Klarna is launching its credit card in the United States, the Swedish fintech giant told TechCrunch in an exclusive interview. “It was one of our most asked for products,” said David Fock, Klarna’s chief product officer, “and will allow people to pay in the Klarna way but with a card.” By “Klarna way,” Fock means […]
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LinkedIn — the social platform that targets the working world — has quietly started testing another way to boost its revenues, this time with a new service for small and medium businesses. TechCrunch has learned and confirmed that it is working on a new LinkedIn Premium Company Page subscription, which — for fees that appear […]
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Tesla has spent around $200,000 advertising through February on Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, after the CEO caved to shareholder pressure last year and said his company would “try a little advertising.” Since then, Tesla ads have showed up in places like Google search results, and on YouTube. But it was also increasingly apparent […]
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The African tech ecosystem, buffeted by huge potential but also lots of economic, political and social instabilities, is no stranger to major drama befalling even its most promising-looking startups. But recently, LemFi, the Nigeria-based fintech that provides money transfer services to African migrants, is shaping up as an example of a bounce-back—and growth story. After […]
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Mentee Robotics hasn’t been in stealth, exactly. The Israeli firm caught a small wave of press at the tail end of 2022, following Tesla’s initial humanoid robotics announcement. As that was the year of the startup’s founding, it didn’t have much to show off at the time. Even so, the firm caught some headlines because […]
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Application programming interfaces, or APIs as they’re commonly known, are the bedrock of everything we do online. APIs allow two things on the internet to talk with each other, including connected devices or phone apps. But the enormous growth of API usage — around half of all internet traffic — is putting businesses’ data at […]
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Social media company Snap said Tuesday that it plans to add watermarks to AI-generated images on its platform. The platform is adding a logo of a small ghost with a sparkle icon to denote an AI-generated image. The company said the watermark would appear when the image is exported or saved to the camera roll. […]
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