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For most business owners, there will come a time when they must decide whether they want to sell their company. If the answer is yes, a significant portion of their…

Paris-based VC firm HCVC just announced the final closing of its second fund simply called “Fund II”. And the team has managed to raise $75 million (€69 million) so that it can back pre-seed and seed companies in Europe and North America. Originally focused on hardware startup investments, HCVC quickly evolved to invest in deep […]

Boston-based privacy and security startup Cloaked, launched its apps today to let users create unique proxy emails, phone numbers, and passwords for online accounts. The company, which was in private beta for the last two years, is now making its solution available for everyone through its web app, Chrome extension, along with mobile apps (available […]

Ford is launching another version of its all-electric F-150 Lightning pickup truck that prioritizes tech and battery range over other premium features as the automaker tries to respond more quickly to consumer demands. The so-called F-150 Lightning Flash version will have a starting price of $69,995 (not including the destination fee) and come with an […]

HMD Global, the phone maker and marketer behind the Nokia mobile phone brand, has launched its very first smartphone manufactured in Europe. The news comes some six months after the Finnish company first revealed it was transitioning some of its manufacturing to Europe to meet a growing demand from enterprises for locally-produced hardware to address […]

Open banking, in which traditional banks release their data via application programming interfaces (APIs) to enable the development of new financial services for their consumers, has been one of the most significant disruptions in global payments over the past decade. Less than five years ago, this innovation, in which businesses use APIs to access customers’ […]

Content moderation continues to be a contentious topic in the world of online media. New regulations and public concern are likely to keep it as a priority for many years to come. But weaponised AI and other tech advances are making it ever harder to address. A startup out of Cambridge, England, called Unitary AI […]

Elon Musk has been on something of a suing spree lately, but on Monday Twitter’s new owner was hit with a fresh inbound lawsuit. The lawsuit alleges that Musk defamed a California man after the owner of X (formerly Twitter) claimed that the recent college graduate was a federal agent operating undercover with a neo-Nazi […]

In a victory for Tesla, a California federal judge ruled over the weekend that a group of Tesla owners cannot pursue in court claims that the company falsely advertised its automated features. Instead, they will have to face individual arbitration. U.S. District Judge Haywood Gilliam’s ruling isn’t a win for the defensibility of Tesla’s advanced […]