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We’re less than a month away from TechCrunch Disrupt on October 18–20 in San Francisco! Imagine a drumroll, folks, because we’re about to announce the last tranche of investors and thought leaders who will choose which outstanding startup takes the title of Startup Battlefield champion, along with the $100,000 prize and serious bragging rights Improve […] Accel, BoxGroup, Cowboy Ventures, Pear VC and Yahoo to judge Startup Battlefield at Disrupt by Lauren Simonds originally published on TechCrunch... →

В ресторанах сети города Лугано разрешили оплачивать фастфуд цифровой валютой... →

Reddit announced today that it’s bringing on the team from Oterlu, a startup from Gothenburg, Sweden that develops machine learning-powered content moderation tools. The Oterlu team will join Reddit’s Safety team and develop native machine learning moderation models that can quickly and accurately detect harmful content across a range of languages, Reddit says. The Oterlu […] Reddit acqui-hires team from ML content moderation startup Oterlu by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch... →

Last fall, Rakesh Mathur stayed up until the wee hours of the morning, waiting for his daughter to come home from a frat party at Stanford. “She walks in at 2:30 with just a big, beaming smile. There’s no apology or anything like that,” Mathur told TechCrunch. “She says, ‘Papa, I met the next Mark […] Meet Fizz, the social app downloaded by ‘95% of Stanford undergrads’ by Amanda Silberling originally published on TechCrunch... →

Learning is something we all do from our earliest days to our final years, and the breadth of edtech is beginning to reflect this truth, and so is the startup and investment landscape. Edtech’s honeymoon might be over, but expect a second boom by Ram Iyer originally published on TechCrunch... →

Macroeconomic factors are placing pressure on companies to improve efficiency, and on employees and their managers to do more with less. Amidst all the challenges and tribulations, workers believe a large portion of their work week is unproductive, with the majority of respondents to a recent (2018) Intuit survey saying that they’d get more done […] Xembly raises cash to develop an AI assistant for corporate meetings by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Продвигать сайт на рынке США непросто. Поисковики больше «любят» другие факторы ранжирования, менталитет пользователей отличается. Если в нише высокая конкуренция с местными компаниями, то все еще сложнее. В 2021 году участник SEO-батла от Sape Дамир Хисяметдинов вывел в топ-10 англоязычный … Читать далее →... →

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Sixt initially committed to buy "several thousand" EVs from BYD. First deliveries to France, Germany, Netherlands and U.K. start this year. Sixt to buy 100,000 electric vehicles from China’s BYD by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch... →

Google’s anticipated iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets have now begun to arrive. Alongside the launch of Apple’s new mobile operating system, iOS 16, the search giant last month had teased its plans to support the iPhone’s newest feature that allows users to place widgets directly on their phone’s lock screen, offering information and easy access […] Google begins rolling out its iOS 16 Lock Screen widgets by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch... →

Таким образом операторы планируют оптимизировать расходы и повысить эффективность розницы... →

Months after bagging $116 million in an extension of its Series F round, database vendor SingleStore this week announced that it raised an additional $30 million from investors including Prosperity7, the venture arm of Saudi Aramco. The Series F — or “Series F-2,” technically — now stands at $146 million, bringing SingleStore’s total raised to […] SingleStore raises $30M more to brings its database tech to new customers by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch... →

Let's chat through the Naver-Poshmark deal's numbers and consider how the late-2022 M&A market differs from that of mid-2021. 3 takeaways from the Poshmark-Naver deal by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch... →

Embedded banking — used by companies that do not build financial products like credit, payments or deposits from the ground up but want to offer those services to their customers to grow revenues — has been on a big growth tear in the last several years, and today one of the bigger players building finance […] Railsr, formerly Railsbank, raises $46M for embedded finance, says it now has 300 customers by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch... →

Xiaomi just launched the 12T Pro, a flagship with a 200-megapixel main camera. The company is using Samsung’s HP1 sensor with a base pixel size of 0.64μm and f/1.69 aperture. The sensor, which was launched last year, uses pixel binning in different ways: it can combine 16 pixels to produce a 12.5-megapixel image (2.56μm pixel […] Xiaomi’s latest flagship has a 200-megapixel sensor — so don’t think spec race is over by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch... →

Figuring out what to pay employees is a universal problem. Startups, in particular, struggle with compensation as they are often competing with other startups for talent. For Roger Lee, the issue came up repeatedly when he co-founded 401(k) provider Human Interest, which achieved unicorn status in August of 2021 and today has nearly 700 employees. […] How much to pay your engineer? This startup will tell you by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch... →

Confluent, the company that built a streaming service on top of the open source Apache Kafka project, has always been about helping companies capture streams of data. First it was on prem, then later in the cloud. By moving the streaming service to the cloud, it was able to abstract away a lot of the […] Confluent launches visual streaming data pipeline designer by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch... →

Собственно, твиты Маска на тему Украины хорошо иллюстрируют наши стереотипы — нам кажется, что «в человеке должно быть все прекрасно: и лицо, и одежда, и душа, и мысли» и мы идем дальше, фантазируя, что и все мысли этого человека одинаково прекрасны и раз уж он придумал Теслу, то и в геополитике разберется. Ukraine-Russia Peace:- Redo elections of annexed regions under UN supervision. Russia leaves if that is will of the people.- Crimea formally part of Russia, as it has been since 1783 (until Khrushchev’s ... →

The Toronto-based company acquires software for use by e-commerce merchants selling on the Amazon marketplace. E-commerce software bundler Carbon6 Technologies grabs $66M in equity, debt by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch... →

It might be a little early to say ‘look out Cloudflare!’ especially given it’s $20B valuation, but a Slovenian startup thinks the web security giant has missed a trick in the market, as developers become more ignored in favor of large corporate clients. Bunny.net has now raised a $6 million funding round led by Runa […] Slovenia’s Bunny.net raises a $6M round to offer a ‘developer-friendly’ CDN by Mike Butcher originally published on TechCrunch... →