January 2024

Living Stingy: Making the Most of Every Dollar

January 11, 2024
As financial pressures mount, making the most of your money is more important than ever. This is especially true since we are constantly pressured to keep up with the latest…

3 Oil & Gas Stocks in Focus This Week

January 11, 2024
Robust demand for oil and gas, production dynamics, and geopolitical tensions project a potential surge in oil prices for the foreseeable future. To that end, let’s turn our attention to…

D-Orbit raises $110M to reach new heights in space logistics services

January 11, 2024

Logistics has become the cornerstone of how so much works on earth — we may order things online, but ultimately we need to get products and ourselves from A to B — and some believe that logistics models will be even more important in the remote realms of space. Now, a startup has landed a […]

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Finn raises $109M on a $658M valuation, taking its car subscription platform up another gear

January 11, 2024

Finn, a startup based out of Munich that operates a platform for new car subscriptions — an alternative to buying or leasing for those who want to drive new vehicles — has raised a sizable round of growth funding, money it plans to use to expand its tech and reach, with a move into more […]

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Is India done with crypto?

January 11, 2024

It wasn’t long ago when Indian venture capitalists were scrambling to establish their crypto credentials. Ethereum wallet addresses adorned Twitter profiles. Over a dozen VC firms scrambled to publish their own web3 investment theses, some even lowering their high bar for credentials to hire young analysts well-versed in crypto. Several young partners, fearing they would […]

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Google cuts hundreds of jobs in its voice assistance, hardware teams as Fitbit founders leave

January 11, 2024

Google is laying off hundreds of employees across multiple divisions including engineering and services. The affected divisions include voice-activated Google Assistant as part of the knowledge and information product team restructuring; and the Devices and Services PA (DSPA) team that manages Pixel, Nest, and Fitbit hardware. The company, which had 182,000 employees as of September […]

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Meta faces another EU privacy challenge over ‘pay for privacy’ consent choice

January 11, 2024

Adtech giant Meta’s bid to keep tracking and profiling users of Facebook and Instagram in Europe in spite of the bloc’s comprehensive data protection laws is facing a second challenge from privacy rights advocacy group noyb. It’s supporting a new complaint, which is being filed with the Austrian data protection authority, that alleges the company […]

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WTF is a ‘software-defined vehicle?’

January 11, 2024

Like any good buzz phrase, “software-defined vehicle” is as straightforward as it is obtuse. If you’re trying to figure out what automakers and suppliers mean by this term — which was all over CES 2024 — you’re in the right place. A software-defined vehicle is a vehicle defined by software — okay, sorry, I can […]

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This startup is trying to bring T9-like text input to your TV

January 11, 2024

Some technologies make so much sense that they just won’t disappear. T9 — the old text input from our trusty Nokia phones from the 1990s — is one of those throwbacks. Direction 9 is a startup that is eager to introduce it to your television, so you can use the directional pad on your remote […]

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