More Pain on the Way for Stocks
Do not let this 2 day rally for the stock market (SPY) fool you. Consider it a temporary relief rally with things lining up for the next leg lower. At…
Your boss is watching
A full day’s work for Dora Manriquez, who drives for Uber and Lyft in the San Francisco Bay Area, includes waiting in her car for a two-digit number to appear. The apps keep sending her rides that are too cheap to pay for her time—$4 or $7 for a trip across San Francisco, $16 for…
March 2023
1 Tech Stock You’ll Regret Not Buying Sooner
Leading networking company Nokia’s (NOK) solid financials, share repurchase programs, and impressive business developments make it a top-performing tech stock. Hence, the stock could be an ideal addition to your…
F3C puts its investment spin on consumer brands with new $25M fund
The Family Fund & Founder Community is gathering a community of founders to co-invest in late seed and Series A-staged consumer brands.
F3C puts its investment spin on consumer brands with new $25M fund by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech is coming to Panera Bread
Amazon may be closing a number of its own high-tech physical retail stores in recent days, but some of the technology it developed for those stores is finding a new home. The online retailer announced today that Panera will now become the first restaurant to deploy Amazon’s palm reading payment and loyalty system known as […]
Amazon’s palm-reading payment tech is coming to Panera Bread by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
The bearable mediocrity of Baidu’s ChatGPT competitor
China Report is MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology developments in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. Did you stay up late last week to watch the release of Ernie Bot, the first Chinese rival to ChatGPT? It felt like the most anticipated event in China’s tech world so far this year,…
Opera browser adds ChatGPT and AI summarization features
Just weeks after Microsoft launched GPT-4 powered chatbot into its Edge browser, Opera is following suit and integrating generative AI chatbots powered by ChatGPT and ChatSonic into its desktop browsers Opera and Opera GX. These new tools are available in early access across all desktop platforms, the browser maker said. Opera is also launching a […]
Opera browser adds ChatGPT and AI summarization features by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Checkout.com launches virtual and physical card issuing
Fintech startup Checkout.com is better known for its payment processing product. But the company is launching a new product today as Checkout.com customers can now create payment cards for their own customers. The company has been testing Checkout.com Issuing for a while as there are already millions of cards that have been created with the […]
Checkout.com launches virtual and physical card issuing by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Emblem is the latest European seed fund in new wave of VC funds
If you plan to launch a new startup in France, Denmark or Sweden, there is a new seed fund looking for your pitch. Emblem is announcing today that it has raised nearly $54 million (€50 million) for a new European seed fund. And this is only the first close — the firm expects to raise […]
Emblem is the latest European seed fund in new wave of VC funds by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Investors rally around idea that struggling founders should close shop and return some funding
A growing number of investors have begun suggesting that certain venture-backed startups that have yet to find so-called product-market fit throw in the towel. Their argument is that some startups simply raised too much, at valuations into which they will never grow, and that clean, well-planned exits are better for everyone than messy ones. After […]
Investors rally around idea that struggling founders should close shop and return some funding by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch
Aspecta nabs $3.5M to build AI-vetted coder profiles
While LinkedIn is helpful for displaying people’s educational and professional achievements, there exists a world of self-taught tech talent whose skills are not so easily reflected on the networking site. Rather, their expertise is hidden in the lines of code they write. Aspecta is trying to fill that gap by providing an AI-powered profile builder […]
Aspecta nabs $3.5M to build AI-vetted coder profiles by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch