Author: Tech Support

    • According to a Startup Genome survey of 45 countries, nearly three-quarters of startups have laid off full-time employees due to the COVID-19 crisis (John Koetsier/Forbes)

    John Koetsier / Forbes: According to a Startup Genome survey of 45 countries, nearly three-quarters of startups have laid off full-time employees due to the COVID-19 crisis  —  Three quarters of startups have laid off full-time employees due to COVID-19, according to a Startup Genome survey of 45 countries. According to a Startup Genome survey

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    • Denver-based Josh.ai, whose hardware and AI-powered software helps people with large homes manage dozens of smart home devices, raises $11M Series A (Christine Hall/Crunchbase News)

    Christine Hall / Crunchbase News: Denver-based Josh.ai, whose hardware and AI-powered software helps people with large homes manage dozens of smart home devices, raises $11M Series A  —  Many houses today are connected to some kind of device, such as Amazon’s Alexa or Google Home, but for bigger houses with dozens of rooms … Denver-based

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    • Salt Lake City-based Vutiliti, whose data monitoring tech helps energy utilities reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase efficiency, raises ~$12M Series A (FinSMEs)

    FinSMEs: Salt Lake City-based Vutiliti, whose data monitoring tech helps energy utilities reduce greenhouse gas emissions and increase efficiency, raises ~$12M Series A  —  Vutiliti, a Salt Lake City, Utah-based smart utility monitoring company, raised $11.75m in Series A funding. Salt Lake City-based Vutiliti, whose data monitoring tech helps energy utilities reduce greenhouse gas emissions

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    • Report: Huawei's HiSilicon overtakes Qualcomm as China's top smartphone processor supplier; Qualcomm's market share fell from ~38% YoY in Q4 to ~33% YoY in Q1 (Yujie Xue/South China Morning Post)

    Yujie Xue / South China Morning Post: Report: Huawei’s HiSilicon overtakes Qualcomm as China’s top smartphone processor supplier; Qualcomm’s market share fell from ~38% YoY in Q4 to ~33% YoY in Q1  —  Huawei’s secretive chip unit shipped slightly more smartphone processor shipments in the latest quarter despite the coronavirus pandemic … Report: Huawei's HiSilicon

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    • Barcelona-based Factorial, maker of an all-in-one HR automation platform aimed at SMBs that is used by 60K+ customers, raises €15M Series A funding led by CRV (Ingrid Lunden/TechCrunch)

    Ingrid Lunden / TechCrunch: Barcelona-based Factorial, maker of an all-in-one HR automation platform aimed at SMBs that is used by 60K+ customers, raises €15M Series A funding led by CRV  —  A startup that’s hoping to be a contender in the very large and fragmented market of human resources software has captured … Barcelona-based Factorial,

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    • Telemedicine startup Medici raises $24M Series B as demand surges due to COVID-19 pandemic, bringing Medici's total raised since 2016 to over $70M (Mary Ann Azevedo/Crunchbase News)

    Mary Ann Azevedo / Crunchbase News: Telemedicine startup Medici raises $24M Series B as demand surges due to COVID-19 pandemic, bringing Medici’s total raised since 2016 to over $70M  —  We’ve seen a number of industries hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic.  But we’ve also seen a number with increased demand.  Telehealth is one of

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    • Researchers detail the increasingly prevalent LockBit ransomware, which may one day reach parity with other feared ransomware packages like Maze or Ryuk (Dan Goodin/Ars Technica)

    Dan Goodin / Ars Technica: Researchers detail the increasingly prevalent LockBit ransomware, which may one day reach parity with other feared ransomware packages like Maze or Ryuk  —  You’ve probably never heard of LockBit, but that’s likely to change.  —  Ransomware has emerged as one of the top threats facing large organizations … Researchers detail

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    • Thirsty koalas lick trees

    Echidna Walkabout and Koala Clancy Foundation Koalas lick tree trunks to quench their thirst when it rains, scientists just learned. It upends what biologists long thought about koalas: that they get almost all the water they need from the eucalyptus leaves they eat. But koalas probably lap up water like many animals — except they do so

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    • A look at TikTok's efforts to repair its reputation in DC, where Bytedance has spent $300K on lobbying in 2020 and has hired former Internet Association chief (Emily Birnbaum/Protocol)

    Emily Birnbaum / Protocol: A look at TikTok’s efforts to repair its reputation in DC, where Bytedance has spent $300K on lobbying in 2020 and has hired former Internet Association chief  —  For hundreds of millions of fans around the world, TikTok is the place to go for videos of dancing celebrities, cooking advice and

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    • McConnell, Pelosi decline Trump administration offer of rapid coronavirus tests for Congress

    US Capitol In a joint statement on Saturday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) declined President Trump’s offer to provide rapid coronavirus tests for members of Congress. “Congress is grateful for the Administration’s generous offer to deploy rapid COVID-19 testing capabilities to Capitol Hill, but we respectfully decline the

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    • How Apple relies on people like Mike Janicek, part of a vanishing breed of experts, for the manufacturing of products like Apple Watch and the unibody MacBook (William Gallagher/AppleInsider)

    William Gallagher / AppleInsider: How Apple relies on people like Mike Janicek, part of a vanishing breed of experts, for the manufacturing of products like Apple Watch and the unibody MacBook  —  Apple and all technology firms outsource work to around the globe, yet it’s crucial that they keep key skills in America —and no

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    • How Eric Schmidt is reinventing himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the US military (New York Times)

    New York Times: How Eric Schmidt is reinventing himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the US military  —  The former Google C.E.O. has reinvented himself as the prime liaison between Silicon Valley and the military-industrial complex.  —  In July 2016, Raymond Thomas … How Eric Schmidt is reinventing himself as the prime

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