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Amazon fined in Poland for dark pattern design tricksAmazon has been fined in Poland for misleading consumers about the conclusion of sales contracts on its online marketplace. The sanction, of close...
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New study of unicorn founders finds most are ‘underdogs,’ and female founders are risingA new study that zeros-in on the founders of so-called “Unicorns” (companies worth over a billion dollars) has found most have “underdog”...
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Wase zaps microbes to squeeze more biogas from wastewater sludgeHarvesting methane from organic waste and using it to produce electricity or heat is nothing new, but the startup isn't building another anaerobic...
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African B2B e-commerce giant Wasoko marked down to $260M after VC halves stakeVNV Global, a Swedish investment firm that backs startups in mobility, health and marketplaces, slashed the value of its holding in Wasoko, an...
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Rabbit partners with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its deviceHardware maker Rabbit has tapped a partnership with ElevenLabs to power voice commands on its devices. Rabbit is set to ship the first set of r1...
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Marissa Mayer’s startup just rolled out photo sharing and event planning apps, and the internet isn’t sure what to thinkWhen Marissa Mayer co-founded a startup six years ago in Palo Alto, Ca., expectations were sky high for the former Yahoo CEO and early Google...
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PayPal backs Indonesian insurance startup Qoala in $47M fundingPayPal Ventures’ latest investment is in an Indonesian startup that provides personal insurance products covering a variety of risks,...
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Discipulus Ventures mentors young founders to revive a Norman Rockwell vision of AmericaScores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company....
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Robinhood’s new credit card goes after Apple Card with ability to invest cash-back perksEight months after acquiring credit card startup X1 for $95 million, Robinhood announced today the launch of its new Gold Card, with a list of...
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Elon Musk says all Premium subscribers on X will gain access to AI chatbot Grok this weekFollowing Elon Musk’s xAI’s move to open source its Grok large language model earlier in March, the X owner on Tuesday said that the...
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In the Gundo, Discipulus Ventures is bringing together a cohort of founders to accelerate AmericaScores of accelerator programs run every year with the aim of identifying and cultivating founders in the earliest stages of building a company....
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How to turn off Instagram’s political content filterIt’s election season in the U.S., and Instagram has changed the way that it recommends political content. On both Instagram and the newer X...
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Facebook snooped on users’ Snapchat traffic in secret project, documents revealIn 2016, Facebook launched a secret project designed to intercept and decrypt the network traffic between people using Snapchat’s app and its...
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NASA’s snake robot is designed to search out life in the icy oceans of a Saturn moonThe snake robot form factor has existed for decades. In addition to the diversity it adds to the world of automation, the design has several...
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Vibrant Planet uses AI for land mapping and improving climate resiliencyAs the planet warms due to human-caused climate change, damage from wildfires has increased with it. The amount of forest area burned by wildfires...
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Synctera is the latest banking-as-a-service startup to lay off staffBanking-as-a-service startup (BaaS) Synctera has conducted a restructuring that has resulted in a staff reduction, the company confirmed to...
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Apple WWDC 2024, set for June 10-14, promises to be ‘A(bsolutely) I(ncredible)’Apple SVP Greg “Joz” Joswiak just confirmed via the social media platform formerly known as Twitter that the company’s annual...
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EU publishes election security guidance for social media giants and others in scope of DSAThe European Union published draft election security guidelines Tuesday aimed at the around two dozen (larger) platforms with more than 45...
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Adobe’s Firefly Services makes over 20 new generative and creative APIs available to developersAdobe today announced Firefly Services, a set of more than 20 new generative and creative APIs, tools and services. Firefly Services makes some of...
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With Affinity acquisition, Canva should be able to compete better with Adobe’s creative toolsCanva, the high-flying Australian design and visual communication startup, announced today it was acquiring Affinity (formerly Serif), a creative...
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Evari turns to rocket science to solve problems with heat pumpsThe startup emerged from stealth with a goal of extending the range of EVs while also eliminating fossil fuels from home heating. © 2024...
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Instagram co-founders’ AI-powered news app Artifact may not be shutting down after allArtifact, the well-received AI-powered news app from Instagram’s co-founders Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, may not be shutting down as...
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Adobe’s GenStudio brings brand-safe generative AI to marketersBrands want to use generative AI to personalize their marketing efforts — but they are also deathly afraid of AI going off message and...
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TechCrunch Minute: What Stability AI’s CEO departure means for other AI startupsWhat do you call an AI company that is suffering from very public gyrations regarding its business health, place in the market and leadership...
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YC-backed SigmaOS browser turns to AI-powered features for monetizationWeb browsers have realized they are one of the best ways for users to access the present set of AI tools, so they are working on being the...
