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Momentive Global, the parent of the web-survey portal SurveyMonkey, laid off 11% of its workforce this week. Multiple people across divisions including those handling the business development, customer support, recruitment and sales at the San Mateo, California-headquartered company have been impacted, TechCrunch has learned and confirmed. “In an 8-K filed on October 13, we announced […]

SurveyMonkey parent Momentive Global lays off 11% of workforce by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

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Today – last day to save on Disrupt passes by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch

Sarah Guo raised $101 million for her new fund to back companies that are building artificial intelligence and what she describes as software 3.0.

Carving out conviction around the future of AI with Sarah Guo by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Beyond Meat expects the job cuts to be completed by the end of the year. 

Beyond Meat to cut 19% of its workforce amid sales slump by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Members of the European Parliament have lodged complaints against three tech giants, Amazon, Google and Meta, with the EU’s Transparency Register — aka, the oversight process that’s intended to track lobbying activity aimed at the bloc’s lawmakers — accusing the trio of breaching the lobbying transparency rules by using smaller front organizations to press their […]

Big Tech and industry lobby groups accused in EU transparency complaints by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Sono Motors, the company building an electric vehicle that’s partially powered by the sun, debuted its flagship Sion in New York City this week as part of a multi-city tour throughout the U.S. The company aims to launch the $25,000 five-seater hatchback in Europe first — production is expected to start in the second half […]

Inside Sono Motors’ family friendly $25,000 solar EV by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

There are still opportunities for growth out there, but founders and operators will need a new strategy if they want to continue growing through the downturn.

3 growth levers every SaaS founder should know about by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is developing a feature that has the potential to curb harassment and bullying on the social network. App engineer Jane Manchun Wong discovered that the company is developing a way for users to control who can mention them on Twitter. According to a screenshot posted by Wong, the new controls would give users the […]

Twitter is developing a way for users to control who can mention them by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch

Uganda’s controversial Computer Misuse (Amendment) Bill 2022, which rights groups say will likely be used to silence dissenting voices online, has come into force after the country’s president Yoweri Kaguta Museveni signed it into law yesterday. The country’s legislators had passed amendments to the 2011 Computer Misuse Act early September limiting writing or sharing of […]

Uganda’s changes on Computer Misuse law spark fears it will be used to silence dissidents by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch