Startup Wise Guys, the Estonian-founded and now Riga, Latvia-based startup accelerator, has become an official partner for Google Developers Launchpad in the Baltics to support the growing Baltic startup industry. The “Startup Wise Guys Powered by Google Developers Launchpad” initiative will connect Startup Wise Guys to an elite group of the world’s top accelerators, allowing it to share information and…
Google is secretly building a social-gaming startup, part of its effort to create fledgling companies within the internet-search giant. The founder and co-owner of the new firm, called Arcade, is Michael Sayman, according to people familiar with the matter. Sayman is the 21-year-old wunderkind who started as a Facebook Inc. intern at age 17 and left that company for Alphabet…
For startups, securing the first round of funding is a daunting process. Doing so requires founders to take what is often a very complex idea, product or solution, and boil it down to dollars and cents for investors who, for the most part, only care about how quickly they will make their money back. The process will test an entrepreneur's…
Google has signed a $1.1 billion dollar cooperation agreement with HTC, the technology company said in a statement on Thursday, after trading of HTC shares were halted on Taiwan's stock exchange before the announcement. The move, first rumored earlier this month and then re-emerged this week , is the search giant's latest attempt to juice up its growing hardware division…
Google has announced the fourth installment of its Launchpad Accelerator Program and this time, the focus is on Artificial Intelligence (AI) that has been the company’s buzzword lately. Six Indian startups have been shortlisted for the six-month program that kicks off in July. India has recorded the most number of startups selected this year, followed by Brazil (4), Nigeria (4)…