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Korea’s Myrealtrip cashes in on travel rebound with $56M in new funding

Myrealtrip is the latest travel tech company to ride a growing post-pandemic tourism industry. The Seoul-based startup said today it has raised $56.7 million (75.6 billion KRW) in a Series F equity round of funding to accelerate its business and … Continue reading

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Spotify’s astrology-like Daylists go viral, but its micro-genre mastermind was let go last month

Is it a “fearful vocaloid wednesday morning,” a “yearning cottagecore thursday afternoon,” or perhaps a “heartbroken karaoke friday evening”? That’s up to your Spotify Daylist, an algorithmically-generated playlist inspired by your listening habits, which changes several times per day. Yeah, … Continue reading

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Vans, Supreme owner VF Corp says hackers stole 35 million customers’ personal data

VF Corp., the parent company of the popular apparel brands Vans, Supreme, and The North Face, said Thursday that hackers stole the personal data of 35.5 million customers in a December cyberattack. The Denver, Colorado-based company reported the data breach … Continue reading

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Instagram’s new ‘nighttime nudges’ aim to reduce teens’ time on the app

Instagram is introducing new nighttime nudges for teen accounts to limit their time on the app, the company announced on Thursday. The new nighttime nudges will appear when teens have spent more than 10 minutes on Instagram in places like … Continue reading

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Kashable banks $25.6M to offer employment-based lending

Kashable integrates with a company’s payroll systems and then uses that data to power its fully-automated underwriting ability to extend affordable credit to that company’s employees. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Counting down to the Reddit IPO (again)

Let’s make one thing clear: Reddit going public in the first quarter is not going to throw the IPO window wide open for other private tech companies. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Six rules to get the most out of fitness & wellness tracking

Self quantification is the trend that just keeps on going. There’s an ever-expanding world of wellness wearables and fitness trackers targeting consumers with shiny promises of the personal value to be had if they monitor stuff like their heart rate, … Continue reading

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Consumer tech is bound for a comeback among unicorns, but maybe not just yet

Cowboy Ventures predicts that “given the hard shift to enterprise,” we can “hope and expect more exciting consumer unicorns will be born in coming years.” © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple excludes video and news partners from new App Store rules around external payments

Apple this week updated its App Store rules to comply with a court order after the Supreme Court declined to hear the Epic Games-initiated antitrust case against Apple over commissions. As a result, developers can now promote alternative means to … Continue reading

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BMW’s future growth depends on EVs, and it’s finally going all in

The German automaker previously wavered on EVs. But after posting strong EV sales in 2023, it’s appears to have made up its mind. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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