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Indifi Technologies, an Indian startup offering digital lending to small and medium businesses, has raised $35 million in a new funding round led by ICICI Venture, the investment arm of ICICI Bank. Existing investors, including British International Investment, OP Finnfund Global Impact Fund I, Omidyar Network India, Flourish Ventures and CX Partners also participated in […]

Indifi raises $35M to expand digital lending to more small businesses by Jagmeet Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s co-founder, says India — despite its status as the world’s largest democracy — regularly issued requests for the social media giant to remove certain posts and accounts, often accompanying these demands with threats of legal repercussions in cases of noncompliance. “India is one of the countries which had many requests around farmers […]

India threatened to shut down Twitter and raid employees’ homes, Jack Dorsey says by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch

Support for Tesla’s charging connector and charge port — called the North American Charging Standard — has accelerated in the days since Ford and GM announced plans to integrate the technology into its next-generation of EVs and sell adapters for current EV owners to gain access. More than a dozen third-party charging networks and hardware […]

EV charger networks are turning to Tesla standard as support accelerates by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch

VTubers — online personalities who use motion-capture-powered manga- and anime-inspired avatars to interact with the world alongside games, over YouTube, and in other places — have become big business, with the most popular of them collectively racking up hundreds of millions of hours of viewership in a month, along with loyal fan bases, lucrative sponsorships […]

Hyper raises $3.6M from Amazon and more for its iPhone-based, VTuber-friendly avatar platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

Instagram Notes is today getting its first set of new features following its December 2022 public launch. Currently, Instagram Notes allows users to leave a status message that appears for their Close Friends or mutuals at the top of their inbox. With today’s update, Notes will also support music and translations, according to a post […]

You can now share music on Instagram Notes, plus view translations by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch

To get the pulse of what’s germinating in this fast rising industry, TechCrunch+ surveyed five alternative protein investors, and they had a lot to say on the subject.

VCs remain confident alternative protein has a real future despite public-market woes by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch