Starbucks Is the Latest Brand to Eliminate Its Global CMO Role, but Chime’s Vineet Mehra Rejects the View That the Position Faces an Existential Threat
First UPS, now Starbucks. Is the CMO going extinct?
Cartoonist Paul Pope is more worried about killer robots than AI plagiarism
Paul Pope has written and drawn some of the most gorgeous comics of the twenty-first century — from “Batman: Year 100,” in which Batman challenges a dystopian surveillance state, to “Battling Boy,” with its adolescent god proving his mettle by fighting giant monsters. But it’s been more than a decade since Pope’s last major comics […]
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Activision says it’s investigating password-stealing malware targeting game players
Video game giant Activision is investigating a hacking campaign that’s targeting players with the goal of stealing their credentials, TechCrunch has learned. At this point, the hackers’ specific goals — apart from stealing passwords for various types of accounts — are unclear. Somehow, the hackers are getting malware on the victim’s computers and then stealing […]
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From Tom Brady to Kevin O’Leary – See Who Lost Big in the Wake of the FTX Crypto Collapse
The crash exposed an $8 billion hole in FTX’s accounts, leaving investors and customers scrambling to recoup their funds.
Popular Appetite Suppressant Ozempic Can Be Made For Less Than $5 a Month, New Research Suggests
The $5 includes a profit margin.
This Highly-Debated Piece of Cinematic History Just Sold For Over $700,000 at Auction
The wood panel from “Titanic” is often mistaken as a door. Either way, he couldn’t have fit. (Sorry.)
Fed’s Waller see’s no need to rush into interest rate cuts amid rising productivity
Recent data has shown that the U.S. Federal Reserve could hold off on cutting short-term interest rates in the face of rising productivity results, according to Chris Waller, a leading…
Path to stardom: self-discovery, mastery, resilience
The pursuit of stardom is a common aspiration for success and recognition in a particular field. However, this aspiration is not mere wishful thinking. It requires a deep understanding of…
X is testing NSFW adult communities, according to screenshots
Even though X seems to be working on this NSFW Communities feature, that doesn’t mean it’ll come to fruition.
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Buy-now-pay-later on a Porsche? Zaver now has $30 million to make it a reality
We last checked in on Zaver, a Swedish B2C Buy-Now-Pay-Later (BNPL) provider in Europe, when it raised a $5 million funding round in 2021. The company has now closed a $10 million extension to its Series A funding round, bringing its total Series A to $20 million. Total investment to date stands at $30 million. […]
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SBF sentenced, Worldcoin hit with another ban order and big web3 pre-seed rounds are back
Welcome to TechCrunch Crypto, formerly known as Chain Reaction. This is the last edition of this newsletter. I want to personally thank each of you for reading this and if you would like to stay in touch, you can follow me on X here for future updates. With that said, the show goes on. This […]
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