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Are NFT marketplaces becoming an open sea for creator royalties?
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Barcelona nights
I’ve yet to walk the entire floor at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year (that’s the goal for this…
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Hackers steal gun owners’ data from firearm auction website
Hackers breached a website that allows people to buy and sell guns, exposing the identities of its users, TechCrunch has…
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Instagram starts testing its age verification tools in more countries
Meta announced today that it has started testing its age verification tools on Instagram in more countries, including Canada and…
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Neuralink human testing has reportedly received one FDA rejection already
Neuralink’s ambition to provide a brain-computer interface orders of magnitude better than what’s out there now has hit headwinds with…
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Senators urge Zuckerberg to keep teens out of the metaverse
Senators Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Ed Markey (D-MA) wrote a letter to Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg urging him to halt…
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Hatch Bank says hackers used Fortra bug to steal 140,000 customer Social Security numbers
Hatch Bank, a digital-first bank that provides infrastructure for fintech companies offering their own brand credit cards, confirmed hackers exploited…
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Felicis funded 50% more deals last year than in 2021, some as prices were still rising — and it says it has no regrets
Felicis, a now 17-year-old, San Francisco- and Menlo Park-based venture firm, is announcing today that it has closed its ninth…
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Pitch Deck Teardown: Gable’s $12M Series A deck
It seems like only yesterday that I wrote about Gable’s $12 million Series A, but it was, in fact, two…
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Target will allow you to return items from your car starting this spring
Curbside pickup of groceries and other big-box retailer goods had been growing for years then boomed during the pandemic, reaching…
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Behavioral marketing platform Wunderkind nabs $76M
Wunderkind, a platform that enables brands to target web visitors through emails, texts and other digital advertising formats, today announced…
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How to turn an open source project into a profitable business
Victoria Melnikova Contributor Alongside fellow Evil Martians, Victoria Melnikova builds devtools and commercial open source products and writes about her…
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Naomi Osaka, Usher, Apolo Ohno back Immi’s next phase of instant ramen domination
Consumer tastes are ever changing, but one thing’s for sure: People are looking for healthier food options, including their favorite…
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Renovate is building robots to install roof shingles
Roofing isn’t a glamorous job. In fact, one could reasonably argue that it checks off the classic three Ds of…
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Hexa raises $20.5M to turn images into 3D objects for VR, AR and more
Hexa, a 3D asset visualization and management platform, today announced that it closed a $20.5 million Series A round from…
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Attio raises $23.5M to build a next-gen CRM platform
While a partner at a VC firm, Nicolas Sharp took on the project of finding customer relationship management (CRM) software…
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Big Tech on notice as regulators in Africa group to investigate their market conduct
Several competition watchdogs in Africa plan to collectively interrogate the market conduct of global digital firms, putting big techs like…
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Snapchat will now let you pause your Snap Streaks
Maintaining Snap Streaks — where you send a snap to your friend once every 24 hours — is really important…
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Robinhood’s wallet app is now available to all iOS users
Robinhood announced Wednesday that its self-custodial crypto wallet app is now for all users on iOS. The wallet first debuted…
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Everything Elon Musk and execs shared (and skipped) at Tesla Investor Day
The big, giant message Tesla CEO Elon Musk and other execs tried to impart during its four-hour Tesla Investor Day…
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8VC raises $880M in new fund that aims ‘to fix a broken world’
Austin-based venture firm 8VC, led by controversial Palantir founder Jon Lonsdale, has raised $880 million in its fifth fund. In…
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Proposed bill would give Biden the power to ban TikTok
The U.S. House Foreign Affairs Committee voted in favor of a bill that could give President Joe Biden the ability…
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Waymo cuts 200 employees after second round of layoffs
Alphabet’s Waymo has issued its second round of layoffs this year, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Combined with the initial…
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Twitter last month officially banned third-party clients putting a sudden end to popular apps including Tweetbot, Twitterific, and others. Now,…
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Android was, predictably, everywhere at Mobile World Congress. At a show where Apple has no public-facing presence, Google’s mobile operating…
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Daily Crunch: Chase and DoorDash deliver new co-branded credit card with loyalty rewards
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m.…
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Link-in-bio platform Koji launches new tool to let creators sell e-books
Koji, the link-in-bio platform that gives creators a digital storefront on social media platforms like Instagram and TikTok, launched a…
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Salesforce strikes back
CRM giant beats growth forecasts, guides strongly and announces more shareholder return Alex Wilhelm Ron Miller 8 hours It would…
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Airbnb is banning people associated with prohibited users as a safety precaution
Airbnb is banning people who are associated with prohibited users as a safety precaution, according to a new report from…
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Chamath Palihapitiya: it could take three years for the market to “accurately” reprice late-stage cos
Former Facebook exec turned VC Chamath Palihapitiya has long been a controversial figure in the investing world. Both brilliant and…
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Monday.com opens its APAC headquarters in Sydney
Enterprise project management and team collaboration unicorn monday.com is digging deeper into the Asia-Pacific with the opening of its new…
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Does web3 need a venture bailout now that AI has all the hype?
Shifting investor priorities, more expensive cash and a dearth of the large deals that were so common during the last…
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Addressing criticism, OpenAI will no longer use customer data to train its models by default
As the ChatGPT and Whisper APIs launch this morning, OpenAI is changing the terms of its API developer policy, aiming…
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OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, plus dedicated capacity for enterprise customers
To call ChatGPT, the free text-generating AI developed by San Francisco-based startup OpenAI, a hit is a massive understatement. As…
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Free, ad-supported creator content comes to The Roku Channel
Roku struck a deal with creator company Jellysmack to launch new content featuring 17 popular YouTube and TikTok creators like…
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The life-upending flaw that USPS won’t fix
Sometime in November, someone walked into a U.S. post office and filled out a change of address form, just as…
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OpenAI debuts Whisper API for text-to-speech transcription and translation
To coincide with the rollout of the ChatGPT API, OpenAI today launched the Whisper API, a hosted version of the…
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Sesamm bags $37M to give corporates ESG insights using natural language processing
Sesamm, a French startup that helps financial firms and corporates adhere to their ESG goals by using natural language processing…
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Audible set to launch its first audio-only singing competition series with judges Kelly Rowland & Sara Bareilles
Audible today announced that it would launch its first-ever singing competition series as an exclusive podcast featuring artists Sara Bareilles…
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Thoughtworks lays off around 500 employees amid ongoing slowdown
Thoughtworks has emerged as the latest tech company to join the ongoing trend of laying off employees amid the global…
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Tesla Investor Day: Here’s how to watch and what to expect
Tesla investor day is upon us, an occasion where shareholders and super fans will make their pilgrimage to the company’s…
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Elliott has nominated its own slate of candidates for Salesforce board
Elliott Management, one of five activist investors working inside of Salesforce, has nominated a slate of candidates to the Salesforce…
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Netflix’s ‘Stranger Things’ gets a stage play about the origin story of Vecna
A new “Stranger Things” play is coming to the Phoenix Theatre in London’s West End in late 2023, Netflix announced…
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Ben Nye’s new VC firm won’t just give you a fish, but will guide you to the best lake
For the past 19 years, Ben Nye sought out promising infrastructure software as co-managing partner of Bain Capital Ventures. Now…
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Headless CMS startup Strapi launches Strapi Cloud
Strapi is releasing its cloud-hosted version of its popular content management system. With Strapi Cloud, developers don’t have to manage…
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Qwak raises $12M for its MLOps platform
MLOps platform Qwak today announced that it has raised a $12 million Series A1 funding round from Bessemer Ventures. The…
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How an entrepreneur, who didn’t know how to cook, started a recipe company
Unless you are an avid food prepper, “what’s for dinner” is probably the phrase uttered everyday in most households. Ten…
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This e-bike brand by Lime and Didi vets pedals into the US with $12M raised
The e-bike market in America is getting a brave new player. Off the back of its $7.4 million Series A funding…
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Divert bags $100M growth equity, $1B financing to tackle grocery store food waste
Every year, about 35% of the food supply in the U.S. is wasted. About half of that’s because of picky…
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UK provisionally greenlights Viasat and Inmarsat’s $7.3B pointing to competition from Starlink
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has provisionally cleared the proposed $7.3 billion merger between London-based satellite company Inmarsat…
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