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Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless

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While Fussek declined to share the firm’s financial performance, the CEO said the markup is “very positive” and the startup is “on a strong path to profitability.” Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch.

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Dell cuts jobs amid growing economic uncertainties

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This workforce adjustment is part of a wider wave of layoffs within the technology sector. In 2024 alone, 168 tech companies have collectively laid off 42,324 employees. The consensus seems to be that the workforce of tomorrow will be smaller than today’s, due to the efficiencies introduced by generative AI.

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Kenya-based aquaculture tech Victory Farms nets $5M funding to expand into new markets

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In 2015, Rehmann teamed up with his longtime business partner Steve Moran to explore Lake Victoria and perform some feasibility studies on how they could use technology to disrupt the country’s cold chain markets. We run a tech-enabled platform and have scaled 2x faster than any other African fish company. billion fish deficit.

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6 investors discuss why AI is more than just a buzzword in biotech

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VCs are also increasingly looking for what biotech startups can do with AI beyond just R&D and are wary of companies that use the technology as a marketing tool. James Coates , health and human performance principal, Decisive Point. We also see AI being used in the biologics space, although the technology is used there far earlier.

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Nerdy, a tutoring marketplace startup, is going public via SPAC

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Nerdy will merge with TPG Pace Tech Opportunities (NYSE: PACE), a publicly traded SPAC since 2015. Financial performance. TechCrunch reviewed the Nerdy-SPAC investor presentation, which can be read here. The transaction is expected to close in the second quarter of this year. The deal will value Nerdy at $1.7

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7 ways to spot hidden IT talent within your ranks

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Spotting promising talent requires keeping a close pulse on both the enterprise and its people, says Carter Busse, CIO at business automation technology provider Workato. Schwarz points to generative AI as a technology that’s suddenly leaped into the IT spotlight.

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11 ways to reduce your IT costs now

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IT leaders have always needed to exercise fiscal responsibility while meeting business demands for technology. The net result is that some organizations’ technology debts are growing faster than anything else and robbing them of their budgets and ability to innovate.” But it’s not the only one.