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Apple’s ‘Crush’ ad is disgusting The problem is not the media, but the message. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple's 'Crush' ad is disgusting | TechCrunch

With Apple's latest ad, the problem is not the media but the message.

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Infighting among fintech players has caused TabaPay to ‘pull out’ from buying bankrupt Synapse A dust-up between Evolve Bank & Trust, Mercury and Synapse has led TabaPay to abandon its acquisition plans of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. F...

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Infighting among fintech players has caused TabaPay to ‘pull out’ from buying bankrupt Synapse | TechCrunch

TabaPay’s plans to purchase the assets of troubled banking-as-a-service startup Synapse have fallen through.

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Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others The Twitter for Android client was "a demo app that Google had created and gave to us," says Particle co-founder and ex-Twitter employee Sara Beykpour. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For per...

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Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others | TechCrunch

The Twitter for Android client was "a demo app that Google had created and gave to us," says Particle co-founder and ex-Twitter employee Sara Beykp...

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Plinky is an app for you to collect and organize links easily Plinky lets you solve the problem of saving and organizing links from anywhere with a focus on simplicity and customization. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Plinky is an app for you to collect and organize links easily | TechCrunch

Plinky lets you solve the problem of saving and organizing links from anywhere with a focus on simplicity and customization.

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WhatsApp’s latest update streamlines navigation and adds a ‘darker dark mode’ WhatsApp is updating its mobile apps for a fresh and more streamlined look, while also introducing a new “darker dark mode,” the company announced on Thursday. The messaging app says that over the yea...

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WhatsApp's latest update streamlines navigation and adds a ‘darker dark mode’ | TechCrunch

WhatsApp is updating its mobile apps for a fresh and more streamlined look, while also introducing a new “darker dark mode."

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Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States each year, only 3% to 5% of eligible patients enroll ...

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Triomics raises $15M Series A to automate cancer clinical trials matching | TechCrunch

For cancer patients, medicines administered in clinical trials can help save or extend lives. But despite thousands of trials in the United States ...

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Google I/O 2024: How to watch The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google I/O 2024: Watch all of the AI, Android reveals | TechCrunch

The keynote kicks off at 10 a.m. PT on Tuesday and will offer glimpses into the latest versions of Android, Wear OS and Android TV.

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Tesla drives Luminar lidar sales and Motional pauses robotaxi plans Welcome back to TechCrunch Mobility — your central hub for news and insights on the future of transportation. Sign up here for free — just click TechCrunch Mobility! Tap, tap. Mic check. Check 1, 2, 3...

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Tesla drives Luminar lidar sales and Motional pauses robotaxi plans | TechCrunch

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Fika Ventures co-founder Eva Ho will step back from the firm after its current fund is deployed Eva Ho plans to step away from her position as general partner at Fika Ventures, the Los Angeles-based seed firm she co-founded in 2016. Fika told LPs of Ho’s intention to step back after Fund III, th...

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Fika Ventures co-founder Eva Ho will step back from the firm after its current fund is deployed | TechCrunch

Eva Ho will step back from Fika Ventures due to personal reasons but will stay on to finish deploying Fund III.

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Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data is being accessed and used by commercial entities and other par...

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Reddit locks down its public data in new content policy, says use now requires a contract | TechCrunch

The newly announced "Public Content Policy" will now join Reddit's existing privacy policy and content policy to guide how Reddit's data ...

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Amazon’s CTO built a meeting-summarizing app for some reason In a post on Werner Vogels' personal blog, he details Distill, an open-source app he built to transcribe and summarize conference calls. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Amazon's CTO built a meeting-summarizing app for some reason | TechCrunch

Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, makes AI-powered meeting-summarizing apps in his spare time, it seems.

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Dell discloses data breach of customers’ physical addresses Technology giant Dell notified customers on Thursday that it experienced a data breach involving customers’ names and physical addresses. In an email seen by TechCrunch and shared by several people on...

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Dell discloses data breach of customers' physical addresses | TechCrunch

The technology giant refused to say how many customers are affected by its data breach

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Groww joins the first wave of Indian startups moving domiciles back home from US Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back home. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Groww joins the first wave of Indian startups moving domiciles back home from US | TechCrunch

Groww, an Indian investment app, has become one of the first startups from the country to shift its domicile back home.

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Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool When Class founder Michael Chasen was in college, he and a buddy came up with the idea for Blackboard, an online classroom organizational tool. His original company was acquired for $1.64 billion in 2...

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Blackboard founder transforms Zoom add-on designed for teachers into business tool | TechCrunch

Class, the startup that helps teachers make better use of Zoom, announced an add-on today to enhance Zoom for business users.

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Bumble says it’s looking to M&A to drive growth Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Bumble says it's looking to M&A to drive growth | TechCrunch

Dating apps and other social friend-finders are being put on notice: Dating app giant Bumble is looking to make more acquisitions.

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Google I/O 2024: What to expect You can expect plenty of AI, but probably not a lot of hardware. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Google I/O 2024: What to expect | TechCrunch

At Google I/O, its annual developer conference, Google will announce new AI features and possibly a new operating system, but don't expect new...

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Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, Softbank ‘not in’ but DST is Paris-based Mistral AI, a startup working on open source Large Language Models — the building block for generative AI services — has been raising money at a $6 billion valuation, three times its valua...

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Sources: Mistral AI raising at a $6B valuation, SoftBank 'not in' but DST is | TechCrunch

Paris-based Mistral AI, a startup working on open source large language models -- the building block for generative AI services -- has been raising...

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Fairgen ‘boosts’ survey results using synthetic data and AI-generated responses The Israeli startup has raised $5.5M for its platform that uses "statistical AI" to generate synthetic data that it says is as good as the real thing. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For pers...

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Fairgen 'boosts' survey results using synthetic data and AI-generated responses | TechCrunch

The Israeli startup has raised $5.5M for its platform that uses "statistical AI" to generate synthetic data that it says is as good as the real thing.

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Rowing startup Hydrow acquires a majority stake in Speede Fitness as their CEO steps down Hydrow, the at-home rowing machine, announced Thursday that it has acquired a majority stake in Speede Fitness, the company behind the AI-enabled strength training machine. The rowing startup also ann...

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Rowing startup Hydrow acquires a majority stake in Speede Fitness as their CEO steps down | TechCrunch

Hydrow, the at-home rowing machine maker, announced Thursday that it has acquired a majority stake in Speede Fitness, the company behind the AI-ena...

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Retell AI lets companies build ‘voice agents’ to answer phone calls Call centers are embracing automation. There’s debate as to whether that’s a good thing, but it’s happening — and quite possibly accelerating. According to research firm TechSci Research, the global m...

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Retell AI lets companies build 'voice agents' to answer phone calls | TechCrunch

Retell AI, a startup backed by Y Combinator, is developing a platform for creating AI-powered 'voice agents' to answer customer service c...