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The team at the newly popular Twitter alternative Hive is in over their head. The company has now taken the fairly radical step of fully shutting down its servers for a couple of days in response to concerns raised by security researchers who discovered a number of critical vulnerabilities on Hive, several of which they […]

Twitter alternative Hive shuts down its app to fix critical security issues by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

Up.Labs thinks its pitch to founding teams is attractive: It has a known problem, a customer waiting, and capital to help get things going.

How Up.Labs threads the needle between corporate venture capital and accelerators by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch

Losing weight sucks. It’s a deeply invidualized experience that’s bogged down by all sorts of societal expectations and fly-by-night promises. Many have amassed fortunes promising silver bullet solutions, all knowing full well that there isn’t any one-size-fits-all solution. The promise at the heart of Lumen’s offering is a personalized health solution, based on individual metabolism. […]

Lumen raises $62M for its handheld weight loss hardware by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch

For the remainder of 2022 and beyond, the decision is not whether to advertise, but where, how much and how to augment performance.

5 methods for leveraging digital advertising during a downturn by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch

Car rental delivery startup Kyte said it’s on a mission to disrupt the auto industry by making people think twice about buying a car. Starting Wednesday, Kyte will now offer a car subscription service, following what the startup says was a successful subscription pilot with Teslas. The three-, six- and 12-month subscription plans will be […]

On-demand car rental company Kyte is now offering car subscriptions by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

Web3 developer platform Fleek has raised $25 million in Series A funding led by Polychain Capital, the company shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Additional investors in the round include Coinbase Ventures, Digital Currency Group, Protocol Labs, Arweave, North Island Ventures, Distributed Global, The LAO, and Argonautic Ventures. The startup is aiming to build an interface and […]

Web3 developer platform Fleek raises $25M led by Polychain Capital by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

Zoe, a startup founded by doctors and researchers out of London and Boston, made its name during the pandemic with a popular — dare we say viral? — self-reporting Covid-19 app. Embraced both by consumers and researchers, it provided early data into how Covid-19 spread and the symptoms associated with the initial infection and its […]

Zoe, which went viral with its Covid-reporting app, raises $30M to track nutrition and health by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried talked from an undisclosed location in the Bahamas today with reporter Andrew Ross Sorkin for a DealBook event, a discussion that his legal team “very much” did not approve of, he told Sorkin with a boyish grin. Having caught the live-streamed interview, what we’re still wondering is whether he’s credible. Throughout […]

Was Sam Bankman-Fried’s appearance a performance? by Connie Loizos originally published on TechCrunch