November 2023

5 AI-powered tech gifts that are actually fun — and productive

November 3, 2023

As the holiday season approaches, I, like everyone else with the means and mental bandwidth, am brainstorming what to get the loved ones in my life. Or rather, I would be… but to be fully transparent, the irksome little procrastinating voice in my head has gotten the better of me this year. So it goes. […]

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Wholesale marketplace Faire, which raised at a $12.6B valuation last year, lays off 20% of its staff

November 3, 2023

Wholesale marketplace Faire has laid off 20% of its staff, or about 250 people, as part of a restructuring, according to multiple reports. Business Insider broke the news, reporting that the job cuts were companywide. Faire in October of 2022 had laid off 7% of its staff, which totaled about 1,200 at that time, according […]

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PSA: Your chat and call apps may leak your IP address

November 3, 2023

Your favorite messaging and calling app could reveal your IP address to the person on the other end of a call. And that, essentially, is because most chat apps default to using peer-to-peer connections — meaning you and the person you’re talking to connect directly to each other — to improve the quality of the […]

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BNPL is just another way of saying ‘debt’

November 3, 2023

Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Friday show, and we’re talking about the week’s biggest startup and tech news. This week we had Mary Ann, Becca, and Alex aboard […]

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Meta and Amazon settle UK antitrust probes over use of third-party data to benefit marketplaces

November 3, 2023

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it has accepted proposals from Facebook’s parent Meta and Amazon to limit how they use data gathered from their respective marketplaces to benefit their own products and bottom lines. The CMA has been probing both companies as part of separate investigations, though the cases bore […]

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