Get to Know Them Personally“To make anyone feel welcome in a new space, you need to inquire about them and get to know them better.

Not only will praising them make them feel welcome to the rest of the team, but it will also give positive vibes to everyone.

Pair Them Up With Someone on a Project“People always feel more welcome when you get them interacting with others right away.

It’s important that everyone has a friendly attitude towards new hires to make them feel as welcome as possible.

Keep the Lines of Communication Open“To make a new hire feel welcome it’s important to have open communication in your company’s culture. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585251012.605488/13-Ways-to-Make-Your-New-Hires-Feel-Welcome?ref=audio_experience

Textio’s augmented writing work to help companies use the right language to find the right people for jobs — while eliminating bias — is expanding to include features related to ageism and ableism.

The Seattle-based startup announced Thursday that through its AI-powered natural language processing technology, an “age graph” has the ability to help writers find language that is inclusive of all age groups.

And phrases that resonate with certain groups or may be alienating to potential job applicants are highlighted.

Textio data shows that a phrase such as “21st Century Skills,” for example, used when discussing digital literacy, can have the unintended consequence of alienating older job seekers.

Textio is also adding reasonable accommodation guidance to help address the ableism bias that crops up in writing. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585249210.2486687/To-further-address-bias-in-writing,-Textio-adds-features-to-highlight-ageism-and-ableism?ref=audio_experience

MaRS Discovery District has opened applications for its Spinal Cord Rehab Innovation Challenge, a competition looking for new tools to measure rehabilitation activities and their impact on individuals living with spinal cord injury.

The Spinal Cord Rehab Innovation Challenge is a nation-wide, open-source initiative with a prize pool of $200,000.

Spinal cord injuries impact multiple bodily systems and functions, and can contribute to decreased participation and quality of life.

“There is a lack of accessible technologies that track rehabilitation activities and their resulting impact on function,” MarS noted on the challenge’s website.

The challenge is open to technology providers, individuals with lived experience of the injury, clinicians, academia, public sector institutions, and private sector organizations. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585247405.9122877/Submissions-open-for-MaRS’-Spinal-Cord-Rehab-Innovation-Challenge?ref=audio_experience

Online food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy have been ordered to shut down in several states during the 21-day lockdown despite the union government’s guidelines categorizing food delivery under essential services.Tamil Nadu and parts of Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Gujarat, Goa, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Assam, and Pondicherry have not allowed food delivery businesses to operate during the lockdown.“Only cooked food supply from Swiggy and Zomato are not allowed,” tweeted Greater Chennai Corporation , a civic body that governs the capital city of Tamil Nadu.Elsewhere in Rajasthan and Odisha, government orders continue to be unclear.

“We are working through the teething issues due to the lockdown,” said Deepinder Goyal, founder and CEO, Zomato.

“The normal wholesale suppliers for procuring raw materials are not working anymore... we have to buy in retail.

At the same time, there is a major workforce challenge to fulfil demand," said its founder Deepti Nanda,For Ashwin Jain, Founder Instapizza the biggest challenge has simply been getting team members into the kitchens.

“My staff is at the premises, they are waiting for their passes from Bengaluru police...the minute we have that we open operations,” said Nitin Saluja , founder, Chaayos. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585245605.0649655/Zomato,-Swiggy-ordered-to-shut-down-in-several-states-despite-centre’s-intervention?ref=audio_experience

Amidst the Coronavirus economic crisis, startups need a break from paying rent.

The option to pay these cloud bills later could save some from going out of business or axing huge parts of their staff.

The platform giants should let startups and small businesses defer their cloud infrastructure payments for three to six months until they can pay them back in installments.

The clearest and simplest solution is to let startups skip a few payments, then pay more every month later until they clear their debt.

Giants would face the threat of customers recklessly using cloud resources before shutting down or skipping town. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585243807.3255422/Tech-giants-should-let-startups-defer-cloud-payments-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

The company might be forced to delay payment of minimum guarantees and other dues to vendors and hotel partners due to various unforeseen reasons.

Hotels Question OYO’s Covid-19 PlansHowever, the hotel partners are questioning OYO’s intent of payment saying that the payments were anyway disrupted.

One property owner also claimed that OYO hasn’t consulted with partners on offering hotels as quarantine facilities.

An OYO spokesperson said the company is keen to support the lodging requirements of travellers and tourists who are stranded as well as the hospital staff, air and sea crew through a combination of Oyo hotels and OYO LIFE offerings.

OYO had also announced that it will offer free accommodations to all medical first responders — doctors, versus and others — at any OYO Hotel in the US. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585242005.6217237/OYO-Reveals-Extent-Of-Covid-19-Impact-On-Revenue,-Ops?ref=audio_experience

Microsoft today announced that it has acquired Affirmed Networks, a company that specializes in fully virtualized, cloud-native networking solutions for telecom operators.

With its focus on 5G and edge computing, Affirmed looks like the ideal acquisition target for a large cloud provider looking to get deeper into the telco business.

But thanks to today’s virtualization technologies, the large cloud platforms are now able to offer the same capabilities and reliability without any of the cost.

Google recently made some moves in this direction with its Anthos for Telecom and Global Mobile Edge Cloud, too.

Chances are, we will see all of the large cloud providers continue to go after this market in the coming months. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585240206.7280922/Microsoft-acquires-5G-specialist-Affirmed-Networks-–-TechCrunch?ref=audio_experience

Some companies hire in-house SEO managers, whereas others prefer to leave the work to SEO outsourcing companies.

SEO Outsourcing Companies Have ExpertiseIf you hire an in-house SEO manager, they might have ten years of experience.

If you hire SEO outsourcing companies, you don’t have to carry the cost of purchasing software or subscriptions.

When hiring SEO outsourcing companies, you know that your SEO will be of a high quality week in and week out.

Hopefully, this article will have convinced you of the many benefits of using SEO outsourcing companies. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585238406.1896186/Hiring-SEO-Outsourcing-Companies:-11-Crucial-Benefits-–-Technology?ref=audio_experience

With that being said, read on to discover everything you need to know about how to bring sustainability in your workplace.

There are plenty of natural cleaning products available today, so make the most of these.

You can even make your own natural cleaning products with a lot of ease.

Travel more responsibly – A lot of businesses engage in a significant amount of travel today because business is increasingly being conducted on a global scale.

So there you have it: some of the different ideas that you can follow when it comes to enhancing your ethical footprint and how to bring more sustainability to the workplace. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585236607.9456007/7-ways-to-bring-sustainability-to-your-workplace?ref=audio_experience

As researchers pour resources into finding drugs to treat COVID-19, the company has started offering free toxicity screening on potential treatments for the virus.

The 2-year-old company also announced it has closed a $2.5 million seed round, with Primary Venture Partners and Meridian Street Capital as lead investors.

“Our tools try to figure out what’s going on with the drug,” Madhukar said.

Madhukar points to prior work with cancer drug developer Oncoceutics in which OneThree Biotech helped identify a type of cancer not previously on researchers’ radar as a strong potential candidate for a treatment.

The seed funding will be used to build out the platform’s back-end infrastructure and to pursue partnerships with biotech and pharma researchers. | To read full story, visit https://startuparound.com/read/1585233005.9275324/OneThree-Biotech-Raises-Seed-Round-For-AI-Driven-Drug-Platform?ref=audio_experience