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Dabbsson’s new Home Backup Power Station are here to keep your lights on

April 19, 2023

What do you do when the lights go out? When the snow became too much for the power lines as a kid, I remember candles and Primus stoves. In today’s world of high-tech electrification, we’re going in a slightly different direction and Dabbsson today announced its new Portable Home Backup Power Ecosystem, which harnesses the […]

Dabbsson’s new Home Backup Power Station are here to keep your lights on by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch

Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network

April 19, 2023

The concept of taking existing properties and repurposing them is not a new one. After all, Airbnb is a high-profile example of people turning vacation homes, for example, into revenue generators when they’re not using them. The end result is that travelers have far more options today than they used to when choosing where to […]

Opendoor alums raise $15M for Kindred, a home-swapping network by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch

Unagi secures Best Buy as e-scooter subscription partner

April 19, 2023

E-scooter manufacturer Unagi has had a busy month. Just a couple weeks after bringing its Model One Voyager scooter to market, the company says it closed a large funding round and secured Best Buy as a scooter subscription partner. The $29.3 million round is a combination of equity and debt. The $17.3 million in equity […]

Unagi secures Best Buy as e-scooter subscription partner by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: OpenAI’s data disaster, and screens in schools

April 19, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy, and a slew of…

Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync

April 19, 2023

Many apps today assume that data lives in only one location, typically a single cloud database. But the reality is more complex. Thanks to the proliferation of mobile devices and cloud infrastructure — the latter of which accelerated during the pandemic — apps now need to store and process data in more places, from the […]

Ditto raises $45M to help companies keep their data in sync by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Accounting automation startup Trullion lands $15M investment

April 19, 2023

Isaac Heller and Amir Boldo spent over ten years in finance across private equity-backed and pre-IPO companies. At these firms, they dealt with CFOs who wanted to save money by consolidating manual processes and reducing the cost of audits — in part by modernizing their sprawling software tooling. It’s their experiences with CFOs that led […]

Accounting automation startup Trullion lands $15M investment by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Amazon tops LinkedIn’s list of best places to work, jobseeker priorities shift to workplace culture

April 19, 2023

There have been more than 171,000 people in the tech industry laid off so far this year, according to data tracked by layoffs.fyi, but those looking for work are not in a ‘beggars can’t be choosers’ mindset. According to new data from LinkedIn, people are gravitating to workplaces that align with their values, and their […]

Amazon tops LinkedIn’s list of best places to work, jobseeker priorities shift to workplace culture by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

OpenAI’s hunger for data is coming back to bite it

April 19, 2023
OpenAI has just over a week to comply with European data protection laws following a temporary ban in Italy and a slew of investigations in other EU countries. If it fails, it could face hefty fines, be forced to delete data, or even be banned.  But experts have told MIT Technology Review that it will…