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Stripe acquires payment processing startup Lemon Squeezy

2024-07-27 04:55:44

Payments giant Stripe has acquired a four-year-old competitor, Lemon Squeezy, the latter company announced Friday. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. As a merchant of record, Lemon Squeezy calculates and pays global sales tax for digital products, handling legal processing and fees in every country. It primarily serves SaaS and software businesses. In a […]

Apple reports iCloud Private Relay global outages for some users

2024-07-27 03:55:55

iCloud Private Relay has not been working for some Apple users across major markets, including the U.S., Europe, India and Japan.

Legal tech, VC brawls and saying no to big offers

2024-07-27 03:03:00

Welcome to Startups Weekly — your weekly recap of everything you can’t miss from the world of startups. To get Startups Weekly in your inbox every Friday, sign up here. This week we are talking about Wiz’s bold decision, VC’s public feud, legal tech’s new capital and a16z’s close call. Let’s go! Most interesting startup stories […]

Apple signs the White House’s commitment to AI safety

2024-07-27 01:45:39

Apple joins 15 other tech companies — including Google, Meta, Microsoft and OpenAI — that committed to the White House's rules for developing generative AI.

Privacy watchdog says it’s ‘surprised’ by Elon Musk opting user data into Grok AI training

2024-07-27 01:34:46

The language is ambiguous, so it's not clear whether X is helping itself to all user data for training Grok or whether this processing refers only to user interactions with the chatbot.

TikTok rolls out a new feature that lets you find songs by singing or humming them

2024-07-27 00:51:06

Sound Search on TikTok is somewhat similar to YouTube Music’s song detection tool that lets you find the name of a song by singing, humming or playing it.

Alphabet X spinoff partners with Arc’teryx to bring ‘everyday’ exoskeleton to market

2024-07-27 00:26:46

Skip, a wearable tech startup that began as a secretive project inside Alphabet, exited stealth this week to announce a partnership with outdoor clothing specialist Arc’teryx. The deal is the first to bring Skip’s technology to market: “powered pants” that utilize a soft exoskeleton. The tech, called MO/GO, short for “mountain goat,” is a hybrid […]

TechCrunch Minute: Microsoft brings more generative AI to Bing

2024-07-27 00:00:00

Bing is the latest search engine to introduce generative AI into its results, with Microsoft announcing that it’s making Bing generative search available to a small percentage of users. The goal is to give those users the answers they want right in their search results, potentially synthesizing information that they’d otherwise have to click through […]

Ledger launches Ledger Flex, a mid-range hardware crypto wallet

2024-07-26 23:15:00

Ledger, a French startup mostly known for its secure crypto hardware wallets, has launched a new mid-range device, the Ledger Flex. Available now, priced at $249, the dinky hardware wallet features an E-Ink display to navigate the interface and approve transactions with a tap. Like all of Ledger’s wallets, the Ledger Flex is built around […]

Here’s how to disable X (Twitter) from using your data to train its Grok AI

2024-07-26 22:00:44

The good news is that you can switch off the new data-sharing setting and also delete your conversation history with the AI.

SpaceX cleared to resume Falcon 9 launches while FAA investigation remains open

2024-07-26 21:48:41

Regulators gave SpaceX the all-clear to return to launch two weeks after the Falcon 9 rocket experienced an anomaly on orbit.

Digital marketing startup Plaiced has acquired Precursor Ventures-backed Clutch

2024-07-26 20:00:00

Madison Long and Simone May founded Clutch in 2020 to help connect people to businesses looking for marketing and content creation.

ZeroTier raises $13.5M to help avert CrowdStrike-like network problems

2024-07-26 19:26:31

With the CrowdStrike update continuing to cause havoc across the planet, a startup has raised $13.5 million to at least improve some level of security for the kinds of devices that have been affected. California-based ZeroTier raised the Series A in a funding round led by Battery Ventures. While legacy companies like Cisco or Palo […]

Apple cuts iPhone price in India amid China slowdown

2024-07-26 18:58:21

Apple has reduced prices of its iPhone models in India by 3-4% following a cut in import duties in the South Asian market.

Egypt’s MNT-Halan banks $157.5M, gobbles up a fintech in Turkey to expand

2024-07-26 15:31:39

MNT-Halan, a fintech unicorn out of Egypt, is on a consolidation march. The microfinance and payments startup has raised $157.5 million in funding and is using the money in part to fund the acquisition of another fintech, Tam Finans, to expand into Turkey. Tam Finans provides financing to micro-enterprises and SMEs. It currently operates 39 […]

Energy tech startup Greenely grabs €8M to reach more households and support Europe’s energy transition

2024-07-26 15:00:00

The energy transition is a marathon, not a sprint. But opportunities for acceleration are growing. Swedish startup Greenely* has just spotted one. It’s closing an €8 million Series A funding round to expand its energy management platform into neighbouring Nordic countries (so around $8.7M at current exchange rates). The energy tech startup is serving around […]

Luxury fashion startup The Floorr empowers personal stylists with tools to grow their businesses

2024-07-26 04:16:08

The Floorr offers tools for conducting sales, hosting tailored styling sessions, creating mood boards, and engaging in text or voice chats with clients, all in one place.

Here’s why David Sacks, Paul Graham and other big Silicon Valley names had a brawl on X over VC behavior

2024-07-26 03:59:16

A decade-old drama involving VC David Sacks and Rippling founder Parker Conrad has blown up on X with many among the Silicon Valley elite taking sides.

ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot

2024-07-26 03:45:00

ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into […]

Applied Intuition closes $300M secondary four months after raising $250M

2024-07-26 03:16:24

Autonomous vehicle software startup Applied Intuition has closed a $300 million secondary sale just four months after raising a $250 million Series E round, yet another sign of how white-hot the investment scene is for artificial intelligence companies. The secondary round adds Fidelity Management & Research Company to an already-stacked lineup of investors in the […]

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