‘Loud Layoffs’ Are Destroying Your Mental Health — Use These Mindset Hacks to Protect Your Peace
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How AI can help make cities work better for residents
In recent decades, cities have become increasingly adept at amassing all sorts of data. But that data can have limited impact when government officials are unable to communicate, let alone analyze or put to use, all the information they have access to. This dynamic has always bothered Sarah Williams, a professor of urban planning and…
3 Best Stocks for Beginners to Buy Now with Little Money
Soaring anxieties over an impending recession on the backs of interest rate hikes by the Fed are not likely to ease anytime soon. Amid such volatilities, beginners with little money…
Police arrest suspected members of prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware gang
An international law enforcement operation has led to the arrests of suspected core members of the prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware operation. German and Ukrainian police, working with law enforcement partners including Europol and the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), said they took action last month against the notorious group blamed for numerous large-scale attacks since […]
Police arrest suspected members of prolific DoppelPaymer ransomware gang by Carly Page originally published on TechCrunch
WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU
It’s taken rather longer than a month for Meta-owned WhatsApp to commit to address complaints swirling around how it imposes terms of service on users but the European Commission has just announced that the messaging platform has agreed to improve how it communicates to users and presents future ToS updates. Early in 2021, WhatsApp triggered […]
WhatsApp agrees to clean up its user messaging in the EU by Natasha Lomas originally published on TechCrunch
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How to Master the Art of Public Speaking, Even If Your Anxiety Is Through the Roof
Nerves are fine, but falling apart… not so much.
Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day
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Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
Open banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer lending platform
After a slow start in the UK and Europe, open banking is catching on with fintechs, who are using APIs to access banking data and rails and using them as an alternative to traditional credit networks to build products. Now, a UK-based consumer lending service called Abound is doubling down on its ambitions in the […]
Open banking startup Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its AI-based consumer lending platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
Inside the government agency shaping the future of energy
The US government had a hand in creating some of the most iconic inventions of the last century, from personal computers to modern GPS. Now, it’s making a similar push for energy. The agency behind those breakthroughs was the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. Founded in 1958 as part of the Department of…
Nigerian B2B e-commerce startup Alerzo cuts 15% of full-time staff in second round of layoffs
Alerzo, a Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform that digitizes commerce and payments processes between FMCG suppliers and informal retailers, has laid off 15% of its full-time workforce, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. This is the company’s second round of layoffs in seven months. As a first-party e-commerce business, Alerzo had a headcount of more than 2,000 […]
Nigerian B2B e-commerce startup Alerzo cuts 15% of full-time staff in second round of layoffs by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch