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Mimica, which (perhaps oddly enough) automates robotic process automation, has raised a $6 million Series A funding from Khosla Ventures. The company will use the funds to establish a sales team in the U.S. and build out its product. Previous seed investors included the U.K.'s Entrepreneur Firs

My favorite show right now is Succession, the fictionalization of the Murdoch family and its media empire. It's relentlessly funny, as the patriarch and children vie for being the most reprehensible. It's a big tie; each of the principals vacillates between nervous self-doubt and over the

Hi friends! Greg here. You might remember me from such hits as “Greg takes over Lucas’ newsletter while he’s on vacation.” Now we’re back with “Greg takes over Lucas’ newsletter while he’s on vacation, part II” the straight-to-DVD sequel that no

The technewss Global Affairs Project examines the increasingly intertwined relationship between the tech sector and global politics. On September 29-30, in a converted steel mill in Pittsburgh now serving as a startup accelerator, three top Biden cabinet members and two top EU officials huddled to

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. I have a theory. The debate around accreditation in education often focuses on two extremes: the people who don't believe in the necessity of a four-year d

Joshua Broggi believes that three new colleges need to be created every single day, for the next decade, in order to adequately meet demand from students. So, he is building Woolf, what he claims is the first software platform that can launch and manage an accredited digital college. Woolf wants to

It was a light week for the Experts program, but what we missed in quantity, we made up for in quality: Joey Noble, community manager for Demand Curve, shared a teardown of Zapier’s homepage that contains insights you can use to improve the storytelling techniques on your own website, includi

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for November 12, 2021! It is Friday, my friends, the end of yet another week. The technewss team hopes that you are healthy and

To get a roundup of technewss's biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PST, subscribe here. Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for November 11, 2021. Below we have the first news item I have seen in which a company not diving into crypto was met by cheers

Rocket Lab is on the verge of entering a new era in its historic journey as a provider of private rocket launch services: The company’s next flight includes its first attempt to recover one of its boosters for re-use, using a helicopter to snatch it out of the air as it floats back to Earth s

Google Labs is back, but this time around, it’s not a consumer-facing brand delivering a range of experimental products. Instead, it’s the internal name given to a new team at Google created under a reorganization that aims to gather the company’s many innovative projects and long

Get ready to engage with more than 2,500+ senior-level leaders — the people forging data solutions that fuel artificial intelligence and machine learning — at the iMerit ML DataOps Summit on December 2, 2021. This day-long deep dive into AI and ML will touch on tech industries across the spectr

How could Tencent not jump on the metaverse bandwagon when Facebook is hinging its future on the new buzzword? At this stage, Tencent’s approach seems more measured than Facebook’s $10 billion investment into its metaverse division. But any early hint from the Chinese social media and

The fall hasn’t been kind to Disney’s streaming ambitions. Disney+ added just 2.1 million subscribers in its fourth quarter, giving it a total of 118.1 million customers. That’s in line with the company’s already cautious estimate (in the “low single-digit millions