Ask Sophie: What visas could work to come to Silicon Valley for customer discovery?
In this week's Ask Sophie column, Sophie explores immigration options for coming to the United States for customer discovery. © 2023 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Read moreApple tops Samsung in worldwide smartphone shipments for the first time
Apple’s iPhone has overtaken Samsung for the first time ever as the best-selling smartphone in 2023, according to a new report from IDC. The tech giant accounted for 20% of the global market with 234.6 million shipments last year. Samsung closed the year with 226.6 million shipments, while Xiaomi and
Read moreTesla’s Cybertruck is having trouble living up to the hype
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge During the Cybertruck event last year, Elon Musk showed off a pretty impressive demo that pitted its 6,600-lb EV pickup against a Porsche 911 on a quarter-mile drag strip. The Cybertruck came out on top — with the twist that it was
Read moreThe next iOS update will make it harder to break into your iPhone
Photo by Allison Johnson / The Verge Apple is expected to include a new security feature in iOS 17.3 next week called Stolen Device Protection that will make it far harder for would-be phone thieves to hijack your Apple ID and any financial information stored on the device. Right now,
Read moreCanada Post announces shakeup: IT services group sold to Deloitte
Canada Post announced that its IT shared-service provider, Innovapost, will be sold off to Deloitte Canada. As part of the agreement, Deloitte will deliver and support Canada Post’s day-to-day IT operational services. “Today is the start of an exciting journey to transform Canada Post’s information technology model so that we
Read moreInnovation Meets Chic: HUAWEI Introduces ‘Fashion Forward’ Gadget Line
HUAWEI has recently introduced a range of new devices embodying its “Fashion Forward” theme, where style meets technology, and functionality blends with form. The lineup includes: HUAWEI MateBook D 16 The new HUAWEI MateBook D 16 is an ideal companion for all users, offering an expansive 16-inch Eye Comfort FullView
Read morePomelo stacks $40M to scale its payments infra business in LatAm
Argentinian payments infrastructure startup Pomelo has raised $40 million in a Series B round of funding. The Buenos Aires-based company started in 2021 with the goal of giving fintechs and embedded finance players a way to launch virtual accounts and issue prepaid and credit cards via compliant onboarding processes. Pomelo went
Read moreNotion launches a stand-alone calendar app
Does the world need more calendar apps? That’s the first question that came to my mind when I heard that Notion, the incredibly popular note-taking and project management service, was launching a standalone calendar service. Maybe I shouldn’t have been surprised, though, given that Notion acquired Cron, a rather smartly
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