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Mobile Commerce Startup Via Rounds Up $15 Million In Series A Funding
Mobile commerce is where it’s at, and rising investment in so-called conversational commerce startups underscores the opportunity. Via , a two-year-old, Bay Area-based startup, is among those riding the wave, having identified some trends ...
Facebook’S Entry Into VR Advertising Isn’T Going Too Well
Facebook’s efforts to bring advertising to the Oculus virtual reality platform it has spent billions of dollars building out doesn’t seem to be off to a great start. The company announced last week that they were planning to roll out ...
Daily Crunch: Facebook Rolls Out Podcasts And Live Audio Rooms For US Listeners
To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. PDT, subscribe here . Hello and welcome to Daily Crunch for June 21, 2021. The tech industry is skipping any sort of a summer ...
What Does Red Hat’S Sale To IBM Tell Us About Couchbase’S Valuation?
The IPO rush of 2021 continued this week with a fresh filing from NoSQL provider Couchbase . The company raised hundreds of millions while private, making its impending debut an important moment for a number of private investors, including ...
Gillmor Gang: Who Knew
The Gillmor Gang recording session is nestled on Friday midday on the East Coast and midmorning out West. Streamed live on Twitter, Facebook Live, and Youtube embed, the show is then edited, sweetened with titles and music, and released on ...
Tesla Backs Vision-Only Approach To Autonomy Using Powerful Supercomputer
Tesla CEO Elon Musk has been teasing a neural network training computer called ‘Dojo’ since at least 2019. Musk says Dojo will be able to process vast amounts of video data to achieve vision-only autonomous driving. While Dojo itself is ...
Fintech Veteran Jitendra Gupta Is Ready For His New Inning — Now He Is Going After Banks In India
For most people in India, having to engage with banks doesn’t instill a sense of joy. Banks in the South Asian market are notorious for making unannounced spam calls to upsell customers loans and credit cards, even when they have been explicitly ...
Clubhouse Is Building A DM Text Chat Feature
Some Clubhouse users were treated to a surprise feature in their favorite app, but it wasn’t long for this world. A new UI element called “backchannel” popped up briefly before disappearing late last week, pointing the Clubhouse ...
Electric Utility Bike Startup Ubco Raises $10 Million To Fund Its Global Expansion
Ubco, the New Zealand-based electric utility bike startup, has raised $10 million to fund a global expansion focused on the U.S. market and scale up its commercial subscription service business. Ubco’s hero product, the Ubco 2X2, is an all-wheel ...
‘Not Equitable And Not Fair.’ How The WHO Plans To Solve Africa’S Desperate Shortage Of COVID-19 Vaccines
(JOHANNESBURG) — The World Health Organization is in talks to create the first-ever technology transfer hub for coronavirus vaccines in South Africa, a move to boost supply to the continent that’s desperately in need of COVID-19 shots, the ...
Twitch Suspends Two Popular Female Creators Over Sexy ASMR Streams
Popular Twitch streamers Amouranth and Indiefoxx are the two latest casualties of Twitch’s ongoing battle to enforce its own confusing rules around sexually suggestive content. Both creators were suspended following ASMR streams that ...
Spielberg’S Amblin Inks Multiyear Feature Film Deal With Netflix
In something of an about-face, Amblin Partners, Steven Spielberg’s long-running film production company, will produce several films per year for Netflix. The deal reflects Netflix’s rising star and arguably acceptance by the legendary ...
Sneaker Community Startup SoleSavy Raises $12.5 Million Series A To Build An End-To-End Sneakersphere
Collectibles boomed during the pandemic and while NFT outfits like NBA Top Shot exploded as consumers flirted with newer efforts, the sneaker world grew even more mature with enthusiasts digging deeper into communities dedicated to the ...
Revolut Revenue Grew By 57% In 2020
Fintech startup Revolut has filed some financial results and is sharing details with the press. In 2020, the company reported $361 million in revenue (£261 million) — that’s a 57% increase compared to 2019 revenue of $229 million (£166 million). ...
Facebook Officially Launches Live Audio Rooms And Podcasts In The US
In April, Facebook announced a series of planned investments in new audio products , including a Clubhouse live audio competitor as well as new support for podcasts. Today, Facebook is officially rolling these products with the launch of Live Audio ...
Buy Now, Pay Later Startup Kredivo Doubles Its Debt Facility From Victory Park Capital To $200m
Kredivo announced today it has secured another $100 million debt facility from Victory Park Capital (VPC). This doubles the Indonesian digital lending and credit platform’s total warehouse financing facility from VPC to $200 million. The first ...
WaitWhat Raises $12m To Double Down On What Comes After Podcasts
As podcasting continues to gain ground among mainstream consumers as a digital media platform alongside music, video, and the printed word, a startup that made a name for itself through building content for the medium has closed a round of funding to ...
Ban Biometric Surveillance In Public To Safeguard Rights, Urge EU Bodies
There have been further calls from EU institutions to outlaw biometric surveillance in public. In a joint opinion published today, the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) and the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) Wojciech Wiewiórowski ...
The Station: Waymo Nabs More Capital, Cruise Taps A $5b Credit Line And Hints About Argo’S Future
The Station is a weekly newsletter dedicated to all things transportation. Sign up here — just click The Station — to receive it every weekend in your inbox . Hello and welcome back to The Station, a weekly newsletter dedicated to all the ways ...
DataRails Books $25m More To Build Better Financial Reporting Tools For SMBs
As enterprise startups continue to target interesting gaps in the market, we’re seeing increasingly sophisticated tools getting built for small and medium businesses — traditionally a tricky segment to sell to, too small for large ...
