September 2023

Walmart returns to Roblox after its first games were attacked by consumer advocacy groups

September 27, 2023
Walmart is returning to Roblox, but this time with a virtual world where gamers can discover new virtual items and accessories to personalize their experience, not browse or shop items from Walmart itself. The retailer a year ago had launched two Walmart-branded experiences on the gaming platform, but came under fire from consumer advocacy groups […]

Gem Security raises $23M for its cloud security platform

September 27, 2023
Cloud detection and response company Gem Security today announced that it has raised a $23 million Series A round led by GGV Capital, with participation from IBM Ventures, Cisco and Silicon Valley CISO Investments. It was only in February that Gem announced its $11 million seed round led by Team8, which also participated in this […]

La Belle Vie acquires Frichti following bankruptcy process

September 27, 2023
French grocery delivery startup La Belle Vie is acquiring Frichti, another food delivery service that was placed under court-ordered receivership. TechCrunch can confirm that the court picked La Belle Vie’s offer over three other offers, as Les Échos reported earlier. This is yet another chapter in the tumultuous story of quick commerce and food delivery […]

Elon Musk’s X removes general option to report misleading info about politics

September 27, 2023
X (formerly Twitter) appears to have removed an option that allowed users in a handful of markets to directly report misleading information about politics. An Australian digital research group called Reset.Australia spotted the change and posted an open letter (via the Guardian), addressed to X’s country manager, in which it writes: A recent change to […]

Cybersecurity firm Lumu raises $30M to detect network intrusions

September 27, 2023
Lumu, a startup that helps enterprises identify and isolate security compromises, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Forgepoint Capital, $6 million of which is debt. Ricardo Villadiego, Lumu’s founder and CEO, says that the new cash will be put toward growing Lumu’s sales team in the U.S., […]

Cloudflare launches new AI tools to help customers deploy and run models

September 27, 2023
Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed at helping customers build, deploy and run AI models at the network edge. One of the new offerings, Workers AI, lets customers access physically nearby GPUs hosted by Cloudflare partners to run […]