Lucid scores a win, Bird’s founder leaves the nest and Zoox robotaxis roll out in Vegas
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Read more15 investors talk about their investment cadence in H1 2023
As part of our ongoing coverage of VC performance in the first half of 2023, TechCrunch+ surveyed 15 investors about their investment cadence and their plans for the second half of the year. As expected, it appears a good mix of investors wrote checks at the rate they’d aimed for,
Read moreFintech M&A gets a big boost with Visa-Pismo deal
It was a very busy week in the world of fintech, which certainly kept us on our toes. We covered a couple of notable M&A deals (including one of the biggest of the year so far), a different kind of financial services startup aimed at undocumented immigrants, Brex’s official recommitment
Read moreThe Attention Economy with Walter Flaat, Chief Data Officer, Dentsu Canada and Bookstores Come Back with James Daunt, CEO of Barnes & Noble
Two great interview shows for you this weekend: The Attention Economy – A study by Dentsu Canada and interview with Walter Flaat, Chief Data Officer In 2015 Time Magazine published a story with the headline “You Now Have A Shorter Attention Span Than A Goldfish.” Supposedly this was based on
Read moreThe entire story of Twitter under Elon Musk
Image: Laura Normand / The Verge Forget Tesla, SpaceX, Neuralink, and The Boring Company — Elon Musk is now the owner of Twitter. Elon Musk owns Twitter, and his new big idea is charging people to read more than a few hundred tweets per day. Verified Twitter Blue subscribers can
Read moreNetflix axes its basic plan in Canada, IRL shuts down and Shein’s influencer stunt backfires
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Read moreElon Musk blames data scraping by AI startups for his new paywalls on reading tweets
Illustration by Kristen Radtke / The Verge; Getty Images Twitter CEO Elon Musk continues to blame the social media site’s new limitations on “data scrapers & system manipulation” as he announced new “temporary” limits on how many posts people can read. Musk tweeted late Friday that the “drastic & immediate
Read more5G: Catalyst for Economic Opportunities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Over the past two decades, mobile telecommunications has revolutionized Sub-Saharan Africa, integrating hundreds of millions of people into the digital economy and creating a thriving industry worth billions of dollars annually. According to the GSM Association, mobile technology has achieved 1.2 billion connections and attracted over 650 million unique mobile
Read moreEverything you need to know about QR code payments
If there’s one essential item people rarely leave home without, it’s their mobile phone. We’ve all experienced the panic of forgetting keys or wallets, leaving us stranded at the shops. But now, all you need is your cell phone—no purse, wallet, or bank card required. The world of payments has
Read moreMilestone Systems Launches Innovative Video Solution for Healthcare Professionals
Hospitals worldwide are facing the challenge of staff shortages, prompting video software company Milestone Systems to introduce a solution: remote patient monitoring technology. This innovative technology aims to support healthcare workers and enhance overall patient care. Projections indicate that by 2030, there will be a shortage of approximately 15 million
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