June 2023

Oura launches new ‘Circles’ social feature to share your personal health journey

June 8, 2023

Oura is launching a new social feature called “Circles” that lets users share their personal health journeys with their friends and family, the smart ring company announced on Thursday. The new opt-in experience allows Oura users to share their daily scores with their community, send reactions, and check in with each other. The Oura Ring […]

Oura launches new ‘Circles’ social feature to share your personal health journey by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

VC-backed boba chain Ume wants to pour into mainstream with surprise plushies

June 8, 2023

A group of teens excitedly picked up their candy-colored bubble tea from Ume in downtown Mountain View. But before they took a sip, they each peeled open the bottom of their paper cups to reveal a cute little plushie inside. “Our tea is not only pretty but also fun,” said Jiachun Li, CEO and co-founder […]

VC-backed boba chain Ume wants to pour into mainstream with surprise plushies by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: carbon-capturing super trees, and DeepMind’s sorting breakthrough

June 8, 2023
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. Inside the quest to engineer climate-saving “super trees” Biotech startup Living Carbon is trying to design trees that grow faster and grab more carbon than their natural peers, as well as trees that…

3 Foreign Oil Stocks to Buy for Value

June 8, 2023
Despite macroeconomic headwinds, strong global oil demand and constrained supply as Saudi signaled more output cuts could likely boost oil prices this year. Amid this, fundamentally strong foreign oil stocks…

LinkedIn is the next social network to offer AI-powered tools for ad copies

June 8, 2023

Weeks after Meta launched a suite of generative AI-based tools to help advertisers create different campaigns, LinkedIn has introduced its own tool to suggest different copies of an ad. The company said that it uses data from a marketer’s LinkedIn page and Campaign Manager setting including objective, targeting criteria, and audience to suggest different introductory […]

LinkedIn is the next social network to offer AI-powered tools for ad copies by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

Pigment secures $88 million for its business planning tool that will make you forget about Excel

June 8, 2023

Paris-based startup Pigment has raised a Series C round of $88 million — the investment was led by Iconiq Growth. Pigment wants to take on Microsoft Excel and offer a business planning platform that works better than products from enterprise software behemoths, such as Oracle or SAP. It’s a new take on a critical product for […]

Pigment secures $88 million for its business planning tool that will make you forget about Excel by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch