Entrepreneurship
Digital Avatar Trend Tests Founders’ Personal Brand Strategy
TechCrunch reporter Dominic-Madori Davis spent a couple of days in Synthesia’s studio and walked out with an interactive digital avatar of herself that can answer questions out loud, in...
Construction Robotics Gets a Boost From Nexterity’s Pipefitting Bot
Lindsey Elliott spent years in ExxonMobil’s engineering and planning ranks before deciding the most overlooked opportunity in industrial tech was not another piece of software. It was a robot...
When Should Businesses Consider eLearning Staff Augmentation?
Training teams rarely run at a comfortable pace for long. A product launch moves up. A compliance update lands late. A client asks for three modules sooner than anyone...
AI Coworkers Get a New Home as Ando Raises $20M
Sara Du just raised $20 million for Ando, a team messaging app built so AI agents can join the conversation as real teammates instead of bolted-on bots. The pre-seed...
OpenAI scraps debut of AI model as it sets new guardrails
Its head of safety systems says the in-development GPT-6.1 Astra model isn’t as good as the company wantsPublished Tue, Sep 29, 2026 · 08:15 PM[NEW YORK] OpenAI is holding...
US dollar keeps climbing as oil, US yields stay high
Published Tue, Sep 29, 2026 · 08:14 PM[LONDON/HONG KONG] The greenback rose on Tuesday (Sep 29), testing several-month highs against major peers, underpinned by volatile oil prices and a...
Zheneng Jinjiang Environment proposes to take company private at S$0.70 a share or to issue new shares
[SINGAPORE] The board of Zheneng Jinjiang Environmental , along with Jieneng Investment, has proposed a scheme of arrangement to take Zheneng Jinjiang Environmental private at S$0.70 a share or...
Number of listed companies an ‘outdated metric’ of Singapore market’s success: SGX chairman
Koh Boon Hwee’s comments come as Singapore pushes ahead with measures to revitalise its equities market[SINGAPORE] The number of companies listed on the Singapore Exchange (SGX) is an “outdated...
Toyota car sales fall for seventh straight month on China slump
Published Tue, Sep 29, 2026 · 04:22 PM[TOKYO] Toyota Motor’s car sales fell again last month due to a prolonged slump in China, where legacy brands are grappling with...
Vietcombank is considering maiden public offshore bond issue: sources
Published Tue, Sep 29, 2026 · 03:23 PM[HANOI] Vietcombank, Vietnam’s largest lender, is discussing plans with foreign investment bankers to issue its first-ever public offshore bond, three people familiar...
