Twitter is now rolling out a new feature that lets users post images, videos, and GIFs in a single tweet. Until now, the platform only allowed users to include only one type of media format in a post, for example, multiple images. While you can see mixed media tweets on all platforms, currently you can […]
Twitter now lets you post images, videos, and GIFs in a single tweet by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
Microsoft has held conversations to invest in the Indian play-to-earn gaming platform Zupee in recent weeks and proposed to lead a round of over $100 million, two people familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, the latest in a series of bets from the Windows-maker to expand its cloud business in the key overseas market. The […]
Microsoft explores investment in Indian gaming platform Zupee by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
Lightdash, an open source business intelligence (BI) platform that’s setting out to challenge proprietary incumbents such as Looker, is officially launching its core commercial product to the public today backed by $8.4 million in funding. The seed round was led by Accel, with participation from Moonfire, Y Combinator (YC), Snyk founder Guy Podjarny, and Gitlab […]
Lightdash takes on Looker with an open source BI platform built for dbt by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch
In South Korea, there are about 7.3 million small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) — defined as firms with less than 250 employees. Their workforces combined make up 83.1% of all corporation employees in the country, totaling about 17.1 million people, according to OECD data. To help meet SMEs’ financial needs in the country, Seoul-based fintech […]
Fiserv, LG back Korea Credit Data as the SME-focused fintech startup raises another $24.7M by Kate Park originally published on TechCrunch
Halo Car, a Las Vegas-based startup that combines teleoperations and car sharing, said it will remove the human safety operator from behind the wheel later this year — the last hurdle before its commercial launch. The milestone would mean Halo Car will use humans to remotely control vehicles through public streets and deliver them to […]
Halo Car’s teleoperated car-sharing service to roll out this year with no one behind the wheel by Jaclyn Trop originally published on TechCrunch
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Daily Crunch: Google will use private subsea cable to launch its first full-scale cloud region in Africa by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
SpaceX successfully launched another batch of astronauts to the International Space Station Wednesday, part of an ongoing astronaut transportation contract with NASA. Like the company’s seven other human spaceflight missions, it was completely routine — and that’s what made it so remarkable. The Crew-5 mission (so named because it’s SpaceX’s fifth crewed mission with NASA’s […]
SpaceX notches eighth human spaceflight mission with Crew-5 by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
Tools helping China’s netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run-up to the country’s quinquennial party congress that will see a top leadership reshuffle. Greater censorship is not at all uncommon during countries’ politically sensitive periods, but the stress facing censorship circumvention tools in China […]
Popular censorship circumvention tools face fresh blockade by China by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch