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Daily Crunch: First Republic Bank stock reaches record low as feds discuss rescue plan
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EV owners in Texas face $200 annual fee
States have taxed motorists at the pump for more than a century . Yet, as electric cars gain ground, what happens when folks stop refueling...
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Satellite-to-phone race heats up with voice calls and cross-Canada access
The prospect of contacting a satellite to send a text or contact emergency services may soon be an effortless reality as startups move from proof...
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A claw machine does not a robotic gripper make
A refrain I hear from a lot of startups is that there’s “no need to rethink the gripper.” It’s something I appreciate from an economic standpoint....
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Amazon is developing an improved LLM to power Alexa
Amazon is building a more “generalized and capable” large language model (LLM) to power Alexa, said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy during the...
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Kenyan court paves way for lawsuit alleging Facebook played role in fueling Ethiopia’s Tigray conflict
Ethiopians suing Meta for failing to adequately moderate content that amplified violence that left over half-a-million people dead during the...
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ChatGPT resumes service in Italy after adding privacy disclosures and controls
A few days after OpenAI announced a set of privacy controls for its generative AI chatbot, ChatGPT, the service has been made available again to...
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#NotMyAI and other TC news
Snapchat Rolled out their generative AI chatbot My AI to their 750 million monthly users, so it feels like the right time to pause and ask...
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Upward and onward
The future is very much yet to be written about vertical farming. In many ways, the technology presents hope in the midst of rising food safety...
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TechCrunch+ roundup: Customer personas, content that resonates, efficiency metrics VCs love
I celebrated a friend’s birthday with a large group a few days ago and realized how hard it is to tell who can’t carry a tune when the entire room...
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After initially defying the global slowdown, African startups’ first quarter venture results fall
The recent, and now past, venture capital boom was a global affair. While traditionally busy markets like North America and Europe benefited from...
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Shares of First Republic are off 40% on reports that the government may step in
Shares of First Republic Bank plunged by nearly 50% Friday, ratcheting pressure on the troubled bank and adding to its mounting market-confidence...
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How Jack Dorsey’s Bitcoin Legal Defense Fund is fighting for the future of open source software
A crypto wallet theft lawsuit brought about by a man who claims to be Bitcoin creator Satoshi Nakamoto could jeopardize the future of open...
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How startups can produce social content that actually resonates
Social media can be a great tool for startups to gain visibility and garner a following among investors and customers, but coming up with a...
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Critical-rated security flaw in Illumina DNA sequencing tech exposes patient data
The U.S. government has sounded the alarm about a critical software vulnerability found in genomics giant Illumina’s DNA sequencing devices,...
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Battle of two marketing companies
It isn’t often that startup rivals battle in plain view of others, but such is the case with the mobile messaging services provider Postscript,...
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Cloud infrastructure revenue growth dips to 19% in Q1, but still hits $63B for quarter
As expected, companies are continuing to cut back on their cloud spend where possible, as tech budgets continue to get careful scrutiny. That...
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Is First Republic just a victim of SVB’s collapse?
Hello, and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines....
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How we used data-driven personas to radically improve the customer experience
Gary Sabin Contributor Gary Sabin is VP of product at Impartner , a B2B partner management...
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Brave Search doesn’t use Bing’s index anymore
Brave just announced that it is now exclusively using its own index for its search engine . In other words, it doesn’t rely on third-party...
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Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat
Reddit announced Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits. With this move, the social network is trying to...
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Amazon omits India business in earnings, a first in years
Amazon omitted any reference to India in Thursday’s earnings call and release, a notable change for the e-commerce giant that has...
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Muslims come into the frame in Southeast Asia’s fintech boom
Founded in 2014, Blossom Finance was first intended for Muslim entrepreneurs in the United States. The microfinancing platform connects...
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Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and desire to be ‘at the forefront of the AI era,’ Dropbox CEO lays off 500
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Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today it cut more than half of staff
Clubhouse , a once skyrocketing social audio app built by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, has laid off more than half of its staff. The startup’s...