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Read moreSundar Pichai says Google One cloud storage service has nearly 100M subscribers
Google CEO Sudar Pichai said that the company’s Google One cloud storage service is ” just about to cross” 100 million subscribers. Speaking during Alphabet’s Q4 2023 earning call, Pichai added that the company is looking to add more AI-powered features to the Google One service. The search giant first
Read moreAccel eyes new India fashion e-commerce bet with Newme
Accel, an early investor in Indian e-commerce giants Flipkart and Myntra, is preparing a new fashion e-commerce bet in India even as competition intensifies with the recent expansion of Mukesh Ambani’s Ajio platform. Accel is in advanced talks to lead a $15-20 million funding round into Newme, an Indian fast-fashion
Read moreWattpad, a storytelling platform, conducts another layoff round
Wattpad, a Toronto-based storytelling platform owned by Naver’s Webtoon Entertainment, conducted another round of layoffs earlier this month. Wattpad has cut around 30 jobs, or roughly 15% of its workforce, a source familiar with the situation told TechCrunch. According to local media outlets, including The Korea Economic Daily, the cut impacted
Read moreCanadian government investigating another hack at Global Affairs
The Canadian government is investigating what could be a major data breach at its foreign affairs department. CBC News says there is an investigation into what it calls a prolonged data security breach on the internal network of Global Affairs Canada. At least two internal hard drives, as well as
Read moreElon Musk’s $56B Tesla pay deal is unfair, judge rules
A Delaware judge ruled Tuesday that Elon Musk’s $56 billion multi-billion pay package is unfair, voiding the largest in compensation deal in corporate history. The decision, issued Tuesday in the Delaware Court of Chancery by Judge Kathaleen McCormick, means that Musk, the world’s richest person, can’t keep the 2018 compensation
Read moreRetailers at critical juncture due to severe tech gaps: SOTI study
A new study released today reveals that the retail industry in Canada and elsewhere around the world faces major challenges as a result of consumers experiencing a major “disconnect between their shopping expectations and the in-store reality.” The study, conducted by Mississauga-based SOTI, a provider of mobile and IoT device
Read moreOfcom report finds 1 in 5 harmful content search results were ‘one-click gateways’ to more toxicity
Move over, TikTok. Ofcom, the U.K. regulator enforcing the now official Online Safety Act, is gearing up to size up an even bigger target: search engines like Google and Bing and the role that they play in presenting self-injury, suicide and other harmful content at the click of a button,
Read moreUniversal Music Group plans to pull song catalog from TikTok
Universal Music Group (UMG), the label representing artists including Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish and Ariana Grande, says that it’ll pull its music from TikTok tomorrow at midnight after failing to reach a deal with the platform’s parent company, ByteDance, over royalties. UMG won’t seek to renew its current arrangement with
Read moreAmid a fairly flat European market, Giant Ventures raises $250M to invest transatlantically
Giant Ventures, a U.K.-based VC that has made a habit of investing on both sides of the Atlantic, is launching two new funds, totaling $250 million. Its previous fund totaled $100 million. The firm invests across climate, health and what it calls “purpose-driven” startups and some used to call “impact”
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