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Meta and Amazon settle UK antitrust probes over use of third-party data to benefit marketplaces

November 3, 2023

The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) today announced that it has accepted proposals from Facebook’s parent Meta and Amazon to limit how they use data gathered from their respective marketplaces to benefit their own products and bottom lines. The CMA has been probing both companies as part of separate investigations, though the cases bore […]

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3 Inverse Bond ETFs to Buy in November for Safety

November 3, 2023
The stock market could be on shakier ground with the increasing probability of higher-for-longer interest rates and concerns about how long the economy can maintain its resilience. Hence, top inverse…

Deft is building e-commerce search to help you find the right product quickly

November 3, 2023

E-commerce search startup Deft is releasing a multimodal search function for users to get better results. The company, which opened up its service to beta users in May, has rolled out the new search experience so users don’t have to describe the item in words. The company is trying to solve the problem of finding […]

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10 editor-tested travel gifts for frequent fliers in 2023

November 3, 2023

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been traveling a lot this year. In fact, I’ve been back to my 2019 levels of travel, which has been a breath of fresh air after being pandemic-grounded for a couple of years. I like to return to this list every time TechCrunch does a gift guide. It’s […]

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Chinese EV darling Nio to cut 10% staff amid ‘fierce competition’

November 3, 2023

Nio, the Chinese carmaker known for its sleek, premium electric SUVs, has started a new round of layoffs as intense competition propels it to cut costs and regroup resources. In an internal letter seen by TechCrunch on Friday, Nio’s CEO William Li says the company is expected to reduce “around 10%” of its positions after […]

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Meta’s latest privacy rip-off will test the EU’s mettle for reining in Big Tech

November 3, 2023

This week Europe was treated to another show of the mutability of tech after Meta, the microtargeting ad empire formerly known as Facebook, announced it would be launching an ad-free subscription — with a starting price of €10 per month (on web) or €13pm (mobile). As recently as mid 2019, visitors to Facebook’s landing page […]

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Blackbird invests in Carepatron’s “radically accessible” healthcare management platform

November 3, 2023

When TechCrunch covered Carepatron’s pre-seed last year, it was focused on serving solo practitioners and small health practices. Now the healthcare management system has scaled along with its clients, and works with medical practices that range in size from five to 100 practitioners. The platform is now used in about 50 countries and recently launched […]

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