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A comprehensive list of 2024 tech layoffs
TechCrunch via Yahoo Finance Canada· 2 weeks agoThe tech layoff wave is still going strong in 2024. Following significant workforce reductions in 2022 and 2023, this year has already seen 60,000 job...
State of venture investments in India, according to Lightspeed
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoThe two-day event aims to spark partnerships by enabling "in a short window, many views, ideas and...
Maybe we'll finally see a fintech IPO in 2024
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 5 months agoThis past week, Plaid announced it had hired its first-ever president. Notably, the former Cloudflare chief product officer, Jen Taylor, has plenty of...
Explainer-What next for Paytm's banking arm after India central bank clampdown?
Reuters via Yahoo Finance Canada· 5 months agoThe Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has ordered the payments bank subsidiary of Paytm to stop accepting...
Here are the newly minted fintech unicorns
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoReaching the $1 billion valuation milestone — aka, becoming a unicorn — is what startups live for. The number of companies able to claim that title...
Fintechs go shopping
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 7 months agoRecently on the Equity Podcast, Alex Wilhelm and I talked about how M&A activity this year really didn’t happen at the pace we expected. Well, I guess...
Finding business opportunity in startup failure
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 10 months agoWhile we would love for all startups to succeed, the reality is that the vast majority fail. From Kate Park comes a story about Firstcard raising $4.7...
As Twitter becomes X - Seven disastrous rebrands from Royal Mail to New Coke
The Independent via Yahoo Canada News· 11 months agoBillionaire Elon Musk rebranded Twitter this week and replaced the iconic blue bird logo with a...
Daily Crunch: Falling short of analysts' estimates, Warner Bros. Discovery posts $2.1B net loss for...
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 1 year agoBlack History Month continues! Fashion layoffs: Secondhand apparel marketplace Poshmark is now...
Dispatch from Bangalore, end of 2022 edition
TechCrunch via Yahoo Canada News· 2 years agoIn 2014, Prayank Swaroop made a pitch to the storied venture firm Accel, where he worked as an associate, about future marketplaces in India. At the...
