Monthly Archives: February 2023

Typeface emerges from stealth with $65M to bring generative AI to the enterprise

Typeface, a startup developing an AI-powered dashboard for drafting marketing copy and images, emerged from stealth this week with $65 million in venture equity backing from Lightspeed Venture Partners, GV (Google Ventures), M12 (Microsoft’s Venture Fund) and Menlo Ventures. Founded … Continue reading

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TechCrunch+ roundup: Using predictive LTV, Boston VC survey, active learning for ML teams

Last fall, Voyantis CEO Ido Wiesenberg shared a TC+ post with several tactics for reducing customer acquisition costs via predictive modeling. In a follow-up, he explains how to use predictive lifetime value (LTV) to create “more targeted, effective acquisition strategies … Continue reading

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India’s YouTube Vigilante Is Wanted for Murder

Monu Manesar built a huge audience with violent content, but he’s far from the only sectarian streamer in Modi’s India.

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Twitter Outages Are on the Rise Amid Elon Musk’s Job Cuts

Elon Musk’s repeated job cuts are stoking new fears that there aren’t enough people to triage Twitter’s problems.

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The brave new terabyte broadband world of 6G is coming, but not just yet

At a session on the future of 6G during Mobile World Congress, expert speakers from companies such as Samsung, the European Space Agency and Telefonica came together to give their views about how 6G will play out. The first thing … Continue reading

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Google says Chrome won’t drain your MacBook battery as much

Google said that it is rolling out under-the-hood improvements to the latest version of Chrome that makes it less of a battery hog on MacBooks. The company said that version 110, which is rolling out to all users this week, … Continue reading

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China’s CCP warns Elon Musk against sharing Wuhan lab leak report

Chinese state media warned Tesla CEO Elon Musk that he could be endangering his relationship with China, after Musk shared Tweets about a Wuhan laboratory.

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Chinese startup Realme launches $649 smartphone it says can be fully charged in just over 9 minutes

On Tuesday, Chinese smartphone upstart Realme launched the GT3 for international markets at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

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Mexican president says Tesla will build a new plant in Mexico

Tesla will build a new plant in Monterrey, Mexico, and adhere to a series of commitments to address water scarcity

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Reuters exclusively reported that Broadcom faces EU antitrust warning on $61 billion VMware deal

Reuters exclusively reported that U.S. chipmaker Broadcom (AVGO.O) is set to receive an EU antitrust warning about the possible anti-competitive effects of its proposed $61 billion bid for cloud computing company VMware (VMW.N) in the coming weeks. The European Commission … Continue reading

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