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At its Team ’22 conference today, Atlassian announced the launch of Atlas, a new service for cross-functional team updates it previously offered as a beta under the name “Team Central.” The service is meant to be a central repository for what teams are working on — with thos

At its Cloud Data Summit, Google today announced the preview launch of BigLake, a new data lake storage engine that makes it easier for enterprises to analyze the data in their data warehouses and data lakes. The idea here, at its core, is to take Google’s experience with running and managing

There’s a new alliance in town: the Data Cloud Alliance. Founded by Google Cloud, Accenture, Confluent, Databricks, Dataiku, Deloitte, Elastic, Fivetran, MongoDB, Neo4j, Redis and Starburst, the group’s mission is to “make data more portable and accessible across disparate busines

A month after stopping shipments to customers in Russia and Belarus, Intel has now suspended all business operations in Russia.  In a statement, the company said, “Intel continues to join the global community in condemning Russia's war against Ukraine and calling for a swift return to peace,

In the height of the pandemic, grocery delivery behemoth Instacart dealt with “tip-baiting” or a gross tactic in which customers baited shoppers with a big tip, and then reduced said tip to zero after they received groceries. Instacart then alleged that less than 0.5% of orders have tips remove

Airbyte, an open source data integration platform for buding ELT data pipelines, today announced the general avaabity of its cloud service. The company is also detaing its new compensation plan for open source developers who write and maintain data connectors for the platform and it plans to launch

"attachment_2294120" aria-describedby="" style="width: 600px">Image Credits: Microsoft Among other updates, Windows 11 is getting an AI-enabled eye contact feature today that will always make it look like you’re looking at the screen. Don’t use it. There is nothing like staring into the

The credit-oriented fintech platform Liquidity Group, which funds later-stage technology companies, has announced a new raise of $775 million from private equity house Apollo and MUFG Bank. In a statement Ron Daniel, co-founder and CEO of Liquidity Group, said: “The new capital partnership with A

On Monday, Clara Wanjiku Odero, a former employee of African payments giant and unicorn Flutterwave, accused the company's chief executive officer Olugbenga 'GB' Agboola of bullying and harassing her for years. She made the allegations in a Medium post and series of tweets that came aft

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. It's YC week, and while I love to question how the accelerator's impact is evolving in today's climate, there's always a lot to learn about hun

Update: Amazon says it’s “disappointed” and “evaluating [its] options” following today’s vote. Full comment: “We're disappointed with the outcome of the election in Staten Island because we believe having a direct relationship with the company is best f

When we started covering Builder.ai a few years ago, the startup was tapping into a new wave of businesses wanting their own native apps. The previous wave of agency-built and outsourced apps was waning, and Builder.ai realized it could tap into this trend by creating a turnkey, almost drag and dro

The technewss team spent today covering the first day of Y Combinator’s Winter 2022 Demo Day, which featured half of the 394 companies that plan to virtually present. Since the overall batch is bigger than ever before – with 414 companies in total – we decided to divide, conquer

As more banking, e-commerce and insurance startups work to improve the way business is done in emerging countries, it should come as no surprise that this winter's Y Combinator batch is rife with related efforts. There are 35 companies this year, just over double the amount in the 2021 winter b