SolarSquare, an Indian rooftop solar startup that helps homes and housing societies adopt solar power, is in advanced talks to raise fresh capital after securing India’s largest solar venture investment in December 2024, TechCrunch has learned. B Capital and Lightspeed Venture Partners are set to co-lead a Series C round, which could value SolarSquare at…
S&P 500 (SNP index: ^GSPC) It has recouped most of its losses this year and as of this writing, it has had a nearly steady year to date. However, this is related to what is happening with the war in Iran and could fall again if the ceasefire does not hold or oil prices continue to…
Hundreds of tankers sit idle on both sides of the Strait of Hormuz as Iran effectively closed the waterway, sending oil prices above $100 — the highest since 2022 after the start of the Russia-Ukraine war. Oil tanker traffic in the strait, through which a fifth of global oil passes, has collapsed after Israel and…
Iran is making efforts to disrupt supplies in the Middle East. Oil prices rose above $100 on Thursday and stocks sank as Iran’s efforts to disrupt supplies in the Middle East and bring down the global economy prompted a record release of strategic crude stockpiles by the International Energy Agency. Stock markets in Asia closed…
Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs U.S. stocks rose modestly in temporary trading Friday after the Supreme Court struck down President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, a move that had earlier contributed to market volatility, the AP reported. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 128 points, or 0.3 per cent. The S&P 500…
An attack on a market in central Sudan killed at least 28 people. Cairo– a human rights group said on Monday that an attack on a market in central Sudan killed at least 28 people and wounded dozens in the Kordofan region, as the war between the army and paramilitary groups approached three years. Emergency…
Anthropic, one of the largest and most influential technology companies in the world, is launching a new model: Cloud Opus 4.6. Anthropic is lauded as the creator of cloud code. By now, this will be big news to most techies, as Anthropic is lauded as the creator of cloud code, code-writing. Aye, many engineers say that…
