TikTok’s Effect Creator Rewards fund now has lower eligibility requirements, an updated payout model and more
TikTok is updating its Effect Creator Rewards program with lower eligibility requirements, a revamped payout model, reduced payout increments and a lower threshold to start collecting rewards. The $6 million fund, which launched in May, rewards creators for the effects they make through TikTok’s AR development platform, Effect House. The
Read moreData transformation startup Prophecy lands $35M investment
Prophecy, a low-code development platform for companies to transform their data, today announced that it raised $35 million in a Series B funding round led by Insight Partners and SignalFire with participation from J.P. Morgan, Singtel Innov8, Databricks Ventures and DallasVC. The new cash, which brings Prophecy’s total capital raised
Read moreConstruction sites feel emptier, but is bleeding-edge tech the solution?
The labor shortage in construction isn’t a problem that’s unique to the U.S.; it's very much a global issue.
Read moreCanadian small businesses optimistic about the future: report
Small Canadian businesses are feeling optimistic about their future, according to Scotiabank’s fourth Path to Impact report. The report says 66 per cent of business owners are extremely optimistic about the future state of their business. Additionally, half of the respondents stated they are doing better since the peak of
Read moreWarning to website admins: HTTP/2 zero-day causes massive DDoS attacks, patch now
Developers and administrators of web servers are being warned to install patches to fix a critical zero-day vulnerability in a key protocol that led to a recent record-smashing denial of service attack. Dubbed Rapid Reset, it leverages HTTP/2’s stream cancellation feature by sending a request and immediately canceling it, over
Read moreSafaricom Expands MyCounty App Platform to Kitui County in Kenya
Safaricom announces its partnership with Kitui county launching the MyCounty app platform that aims to digitize county services for more efficient operations and increased revenue collection. The platform that will offer services such as payment for county services, revenue management systems, citizen reporting and engagement tools and solutions around agriculture,
Read moreBox announces Hubs, a custom portal to share specialized content
For years, companies have been looking for better ways to share content, but the file/folder metaphor has stubbornly stuck. And that worked fine for ad hoc kinds of sharing between individuals or small groups, but for larger teams, it could be hard to understand the content sitting in folders without
Read moreAdobe’s project fast fill is generative fill for video
As part of its MAX conference, Adobe traditionally shows off some of its more forward-looking tech, which may or may not end up in its Creative Cloud apps at some point in the future. The idea here is to show what its engineers are working on and right now, as
Read moreBox unveils unique AI pricing plan to account for high cost of running LLMs
As generative AI becomes embedded in enterprise software, one of the challenges that companies face is how to fairly price it to recoup the cost of running their content against foundational large language models like OpenAI’s. Box introduced Box AI last May, bringing generative AI to the platform via a
Read moreKIT Plugins, an audio software startup that help producers and musicians enhance their sound, raises $1 million
KIT Plugins, a music software development startup, has raised $1 million in Series A funding led by Copycat Holdings. The Nashville-based startup offers digital audio emulations of rare analog gear to help producers and musicians record quality studio sound. The startup was founded in 2020 by CEO Matt Kleinman with
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