December 23, 2024

4 Ways Content Can Make or Break Your Customer Experience

When efforts to modernize customer experience focus too much on technology and not enough on content, your company risks wasting resources, falling behind the competition and losing customers.

May 2023

Liquidity Group, a debt financier for growth stages, raises another $40M and aims for Europe

May 9, 2023

Last year we covered how late-stage tech backer Liquidity Group had raised $775M for its fintech platform from Apollo (private equity) and MUFG (a Japanese bank). Liquidity is part tech platform and part lender, using its technology to make decisions on deploying debt facilities and other financial solutions from $5M to 100M relatively quickly compared […]

Liquidity Group, a debt financier for growth stages, raises another $40M and aims for Europe by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Eventbrite integrates GPT capabilites into platform to aid the event planning process

May 9, 2023

Eventbrite, an event management and ticketing website, announced Monday new GPT-powered tools that will help event creators with arguably some of the most tedious, time-consuming steps in event planning—event pages, email campaigns and social media ads. The features will roll out this month. Now, users can create an event page on Eventbrite with automatically generated […]

Eventbrite integrates GPT capabilites into platform to aid the event planning process by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

New research aims to bring odors into virtual worlds

May 9, 2023
Scientists have come up with a new way to introduce odors into virtual reality via small, wireless interfaces.  Creating smells in virtual reality is a vexing problem that has prevented consumer VR devices from offering a full sensory experience in most settings. “People can touch in VR,” says Xinge Yu, a professor at the department…

US authorities seize more domains linked to prolific DDoS-for-hire websites

May 9, 2023

U.S. authorities have seized 13 more domains linked to some of the world’s most popular DDoS-for-hire websites. These websites, also described as “booter” or “stressor” services, are marketed as legitimate security testing tools that allow admins to stress-test websites. In reality, the services are used for launching denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks designed to overwhelm websites and […]

US authorities seize more domains linked to prolific DDoS-for-hire websites by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch

Meta reworks its Ads on Reels monetization program with a new performance-based payout model

May 9, 2023

Meta is testing a new payout model for its Ads on Reels monetization program that pays creators based on the performance of their public Reels, not the earnings of ads on their Reels, the company announced on Tuesday. The tech giant also announced that it’s expanding the Ads on Reels monetization program on Facebook to […]

Meta reworks its Ads on Reels monetization program with a new performance-based payout model by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Harnessing technological transformation in the era of climate change

May 9, 2023
With greater awareness and urgency around the climate crisis and the impact of energy consumption, 140 countries have announced or are considering net zero targets, covering close to 90% of global emissions. These efforts will collectively support the reduction of greenhouse gas (GHGs) emissions. Additionally, the number of large cities with net zero targets has…