April 2024

Klarna credit card launches in the US as Swedish fintech grows its market presence

April 17, 2024

Klarna is launching its credit card in the United States, the Swedish fintech giant told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “It was one of our most asked for products,” said David Fock, Klarna’s chief product officer, “and will allow people to pay in the Klarna way but with a card.” By “Klarna way,” Fock means […]

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Schlumberger (SLB) Earnings Loom – Is It Time to Invest?

April 17, 2024
Schlumberger (SLB), the world’s biggest oilfield services company, will publish its first-quarter earnings on April 19. The company is expected to report revenue and earnings growth over the prior-year quarter….

LinkedIn tests Premium Company Pages, with AI and marketing tools to grow audiences

April 17, 2024

LinkedIn — the social platform that targets the working world — has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that it is working on a new LinkedIn Premium Company Page subscription, which — for fees that appear […]

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Tesla has spent $200,000 advertising on Elon Musk’s X so far

April 17, 2024

Tesla has spent around $200,000 advertising through February on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, after the CEO caved to shareholder pressure last year and said his company would “try a little advertising.” Since then, Tesla ads have showed up in places like Google search results, and on YouTube. But it was also increasingly apparent […]

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Inside LemFi’s play to be fintech to the Global South diaspora

April 17, 2024

The African tech ecosystem, buffeted by huge potential but also lots of economic, political and social instabilities, is no stranger to major drama befalling even its most promising-looking startups. But recently, LemFi, the Nigeria-based fintech that provides money transfer services to African migrants, is shaping up as an example of a bounce-back—and growth story. After […]

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A humanoid robot is on its way from Mobileye founder

April 17, 2024

Mentee Robotics hasn’t been in stealth, exactly. The Israeli firm caught a small wave of press at the tail end of 2022, following Tesla’s initial humanoid robotics announcement. As that was the year of the startup’s founding, it didn’t have much to show off at the time. Even so, the firm caught some headlines because […]

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Why it’s so hard for China’s chip industry to become self-sufficient

April 17, 2024
This story first appeared in China Report, MIT Technology Review’s newsletter about technology in China. Sign up to receive it in your inbox every Tuesday. I don’t know about you, but I only learned last week that there’s something connecting MSG and computer chips. Inside most laptop and data center chips today, there’s a tiny component called…

Vorlon is trying to stop the next big API breach

April 17, 2024

Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online. APIs allow two things on the internet to talk with each other, including connected devices or phone apps. But the enormous growth of API usage — around half of all internet traffic — is putting businesses’ data at […]

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Snap plans to add watermarks to images created with its AI-powered tools

April 17, 2024

Social media company Snap said Tuesday that it plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on its platform. The platform is adding a logo of a small ghost with a sparkle icon to denote an AI-generated image. The company said the watermark would appear when the image is exported or saved to the camera roll. […]

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The great commercial takeover of low Earth orbit

April 17, 2024
Washington, DC, was hot and humid on June 23, 1993, but no one was sweating more than Daniel Goldin, the administrator of NASA. Standing outside the House chamber, he watched nervously as votes registered on the electronic tally board. The space station wasn’t going to make it. The United States had spent more than $11…