Cloud growth costs 3,000 jobs at Microsoft
In a move to focus on the growing cloud business, Microsoft on Thursday announced a major reorganisation that will lead to nearly 3,000 job cuts in sales staff outside the US, media reported. According to a report, the job cuts amount to less that 10...
Equity crowdfunding platform for robotics startups in UK
In the latest startup news, a new equity crowdfunding platform for UK start-ups that develop robotics has been launched.Dubbed a “world’s first”, Britbots CROWD – created by Britbots – will give private investors the opportunity to build up a personal share-portfolio of some of the...
Brexit is affecting recruitment, slowing down hiring plans
According to monthly poll data from the Recruitment and Employment Confederation (REC) more companies expect the economy to decline over the next three months instead of improve, meaning they are far less likely to recruit new staff. 31 per cent of employers think the business...
Japanese startup makes paper out of stone
Paper is everyone’s necessity, be it school-going student or an office-going adult. So for manufacturing paper, imagine the demand for it, number of trees being cut, and the amount of water being consumed! Hence, trending in the latest startup news is a startup from Japan...
Startups focus on improvising climate change with technology
Earth’s climate has always been changing. But what is the reason behind it? The human beings are the main cause for the climate change. Even the scientist believes that human beings are the main cause for the changes in the climate by polluting the nature...
Startup raises $27M from 12 unnamed investors for brain computers
We have seen many sci-fi shows where the brain is connected to computer, till now it seems to be some kind of unrealistic thing to happen. But, trending in the latest startup news is Neuralink – the startup is promising to make it reality soon....
Berlin-based fitness startup raises €10 million
In the latest startup news, the Berlin-based AI startup Zeitgold has raised €10 million in Series A financing from Battery Ventures and Holtzbrinck Ventures. Only in February, Zeitgold had announced a €4.2 million seed round. Co-founder Stefan Jeschonnek explains the new, larger round with a...
Stop deaths from cardiac arrest with computer-controlled balloon, says new startup
Currently trending in the latest startup news is Habib Frost. In April 2013, final-year Danish medical student Habib Frost was called out to an emergency: a four-month-old girl had just suffered cardiac arrest. Frost’s team tried defibrillation but to no avail. Immediately after, the team...
Create your own fonts with simple clicks – French Startup
Trending in the latest startup news, Graphic designer Yannick Mathey’s big idea came to him seven years ago as a university project. “I wanted to draw some typefaces, but it’s very complicated and it’s a long task. I thought: ‘Maybe we can shorten the time...
Test candidates using a real-time code editor with Skype’s new feature
The Skype interviews feature was introduced last week as a technical preview, and currently only works in the browser version of Skype, says Microsoft. Of course, there are already various solutions for conducting interviews with remote technical talent on the market, like Interview Zen, CoderPad,...
