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Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway — unless it obtains users’ consent to the processing. The urgent order of provisional measures on Meta’s business, which has been made by Norway’s data protection authority, the Datatilsynet, applies for an initial three-month period. It stipulates Meta may run […]

Meta’s behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Thunes, a Singapore and London-based fintech that has built a payments platform for businesses to send money to each other internationally by tapping into the growing network of mobile wallets and other alternatives to bank accounts, has closed its Series C round of funding to expand its business. The startup has raised $72 million, money […]

Thunes pockets $72M at a $900M+ valuation to expand its cross-border, B2B payment platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Israel-based early-stage VC firm TLV Partners today announced its fifth fund, unsurprisingly called Fund V. TLV Partners raised its last fund, the $220M Fund IV, in October 2021. Including this new fund, the group now has $1.07 billion in assets under management. The plan is to make about 25 seed and Series A investments from […]

TLV Partners raises new $250M fund by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

Tesla over the weekend said its first much anticipated Cybertruck came off the electric vehicle maker’s production line in Texas. The debut of the long-delayed, futuristic-looking pickup truck comes in the lead up to Tesla’s second quarter 2023 earnings call. Tesla CEO Elon Musk first introduced the Cybertruck in 2019, but vehicle production has repeatedly […]

Tesla announces first Cybertruck build ahead of Q2 earnings by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Instagram Threads’ launch has been an overnight success, topping 100 million users within days of its arrival. Now, new data indicates the app has already achieved one-fifth of the weekly active user base of Twitter worldwide and 86 times the weekly active user base of the largest Twitter rival in the U.S., Truth Social, which […]

Instagram Threads now has one-fifth the weekly active user base of Twitter by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch