Pack away your mittens, startup winter is over
Welcome to Startups Weekly. Sign up here to get it in your inbox every Friday. As I sat down to write this week’s Startups Weekly, I do what I do every week: Read every story on TechCrunch. This week, that meant reading 212 stories on the site, and you know
Read moreTechCrunch+ Roundup: AI investor survey, calculating TAM, inside the FTX trial
If you haven’t found traction with customers and aren’t generating revenue, you should be in fundraising mode already.
Read moreSBF Trial: The latest updates from the FTX collapse’s courtroom drama
Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, is on trial for alleged fraud and conspiracy as he led the company’s swift rise and implosion. Over the course of several weeks, his attorneys will try to maintain his innocence against a wide-ranging series of accusations, from securities fraud
Read moreAI app EPIK hits No. 1 on the App Store for its viral yearbook photo feature
Another week, another AI app going viral. This time around, the AI app that has surged to the top of the App Store is EPIK, an photo editing app that lets users generate nostalgic, 90s-inspired “yearbook” photos of themselves as one of its many templates. Similar to other recently popular
Read moreGoogle, Apple face fines in South Korea for breaching in-app billing rules
South Korea’s telecommunication regulator, the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), said Friday that it plans to levy fines on Google and Apple, which could total up to $50.5 million, for violating the country’s in-app payment law. According to the KCC statement, the two Big Tech giants abused market dominance to force
Read moreExclusive: Y Combinator beefs up with a string of new lieutenants
Y Combinator continues to change shape under CEO Garry Tan, a founder-turned-investor and online influencer. While Tan and his colleagues have attracted media attention lately for quarrelsome social media posts that take on rivals and San Francisco city officials, Tan has more quietly been turning the dials inside the popular
Read moreVodacom Business launches SD-WAN solution for SMEs
Vodacom Business has partnered with Cisco Meraki to launch SD-WAN Express, a software-defined wide area network solution aimed at small to medium enterprises (SMEs). Empowering SMEs with Affordable and Efficient Networking Solutions This collaboration offers SMEs access to reliable and cost-effective networking solutions, addressing their IT challenges as they continue
Read moreCyber Security Today, Oct. 6, 2023 – The Qakbot gang is still operating
The Qakbot gang is still operating. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, October 6th, 2023. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. The operators behind the Qakbot malware are still going strong. In August law enforcement agencies from seven countries said they
Read moreMicrosoft and Terragon Fuel Data-Driven Marketing in Africa
Microsoft, in collaboration with Terragon, aims to empower African businesses with valuable customer insights through a three-year partnership. Terragon plans to utilize Microsoft’s cloud technologies to bolster its marketing technology (MarTech) offerings, while advancing Microsoft’s cloud-driven digital transformation ambitions. Terragon specializes in leveraging data and technology to create Africa’s most
Read moreSome gen AI vendors say they’ll defend customers from IP lawsuits. Others, not so much
A person using generative AI — models that generate text, images, music and more given a prompt — could infringe on someone else’s copyright through no fault of their own. But who’s on the hook for the legal fees and damages if — or rather, when — that happens? It
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