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Last year was a tough period for African growth stage startups and 2024 presents mixed bag

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Techme101

Last year presented a tough period for African tech startups. Venture capital was hard to bag (as predicted earlier), bridge and down rounds became the norm, and news of fire sales, layoffs and startup closures reverberated across the continent. With … Continue reading →

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Peak XV-backed MobiKwik seeks to raise $84 million in India IPO

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Techme101

Indian financial services startup MobiKwik seeks to raise about $84.2 million through issue of new shares in an initial public offering in the home market, it said in a draft prospectus filed with the local markets regulator Friday. This is … Continue reading →

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Logan Paul promises CryptoZoo refunds, as long as you don’t sue him

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Techme101

Logan Paul is offering refunds for CryptoZoo, the failed and allegedly fraudulent Pokémon-inspired NFT game that he launched in 2021. The catch? You can’t sue him if you get a refund. In an X (formerly Twitter) post on Thursday, Paul … Continue reading →

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Lawsuit against Snap over fentanyl deaths can proceed, judge rules

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Techme101

A lawsuit blaming Snapchat for a series of drug overdoses among young people can proceed, a Los Angeles judge ruled this week. A group of family members related to children and teens who overdosed on fentanyl sued Snapchat maker Snap … Continue reading →

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The goal of a startup is to cease existing

Posted on January 5, 2024 by Techme101

The whole point of a startup is to build something enduring. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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EV startup Fisker struggling to meet internal sales goals, documents show

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Techme101

Fisker remains far from meeting CEO and founder Henrik Fisker’s publicly stated goal of delivering 300 electric SUVs per day globally, according to internal documents viewed by TechCrunch. The EV startup spent much of December aiming to meet an internal … Continue reading →

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Is the latest near-room-temperature superconductor legit? Don’t count on it

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Techme101

This new material picks up where LK-99 left off, which isn’t really an auspicious starting point. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Talks of bitcoin spot ETF approval circulate as India blocks exchange sites and crypto is seeing more optimism

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Techme101

Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Wouldn’t a bitcoin spot ETF approval be nice? © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google outlines new methods for training robots with video and large language models

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Techme101

2024 is going to be a huge year for the cross-section of generative AI/large foundational models and robotics. There’s a lot of excitement swirling around the potential for various applications, ranging from learning to product design. Google’s DeepMind Robotics researchers … Continue reading →

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OpenAI’s app store for GPTs will launch next week

Posted on January 4, 2024 by Techme101

OpenAI plans to launch a store for GPTs, custom apps based on its text-generating AI models (e.g. GPT-4), sometime in the coming week. In an email viewed by TechCrunch, OpenAI said that developers building GPTs will have to review the … Continue reading →

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