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Twitter rebrands its Android app with the new X logo

Twitter updated its Android app today by replacing the iconic bird logo with its new X logo — the latest step in its ongoing rebranding efforts. The company also updated its app listing on the Google Play Store to reflect … Continue reading

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Kenya’s FarmWorks raises $4M pre-Series A funding

FarmWorks, a Kenyan agtech that provides farmers with access to farm inputs, and market for their produce, has raised $4.1 million in a pre-Series A round led by Acumen Resilient Agriculture Fund, an existing investor. Livelihood Impact Fund, Vested World, … Continue reading

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Ecosia adds a train travel search tool powered by Omio

Looking to ride the tracks of increasing demand for longer distance train travel that’s being fuelled by climate-concerned consumers seeking to shrink the environmental impact of their trips, tree-planting search engine Ecosia and multimodal travel booking platform Omio have partnered … Continue reading

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AutogenAI, a generative AI tool for writing bids and pitches, secures $22.3M

Business is regularly won and lost on the strength of a proposal. Now, a startup out of London called AutogenAI has built a tool based on generative AI that it claims can help businesses write stronger pitches to improve that … Continue reading

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Facebook surpasses 3 billion monthly active users

Facebook has over 3 billion monthly active users, according to Meta’s latest quarterly report. That’s quite the staggering number. Even though Facebook has declined in popularity among younger people, the platform is far from dead. Across Meta’s entire family of … Continue reading

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Former pilots recount UFO sightings as Congress pushes for transparency

A year after the first Congressional hearing on UFOs in 50 years, a House subcommittee revisited some enduring questions around a topic that once would have been laughed off. The hearing, held Wednesday by the House Subcommittee on National Security, … Continue reading

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Audiobook platform Libro.fm announces its international launch

Libro.fm, the audiobook retailer and listening app for local bookshops, launched internationally on Wednesday to give even more bookstores the ability to earn income via audiobook sales. The platform is now available worldwide in six currencies: USD, CAD, EUR, AUD, … Continue reading

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Waymo puts the brakes on self-driving trucks program

Waymo is tapping the brakes on self-driving trucks and shifting most of its capital, resources and talent to one commercial bet: ride-hailing. The move, which was announced Wednesday in a company blog post, comes six years after Waymo first tested … Continue reading

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Meta, Microsoft and Amazon release open map dataset to rival Google Maps, Apple Maps

A group formed by Meta, Microsoft, Amazon and mapping company TomTom is releasing data that could enable developers to build their own maps to take on Google Map and Apple Maps, The group, called the Overture Maps Foundation, was formed … Continue reading

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5 founders discuss why SAFEs are better for early-stage and bridge rounds

Fundraising is hard, so it’s no wonder that SAFE rounds are popular. Conceived by Y Combinator as an alternative to convertible notes, simple agreements for future equity have long been considered a founder-friendly way to wrap a venture deal. But, … Continue reading

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