The Shocking Claim You’ve Seen About Organized Shoplifting Isn’t True. Here’s Why Everyone Believed It.
Retail giants like Target and Walgreens have said the uptick in organized crime contributed to store closures.
XOi raises $230M, acquires Specifx to expand its tech for field service technicians
Field service engineers may not be the first group of customers that come to mind when you think about lucrative opportunities in B2B technology. But that same blind spot speaks of the opportunity in the space for those who are stepping up and targeting “the job site.” One of the players in that space, XOi […]
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December 2023
Docker acquires AtomicJar, a testing startup that raised $25M in January
AtomicJar was seemingly a high flying early stage startup with a hefty (by today’s standards) $25 million Series A last January. It was building a commercial container testing platform, based on a popular open source project, always a nice combination. It would seem it was time to find product-market fit and take off, but instead […]
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Elon Musk says X is bringing video to Spaces soon
Elon Musk has announced that X, formerly Twitter, will be bringing video to Spaces, the social network’s live audio conversation feature. Musk said X plans to launch the feature by the end of the year, but “certainly by early next year.” “From a feature standpoint, we are working on adding video to Spaces,” Musk said. […]
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Arc browser launches its Windows client in beta
The Browser Company announced today that it is onboarding the first set of users for its Windows client — launching today as a beta version. Users and observers have been demanding a Windows version for Arc, especially after the company made the Mac client available to everyone after being in invite-only mode since 2022. The […]
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TikTok loves ecommerce and VCs think Mistral AI will be fine (potential EU regulatory overhang or not)
Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts. Hello, and welcome back to Equity, the podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Our Monday show covers the latest in tech news from the weekend and what’s making headlines early in the week. Alex is a little bit sick […]
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Generative AI Could Be the Best or Worst Thing That Happens to Your Company in 2024. Here’s Why.
AI is poised to drastically change business as we know it. The technology has the potential to be the best or worst thing that happens to your company in the coming year. Here’s how to make the most of the opportunity.
Apple Shuts Down App That Let Android Users Send Blue-Bubble Texts to iPhones
Sorry, Android users.
Want to Be a Better Boss? Try Playing Hooky.
How a midday Mets game became a formative leadership experience
TikTok becomes first non-game app to reach $10B in consumer spending
TikTok’s short-form video app is hitting a new milestone. The app, which reached 1 billion monthly active users in 2021, has now become the first non-game mobile app to generate $10 billion in consumer spending across the Apple App Store and Google Play combined, according to a new analysis by app intelligence provider data.ai. The […]
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Food tech roundup: VC funding declines again in Q3 amid fewer deals
Food tech investors discuss another consecutive quarter of decline in venture capital investments into areas like plant-based meat alternatives and cultivated meat.
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