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Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras

​[[{“value”:” Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to Ageras. In 2020, TechCrunch reported that Société Générale spent around €100 million to acquire Shine. It wasn’t a huge acquisition but it attracted quite a bit of […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

UK probes HPE’s planned $14B Juniper Networks acquisition

​[[{“value”:” The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal “phase 1” investigation into Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) planned acquisition of Juniper Networks. The CMA has said that it’s in the early stages of assessing whether the deal is likely to “result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

5 Fun STEM Summer Activities for the Whole Family!

​[[{“value”:” 1. Go Geocaching One of the best way to get kids up and moving during the lazy days of summer vacation is through geocaching! Geocaching is the process of searching for geocaches – containers hidden by fellow Geocache explorers that are pre-approved by the Geocaching company. There are over three million caches across the globe, with the purpose of…

How Abridge became one of the most talked about healthcare AI startups

​[[{“value”:” Ask any of the health-focused VCs to name one of the top AI startups and one name comes up over and over again: a company  based in Pittsburgh called Abridge. And it’s a startup that launched before OpenAI was a household name and LLMs entered the common Valley vocabulary.  In 2019, Shiv Rao, a practicing […] © 2024 TechCrunch….

Fisker failed because it wasn’t ready to be a car company

​[[{“value”:” Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would get built. Fisker was outsourcing the manufacturing of its first EV to highly respected automotive supplier Magna, after all. The startup’s November 2022 start-of-production target was aggressive, but not […] © 2024 TechCrunch….