Monthly Archives: June 2025

Tech investor Prosus bets on India to produce a $100 billion company

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Techme101

India will produce a $100 billion tech company in the coming years, the CEO of Prosus told CNBC.

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First celestial image unveiled from revolutionary telescope

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Techme101

The telescope should detect killer asteroids and may even find the ninth planet in our solar system.

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SMB-focused Finom closes €115M as European fintech heats up

Posted on June 23, 2025 by Techme101

Finom, an Amsterdam-based challenger bank for SMBs that claims to have doubled its revenue in 2024, closed a €115 million Series C equity round (around $133 million).

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Bitcoin briefly sinks below $99,000 as U.S. strikes on Iran trigger crypto market sell-off

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Techme101

Bitcoin fell to its lowest level in over a month after U.S. airstrikes on Iran, fueled by inflation fears, institutional pullback, and forced liquidations.

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OpenAI pulls promotional materials around Jony Ive deal

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Techme101

OpenAI appears to have pulled a much-discussed video promoting the friendship between CEO Sam Altman and legendary Apple designer Jony Ive (plus, incidentally, OpenAI’s $6.5 billion deal to acquire Ive and Altman’s device startup io) from its website and YouTube … Continue reading →

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Tesla launches robotaxi rides in Austin with big promises and unanswered questions

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Techme101

Tesla has started giving rides in driverless Model Y SUVs in Austin. Details are still sparse, but limited service is open to vetted and invited riders.

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Why Danny Boyle shot ‘28 Years Later’ on iPhones

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Techme101

Director Danny Boyle famously shot his post-apocalyptic classic “28 Days Later” on Canon digital cameras, making it easier for him to capture eerie scenes of an abandoned London, and giving the movie’s fast-moving zombies a terrifying immediacy. To make his … Continue reading →

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The stablecoin evangelist: Katie Haun’s fight for digital dollars

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Techme101

In 2018, when Bitcoin was trading around $4,000 and most Americans, at least, thought cryptocurrency was a fad, Katie Haun found herself on a debate stage in Mexico City opposite Paul Krugman, the Nobel Prize-winning economist who had dismissed digital … Continue reading →

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Moratorium on state AI regulation clears Senate hurdle

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Techme101

A Republican effort to prevent states from enforcing their own AI regulations cleared a key procedural hurdle on Saturday.

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LinkedIn CEO says AI writing assistant is not as popular as expected

Posted on June 22, 2025 by Techme101

While LinkedIn users seem to have embraced AI, there’s one area that’s seen less uptake than expected, according to CEO Ryan Roslansky: the AI-generated suggestions for polishing your LinkedIn posts.

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