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Hello, and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Mary Ann, Natasha and Alex enjoyed the warming climate and the fact that there are some positive vibes in the venture market as well. Hell, we even had a nine-figure […]
If there was any question as to whether the Biden administration is serious about the electrification of the U.S. economy, this week’s announcement of new automotive emissions regulations should put that to rest — along with any doubts investors have about where they should direct their investments. The Environmental Protection Agency is proposing new rules […]
Zoom today announced plans to acquire Workvivo, a six-year-old Irish startup focused on improving companies’ internal communications and culture. Terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. While many enterprise communication tools — such as Zoom — specialize in real-time communication, Workvivo is very much about the asynchronous. The platform is less about project-specific collaboration than it […]
Financial Times: Sources: the European parliament is close to finalizing tough new measures on AI, including forcing chatbot makers to reveal use of copyrighted material — Proposals include requiring chatbot makers to reveal if they are using copyrighted material — The European parliament is preparing tough … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/ADW1INg
Callie Holtermann / New York Times: BeReal struggles to retain users as some find its authenticity monotonous; Apptopia: the app’s daily users dropped to under 6M in March from ~15M in October — BeReal was pitched as Gen Z’s safe haven from the artifice of social media. For some, authenticity only proved interesting for so […]
Emerging managers have been on the same rollercoaster as startups for the last few years. Funding to these young firms swelled in 2021 as venture was hot overall, but in line with the broader market, fundraising has slowed to a trickle since the beginning of 2022. The trend continued into 2023. New data from PitchBook […]
Spotify is closing down Heardle, the Wordle-inspired music guessing game it acquired last July for an undisclosed sum. Similar to Wordle, Heardle offers players six tries to guess a popular song — but instead of typing in different letters to form words, players listen to a song’s intro to guess the artist and title. At […]
Sheila Dang / Reuters: Sensor Tower: Twitter’s top 50 advertisers spent a combined $83M over the past two months, down from $102M YoY; Mars, AT&T, and Volkswagen haven’t returned — Twitter-owner Elon Musk has said advertisers are returning to the social media platform, but statements from several companies … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/MaE9b7J
Richard Waters / Financial Times: Intel faces huge challenges in revitalizing its business, meaning a central piece of US industrial policy rests on one of the most complex tech turnarounds ever — Once the leading player in the semiconductor industry, the company is attempting to pull off one of tech’s most complex turnrounds from Techmeme […]
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch: Denver-based Elevate, which provides a dashboard for managing employee benefits, raised $28M led by Anthemis, bringing its total funding to $43M — Elevate, a consumer benefits administration platform, today announced that it raised $28 million in a funding round led by Anthemis with participation … from Techmeme https://ift.tt/W4Vprue
Sarah E. Needleman / Wall Street Journal: Parlement Technologies agrees to sell right-wing social network Parler to Starboard, which will take temporarily shut down Parler ahead of a planned relaunch — Social network popular with conservatives will be sold for an undisclosed amount and overhauled for a relaunch from Techmeme https://ift.tt/YDLvyuf
A shiny new data transfers deal between the European Union and the United States aimed at fixing costly legal uncertainty over exports of personal data isn’t in place yet but the European Parliament’s civil liberties committee is predicting the incoming EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF) won’t survive a legal challenge — just as its two […]
Apple has signed a multi-year deal with Canal+, a leading French premium television channel and streaming service. Starting on April 20, all existing and future Canal+ subscribers in France and some other European countries will be able to stream Apple TV+ content for no additional cost. This is an odd deal as Canal+ isn’t just […]
Meta’s main content review partners in Africa have been restrained from offering moderation services to the social media giant, and it is unclear who is currently reviewing its platforms in sub-Saharan Africa. Moderators sift through social media posts on Meta’s platforms to remove content that perpetrates and perpetuates hate, misinformation and violence. Interim injunctions by […]
[IPS] United Nations — The United Nations defines human rights as “rights inherent to all human beings, regardless of race, sex, nationality, ethnicity, language, religion, or any other status”. from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/bejDLxA
[Ghanaian Times] To commemorate the 50th anniversary of mobile telecommunications, Vodafone Ghana is urging all stakeholders in the industry to collaborate in promoting the adoption of the Internet of Things (IoT) to shape the country’s digital future. from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/ObPylcG
Emily Parker / CoinDesk: A look at the impact of TerraUSD and FTX’s collapse on the South Korean crypto industry, as Korean media reports the TerraUSD project had ~200,000 local victims — The collapse of Terra continues to reverberate in Do Kwon’s homeland, but there are signs of progress, CoinDesk’s Emily Parker reports. from Techmeme […]
[GhanaToday] As part of the initiatives to improve service delivery, the Public Sector Reform Secretariat (PSRS) and the Office of the Senior Presidential Advisor (OSPA) have presented ICT equipment and its accessories to the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Authority (DVLA). from AllAfrica News: ICT and Telecom https://ift.tt/glF1hPn
James Murdoch’s venture fund Bodhi Tree slashed its planned investment into Viacom18 to $528 million, down 70% from the committed $1.78 billion, the two said late Thursday as the global weakening economy hammers investors’ appetite. Viacom18, a joint venture between Mukesh Ambani’s Reliance and Paramount Global, did not say why Bodhi Tree slashed its pledged […]
European accelerators are going through an interesting time right now. For instance, TechStars Stockholm was all set to launch and then abruptly shut down. And I think it’s now commonly accepted that most accelerators outside of YCombinator can too be often ‘less than adequate’, to put it diplomatically. Perhaps an exception to this oft-repeated phrase, […]