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Ford is partnering with South Korean battery manufacturers SK On and EcoPro BM to build a cathode manufacturing facility in Quebec, Canada. The CAD $1.2 billion (USD $890 million) joint investment will provide battery materials to supply future Ford electric … Continue reading →

Wonder Brands, an acquirer of e-commerce brands in Latin America, announced today the closing of $15.5 million in Series A funding. This enables the Mexico City-based company to expand into South America. Nazca and IDB Invest, the private sector arm … Continue reading →

In 2021, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger announced a comprehensive modernization strategy he dubbed IDM (integrated device manufacturing) 2.0. As part of that vision, the company announced a $20 billion investment to build two new Fabs (chip manufacturing facilities) in Arizona … Continue reading →

The CEO of Amplitude is glad that his company went public in 2021, despite a sharp contraction in the value of tech shares since its IPO. In a wide-ranging conversation on TechCrunch’s Equity Podcast, Spenser Skates, who also co-founded Amplitude, … Continue reading →

Sharing hot takes, conventional wisdom and infographics won’t help you gain media traction. Online audiences want expertise and opinions that are supported by facts and relevant experience. No one builds credibility by being the loudest or first to comment. To … Continue reading →

WhatsApp is getting an upgrade that will allow users to share HD photos through the messaging app, according to an announcement shared by Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg on his Instagram broadcast channel and via a Facebook post. The feature, which … Continue reading →

Venture capitalists look at businesses from many angles. Is the market big enough? Do the founders have good founder-market fit? Is the problem worth solving, does the solution make sense, and is the product a half-decent implementation of the solution? … Continue reading →

Arthur, a machine learning monitoring startup, has benefited from the interest in generative AI this year, and it has been developing tools to help companies work with LLMs more effectively. Today it is releasing Arthur Bench, an open source tool … Continue reading →

When it comes to removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, one of the first questions is often: What should we do with it? Making new things is an obvious answer, though it’s still an expensive proposition. Stashing it underground is … Continue reading →

Hackers are exploiting a newly discovered vulnerability in yet another enterprise file transfer software, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency has warned. CISA on Wednesday added a vulnerability in Citrix ShareFile, tracked as CVE-2023-24489, to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. … Continue reading →