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Gaming giant Activision Blizzard unlawfully retaliated against workers at Raven Software who formed a union, the National Labor Relations Board found. The quality assurance (QA) department at subsidiary Raven Software, who mostly work on “Call of Duty,” announced that they would form a union in January. Activision Blizzard sought to block the union, reasoning that […] Activision Blizzard illegally withheld raises from unionizing workers, labor board finds by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCru... →

Venmo is launching a new feature called “Charity Profiles” that will allow charities to raise funds and receive donations directly within its app, the Pay-Pal-owned company announced on Monday. The new profiles will be available to charities that have received confirmed charity status from PayPal. The new profile option will allow charities to reach more […] Venmo rolls out ‘Charity Profiles’ to allow charities to raise funds directly within its app by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

If unicorns are not able to raise as much this year as they did in, say, 2019, how many of the billion-dollar-plus startups are going to survive? The unicorn funding slump is worse than you thought by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Electric cars are great and all, but internal combustion engines (ICE) have one thing going for them: comprehensive, well-oiled infrastructure that means you can add 300 miles of range to your car, in 5 minutes, at any of 65,000 or so gas stations. Compare that with the one-hour stop at only about 6,000 high-speed charging […] Loop raises $60M to send EV charging infrastructure for a Loop by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch... →

Juno, a startup that provides checking accounts to crypto enthusiasts and allows them to take their paychecks in digital tokens, has raised a new funding round as it expands its offerings to include a tokenized loyalty program. The one-and-a-half-year old startup has amassed over 75,000 customers in the U.S. who take their salaries (some in […] Web3 banking platform Juno raises $18 million, launches tokenized loyalty program by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

India’s market regulator has tightened disclosure norms for firms looking to file for an initial public offering after lackluster performance of more than half a dozen tech startups in the past year and a half. Firms looking to raise funds from public offers will now be required by law to disclose their key performance indicators […] Indian market regulator tightens IPO disclosure norms by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Uniswap Labs is in early stages of putting together a new round, according to four sources familiar with the matter, as the parent firm of the popular eponymous decentralized protocol gears up to broaden its offerings. The startup is engaging with a number of investors including Polychain and one of Singapore’s sovereign funds to raise […] Uniswap Labs eyes over $100 million in new funding by Manish Singh originally published on TechCrunch... →

Financial institutions have struggled to develop their own technologies, hence the rise of neo-banks which used Open Banking regulations to build their own Fintech stacks. That has led to a wave of innovation, and startups have hungrily devoured the opportunities to ‘platformise’ the financial work. The latest is fintech SaaS provider Toqio which has now […] Why build any fintech any more when you can just raise €20M and white-label it to banks? by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch... →

Last year, Amazon spent over $4.3 million on anti-union consultants alone, to which labor advocates asked, why not just pay that money to workers? Now, Amazon will do just that. Over the next year, Amazon will dedicate nearly $1 billion to increasing the average wages of its warehouse and transportation workers from about $18 to […] Amazon raises hourly wages by about $1 amid increasing union pressure by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

The major hype around NFTs may have died down a bit since the crypto subsector took off last year, but that isn’t stopping startups from building and raising capital in the space. Minteo, a Latin American-based NFT marketplace, is betting on the digital asset sector going big in the region after it raised $4.3 million […] Latin American NFT marketplace Minteo raises $4.3M seed round by Jacquelyn Melinek originally published on TechCrunch... →

The digital ads market is robust, with Statista predicting that worldwide spend will reach nearly $900 billion by 2026. But fake and fraudulent ad traffic remains a major problem in the space. Global losses from ad fraud totaled $35 billion in 2020 alone. And beyond the wasted spend, invalid traffic can inflate metrics, leading brands […] Lunio raises $15M to combat click fraud with algorithms by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

French startup Pigment has raised a new round of funding less than a year after raising a $73 million Series B round. If you’re not familiar with Pigment, the company develops a business planning and forecasting platform. For small companies that are growing up, it can replace Microsoft Excel as it’s more secure and more […] Pigment raises another $65M to build the modern business planning platform by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →

Developers are a huge catalyst for growth in the competitive world of layer-one blockchains. Where the devs go, they build out applications and robust ecosystems, and user activity and interest tends to follow. Coral has been instrumental in building out dev tools for the Solana blockchain ecosystem. The startup created Anchor, which it says is […] Solana developer platform Coral raises $20M led by FTX, Jump Crypto to build web3’s iPhone by Anita Ramaswamy originally published on TechCrunch... →

The rise of so-called “smart factory” technologies is leading to a race to modernize manufacturing plant and warehouse floors. Old equipment is being replaced by newer, more advanced machinery as manufacturers look to keep pace with the competition — and wrestle with high turnover rates. According to a survey by Plex Systems, 50% of manufacturers […] Invisible AI raises $15M to stick worker-monitoring cameras in factories by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Large AI systems like OpenAI’s GPT-3 might grab headlines, but the practical limitations of power consumption and cost — not capabilities — often determine where AI is deployed. For the most part, highly capable systems are relegated to the cloud because they’re too complex to run on edge devices with weaker hardware and limited connectivity. […] Femtosense raises capital to power the AI inside of consumer electronics by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

During a family trip to India, Jagadeesh Ambati was shocked by how broken the local recycling system had become. After complaining about it to his wife, she challenged him to make a change. He did, eventually, founding EverestLabs to develop an AI system to help recycling facilities recover more waste on average than they did […] EverestLabs raises $16.1M for AI that sorts recyclables by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Higher education, at its best, aims to be less elitist and more accessible to people from all walks of life. Today, a startup called Ocelot is announcing a big round of funding to build more tools to help in that effort. The company, which provides an AI-based platform to facilitate easier communications between universities and […] Ocelot, an engagement platform aimed at college students, raises $117M in its first outside funding by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

More signs that the economy is slowing down in Europe, and that costs are going up, are driving merchants and consumers to look for less expensive ways to carry out their everyday business. Today, a startup out of Italy called Satispay — which operates an independent payment network that bypasses big banks and credit companies […] Italy’s Satispay raises €320M at a €1B+ valuation with backing from Block, Tencent and more for its indy payment network by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Micro, small and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) across Africa make up the bulk — over 90% — of businesses in the continent but are still marginalized in accessing credit from formal institutions because of the nature of their operations; for instance, many often lack the kind of collateral that is acceptable by banks. To bridge the […] YC-backed fintech Numida raises $12.3M led by Serena Ventures to extend loans to MSMEs beyond Uganda by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch... →

French startup Stockly is raising a $12 million Series A round (€12 million) from Eurazeo, Daphni and several business angels. The company pools together the inventory of several e-commerce websites. When a retailer is out-of-stock on a popular item, they can still accept the order and process the order through a different retailer’s inventory. This […] Stockly raises another $12 million to sell out-of-stock items via other retailers by Romain Dillet originally published on TechCrunch... →