May 2023

NFT spinoff from newspaper SCMP gets funded to tokenize historical artifacts

May 8, 2023

When an NFT series commemorating the handover of Hong Kong from the U.K. to China generated $260,000 in sales, Artifact Labs, the startup that launched the collection, saw the long-term potential of tokenizing historical artifacts and making them immutable and accessible to the public. Artifact was born out of South China Morning Post, Hong Kong’s […]

NFT spinoff from newspaper SCMP gets funded to tokenize historical artifacts by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning

May 8, 2023

After raising $100 million at a valuation of over $2 billion last year, the Australian ed-tech startup Go1 is making an acquisition and getting some investment to expand its reach and technology to serve the market of corporate online learning. First, it is snapping up Blinkist, a startup out of Berlin that had built a […]

Go1 snaps up speed reading app Blinkist to expand in enterprise learning by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Invesco cuts Indian food delivery giant Swiggy’s valuation to $5.5 billion

May 8, 2023

Invesco, which led Swiggy’s previous round, has marked down the Indian food delivery giant’s valuation in its holding to about $5.5 billion, according to a filing. This revised valuation, as of January 31, 2023, represents a striking 48.6% decrease from the $10.7 billion valuation Invesco had previously attributed to the startup during a funding round […]

Invesco cuts Indian food delivery giant Swiggy’s valuation to $5.5 billion by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

How to hack a smart fridge

May 8, 2023
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. Do you know how many internet-connected devices there are inside your home? I certainly don’t. These days, it could be almost anything: a thermostat, a…