Peacock arrives on Meta Quest with plans to bring IP on Horizon Worlds later this year

April 12, 2023

At Meta Connect 2022, the tech giant announced a three-year partnership with NBCUniversal that would bring Peacock to the Meta Quest virtual reality headset. Today, the streaming app is now available on Meta Quest 2 and Meta Quest Pro devices. Subscribers can get Peacock in the Meta Store and stream 90,000 hours of movies and […]

Peacock arrives on Meta Quest with plans to bring IP on Horizon Worlds later this year by Lauren Forristal originally published on TechCrunch

Founders shouldn’t have to chose between mental health and grit

April 12, 2023

Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This is our Wednesday show, where today we’re niching down to a group of experts, thinking about their work and unpacking the rest. This week, Natasha spoke with a founder, a psychiatrist […]

Founders shouldn’t have to chose between mental health and grit by Theresa Loconsolo originally published on TechCrunch

Take-Two Seconds to Consider Selling This Video Game Stock

April 12, 2023
Well-known video game company Take-Two Interactive (TTWO) reported losses and narrowed next year’s booking projections amid lingering macroeconomic headwinds and declining consumer spending. So, avoiding this fundamentally weak stock might…

Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions

April 12, 2023

Device42, a startup that helps companies understand and manage their hybrid infrastructure, can see a lot of information about each customer’s hardware and software usage. The company decided to use that ability to look at how each part of the system was contributing to carbon emissions. “Our focus as a platform is to discover IT […]

Device42 tunes IT infrastracture tooling to measure carbon emissions by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch

This fintech startup ideally wants to be ‘a lot more boring’ than Robinhood

April 12, 2023

Soon after launching Ocho, a startup offering personal finance support for business owners, Ankur Nagpal realized that the company’s debut product – a solo 401(k) retirement account – “is not a venture-backed business” in and of itself. Despite landing nearly 300 customers with that initial wedge, the entrepreneur is already focused on broadening the service […]

This fintech startup ideally wants to be ‘a lot more boring’ than Robinhood by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch

User spending goes up by more than 4000% on AI-powered apps

April 12, 2023

Given the rising interest in generative AI tools like text-based ChatGPT and image-based Midjourney, AI-powered apps are growing in numbers and popularity in both app stores. A report by analytics firm Apptopia suggests that 158 AI Chatbot apps — with the description having keywords like “AI Chat” or “AI Chatbot” — hit the app stores […]

User spending goes up by more than 4000% on AI-powered apps by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch