Elon Musk sues four unknown individuals for scraping Twitter’s data
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge The Elon Musk-owned X Corp. is suing four unnamed individuals over allegations they illegally scraped user data from Twitter, as first reported by CNBC. The lawsuit was filed in a Dallas County, Texas, court on July 6th and seeks over $1 million in damages.
Read moreSuffolk Technologies looks to be more than a CVC by not really being one at all
Suffolk Technologies wants to have its cake and eat it, too. Corporate VCs and traditional investors help startups in different ways. While venture capitalists are better equipped to help startups land their next funding round or make their next hire, CVCs can ask their corporate overlords to serve as early
Read moreTwitter starts sharing ad revenue with verified creators
Twitter is now paying creators for a share of the ad revenue earned from ads served in the replies to their posts. Users who subscribe to Twitter Blue and have earned more than 5 million tweet impressions each month for the last 3 months are eligible to join. According to
Read moreTelly starts shipping its free ad-supported TVs to its first round of customers
Telly, the hardware startup that is giving U.S. consumers free dual-screen smart TVs that are supported by advertising, announced today that it has started shipping its TVs to its first round of customers. The company says the customers in this initial wave have been invited to participate in its beta
Read moreCelsius Network and its former CEO are probably not having a good day
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important crypto stories delivered to your inbox every Thursday at 12 p.m. PT, subscribe here. Welcome back to Chain Reaction. Earlier today, the now-bankrupt crypto lending firm Celsius Network and its former CEO and co-founder Alex Mashinsky faced several lawsuits from
Read moreWant your sales team to be more productive? Take a closer look at your ‘watermelons’
Robert Wahbe Contributor Share on Twitter Robert Wahbe is the co-founder and CEO of Highspot, a sales enablement platform. More posts by this contributor Reimagine inside sales to ramp up B2B customer acquisition In today’s era of data abundance, leaders have plenty of metrics to choose from to benchmark progress
Read moreTwitter admits to having a Verified spammer problem with announcement of new DM settings
As Twitter fends off new competition from Instagram Threads, the company today announced a change designed to cut down on spam in users’ inboxes. Starting “as soon as” July 14, Twitter will introduce a new messages setting aimed at reducing spam in DMs by moving messages from Verified users you
Read moreFTC reportedly looking into OpenAI over ‘reputational harm’ caused by ChatGPT
The FTC is reportedly in at least the exploratory phase of investigating OpenAI over whether the company’s flagship ChatGPT conversational AI made “false, misleading, disparaging or harmful” statements about people. It seems unlikely this will lead to a sudden crackdown, but it shows that the FTC is doing more than
Read moreRipple’s XRP token was a security sometimes, a judge rules
Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Ripple’s XRP token was an investment contract when the company sold it to institutional investors, a judge ruled today. The case, brought by the Securities and Exchange Commission, is one of the biggest in determining whether tokens are securities. Though this is an
Read moreWelcome to the new venture normal
The U.S. venture capital market has seemingly found a new normal: Trends around the number of deals and amount of dollars invested in startups so far this year appear to be stabilizing. The Exchange explores startups, markets and money. Read it every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The Exchange newsletter
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