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Amazon is bringing a TikTok-like shopping experience to its app. The company today announced the launch of Inspire, a new short-form video and photo feed that allows consumers to explore products and ideas and shop from content created by influencers, brands, and other customers. The feature is designed to draw consumers’ attention away from apps […]

Amazon launches Inspire, a TikTok-like shopping feed that supports both photos and videos by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Twitter is rumored to re-roll-out its flopped Twitter Blue subscription tomorrow, which will once again enable people to pay real cash money to get a blue check next to their name. Hopefully, this time, it won’t lead to mass impersonation and misinformation, but who can say? Yet already, some users are noting that when they […]

Schrödinger’s blue check: according to Twitter, I may or may not be notable by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch

When Ankur Nagpal sold Teachable for a quarter of a billion dollars, he felt lucky. Then, he quickly felt lost when trying to navigate the financial systems of a country he wasn’t born in and learn the institutional language often only spoken fluently by the historically wealthy. It would be a few years of self-employment, […]

Ocho wants to rethink (and rebrand) personal finance for business owners by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

David Lin believes his quick commerce startup, Duffl, is an outlier in an industry that has seen its fair share of struggles lately.

Duffl’s David Lin dishes on why traditional rapid grocery delivery is not working by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

Komi, a personalized website page builder tool for influencers and celebrities to create and customize a landing page to promote their projects, today closed a $5 million seed round led by Contour Venture Partners. Launched in October 2021, Komi is designed to provide content creators, musicians, athletes, celebrities and other creative talent and personalities alike […]

Komi, a landing page tool for content creators, raises $5M seed round by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch