It’s possible to build a startup with a founder who wants to stay in academia, but it’s not without its challenges.
Sometimes you need to cut your startup’s school ties by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Meta has won an antitrust lawsuit that pitted the tech giant against dozens of state attorneys general, led by New York, who had alleged Meta had illegally maintained monopoly power in the social networking market through its acquisitions of photo-sharing app Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp in 2014, and that it gained further power through […]
Appeals court rules in favor of Meta in antitrust case from State AGs by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
I wrote about half of last week’s Actuator on Wednesday in an empty office at MassRobotics after meeting with an early-stage startup. I’m not ready to tell you about them just yet, but they’re doing interesting work and have one of the wilder founding stories of recent vintage, so stay tuned for that. Also, shoutout […]
Flipping is much easier than walking by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
Growth matters, but given the macroeconomic climate, smaller numbers are apparently OK as long as there are clear factors driving future revenue and profit.
What is this, revenue growth for ants? by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
When Pinecone launched a vector database aimed at data scientists in 2021, it was probably ahead of its time. But as the use cases began to take shape last year, the company began pushing AI-driven semantic search. With the rise of LLMs in the public consciousness, companies are beginning to see the value of vector […]
Pinecone drops $100M investment on $750M valuation, as vector database demand grows by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
Meta announced today that it will be phasing out onboarding of new Shops without checkout on Facebook and Instagram enabled. Beginning June 5, onboarding of new shops via Commerce Manager and Shopify will only be with checkout on Facebook and Instagram enabled. By August 10, onboarding of new shops via all other partners will only […]
Instagram and Facebook will force their checkout experience on Shops soon by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch