Monthly Archives: August 2023

Steve Blank: AI will revolutionize the ‘lean startup’

Entrepreneur Steve Blank says we’re collectively underestimating the potential of generative AI.

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Shares of HP fall 8% following revenue miss

Shares of HP fell Wednesday after the company missed analysts’ expectations for revenue.

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Dunzo, backed by Reliance and Google, delays employee salaries again

Dunzo informed its employees on Wednesday that it would not be able to meet the postponed deadline for their monthly wages as trouble mounts at the hyperlocal delivery startup that expended over $150 million in the last 18 months trying, … Continue reading

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Google’s Duet AI can now write your emails for you

Gmail’s new AI companion will be able to help you draft and customize your emails, Google announced as part of this week’s news from its Google Cloud Next ’23 event. The company had shared a number of updates about its … Continue reading

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X to allow paid political ads, lifting Twitter’s earlier ban

X this week confirmed it’s lifting its ban on paid political ads — a move it committed to earlier this year, shortly after Elon Musk took over the social network previously known as Twitter. The company had originally banned such … Continue reading

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Samsung launches a meal planning and recipe discovery platform called Samsung Food

Samsung has launched a meal planning and suggestion platform called Samsung Food in over 104 countries. The platform is based on Whisk, which the Samsung Next division acquired in 2019. The company said that the platform has more than 160,000 … Continue reading

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Warner Bros. Discovery names Mark Thompson CEO and chairman of CNN

Warner Bros. Discovery has appointed Mark Thompson chairman and CEO of CNN a few short months after Chris Licht’s ouster.

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Why PE firm Alitheia is banking on women in Africa

African women-founders find it incredibly hard to raise capital from private markets, and even banks, a gap that “gender-lens” funds like Alitheia IDF exist to bridge. Alitheia IDF was co-founded by Tokunboh Ishmael and Polo Leteka in 2015 as a … Continue reading

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In Threads’ dwindling engagement, social media’s flawed hypothesis is laid bare

In an age where social isolation and loneliness are at an all-time high, perhaps we stop treating connectivity as a substitute and focus on facilitating true, meaningful connections.

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Voxel uses computer vision to increase workplace safety

The International Labour Organization estimates that there are 340 million workplace incidents every year. Voxel was created to increase workplace safety through computer vision. The startup announced today it has raised $12 million in strategic funding led by manufacturer Rite-Hite, … Continue reading

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