monday, U

Welcome to Startups Weekly, a fresh human-first take on this week's startup news and trends. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. As Q2 venture capital data starts to come out, it's clear that there's a difference between how the startup market is acting and how it actually feels.

Twitter is not on the same page as Elon Musk when it comes to his newly official attempt to back out of his proposed $44 billion acquisition of the company. The company issued a brief formal statement regarding Musk’s merger termination attempt, which relies on the prodigious breeder‘s