Instagram and Facebook introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads

January 10, 2023

Meta is making some changes to how its apps handle advertising and young users. Under the new rules, advertisers on Instagram and Facebook won’t be able to leverage as much personalized data to target ads to teens. Users under age 18 will also be newly empowered with more choices about what ads they see and […]

Instagram and Facebook introduce more limits on targeting teens with ads by Taylor Hatmaker originally published on TechCrunch

Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others

January 10, 2023

The need for data observability, or the ability to understand, diagnose and orchestrate data health across various IT tools, continues to grow as organizations adopt more apps and services. (Nearly 10% of businesses now have more than 200 apps to manage, according to a recent Okta study.) In a large-scale survey of IT decision makers […]

Data observability startup Metaplane lands investment from YC, others by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch

Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation

January 10, 2023

The market for cloud native observability tools remains hot. As with so many new technologies, containerization solved a fair number of problems but also introduced its share of new ones, including a lot of added complexity that is, in part, driven by the dynamic nature of this architecture. That’s both its strength and downfall, so […]

Observability platform Chronosphere raises another $115M at a $1.6B valuation by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet

January 10, 2023

The Easy Company has raised $14.2 million in a seed round and launched its “social” crypto wallet to help onboard more mainstream audiences, it shared exclusively with TechCrunch. Easy aims to combine user-curated profiles with engaging social features so that people can search, navigate and discover the world of web3 on their own. Today, its […]

The Easy Company raised $14.2M to build an easy-to-use ‘social’ crypto wallet by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch

IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks

January 10, 2023

IonQ, the trapped ion quantum computing company that went public via a SPAC in late 2021, today announced that it has acquired Entangled Networks, a Toronto-based startup that helps industrial and academic users build and optimize multi-quantum-processor solutions, using specialized networking techniques. The two companies did not disclose the price of the acquisition. This marks […]

IonQ acquires quantum networking specialist Entagled Neworks by Frederic Lardinois originally published on TechCrunch

The Download: iRobot privacy scandal, and AI that makes images

January 10, 2023
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. Roomba testers feel misled after intimate images ended up on Facebook When Greg unboxed a new robot vacuum cleaner in December 2019, he thought he knew what he was getting into. As a…

FemTech: In a Quest For Better Female Health

January 10, 2023
The term ‘femTech’ was coined in 2016 by Danish entrepreneur Ida Tin, as a way to legitimize and drive innovation in the female health technology sector

Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31

January 10, 2023

Amazon announced this morning it’s expanding its Buy with Prime service to U.S.-based merchants by the end of the month. The service, which allows third-party merchants to offer Prime benefits like free shipping and returns on their own apps, was initially only available to those merchants who were already using Fulfillment by Amazon (FBA) to […]

Buy with Prime, which brings Prime to third-party sites, officially launches in U.S. on Jan. 31 by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch