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| Happy Wednesday! Haje is enjoying a well-deserved day off, but Iâm here to dive into some news with you. Letâs join hands and jump in at the same time, shall we? â Christine |
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The TechCrunch Top 3 Cloudy day: Googleâs first cloud region in Africa launched in South Africa. Annie and Tage write that this move âallows for the localization of applications and servicesâ and for businesses to more quickly deploy capabilities â for example, artificial intelligence, machine learning and data analytics. Duck, duck, goose: French food tech startup Gourmey took in $48 million of new funding to cook up its slaughter-free and lab-grown foie gras. Romain has more. Show a little more, show a little less: Facebook is testing out a new feature with Reels to let users say how much or how little they want to see of certain things in their feed, Aisha reports. |
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Startups and VC Headline included, I enjoyed Paulâs story today on Whistleblower Software, an aptly named company that took in a $3 million seed round to continue developing its product aimed at making it easier for workers to report corporate wrongdoings. Enjoy five more: Breaker breaker one: Ron writes that Mvmnt, a freight technology startup, is bringing some sophistication to the way shipping brokers do business. And itâs doing it with $20 million in new capital. Supergraphs are super: GraphQL company Apollo has a new offering for enterprises to âallow businesses to integrate data from a wide variety of sources into a single supergraph that developers can then easily use in their applications,â Frederic writes. Perfect model: IriusRisk took in $29 million to help companies automate threat modeling for apps, Kyle reports. Itâs our party â we can rebrand if we want to: Party Round is now Capital as the company looks to expand its offerings into how founders manage their finances, Natasha M writes. Turning green is not a bad thing here: Please enjoy my story on EcoCart, which grabbed $14.5 million of new funding to tell you how you can do more sustainable shopping. |
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| Dear Sophie, Iâm currently on an F-1 student visa. Iâll receive my bachelorâs degree in computer science in December and will apply for OPT. Iâd like to stay and work in the U.S. Do you have any tips for negotiating visa and green card sponsorship? Anything else I should remember as I start contacting prospective employers? â Shy Student Three more from the TC+ team: Should he stay or should he go?: Tim evaluates if the time has come for Elon Musk to step down from one of his many jobs. Do as I say, not as I do: The path to profitability may not be what VCs look for after all, Becca writes. Lasso them tabs: Annie Saunders loves tabs â she even subscribes to newsletters about them â so hereâs her take on one tab startup that helped wrangle them for her, once and for all. TechCrunch+ is our membership program that helps founders and startup teams get ahead of the pack. You can sign up here. Use code âDCâ for a 15% discount on an annual subscription! Read More |
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Big Tech Inc. A cybersecurity incident disrupted business at U.S. hospital chain CommonSpirit Health, causing it to take some of its information technology systems offline, Carly reports. It is not yet known what kind of incident it was or what, if any, personal information was taken in the process. Hereâs five more for you: How we doing?: Itâs been one year since Googleâs $1 billion pledge of support to Africaâs digital economy, and Tage and Annie do a little performance review. M&A action: Spotify acquires Kinzen, a content moderation tech company, in a move that Sarah writes will address platform safety issues. We take your sale and raise you one: Walmart is not letting Amazonâs Prime Early Access Sale get the best of it and is countering with its own sale, Aisha reports. This is only the beginning: Just as Elon Musk announced he was moving forward with the Twitter deal, a judge was granting the social media giant time to do some digging. A lot of twists and turns indeed, as Taylor put it. Also, Alex weighs in on how expensive Elonâs Twitter buy is. Fight, for your right, to partAI: The White House is proposing an AI Bill of Rights, which âmandates that AI systems be proven safe and effective through testing and consultation with stakeholders, in addition to continuous monitoring of the systems in production,â Kyle writes. |
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