January 2024
Google’s ‘Circle to Search’ feature is now available on the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S24 series
Google announced today that its new Circle to Search feature is rolling out globally on the Pixel 8, Pixel 8 Pro and Samsung Galaxy S24 series. The new feature, which…
Shopify is rolling out an AI-powered image editor for products
Commerce platform Shopify is releasing new features for its Winter Edition rollout, including an AI-powered media editor to enhance product images, improved semantic search and a better way for merchants…
Security giant Proofpoint is laying off 280 employees, about 6% of its workforce
Proofpoint is laying off about 6% of its global workforce, or 280 employees, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. “This decision was not taken lightly, and it is deeply rooted in…
On Tuesday, hackers stole around $112 million of the Ripple-focused cryptocurrency XRP from a crypto wallet, Ripple’s co-founder and executive chairman has disclosed. Ripple’s Chris Larsen said on Wednesday that…
Finvest app will have you invested in US Treasury Bills in minutes
Finvest is out to make the purchase, management and selling of U.S. Treasury Bills seamless, while also offering a high-yield cash management account with a 4.4% yield.
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Ethereum developer interest hit new all-time highs in 2023 despite a bear market
Last year, 2023, was especially a home run for Ethereum, which saw SDK installs increase 31% year-over year.
Match Group says it hasn’t yet decided if it will opt into Apple’s new DMA rules
Dating app giant Match Group says it hasn’t yet determined how it plans to adapt its products in light of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA), a new regulation that…
Google has today said its cloud region in South Africa is operational, coming a year after the tech giant picked Johannesburg as its first site in Africa. Cloud regions allow…
Spotify’s new Snapchat Lens lets you capture yourself or your surroundings when sharing a song
Spotify is expanding its partnership with Snapchat to introduce a new way for users to share their favorite songs on the social app. A new “Share Track Lens” feature lets…
Pitch competitions help level the playing field for underrepresented founders, but it isn’t enough
Pitch competitions are a bright spot for underrepresented founders but not without burdens that regular funding doesn’t have.
Ivanti patches two zero-days under attack, but finds another
Ivanti warned on Wednesday that hackers are exploiting another previously undisclosed zero-day vulnerability affecting its widely used corporate VPN appliance. Since early December, Chinese state-backed hackers have been exploiting Ivanti…
We are seeing a groundswell of interest from the tech industry to develop ways to serve frontline workers.
Oasis Security leaves stealth with $40M to lock down the wild west of non-human identity management
When people hear the term “identity management” in an enterprise context, they typically think of apps that help users authenticate who they are on a network in order to access…
StreamAlive picks up $1.58M to build engagement tools for livestreams
StreamAlive, an audience engagement application for livestreams, virtual meetings and in-person events, secured $1.58 million in pre-seed funding, the company announced today. From webinars, livestreamed town halls and virtual work…
SpaceX will launch the Starlab private space station using Starship
Starlab, the private space station being developed by Voyager Space and Airbus, will go to orbit onboard a SpaceX Starship rocket before the decade is out, the companies announced Wednesday.…
Neurelo is building a simpler way for developers to connect a database to an application
Data has always been at the heart of every program, and even more so these days as data feeds machine learning and large language models, but connecting to those databases…
Oura launches a new feature to measure your resilience against stress
Smart ring maker Oura is rolling out a new feature called Resilience, which measures how much stress users can withstand. The company is measuring resilience using parameters like stress load…
Owner.com grabs $33M Series B to improve online guest experiences for mom-and-pop restaurants
Owner recently tapped into AI technology for its new email marketer feature that produces an email in the restaurant owner’s style and tone.
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Despite glimmers of profit, most African neobanks remain in the red
It was only just over a year ago that McKinsey described Africa’s financial technology landscape as a “hotbed for investment.” Fast-forward to today and startups on the continent are facing many of the same problems plaguing fintechs in more mature markets like the U.K. and the U.S.: Valuations are tanking, growth is flagging, revenue targets…
Speedinvest closes fourth fund at $380M to back early-stage startups in Europe
Vienna-based early-stage VC Speedinvest has closed its fourth early-stage fund, Speedinvest 4, at €350 million (around $380 million at today’s exchange rate), surpassing the initial goal of €300 million ($325…
The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) widened its curbs on Paytm’s Payments Bank, which processes transactions for financial services giant Paytm, barring it from offering many banking services, including accepting…
Sundar Pichai says Google One cloud storage service has nearly 100M subscribers
Google CEO Sudar Pichai said that the company’s Google One cloud storage service is ” just about to cross” 100 million subscribers. Speaking during Alphabet’s Q4 2023 earnings call, Pichai…
Accel, an early investor in Indian e-commerce giants Flipkart and Myntra, is preparing a new fashion e-commerce bet in India even as competition intensifies with the recent expansion of Mukesh…
Wattpad, a storytelling platform, cuts 10% of its staff as part of company reorganization
Wattpad, a Toronto-based storytelling platform owned by Naver’s Webtoon Entertainment, confirmed it laid off around 20 staff, or less than 10% of its workforce, according to a spokesperson of Wattpad. The…
Elon Musk’s $56B Tesla pay deal is unfair, judge rules
A Delaware judge ruled Tuesday that Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package is unfair, voiding the largest compensation deal in corporate history. The decision, issued Tuesday in the Delaware Court…
Ofcom report finds 1 in 5 harmful content search results were ‘one-click gateways’ to more toxicity
Move over, TikTok, Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an even bigger target: search engines like Google and Bing and…
Universal Music Group (UMG), the label representing artists such as Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, says that it’ll pull its music from TikTok tomorrow at midnight after failing…
Amid a fairly flat European market, Giant Ventures raises $250M to invest transatlantically
Giant Ventures, a U.K.-based VC that has made a habit of investing on both sides of the Atlantic, is launching two new funds, totaling $250 million. Its previous fund totaled…
You know you’ve screwed up when you’ve simultaneously angered the White House, the TIME Person of the Year and pop culture’s most rabid fanbase. That’s what happened last week to…
Twitterrific’s team is back with Tapestry, an app for tracking social media, news, RSS and more
The Iconfactory, the maker of a popular third-party Twitter client, Twitterrific, that was among those killed off by Twitter under Elon Musk’s management, is hoping to recover from its losses…
