July 2023

When we hear an investor saying, “Think like a startup,” what does it mean?

The billionaire businessman warned against the rapid development of AI just months ago.

Amazon announced today that the first 24 hours of its Prime Day event marked the “single largest sales day in company history” and that the two-day event was the “biggest Prime Day ever.” Across both days, consumers in the U.S. spent $12.7 billon, according to Adobe Analytics data. Adobe says this figure represents 6.1% growth […]

Amazon boasts record sales for Prime Day as US shoppers spent $12.7 billion during the sales event by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Yesterday, in a blog post, Grammarly announced that it would be discontinuing the Text Editor SDK, the developer tool that puts the company’s automated editing functionality into any app. The tool will be shut down on January 10th, 2024, after which the functionality will cease to work in any applications where it’s in use. For […]

Grammarly to shut down the Text Editor SDK in January by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

What do doorbells, smart plugs and pet feeders have in common? They’re just some of the billions of Internet of Things (IoT) devices vulnerable to hacks. These popular, often minimally protected, devices expose consumers to cyberattacks and data theft. IoT security is a huge and growing problem, which is why we’re excited that Amit Serper, […]

Amit Serper locks up IoT security flaws at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023 by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch

Remote work continues to dominate the workplace culture, with high-paying companies now looking at international talent, hiring foreign employees to fill vacant positions that would’ve otherwise cost them double or…

The now-bankrupt crypto lending firm Celsius Network and its former CEO and co-founder Alex Mashinsky faced several lawsuits on Thursday morning from three separate American entities: The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Bloomberg also reported that Alex Mashinsky, co-founder and ex-CEO of […]

Crypto lending firm Celsius Network and its former CEO sued by SEC, CFTC, FTC by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

There are a number of companies in the U.S. that offer revenue-based financing to SaaS companies including Capchase, Pipe, Founderpath and Arc. But the options for South Asian companies are far more limited. A new startup, Efficient Capital Labs (ECL), has emerged to give B2B SaaS companies operating in the South Asia-US corridor more financing […]

QED leads $7M round into startup that offers financing to SaaS businesses across US-South Asia corridor by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

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