She Saved a Sweet Company and Grew It to $20 Million a Year. But She Never Liked Its Name — Decades Later, It’s Getting a Makeover.
A conversation between Jean Thompson and her Gen Z daughter led to a total rebrand.
Own, a new social media app, aims to tokenize the creator economy
Own is the latest alternative to TikTok to emerge in the market, featuring blockchain technology and a token economy.
Entrepreneurs Are Ditching Alcohol — Here’s Why It’s Helping Them Become More Successful
Entrepreneurs are redefining success by ditching alcohol, prioritizing their health and discovering that sobriety enhances clarity, decision-making, and overall business performance.
Ebay backs WunderGraph to build an open-source GraphQL federation
A fledgling open-source startup that’s setting out to tackle API sprawl in the GraphQL ecosystem has secured the backing of e-commerce giant eBay. WunderGraph, as the company is called, today said it has raised $7.5 million in a Series A round of funding to “scale its open source GraphQL federation.” Investors include eBay’s VC arm […]
YC alum Mendel, a ‘Ramp for LatAm enterprises,’ raises $35M Series B
Mexico City-based Mendel has raised $35 million in a Series B round of funding, it tells TechCrunch exclusively. Corporate spend management platform Mendel last raised in December 2021 — a $15 million Series A round and $20 million in debt — after participating in Y Combinator’s Winter 2021 cohort. With this latest capital infusion, the […]
With the Switch 2 coming, Nintendo is working on Virtual Game Cards for cross-device portability
Nintendo announced on Thursday that it is working on Virtual Game Cards, a feature that makes digitally downloaded games more portable across different devices. With the highly awaited Nintendo Switch 2 on the horizon, these Virtual Game Cards will make it easier for users to port over their existing Switch games to their new devices. […]
Writing a Book? Here’s How to Find Your Audience and Become a Bestselling Author
Today’s competitive literary landscape demands a nuanced approach to marketing and connecting with target readers. The role of public relations firms is multifaceted, and tailored PR solutions can help modern authors get their books into more hands.
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The Download: how people fall for pig butchering schemes, and saving glaciers
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. Inside a romance scam compound—and how people get tricked into being there Gavesh’s journey had started, seemingly innocently, with a job ad on Facebook promising work he desperately needed. Instead, he found himself…
Last Chance for Windows 11 Pro With Copilot at Its Lowest Price Ever
Upgrade your OS before Microsoft phases Windows 10 out.
Google rolls out new vacation-planning features to Search, Maps, and Gemini
Google is rolling out a slew of new features — some powered by AI — across Search, Maps, and Gemini that are designed to help people plan their summer vacations. The new features arrive as users have been turning to tools like OpenAI’s ChatGPT for help with planning trips. Google Search’s AI Overviews, which display […]