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Elon Musk should take note of a recent major privacy fine for Meta before forging ahead with any plan to force behavioral ads on Twitter users in the European Union. To wit: In remarks today, following the publication of two final decisions against Meta by EU privacy regulators applying the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) […]

Meta’s ads being found unlawful in the EU is a warning to other ad-funded platforms by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch

The fund raised will be deployed to further strengthen the R&D capabilities to develop next-generation traction motors and drives for mobility applications including machine learning and advance telematics capabilities in its products

With our mysterious, unsustainable, and psychological attachment to pets, combined with a boom in pet ownership since those lonely pandemic times, means veterinary practices have come under increasing pressure. Pet ownership has increased (56 to 70% US household penetration in the last 35 years). But, there are not enough vets. To meet demand, a vet […]

Our obsession with pets means startups aimed at Vets are booming, as Digitail shows by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch

Africa, bucking global trends, raised more VC dollars in 2022 than 2021. But its unicorn list stayed stagnant.

Why Africa had no unicorns last year despite record fundraising haul by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch

The report stated that November saw the steepest monthly decline ever with around 50% sequentially and 43% on-year, as in low demand for the high-volume entry-level smartphone segment continued to take a hit

Stripe, a richly-valued payments startup, has cut its internal valuation yet again, according to sources familiar with the manner. It is now valued, internally, at $63 billion. The cut, first reported by The Information, puts Stripe’s internal per-share price at $24.71, down 40% since peaking. The 11% cut comes after a prior internal valuation cut that […]

Stripe’s internal valuation gets cut to $63 billion by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

Machine learning will shake up the world of entrepreneurship in 2023 — and in a good way.