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Startups
Feels like you missed the generative AI train? 5 steps for speeding ahead in 90 days
3:00 am PDT • July 11, 2023
This article is for any founder who feels like they’re late for the train — or who’s all aboard, but not going fast enough.
Startups
Outverse wants to build a full-stack community platform for software companies
1:53 am PDT • July 11, 2023
Building and harnessing online communities has been a major driving force behind some of the world’s largest platforms, from Stripe and Slack to Figma and Notion. At the heart of…
Apple has launched an online store on China’s WeChat app, the Tencent-owned platform said on Tuesday. The Cupertino-based company has launched the store to the app via WeChat’s mini-programs —…
Government & Policy
Foxconn seeks India incentive despite withdrawing from Vedanta venture
11:26 pm PDT • July 10, 2023
Foxconn said on Tuesday it plans to submit an application to access incentives under India’s semiconductor manufacturing policy even as the Taiwanese giant has pulled out of the nation’s flagship…
Updated at 1.35pm IST, July 12: Amazon on Wednesday unveiled “Mission Start Ab,” a seven-episode series that focuses on startups and local innovation in India, confirming an earlier TechCrunch report.…
Venture
Flexport’s Ryan Petersen joins venture firm Founders Fund as a partner
5:00 pm PDT • July 10, 2023
Flexport founder Ryan Petersen has joined venture capital firm Founders Fund as a partner, as reported by Forbes earlier today. Founders Fund confirmed the move to TechCrunch, providing the following…
In this issue: Astra’s corporate reorganization, news from Pulsar Fusion and more.
Social
Twitch is launching a discovery feed and other short-form video features
2:00 pm PDT • July 10, 2023
Twitch is finally rolling out a Discovery Feed, after years of complaints from its creators about the lack of growth opportunities for smaller streamers. The company announced the Discovery Feed,…
Space
Starlink satellites are dodging objects in orbit thousands of times every month
1:48 pm PDT • July 10, 2023
Starlink satellites are making thousands of avoidance maneuvers as low Earth orbit becomes more crowded, feeding worries that a catastrophic impact is inevitable. SpaceX’s orbital communication satellites performed maneuvers just…
Featured Article
You don’t need VC to develop a consumer tech product
Use the current market downturn as an opportunity to focus on revenue generation by building products that customers are willing to pay for.
1:30 pm PDT • July 10, 2023
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Transportation
Fisker to sell $340M in convertible notes to fund operations, add battery pack capacity
12:40 pm PDT • July 10, 2023
California-based EV maker Fisker plans to sell $340 million in convertible debt, according to a regulatory filing posted Monday. The company expects the net proceeds to be $296.7 million, the…
AI
Netflix’s AI-assisted green screen bathes actors in eye-searing magenta
12:36 pm PDT • July 10, 2023
The process of compositing, or placing actors in front of a background that’s not actually there, is as old as filmmaking itself — and it’s always been a pain. Netflix…
Featured Article
Car-sharing revenue could be a first step to mainstream adoption of web3 in the enterprise
ELOOP and Peaq are among the startups looking to help enterprise businesses incorporate web3 into their business models.
11:57 am PDT • July 10, 2023
Startups
Sourcetable raises $3M, claiming the future of spreadsheets is spreadsheets
11:02 am PDT • July 10, 2023
Spreadsheets. They’re probably not what you’d call the most exciting piece of software going; it seems like a third of all startup pitches has “spreadsheets” in the “look how ridiculous,…
Space
Longshot Space wants to make space launch dumb — and really cheap
10:04 am PDT • July 10, 2023
Rockets are among the greatest feats in human engineering, but to Longshot Space CEO Mike Grace, they’re an “overly exquisite solution” to the problem of sending megatons of inert mass…
If your IP is stopping a big company from doing what it wants, that could, in itself, be a good enough reason for acquiring you.
EA (Electronic Arts) announced Monday that its new studio Cliffhanger Games is developing a third-person, single-player Black Panther game in a joint effort with Marvel Games. Cliffhanger Games claims that…
Apps
Snap is teaming up with Linktree to let users include links in their profiles
9:00 am PDT • July 10, 2023
Snap announced today that it is rolling out an integration with the link-in-bio tool Linktree to let people show off their work and other profiles on Snapchat. The social network…
The European Union has adopted a new transatlantic data adequacy agreement with the U.S. The much anticipated decision means there’s an immediate resolution to legal uncertainty around exports of EU…
