TechNode

MAY 30, 2024

On Wednesday, Chinese PC maker Lenovo announced a strategic partnership with Alat, a subsidiary under Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund (PIF) focused on transformative technology investments and sustainable manufacturing, with Alat proposing a $2 billion zero coupon convertible bonds investment in Lenovo.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

And while there are plenty of portals offering low-quality freelance consulting services, these are generally unsupervised that would never work for corporates and the public sector. It’s now set to launch in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia and Lagos, Nigeria next month. A YC company Apollo Group is also in this space, roughly speaking.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Facebook is pouring a lot of time and money into augmented reality, including building its own AR glasses with Ray-Ban. Privacy experts are already worried about how Facebook’s AR glasses allow wearers to covertly record members of the public. Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge. Such ambitions have huge privacy implications.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 23, 2020

But, founded by former BMW executives who split from Faraday Future in 2017, Canoo has now accomplished something its forebear long sought: going public. Public offerings, global expansions — these were all goals of startups that faltered. Image: XPeng. Neither company is going to become the apocryphal “Tesla killer” anytime soon.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 21, 2023

The Vision Fund has outside limited partners, including the sovereign wealth funds of Saudi Arabia and Abu Dhabi; SoftBank sold that stake in Arm to the Vision Fund in 2017 for $8 billion.) That’s twice the $32 billion SoftBank paid for Arm seven years ago. SoftBank has paid a steep price for marking up its own deals in the past.

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The Verge

JULY 9, 2020

The money comes at a time when there appears to be renewed interest in funding money-hungry electric vehicle startups, thanks in large part to Tesla’s skyrocketing stock price and the early success of hydrogen trucking company Nikola’s recent public listing. wants to take the same shortcut to being public that Nikola used. Fisker Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2023

Until last September, Tabby, which allows users to shop with flexible payments online and in-store from global brands, including H&M, Adidas, IKEA, noon and Bloomingdale’s, was active in Saudi Arabia, UAE and Kuwait. I would say there have been pullbacks from a demand perspective.

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The Verge

APRIL 28, 2021

The United Auto Workers union is “laying the groundwork” to organize factory workers that will build electric vehicles for startups like Rivian and Lucid Motors, president Rory Gamble told CNBC. Factory workers who build cars for legacy automakers like Ford, General Motors, and others have long been part of the UAW. That’s a given.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2022

Thazhmon believes that the “biggest thing” the company is building out is its own global BaaS layer, which sits across different banking entities in each country, and onto which the end user customer-facing Jeeves app plugs into. In the short term, it’s eyeing Southeast Asia, and potentially Saudi Arabia and Africa.

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The Verge

MAY 25, 2021

Startups going public makes it much easier to see where the problems are. Ohio-based Lordstown Motors raised nearly $700 million when it went public late last year and has backing from America’s largest automaker, General Motors. California-based Canoo went public in December and has already replaced its leadership team.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

A record number of companies went public in 2021, with many at huge valuations: 238 companies debuted on the public markets last year valued above $1 billion. In 2020, only 61 companies went public at this valuation. This has created enormous opportunities for founders everywhere to build world-class companies.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2022

It’s also eyeing Southeast Asia and potentially Saudi Arabia and Africa. This article by our own Alex Wilhelm ties into the “is fintech an outlier” narrative from above: Forge’s public debut will pose fresh test to SPAC-led exits. It went public via a SPAC this week and, gasp, actually had an impressive debut.

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The Verge

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Plus more details about Ford’s relationship with the buzzy EV startup EV startup Rivian has spent most of its life shrouded in secrecy, but now that it’s going public, that protective veil is lifting. Building awareness organically creates deeper bonds with our community and draws even more people in. No agencies of record.

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Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

Siri Chilazi is a senior researcher at the Women and Public Policy Program at Harvard Kennedy School. Iris Bohnet is a professor of business and government at Harvard Kennedy School and co-director of the Women and Public Policy Program. For fairness to stick, we must build changes into existing practices and procedures.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2023

This is just my strong, intuitive sense that having a public platform that is maximally trusted and broadly inclusive is extremely important to the future of civilization,” Musk said at a TED conference on the day he made his offer. “I You should see a suggested action of “Open App” to build your new shortcut. Select that.

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The Verge

JUNE 25, 2020

Coates argues he’s eligible for these benefits because the Saudi Arabia investment triggered a “Change in Control” clause in his agreement with Lucid Motors because it resulted in “a change in the majority shareholder of the Company,” according to an email from his lawyer to the startup sent last year. The company declined to comment.

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Engadget

MARCH 12, 2025

The Saudi Arabia-owned company Scopely has agreed to purchase the division for $3.5 Scopely was founded in Los Angeles but was purchased using money from Saudi Arabia's sovereign wealth fund, otherwise called the Saudi Public Investment Fund (PIF).

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The Verge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

It feels as if we already know a lot about this car even though today is its official public debut. The Lucid Air was supposed to go into production in 2018, but the company ran into trouble lining up funding required to build its planned $700 million factory in Arizona. And it will benefit Saudi society.”. 1,080 horsepower.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But as with all companies like Lucid that have been busy building in anticipation of future sales, there’s more to the story. Lucid is also building a new manufacturing facility in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia that it expects to finish by 2025. The company estimates the Saudi plant could bring in up to $3.4

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here. The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. What Happens at n2vlabs. View more presentations from Rami Al-Karmi.

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TechCrunch

MAY 2, 2022

We’ll kick off mobility month with a TechCrunch Live event focused on building a better mobility fintech startup featuring Rachel Holt of Construct Capital and Caribou CEO Kevin Bennett. Micromobbin’ For some bizarre reason, it’s illegal to for people use privately owned e-scooters on public roads in England.

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TechNode

APRIL 25, 2025

The worlds top three PC makers, Lenovo, HP, and Dell, are exploring expansion in Saudi Arabia amid rising concerns over tariff uncertainties. Saudi Arabia is actively encouraging tech manufacturers with operations in China to relocate to the Arabian Peninsula. Jiwei , in Chinese]

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TechNode

MARCH 5, 2025

This has intensified public scrutiny on how the platform balances growth with social responsibility. Meituans overseas food delivery platform, Keeta , is rapidly expanding in Saudi Arabia. After reaching the countrys nine largest cities and nearly half its population, Keeta is now considering entry into Kuwait and the UAE.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 11, 2025

Neom, the insane urban development project in Saudi Arabia, appears to be sinking faster than the giant holes they keep digging in the middle of nowhere. Initially, its promoters were looking to attract $500 billion in public and private capital , but Neom is reportedly having a hard time getting the money.

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Futurism

MARCH 10, 2025

The Saudi crown family's megalomaniac dreams of building a gigantic city of the future in the middle of the desert are getting a brutal reality check. As the Wall Street Journal reports , capital expenditure estimates to build Neom to what officials call its "end-state" by 2080 have ballooned to $8.8

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