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Monthly Archives: July 2023
Twitter laid off most of its workers in Africa last year. They say they’ve been ignored and left without severance
Former Twitter employees in Ghana have been left without severance and have not heard from the company for three months, sources told CNBC.
Polar Analytics raises $9M to scale Shopify brands
It’s not enough to be just a Shopify brand anymore: you have to leverage all the data coming in from the dozens of apps that brands use to monitor advertising and marketing, inventory, customer communications and support and sales, so … Continue reading
Hammerspace ingests $56M for a new approach to work with vast amounts of unstructured data
Data may be “the new oil,” but only when it can be extracted and put to use. Today, a five year-old startup called Hammerspace that is giving any kind of data that lease of life is announcing $56 million in … Continue reading
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Meta’s Threads Could Make—or Break—the Fediverse
Meta promised to make Threads compatible with the decentralized protocol underlying Mastodon. Proponents of interoperable social media can’t agree whether to welcome or fear it.
India is now one of Apple’s top 5 iPhone markets for the first time
India contributed close to 4% of all iPhone sales for Apple in the second quarter, growing 50% year-on-year, according to Counterpoint Research.
From VanMoof to VanPoof! How did the e-bike pioneer go bankrupt, even as the market boomed?
Troubled e-bike maker VanMoof — which had raised a total of $189.1 million from the likes of Balderton Capital and Felix Capital, among other investors — has now officially gone bankrupt in the Netherlands after barely a week in an … Continue reading
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Glassdoor is introducing Blind-like anonymous community features to fuel user growth
Glassdoor, the platform known for anonymous salary and workplace reviews, is now introducing Blind-like community features for anonymous posting to fuel user growth. The company is leveraging its Fishbowl acquisition made in 2021 to port over features like interest bowls … Continue reading
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Loot boxes: Games companies agree to restrict access in UK
The government has spent nearly three years on plans to regulate the use of loot boxes
Tractable snaps up $65M led by SoftBank for car and property damage appraisals using AI
When it comes to transforming business operations, artificial intelligence holds a lot of promise across many industries. Today, a startup that has been an early mover in the area of applying AI, and specifically computer vision, to the world of … Continue reading
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Biden administration announces new labels to help consumers buy gadgets that are less vulnerable to cyberattacks
Internet-connected devices like refrigerators, TVs and microwaves could bear the U.S. Cyber Trust Mark shield if they meet cybersecurity requirements.