Borekas Founder Uzi Wizman on Creating a Food Business from Social Media
Interview with Uzi Wizman, founder of Borekas and PSY Street Kitchen, about growing a brand from an Instagram Story and sharing culture with the world.
The MacBook Neo is ‘the most repairable MacBook’ in years, according to iFixit
Apple’s new MacBook Neo isn’t just the most affordable MacBook — it’s also the company’s most repairable laptop in “about fourteen years.”
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Neon, a relational database startup, lands ~$30M investment
Neon, a startup that’s building a serverless open source alternative to AWS Aurora Postgres, today announced that it raised around $45 million in a new funding round, about $30 million of which came from Menlo VC. Bringing its total raised to $104 million, the new cash will be put toward improving Neon’s developer experience and […]
Uber reports first quarterly operating profit in Q2 2023 results
Uber has reported an operating profit during a fiscal quarter for the first time in its history. The company reported its second quarter earnings for 2023 [PDF] on Tuesday morning, which included a net income of $394 million for the quarter, up $1.0 billion year-over-year and $588 million versus the preceding quarter. The company attributed […]
BBC is testing being on Mastodon, says fediverse better fit for public purposes than Twitter or Threads
In another sign of shifting forces in the social media universe, the UK’s national public service broadcaster, the BBC, is dipping a toe into the fediverse by setting up its own Mastodon instance. The BBC is labelling its move as an experiment — and, to be clear, the organization is not abandoning its presence on […]
How Should Young Adults Divide Their Paychecks?
I got the inspiration for this article after speaking with a 23-year-old unsure of how to divide his paycheck every two weeks. How much did he need to put in…
Steg.AI puts deep learning on the job in a clever evolution of watermarking
Watermarking an image to mark is one’s own is something that has value across countless domains, but these days it’s more difficult than just adding a logo in the corner. Steg.AI lets creators embed a nearly invisible watermark using deep learning, defying the usual “resize and resave” countermeasures. Ownership of digital assets has had a […]
How SaaS architecture impacts pricing and profitability
As your product matures, molding existing architectures to accommodate demands from the growing user base becomes difficult.
Vanguard cuts Indian ride-hailing giant Ola’s valuation by 52%
The U.S. index fund pioneer Vanguard has cut the worth of its holding in the Indian ride-hailing startup Ola by more than half since original investment, according to an analysis of its filings. Vanguard cut the worth of its shares in Ani Technologies, Ola’s holding firm, by 51.6% as of the end of May, it […]
Traction raises $6M seed as Nigeria’s merchant acquiring space continues to heat up
Micro, small, and medium-sized firms (MSMEs) constitute the backbone of the Nigerian economy, accounting for more than 60% of GDP growth and playing a crucial role in job creation. According to the National Bureau of Statistics, there are over 39 million such firms, and 87% operate informally, meaning they primarily receive cash and perform activities […]
Nigeria’s Remedial Health gets QED backing in $12M round
Remedial Health, a Nigerian startup digitizing pharmacies and bringing efficiency to the pharmaceutical value chain, has raised $12 million Series A equity-debt funding, to scale operations in the West African country. Fintech VC firm QED Investors co-led the round, banking on embedded financial opportunities like payments, and lending in the pharmaceutical sector. This is QED’s […]