Oct 28th
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Microsoft is the latest tech giant to be caught in the cross-hairs of Germany’s antitrust authority. The Federal Cartel Office (FCO), aka the Bundeskartellamt, has announced it’s opened a proceeding to…
Apps
Spotify debuts ‘Niche Mixes’ you can build based on description alone
7:11 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Spotify launched a new feature today called Niche Mixes that lets you create your own personalized mixes based on just a few words of description in the Search tab. For…
Enterprise
Asana launches new work intelligence tools with AI on the way
6:49 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Asana launched several new features today to help companies understand how work flows and tracks against goals and budgets.
A Kenyan court has today upheld interim orders issued last week temporarily barring Meta from engaging its new content moderation subcontractor, Majorel, pending determination if the social media giant can…
Biotech & Health
Cultured meat firm resurrects woolly mammoth in lab-grown meatball
6:06 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Truth, as the saying goes, is often stranger than fiction. The very notion of resurrecting the long-extinct woolly mammoth was the stuff of fantasy not that long ago, but scientists…
Security
Hackers could remotely turn off lights, honk, mess with Tesla’s infotainment system
6:05 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Thanks to three vulnerabilities chained together, malicious hackers could remotely hack into a Tesla, turn off the lights, honk the horn, open the trunk, activate the windshield wipers and mess…
Climate
Fresh funding gives cat food brand Smalls avenue into retail for the first time
6:02 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Smalls will open a cat cafe in New York in the fall and continue innovating on its fresh cat food products.
VCs aren’t giving up on generative AI, which they believe will be the next big thing in tech. The investment numbers are staggering.
Enterprise
Amazon opens its low-bandwidth, long-range Sidewalk network to developers
6:00 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Back in 2019, Amazon announced Sidewalk, its low-bandwidth, long-range wireless network that uses the 900 MHz spectrum to connect Internet of Things (IoT) devices. It does this by connecting these…
Startups
Tory Burch Foundation launches tool to help women founders find capital
6:00 am PDT • March 28, 2023
The tool comes at a perilous time for many women founders: last year, companies founded solely by women received just 1.9% of all capital allocated to US startups.
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The Turntable wars were one of the more fascinating stories to emerge in 2021 startup land (though I suspect those involved might dispute the matter). After years away, the beloved…
It’s five months since Elon Musk overpaid for a relatively small microblogging platform called Twitter. The platform had punched above its weight in pure user numbers thanks to an unrivaled…
Transportation
Venti raises $29M to design autonomous vehicles for industrial and logistics hubs
5:04 am PDT • March 28, 2023
A startup called Venti Technologies has raised $28.8 million, a Series A that it plans to use to continue building its software, partner with third parties for hardware, and to…
Apps
Zoom is adding new features to compete with Slack, Calendly, Google and Microsoft
5:04 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Weeks after laying off 1,300 people (or 15% of the staff), Zoom is introducing new features to compete with numerous companies including Slack, Calendly, Google, and Microsoft. These features include…
Featured Article
Fusion startup Type One Energy gets $29M seed round to fast-track its reactor designs
The company is betting that outsourcing will fast-track its unique fusion reactor designs.
5:00 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Robotics
Neubility plans to roll out 400 lidar-free delivery and security robots by year-end
4:30 am PDT • March 28, 2023
Last-mile robotics startup Neubility — which makes autonomous delivery robots that work without lidar — says that it plans bump its fleet up to 400 by the end of this…
Venture
For deep due diligence, minimize disruption to maximize success
4:30 am PDT • March 28, 2023
If you’re not careful, you can come up against delays, or worse, investors pulling out at the last minute.
Transportation
Cabify, the Madrid-based Uber rival, says it’s raised $110M
3:04 am PDT • March 28, 2023
It’s 2023, and we’re years past the peak of monster fundraising for on-demand transportation and delivery startups locked in highly competitive races with each other to dominate urban consumer mobility.…
Space
Isar Aerospace raises $165 million to bring more sovereign launch to Europe
3:00 am PDT • March 28, 2023
German launch startup Isar Aerospace has scored $165 million (€155 million) in new funding as it races toward the inaugural flight of its Spectrum small rocket later this year. The…
Apple’s new app for classical music, Apple Music Classical, is available for download to iPhone users.
