Business
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Hiive secures $4.2M for its private tech company shares marketplace.
Vancouver-based startup Hiive has secured $4.2 million in fresh capital for its innovative marketplace, facilitating the trading of shares in privately held venture-backed firms on the secondary market. Established in 2021, Hiive’s mission is to…
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Microsoft finalizes its largest-ever merger, a $69 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard.
The journey that began in January 2022 when Microsoft first announced its intentions to acquire the gaming conglomerate Activision Blizzard King has been a long and eventful one. After successfully navigating a Federal Trade Commission…
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Replit democratizes open-source AI developer tools for all users.
This week, Replit, a developer tooling vendor, has unveiled a set of initiatives aimed at democratizing AI for developers. Replit’s cloud-based software development platform boasts over 20 million users and has steadily been enhancing its…
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Step aside, AI; quantum computing is poised to become the most formidable and unsettling technology.
In 2022, leaders within the U.S. military technology and cybersecurity community expressed their view that 2023 would serve as the pivotal “reset year” for quantum computing. They made an estimation that aligns the timeline for…
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Report: Microsoft is “exploring” the integration of AI into fundamental Windows applications
Microsoft is gearing up to intensify its integration of AI-powered functionalities into Windows 11, with the imminent release of Windows Copilot this fall. However, their ambitions extend beyond this milestone. According to information from Windows…
