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Hangzhou, China –Alibaba Group’s Cainiao Network and RoboSense jointly released today G Plus, the world’s first solid-state LiDAR unmanned logistics vehicle. Announced at Alibaba Group’s Cainiao  Network 2018 Global Smart Logistics Summit held today in Hangzhou, China, the most important feature of the newly announced G Plus driverless delivery vehicles […]

Alibaba and RoboSense Announce World’s First Solid-State LiDAR Driverless Vehicle ...


Earlier this year, we featured Blockchain Technology  among the top 10 trends to watch in 2018. In this article, Adam Mittelberg examines the interplay between Blockchain trends and AI. One of the biggest challenges marketers face today is customer acquisition and retention. The key to both acquiring new customers and […]

5 Ways Merging Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, and Blockchain Technology ...


Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 3rd June 2018 News you can use Trump Moves to Dump the U.S.’s Startup Visa – The Trump Administration issued its formal proposal to rescind the International Entrepreneur Rule, a regulation designed to allow entrepreneurs to grow […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 3rd June



A recent article in Crunchbase (link) examines how mayors in cities across the U.S. are trying to curry favor with startups. The findings from a Crunchbase News analysis of the geographic hiring practices of U.S. unicorns. Since most of these companies are based in high-cost locations, like the San Francisco […]

Scaling Startups Are Setting Up Secondary Hubs In These Cities


Here are some of the prominent startups that announced shutdown in May of 2018 Northwestern Mutual shutting down LearnVest – After paying $250 million for the startup three years ago, the insurance company is shutting it down June 5. In a statement posted to the Northwestern Mutual website, the company […]

RIP: Startup shutdown in May 2018


The Trump Administration issued its formal proposal to rescind the International Entrepreneur Rule, a regulation designed to allow entrepreneurs to grow and scale their businesses in the U.S. This rule allowed the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to use clear and careful criteria to identify, on a case-by-case basis, entrepreneurs […]

Trump Moves to Dump the U.S.’s Startup Visa



StumbleUpon co-founder, Garrett Camp, has announced that the project is coming to an end 16 and half years after its launch in 2001. Camp is now recommending that StumbleUpon users migrate their accounts over to another of his projects, Mix.com, which he says incorporates the lessons learned from StumbleUpon “to […]

Social media ‘startup’ StumbleUpon closing after 16 years


Roundup of news and ideas from the world of startups – Week ending 29th April 2018 News you can use Google Holding $11 Billion in Its Startup Investments – Google’s parent company Alphabet Inc. has shared a result from its years of sizeable startup investing for the first time on […]

Digital Startup news roundup – Week ending 27th May


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Indian micro-delivery startup MrNeeds shuts down – It was trying to stand out against eCommerce giants like Bigbasket, Grofers, and Amazon.in in a hyper-competitive market. MrNeeds was focused on optimizing the supply chain and minimizing delivery costs. It had raised about $500K in pre-Series-A funding from a group of angel […]

RIP: Startup shutdown in April 2018



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A micro-delivery startup, MrNeeds, based in Noida (India) recently announced that it is shutting down. The website simply says “Our Store is Closed.  For any support please call – 0120-4362116  or  email us at [email protected]”  The company was trying to optimize the supply chain for local delivery of grocery delivery […]

Indian micro-delivery startup MrNeeds shuts down