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Three years after first launching the music streaming app Resso in India, Bytedance is making it a paid-only service. The company notified users on the app and website saying that “Resso will upgrade to a Premium-only service from May 11, 2023, to elevate your social music streaming experience.” The service currently operates in India, Brazil, […]

Bytedance is making its music streaming service Resso premium-only by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch

The ability to offer businesses more ways to accept digital payments is crucial globally, but merchants’ specific needs typically differ based on geography. In recognition of those nuances, Liquido has for two years been working on building payments infrastructure aimed at modernizing payments access for businesses in Latin America. And today, the company is emerging […]

Meet Liquido, which aims to be the ‘Stripe of LatAm’ — but with even bigger ambitions by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Every retiree or anyone who is in the process of retiring is concerned about the cost of health care. As reported in T. Rowe Price’s Retirement Savings and Spending Study…

More regulatory woes for Meta: France’s competition watchdog has announced interim measures on the adtech giant — saying it suspects it of abusing a dominant position in the French market for ads on social media and across the broader (non-search-related) online ads market. It’s ordering Meta to suspend application of the current criteria it imposes […]

Meta’s ad business slapped with interim measures in France over suspected antitrust abuse by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

Slack has evolved from a pure communications platform to one that enables companies to link directly to enterprise applications without having to resort to dreaded task switching. Today, at the Salesforce World Tour event in NYC, the company announced the next step in its platform’s evolution where it will be putting AI at the forefront […]

Slack updates aim to put AI at the center of the user experience by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

French startup Green-Got is building an alternative to your traditional bank account with a focus on climate change. Essentially, Green-Got guarantees that your savings and the money that is sitting in your bank account aren’t going to finance fossil fuel projects and other polluting industries. The startup recently raised a $5.5 million (€5 million) funding […]

Green-Got is a neobank for climate-conscious customers by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch

Genius doesn’t recognize borders, and neither do we when it comes to the Startup Battlefield 200 (SB 200). The global search continues for the top early-stage founders building the next generation of startups with world-changing impact. Europe: The Startup Battlefield 200 wants your startups Today, we’re urging early-stage startups across Europe to apply for the […]

European startups: Apply to Startup Battlefield 200 by Neesha A. Tambe originally published on TechCrunch

Temu, a fast-growing ecommerce platform known for cheap deals, is making inroads into new markets as its parent firm sets up a base in Dublin, joining a raft of tech giants including Meta and Twitter that have opened offices in the tax-friendly Irish capital. PDD Holdings, the Dublin-based corporate entity behind Temu,  also owns Pinduoduo, […]

Temu accelerates global expansion with parent’s new Dublin office by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch