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Daily Crunch: Former Googlers raise more than $90M to scale alternative asset fintech startup by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
Meta announced today that it is introducing a number of new creator updates across Instagram and Facebook. Most notably, the company revealed that creators on Instagram will soon be able to create their own NFTs and sell them directly to fans, both on and off Instagram. With this update, creators will have access to a […]
Instagram will soon allow select creators to make and sell NFTs directly in its app by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
Google is adding its Lens image search right into its home page, letting users access the advanced image recognition tool directly from the search box. The search giant first announced Lens at I/O 2017 and has since integrated it into several of its services, including Google Photos, Chrome and more. Now, as first noted by […]
Google is integrating Lens directly into its search box by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
A couple of years ago, Xata founder Monica Sarbu was putting together a passion project called Tupu.io, a platform she was building to help women in tech find mentors. She wanted to include a Postgres database with Elastic search in the Tupu web application, and as a side project, she wanted it to be fairly […]
Xata gives Jamstack developers access to a serverless data platform with an API call by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
As a young boy growing up in Michigan, Robbie Felton went on home visits with his geriatric social worker mother. Seeing low-income, elderly and disabled patients so vulnerable stuck with Felton. As a student at Brown University, he became interested in how Medicare and Medicaid integrate to take care of these patient populations — so […]
Trio of Brown University grads think elder care needs a helping hand with data by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch