TechCrunch Minute: EV makers are struggling, and Fisker’s in a particularly precarious position

March 19, 2024

Fisker’s finances are back in the news after the company warned back in February that it didn’t have enough cash to make it through its next year. The company said this week that it intends to halt production for six weeks to get its business back in order. Fisker is hardly the first electric vehicle […]

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Ramp CEO says the fintech startup is just scratching the surface

March 19, 2024

Fintech exploded over the last five years. Startups in the category raised more than $350 million in VC funding from 2019 through 2023, according to data from CB Insights. Despite all that growth, Eric Gylman, the co-founder and CEO of Ramp thinks that the industry, and companies like his, are just scratching the surface. Glyman […]

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Facebook is trying to make ‘poking’ cool again

March 19, 2024

Remember when you would “poke” your friends on Facebook to get their attention, annoy them or just start a poke war? Well, Facebook is trying to bring back that experience with some small updates to the poking feature. The company announced on Tuesday that it recently improved the platform’s suggestions on who to poke and […]

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Nala set out to offer remittance services, it’s building a B2B payment platform too

March 19, 2024

Payments company Nala pivoted to offer remittance service in 2021, tapping the growing money transfer market in Africa, and demand for reliable and affordable services. Nala founder, Benjamin Fernandes, said they intended to build their products on this premise right from the outset. Over the last two years, the Tanzanian fintech, through its consumer fintech […]

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How to Keep Yourself Relevant in the Age of AI

March 19, 2024
As AI reaches further into our lives, what can you bring to the table that technology cannot replicate? The new book “The Wolf Is At The Door” offers a whole new way to look at the AI revolution.

The Download: new AI regulations, and a running robot

March 19, 2024
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 The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change After three years, the AI Act, the EU’s new sweeping AI law, jumped through its final bureaucratic hoop last week when the…