Zulu enables users to save in secure digital dollars and send free cross-border payments while also protecting against traditional currency devaluations.
Zulu banks $5M for its LatAm digital wallet amid shaky ground for crypto by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
WhatsApp is introducing new Yellow Pages-like features to help users find businesses from within the instant messaging app, part of the Meta-owned platform’s growing attempts to make deeper inroads with e-commerce. The encrypted messaging service, used by over 2 billion users worldwide, said on Thursday that it’s expanding a feature called ‘Directory’ to all users […]
WhatsApp broadens in-app business directory and search features by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch
CCTV and other kinds of security cameras have a strong big brother vibe, but for many of us that may be because we don’t really understand or know how the footage they pick up ever gets used. Today, a startup called Spot AI that’s built a system to help answer that question at least in […]
Spot AI raises $40M to build smarter CCTV security camera tech by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Merch is coming to OnlyFans. In a partnership with Spring — the merch company formerly known as TeeSpring that just got acquired by Amaze — OnlyFans creators can sell physical products to their supporters directly on their platform pages. The feature works via an integration. If you go to a creator’s page who has a […]
OnlyFans partners with Spring to add shopping features by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch
FTX’s bankruptcy filing speaks volumes about how quickly venture capitalists dropped their own advice to secure a seat on a rocket they were hoping would only go up. It did not.
Maybe FTX was the real poster child for 2021’s startup excess by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
Speak, an English language learning platform with AI-powered features, today announced that it raised $27 million in a Series B funding round led by the OpenAI Startup Fund, with participation from Lachy Groom, Josh Buckley, Justin Mateen, Gokul Rajaram and Founders Fund. Notably, Speak is the third startup in which OpenAI, the AI lab closely […]
Speak lands investment from OpenAI to expand its language learning platform by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
Binance co-founder and CEO Changpeng Zhao, also known as CZ, commented on the collapse of FTX at TechCrunch Sessions: Crypto 2022. He played down his personal role in the series of events that ultimately led to FTX filing for bankruptcy. “I still don’t think I have that much influence. I think we were the last […]
Binance’s CZ on FTX: “We were the last straw that broke the camel’s back” by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch
Earlier this year, TikTok announced that it’s developing a research API to improve access to public and anonymized data about content and activity on its app. Now, the company says it’s ready to make a beta version of its platform research API available and has asked members of its Content and Safety Advisory Councils to […]
TikTok begins testing an early version of its platform research API by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch