AI Devices Are Coming. Will Your Favorite Apps Be Along for the Ride?
Silicon Valley giants like Amazon, Meta, and OpenAI are racing to develop “operating systems” for AI-powered devices—and 2026…
Global Venture Funding In 2025 Surged As Startup Deals And Valuations Set All-Time Records
After three years of declining or flat venture investment, global startup funding grew year over year in 2025,…
Promising Omani Startups Programme marks major milestone
MUSCAT: His Highness Sayyid Bilarab bin Haitham al Said, Honorary President of the ‘Programme of Promising Omani Startups’…
Eartheye Space reveals contract with Asia-Pacific customer
SAN FRANCISCO – Eartheye Space will pool data from hundreds of Earth-observation satellites to provide imagery and data…
Clicks debuts its own take on the BlackBerry smartphone, plus a $79 snap-on mobile keyboard
Clicks Technology, a company known for making physical keyboards for smartphones, is launching two new devices ahead of…
What’s ahead for startups and VCs in 2026? Investors weigh in
Each year, we ask some top investors what they think the next year will bring. Last year, some investors thought…
Collapse of eFishery haunts Indonesia’s startup scene
JAKARTA (Bloomberg): Vincent Tjendra and Marcella Moniaga spent most of this year trying, and failing, to raise fresh capital…
Sam Altman’s New Brain Venture, Merge Labs, Will Spin Out of a Nonprofit
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s new brain-computer interface startup, Merge Labs, is being spun out of the Los Angeles–based…
Solo VC and Lovable investor Neil Murray raises third Nordic-focused fund
The Nordic red-hot startup movement continues. On Tuesday, Neil Murray, founder and general partner at Copenhagen-based firm The Nordic Web Ventures, announced…
Billionaire tax won’t stop innovation in EU, insists economist Zucman – POLITICO
Critics of the tax warned about the risk of scaring investors out of the EU and that tech…
OpenAI Hires Slack CEO as New Chief Revenue Officer
Slack CEO Denise Dresser is leaving the company and joining OpenAI as the company’s chief revenue officer, multiple…
Dynamic Business: NZ tech sector at turning point as start-ups drive fragile recovery
The second shift is structural. New Zealand’s start-up sector has matured dramatically. It is larger, more confident and…