Exploring Expansion Strategies for Franchise Success, From Goals to Growth
When you make a decision to franchise, what you’re really doing is deciding how you want to grow.
Microsoft has a new plan to prove what’s real and what’s AI online
AI-enabled deception now permeates our online lives. There are the high-profile cases you may easily spot, like when White House officials recently shared a manipulated image of a protester in Minnesota and then mocked those asking about it. Other times, it slips quietly into social media feeds and racks up views, like the videos that…
Have You Updated Your Vision Statement With Sustainability Goals? You Should, But Choose Your Words Carefully.
Words can mean different things to different people, in different situations.
What Do These 3 China Stocks Have in Common? Quality and Smart Money Interest
The Chinese economy demonstrated immense resilience despite facing many challenges. This solidity is strengthened further by an array of initiatives deployed by the nation, which have the potential to fortify…
Owner of @x Twitter handle says no one reached out ahead of Twitter’s rebranding to ‘X’
Twitter’s rebranding to X has not been faring well. In addition to the haphazard rollout, which saw parts of the site referencing “X” while other parts still implored you to “search Twitter” or push a blue button to “Tweet,” the company also didn’t secure the intellectual property rights to the X brand, Reuters reported. Plus, […]
Glowforge launches the Aura, a more accessible laser cutter
Laser cutters are nothing new, but Glowforge has a long history of adding something that the category has sorely been lacking: Ease of use. Today, the company announces the Aura. Smaller, cheaper and even easier to use than its bigger brother, the device is perfect for education, craft and light prototyping work. Carrying a $1,199 […]
Avalanche Foundation to invest $50M in asset tokenization on its blockchain
The Avalanche Foundation is allocating up to $50 million to purchase tokenized assets created on its layer-1 blockchain, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The initiative, Avalanche Vista, aims to highlight the value of tokenization in different sectors like equity, credit, real estate and commodities. Tokenization is the process of creating a digital representation of a […]
Nexla has defied startup conventional wisdom with slow and steady growth
When Nexla launched a data operations platform at TechCrunch Disrupt Battlefield in 2017, building applications on top of that data was not necessarily a well understood concept. As time has gone on, however, the company has matured alongside the machine learning market, and today it’s able to help customers build applications based on the data […]
Arc browser is now available to download for everyone
After staying in invite-only mode for more than a year, The Browser Company’s Arc browser is now available to everyone. The company is also bumping up the browser version number to 1.0 with this announcement. The startup also unveiled a revamped website with this launch. Arc is currently only available for Mac users, but the […]
Akooda is using AI to help companies understand their business with fewer meetings
As organizations grow, it becomes harder to understand what’s happening operationally across departments inside a company. We tend to use meetings to try and figure out what others are doing, which isn’t terribly efficient. Akooda is an early stage startup trying to help solve that problem by using AI to analyze the company’s internal software […]
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