November 2022

The Download: what Twitter’s collapse would mean, and crypto’s meltdown

November 14, 2022
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Twitter’s potential collapse could wipe out vast records of recent human history Almost from the time the first tweet was posted in 2006, Twitter has played an important role in world events. The…

Why is Mark Cuban Fascinated by Crypto?

November 14, 2022
Cuban drew comparisons of the up and coming crypto space to the early days of streaming. He claimed that people had to go through a tedious process just to make a 16k stream work and believed that if it didn’t, people would often become a laughing stock for not using a radio

A ‘credible alternative to Google and Amazon’: Klarna brings its price comparison tool to Europe

November 14, 2022

Klarna is expanding into the competitive world of price comparisons, with the launch of a new tool that compares prices across thousands of retailers. The company quietly rolled out the price comparison service in the U.S. a few weeks back, and is now extending this into additional markets in Europe including The U.K. and the […]

A ‘credible alternative to Google and Amazon’: Klarna brings its price comparison tool to Europe by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch

TuSimple co-founders clapback, consolidation continues and Waymo reaches two milestones

November 14, 2022

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TuSimple co-founders clapback, consolidation continues and Waymo reaches two milestones by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

India lifts download ban on VLC

November 14, 2022

India has lifted the download ban on VLC, more than nine months after it mysteriously blocked the official website of the popular media playback software in the South Asian market. VideoLAN, the popular software’s developer, filed a legal notice last month seeking an explanation from the nation’s IT and Telecom ministries for the block order. […]

India lifts download ban on VLC by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Selligion Technologies Raises INR 3 Crore Seed Funding

November 14, 2022
The fund raised will be utilized to build a scalable cloud-based software ecosystem for future deployment while distributing a variant of the computer to a sizable number of students on a monthly subscription model

Real-time data startup Quix raises a $12.9M Series A round led by MMC Ventures

November 14, 2022

The complexity of streaming data technologies – not just streaming video but any kind of streaming data – has created a headache around dealing with that high speed data processing. Accordingly, companies like Spark, Flink have spring up to address this ksqlDB. Many are either either java-based solutions or SQL-based analytics solutions. However, UK startup […]

Real-time data startup Quix raises a $12.9M Series A round led by MMC Ventures by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Binance CEO CZ Propels Crypto Self-Custody

November 14, 2022
CZ’s push for self-custody comes at a time when investors are rethinking about the security of the assets amidst the market spiralling out of control