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The trillion-dollar construction industry is often tarred with the inefficiency brush, accused of failing to move with the times and ignoring digitization in favor of legacy tools. But there is plenty of evidence that things are changing, with countless startups raising large sums of cash to help the construction industry modernize. Venture capital (VC) funding in […] Foundamental closes $85M fund for early-stage construction tech startups by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Now with an executive team in place, Poppi co-founder Allison Ellsworth says the company has now “invested in the right people so we are a well-oiled machine.”  Poppi raises a can to fresh capital to support its functional beverage growth by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Magazine reading app Flipboard is becoming the latest contender in the battle to relocate some of the online conversations taking place on Twitter onto its own platform instead. The company today announced that Flipboard’s curators will be able to publish original content into their magazine in order to engage with their readers in a conversation. […] Magazine app Flipboard adds support for original content and conversations with new notes feature by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Ask Alan Shreve why he founded Ngrok, a service that helps developers share sites and apps running on their local machines or servers, and he’ll tell you it was to solve a tough-to-grok (pun fully intended) infrastructure problem he encountered while at Twilio. As an engineer there, Shreve was developing on webhooks — automated messages […] Ngrok, a service to help devs deploy sites, services and apps, raises $50M by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Amazon today is introducing a small handful of new features for its digital assistant Alexa that aim to make the device more accessible. The company is launching two new ways to interact with Alexa without speaking including support for Gestures on Echo Show devices that will users to interact with the device by raising their […] Amazon’s Echo Show adds more accessibility features, including ‘Gestures’ and text-to-speech by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

У микроблогеров высокий уровень экспертности, а их аудитория вовлечённая и лояльная... →

Beni created a free browser extension, initially for Chrome and Safari, to assist shoppers in finding resale listings for items they are looking for. Beni is creating an ‘easy button’ for secondhand shopping by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

Группа представила базовый и три альтернативных сценария развития индустрии в следующем году... →

Six weeks on from Elon Musk’s $44 billion Twitter takeover, few words can fully encapsulate events as they have unfolded in the period since. “Chaotic” or “farcical” come pretty close, though, with mass layoffs, u-turns, ultimatums, resignations, crowdsourced ban-reversals, advertiser standoffs, picking fights with Apple, and a revamped verification system that has everyone and their uncle […] Decentralized discourse: How open source is shaping Twitter’s future by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCru... →

Fundraising may be drying up for some segments of the tech industry at the moment, but one area that continues to get a lot of attention is AI and specifically startups that are using it to build out revenue-generating businesses. Today, a startup called Zappi, which has built a market research platform that utilizes AI […] Zappi raises $170M for its AI-based market research platform by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Valuing startups is an established process today, but do the methods employed apply equally to pre-revenue companies using novel AI? 3 methods for valuing pre-revenue novel AI startups by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch... →

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The company does most of the coding for merchants and delivers it via a front-end headless commerce platform for Shopify merchants for a more seamless customer experience. Pack delivers with headless commerce approach to faster online shopping by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Google's John Mueller said there is no score or threshold for the Google helpful content update. He said on Mastodon "There is no "HCS score" or threshold at which HCS [helpful content score] would switch from unhelpful to helpful for SEO.... →

Microsoft is sunsetting an experimental research project that uses audio-based technology to help visually-impaired people navigate and gain a stronger awareness of their surroundings. However, the company also revealed that it will release the code under an open source license for other developers to use. The technology giant first debuted Soundscape back in 2017, essentially […] Microsoft to sunset Soundscape 3D audio app and open-source the code by Paul Sawers originally published on TechCrunch... →

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Microsoft announced that if you do financial service ads in its network, like on Bing Search, in the UK, you will need to be verified in early 2023. "Starting early 2023, we'll allow only advertisers duly authorized by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to present regulated financial promotions in the UK," wrote.... →

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Elon Musk-led Twitter is shaking up its verification system. Instead of one checkmark, now there are multicolored checkmarks to denote different things. This could be very confusing for users to track. So here’s a handy guide to all checkmarks and badges on the social network. Checkmarks Blue checkmark: It currently means two things. 1) Account […] A quick guide to all the checkmarks and badges on Twitter by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →