Employee leave benefits are an intricate web of company and government policies, and Cocoon strives to make both employer and employee experiences clear and simple. The platform was launched on Wednesday in all 50 states and is designed for any type of employee leave such as parental, doctor, nursing, or bereavement leave. It takes into … Read more
For more than a year, Zoom’s mission has been to transform itself from an application into a platform. To that end, there were three announcements last year: Zoom Apps Development Tools, the Zoom Apps Marketplace, and a $ 100 million development fund to invest in some of the more promising startups building tools on their … Read more
Voice skins have become a very popular feature for AI-based voice assistants to personalize some of the more anodyne aspects of helpful, but also boring and robotic speaking voices that you get from services like Alexa. Now, a startup developing voice skins for various companies to use in their services, as well as third parties … Read more
A number of startups have sprung up in recent years to meet the growing demand from satellite providers, biotech companies, and others looking to launch payloads into space. One such startup is Germany’s Isar Aerospace Technologies, which focuses on the construction of orbital launch vehicles that are designed to carry up to 1,000 kilograms into … Read more
Online abuse, disinformation, fraud, and other malicious content are on the rise, and tracking is becoming more complex. Today, a startup called ActiveFence, which has been quietly building a technology platform to detect threats during their formation and planning, and make it easier for trust and security teams to fight them on platforms, comes out … Read more
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Angus Sullivan, Group Executive, Commonwealth Bank; and Jon Beros, Co-Founder and CEO of Little Birdie Melbourne-based Little Birdie, an e-commerce startup aiming to become the “new home page for online shopping,” won’t be released until next month, but has already attracted a large investor. Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA), the largest of Australia’s “Big Four” … Read more
Stoke Space Technologies’ second stage motor injector will be subjected to a test fire at the company’s component test facility. (Stoke photo) Two Washington state companies have received up to $ 750,000 each in NASA grants to take space-related technologies they are already working on to the next level of development. The awards for Stoke … Read more
Glints, the Singapore-based career platform, announced today that it has raised $ 22.5 million in Series C funding led by Japanese human resources firm PERSOL Holdings. The new capital will be used to expand Glints in Singapore, Indonesia, Vietnam and Taiwan, as well as to recruit its product and development teams. Oswald Yeo, co-founder and … Read more
The Washington State Capitol building in Olympia. (Flickr photo via Tom Sparks) Technicians, business owners, public order attorneys and individuals have weighed in favor of and against a proposed capital gains tax in Washington state this week. A remote hearing by the House Finance Committee was attended by 3,900 people, 2,380 of whom supported SB … Read more