April 15, 2025
Technology

Colombian Duo’s Startup Bridges Jobs Gap for Hispanic Immigrants Through WhatsApp

Back in their Harvard Business School days, Colombian immigrants Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez had a lightbulb moment that set them on a path to revolutionizing job-hunting for Hispanic immigrants. Their brainchild, Ponte Labor, was inspired by the struggles faced by Spanish-speaking newcomers trying to navigate the American job market. “Not speaking English well or

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Lip-Bu Tan’s Vision for Intel: A Strategic Spin-Off and New Product Launches

Intel, the tech powerhouse, recently welcomed Lip-Bu Tan as its new CEO. With the fervor of a true visionary, Tan wasted no time in revealing his strategic roadmap for the company at the Intel Vision conference. It was a moment that set the industry abuzz with speculation and curiosity. “We will spin off assets that

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“We were like, ‘Ok, there’s definitely an issue here.’”

Stephanie Murra and Lorenza Vélez’s journey from Harvard Business School roommates to the founders of Ponte Labor is a tale of identifying a gap in the market and bridging it with innovation and empathy. It all started when they noticed the struggles faced by Hispanic immigrants in securing employment, despite a growing labor shortage in

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Seattle’s Temporal Secures $146M, Dives into Agentic AI Expansion Journey

It all started with a vision – a vision to simplify the intricate world of microservices. In Seattle, there was a team bold enough to take on this challenge head-on. That team was Temporal. Temporal quickly established itself as a key player in the microservices realm, offering a robust platform that orchestrated integrations and updates

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Seattle-based Temporal: A Journey from Microservices to AI Dominance

Temporal, a company based in Seattle, has been making waves in the tech industry for its innovative approach to microservices. Their platform allows seamless orchestration of integrations and updates across various cloud services and applications. However, with the rapid growth of artificial intelligence (AI), Temporal is now setting its sights on expanding into the realm

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Temporal lands $146 million at a flat valuation, eyes agentic AI expansion

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Seattle-based Temporal has made its name over the last several years in the world of microservices — specifically providing a platform to orchestrate the messy business of building and operating integrations and updates across disparate services and apps in the cloud. But the AI boom

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A look at Intel Capital before the 34-year-old firm strikes out on its own

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] When Intel Capital announced its plans to spin out from semiconductor giant Intel in January, it came as a bit of a shock considering the firm has been operating as Intel’s venture investment arm since 1991. In many ways this decision marks the end of

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New Utah law makes app stores responsible for age verification

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Meta, X, and Snap are celebrating a new Utah law that will require Apple and Google to take responsibility for verifying users’ ages on their app stores and obtain parental consent for minors. The tech giants have been battling to determine which party should be

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Startups Weekly: Mercury more than doubled its valuation, and other news

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. Want it in your inbox every Friday? Sign up here . This week reminded us that creative accounting doesn’t only happen in Hollywood. Some hopes were dashed,

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New Utah law makes app stores responsible for age verification

[IMPORTANT: Make this 4 times longer with much more detail] Meta, X, and Snap are celebrating a new Utah law that will require Apple and Google to take responsibility for verifying users’ ages on their app stores and obtain parental consent for minors. The tech giants have been battling to determine which party should be

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