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Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy
Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.
August 2023
In challenge to TikTok, YouTube Shorts gains new creation tools like Collab and Q&As
As competition with TikTok and Instagram Reels heats up, YouTube today announced an expanded suite of creation tools for its own short-form video platform, YouTube Shorts. Among the new features are tools for remixing, adding effects, stickers, going live, and others aimed at encouraging inspiration. The company is also starting a test of a new […]
Kickstarter requires generative AI projects to disclose additional info
As generative AI enters the mainstream, crowdfunding platform Kickstarter has struggled to formulate a policy that satisfies parties on all sides of the debate. Most of the generative AI tools used to create art and text today, including Stable Diffusion and ChatGPT, were trained on publicly available images and text from the web. But in […]
Read-it-later app Pocket to shut down its Mac app on August 15th
Mozilla’s Pocket, a popular read-it-later app that lets you save online articles to read when you have more time, announced today it’s retiring its Mac app, Pocket for Mac. The app will be replaced with the Pocket iOS app for Apple Silicon Macs instead — meaning those models introduced in late 2020 and later. The […]
Uber is now a profitable, cash-generating machine
This morning, let’s dig into Uber’s results, check how the stock market is thinking about the company, and then close with notes on what we might see from Lyft.
The No. 1 Thing Wealthy People Want in Luxury Real Estate, According to a ‘Selling Sunset’ Agent
It might come as no surprise that affluent buyers want “to have as much as they can” — but another key factor really sways their decision.
Why Being Profitable is a Business Strategy in Itself
Profitability is a part of the strategic effort to be a hyper-growth, customer-centric and commercially-minded organization. And yes, it’s a strategy.
Ford resumes F-150 Lightning production as July price cuts drive up demand
Ford said it will triple production capacity of its all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck following a six-week shutdown to expand and retool its Rouge Electric Vehicle Center. With the factory facelift complete, Ford said it’s scheduled to build more than 70,000 F-150 Lightning trucks in 2023 with production for U.S. customers expected to ramp in […]
Reed Jobs, son of Steve Jobs, takes the wraps off a $200 million venture fund that will fund new cancer treatments
Reed Jobs, the 31-year-old son of Steve Jobs and philanthropist Laurene Powell Jobs, has spent his career behind the scenes. But he’s “stepping into the spotlight,” with a new venture capital firm to invest in new cancer treatments, DealBook reported earlier this morning. Called Yosemite — after the national park where his parents were wed […]
Announcing the Space Stage agenda at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
We’re out-of-this-world excited to announce that we’ve added a dedicated Space Stage to TechCrunch Disrupt 2023. It joins six other brand-new industry-focused stages — all under one big roof. Plus, we’ve joined forces with the Aerospace Corporation to host the Space Domain Awareness Challenge Pitch-off for startups using AI to analyze satellite data streams. Learn […]