A Guide to Franchising for Retireees and Seniors
Whether it’s in-home care, fitness or food services, find a franchise that aligns with your interests and retirement goals.
3 things Will Douglas Heaven is into right now
The most amazing drummer on the internet My daughter introduced me to El Estepario Siberiano’s YouTube channel a few months back, and I have been obsessed ever since. The Spanish drummer (real name: Jorge Garrido) posts videos of himself playing supercharged cover versions of popular tracks, hitting his drums with such jaw-dropping speed and technique…
Meta’s behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram
Meta has been temporarily banned from running behavioral advertising on Facebook and Instagram in Norway — unless it obtains users’ consent to the processing. The urgent order of provisional measures on Meta’s business, which has been made by Norway’s data protection authority, the Datatilsynet, applies for an initial three-month period. It stipulates Meta may run […]
Meta’s behavioral ads banned in Norway on Facebook and Instagram by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
How tech companies got access to our tax data
This article is from The Technocrat, MIT Technology Review’s weekly tech policy newsletter about power, politics, and Silicon Valley. To receive it in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. You might think (or at least hope) that sensitive data like your tax returns would be kept under close care. But we learned this week…
Why Being ‘Always On’ Is Killing Your Innovation, and How to Truly Disconnect
Identifying “prime time,'”strategic automation and other strategies for working well with no interruptions.
Thunes pockets $72M at a $900M+ valuation to expand its cross-border, B2B payment platform
Thunes, a Singapore and London-based fintech that has built a payments platform for businesses to send money to each other internationally by tapping into the growing network of mobile wallets and other alternatives to bank accounts, has closed its Series C round of funding to expand its business. The startup has raised $72 million, money […]
Thunes pockets $72M at a $900M+ valuation to expand its cross-border, B2B payment platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
TLV Partners raises new $250M fund
Israel-based early-stage VC firm TLV Partners today announced its fifth fund, unsurprisingly called Fund V. TLV Partners raised its last fund, the $220M Fund IV, in October 2021. Including this new fund, the group now has $1.07 billion in assets under management. The plan is to make about 25 seed and Series A investments from […]
TLV Partners raises new $250M fund by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch
Gnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe, soon US and Hong Kong
The world of cryptocurrency has often been criticized for being exclusive, catering primarily to speculators and crypto-savvy individuals. Despite this, many advocates believe that the underlying decentralized technology has the potential to benefit society as a whole. Gnosis, a well-regarded blockchain project in the developer community, is working to demonstrate the broader applicability of web3 […]
Gnosis launches Visa card that lets you spend self-custody crypto in Europe, soon US and Hong Kong by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
Intel backs Figure’s Humanoid robot to the tune of $9 million
Bay Area-based robotics firm Figure this week announced that its humanoid officially took its first steps — a milestone it hit a few days shy of of the company’s first anniversary. Figure has made a good deal of progress in a short period, due in no small part to founder and CEO Brett Adcock’s initial $100 […]
Intel backs Figure’s Humanoid robot to the tune of $9 million by Brian Heater originally published on TechCrunch
This company plans to transplant pig hearts into babies next year
The baby baboon is wearing a mesh gown and appears to be sitting upright. “This little lady … looks pretty philosophical, I would say,” says Eli Katz, who is showing me the image over a Zoom call. This baboon is the first to receive a heart transplant from a young gene-edited pig as part of…
Lee Fixel’s Addition leads $6M seed round in Egyptian fintech Flash
Driving financial inclusion through digital payment methods is among the top priorities for the governments of Africa’s biggest tech ecosystems where cash is still king. Several initiatives launched by these governments have increased the number of banked citizens in their respective countries. In Egypt, for instance, platforms like Fawry and InstaPay — tapped into the […]
Lee Fixel’s Addition leads $6M seed round in Egyptian fintech Flash by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch