Inside the wild fall and last-minute revival of Bench, the VC-backed accounting startup that imploded over the holidays

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

Friday, December 27, was supposed to be the start of a relaxing holiday weekend. But it was chaos for thousands of small business owners who use Bench, an accounting and tax startup based in Canada that raised $113 million from investors like Bain Capital Ventures and Shopify. That morning, they found themselves unable to log […]
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A Book App Used AI to ‘Roast’ Its Users. It Went Anti-Woke Instead

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

One year-end summary from Fable, a social app where people share what books they read, told the user, “Don’t forget to surface for the occasional white author, OK?”

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Best CRM for Small Business in 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

Discover the best small business CRM for your team. Compare pricing and features to find the right fit for customer relationship management.

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Microsoft expects to spend $80 billion on AI-enabled data centers in fiscal 2025

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

Over half of Microsoft’s $80 billion in spending will take place in the U.S., Microsoft Vice Chair and President Brad Smith wrote in a Friday blog post.

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Microsoft to spend $80 billion in FY’25 on data centers for AI

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

Microsoft has earmarked $80 billion in fiscal 2025 to build data centers designed to handle artificial intelligence workloads, according to a company blog post. Specifically,  the tech giant plans to build out AI-enabled datacenters “to train AI models and deploy AI and cloud-based applications around the world.” Of that $80 billion allocation, more than half […]
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Turo CEO: Attackers had clean records, so background checks wouldn’t have stopped them

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

Two individuals rented cars from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used them to perform acts of violence earlier this week. First, a military veteran driving a Ford F-150 Lightning drove into a crowd of people, killing at least 15. Then, an active-duty Green Beret rented a Tesla Cybertruck, parked it in front of the […]
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21 IVR Scripts You Can Steal (And How to Use Them)

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

Master the art of routing with ready-to-use IVR scripts and examples designed to save time, improve efficiency, and boost caller satisfaction.

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How to Disable IPv6 on Linux

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

If network troubleshooting leads you to believe there’s an issue with IPv6, you may need to shut down that protocol on your Linux machines.

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FTC orders AI accessibility startup accessiBe to pay $1M for misleading advertising

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has fined accessiBe, a startup that claims to make websites more compatible with the screen readers blind people rely on to access the internet, for false advertising and compensating reviewers without disclosing that it sponsored the reviews. In a proposed order, the FTC would require accessiBe to pay $1 million […]
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Turo taps national security and counterterrorism experts after Cybertruck explosion

Posted on January 3, 2025 by Techme101

Two individuals rented cars from Turo, a peer-to-peer car-sharing platform, and used them to perform acts of violence earlier this week. First, a military veteran driving a Ford F-150 Lightning drove into a crowd of people, killing at least 15. Then, an active-duty Green Beret rented a Tesla Cybertruck, parked it in front of the […]
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