Four years after partnering with Apple on the launch of the Apple Card , Goldman Sachs may be eyeing the exits. The Wall Street Journal re...
Friday, June 30, 2023
TikTok parent ByteDance launches music creation and audio editing app in closed beta in the US
Prospero Silvério
June 30, 2023
TikTok’s parent company ByteDance announced today that it’s launching a new, free-to-use music production app in closed beta in the United S...
UK readies in-depth investigation into Adobes $20B Figma acquisition
Prospero Silvério
June 30, 2023
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally concluded that Adobe’s proposed $20 billion bid for digital design ri...
YouTube is running a new experiment to limit usage on ad blockers by asking users to turn it off or buy a premium subscription after three v...
Fertifa enables companies to offer fertility and reproductive health benefits
Prospero Silvério
June 30, 2023
The number of workplaces offering fertility and reproductive healthcare benefits are on the rise . Doing so can help companies become more c...
Thursday, June 29, 2023
An Indian court has dismissed Twitter’s lawsuit against the Indian government that sought to challenge New Delhi’s block orders on tweets a...
Koreas Alwayz aims to make online shopping fun again with $46M in funding
Prospero Silvério
June 29, 2023
Seoul-based e-commerce company Levit , an operator of the shopping app Alwayz , wants to make the shopping experience more entertaining and ...
Lightspeed makes first investment in Africa backing Ghanas Berry Health
Prospero Silvério
June 29, 2023
Sexual and mental health stigmatization in Africa has evolved over several decades to a point where negligence to address the issue has led ...
Meta expects recommendation models orders of magnitude bigger than GPT-4. Why?
Prospero Silvério
June 29, 2023
Meta made a remarkable claim in an announcement published today intended to give more clarity on its content recommendation algorithms. It’s...
Cyware , a startup developing products to help enterprises modernize their security operations, today announced that it raised $30 million i...
B Garage , a San Jose-based startup building autonomous drones along with software to track warehouse inventory, said today that it has pick...
In the industrial world, cement is about as omnipresent as materials get. But despite its clear and obvious utility, cement is responsible f...
India startup funding slides 68% after Tiger and SoftBank make virtually no deals
Prospero Silvério
June 29, 2023
Indian startups experienced a significant contraction in funding in the first half of 2023, revealing the knock-on effect of broader public ...
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
DoorDash will give delivery workers the option to be paid a guaranteed hourly minimum rate instead of being paid per delivery, the company s...
Gleamer , a five-year-old French startup that has developed AI software to help radiologists diagnose and detect bone trauma lesions in scan...
Ask Sophie: How do we relocate Ukrainian and Russian team members to the U.S.?
Prospero Silvério
June 28, 2023
Sophie Alcorn Contributor Share on Twitter Sophie Alcorn is the founder of Alcorn Immigration Law in Silicon Valley and 2019 Glo...
A couple of months after unveiling Proton Pass , Proton — the company behind end-to-end encrypted email service Proton Mail — is officially ...
The U.S. is weighing additional restrictions on AI chip export to China amid rising concerns over the use of advanced semiconductors for mil...
Bluu Seafood reels in $17.5M to bring cultivated fish products to market
Prospero Silvério
June 28, 2023
Bluu Seafood , a German company creating cultivated (i.e. “lab-grown”) fish products, today announced it has raised €16 million ($17.5 milli...