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2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success
If 2022 was a year of paradigm-shifting dynamics, 2023 will be a year when we’ll determine the winners and the losers.
2023 will bring crisper methods for evaluating startup success by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch
Facebook data-scraping breach triggers GDPR enforcement lawsuit in Ireland
Facebook-owner Meta and its lead data protection regulator in the European Union, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), are facing an interesting legal challenge over a major data-scraping breach that led to a €265 million penalty for Facebook last year under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The legal action, reported earlier by the Irish […]
Facebook data-scraping breach triggers GDPR enforcement lawsuit in Ireland by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
New functional tea brand, buoyed by $6.7M in new funding, debuts in Wegmans, Whole Foods
The company’s proprietary technology creates a formula that delivers 200 milligrams of tea polyphenols in each can and sweetened by monk fruit and stevia leaf extract.
New functional tea brand, buoyed by $6.7M in new funding, debuts in Wegmans, Whole Foods by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Instagram and Facebook introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads
Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram and Facebook won’t be able to leverage as much personalized data to target ads to teens. Users under age 18 will also be newly empowered with more choices about what ads they see and […]
Instagram and Facebook introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch
Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others
The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services. (Nearly 10% of businesses now have more than 200 apps to manage, according to a recent Okta study.) In a large-scale survey of IT decision makers […]
Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation
The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. As with so many new technologies, containerization solved a fair number of problems but also introduced its share of new ones, including a lot of added complexity that is, in part, driven by the dynamic nature of this architecture. That’s both its strength and downfall, so […]
Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet
The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet to help onboard more mainstream audiences, it shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Easy aims to combine user-curated profiles with engaging social features so that people can search, navigate and discover the world of web3 on their own. Today, its […]
The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch
IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks
IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks, a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. This marks […]
IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft ends Windows 7 security updates
Pour one out for Windows 7, the decade-old operating system that today reached the end of the security line. Some three years after Microsoft called time on mainstream support of Windows 7, the technology giant will no longer provide security updates, leaving the remaining users the option to upgrade to a newer operating system or […]
Microsoft ends Windows 7 security updates by Zack Whittaker originally published on TechCrunch