When it comes to startup valuations, no one seems to expect things to go back to 2021. But better? Who doesn't love that?
Valuation pressure on software startups is easing by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
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Cheaters are an annoying part of almost every online video game. And banning them has become an important routine for game developers and publishers to keep their users happy. The publisher of Escape from Tarkov, a game developed by the Russian company Battlestate Games, has added an unusual twist to the routine: naming and shaming […]
Russian game developer bans and doxes 6,700 cheaters by Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai originally published on TechCrunch
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Another AV company hits the skids, Scout Motors picks a home and Tesla’s tepid investor day by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
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After a slow start in the UK and Europe, open banking is catching on with fintechs, who are using APIs to access banking data and rails and using them as an alternative to traditional credit networks to build products. Now, a UK-based consumer lending service called Abound is doubling down on its ambitions in the […]
Open banking loans platform Abound nabs $601M to supercharge its consumer lending business by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch
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Alerzo, a Nigerian B2B e-commerce platform that digitizes commerce and payments processes between FMCG suppliers and informal retailers, has laid off 15% of its full-time workforce, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. This is the company’s second round of layoffs in seven months. As a first-party e-commerce business, Alerzo had a headcount of more than 2,000 […]
Nigerian B2B e-commerce startup Alerzo cuts 15% of full-time staff in second round of layoffs by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
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Last month, Flutterwave, Africa’s largest startup by private valuation, was involved in a hack that resulted in over ₦2.9 billion (~$4.2 million) missing from its accounts, according to local tech publication Techpoint Africa. According to the documents seen by the publication and reviewed by TechCrunch, unknown actors transferred the funds across 28 accounts in 63 transactions […]
Alleged security breach leaves millions of dollars missing from Flutterwave accounts by Tage Kene-Okafor originally published on TechCrunch
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A business model is the full stack of how your company operates: How you deploy your resources (money and people) to create products and attract and retain paying customers.
If you have more than one business model, you don’t have a business model by Haje Jan Kamps originally published on TechCrunch
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After Salesforce delivered a stellar quarter, will it help get rid of the bevy of activist investors dogging the company?
Will one good quarter appease the activist investors dogging Salesforce? by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
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TGIF, my TechCrunch homies. It’s that time of week again — the time for Week in Review, where we recap the past five days in tech news. As always, lots happened, so let’s dig in sans delay. Well, perhaps with a slight delay. I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention that TechCrunch Early Stage, TechCrunch’s […]
OpenAI launches an API for ChatGPT, a startup attempts a humanoid robot, and Salesforce turns it around by Kyle Wiggers originally published on TechCrunch
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Welcome back to This Week in Apps, the weekly TechCrunch series that recaps the latest in mobile OS news, mobile applications and the overall app economy. The app economy in 2023 hit a few snags, as consumer spending last year dropped for the first time by 2% to $167 billion, according to data.ai’s “State of […]
This Week in Apps: Jack Dorsey-backed Bluesky, social apps’ teen protections, Twitter clients get help by Sarah Perez originally published on TechCrunch
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Welcome to Startups Weekly, a nuanced take on this week’s startup news and trends by Senior Reporter and Equity co-host Natasha Mascarenhas. To get this in your inbox, subscribe here. One of the quieter conversations in venture capital has only grown louder, in my DMs and interviews, over the past few months: The known bias […]
The oh-so-biased branding risk in venture capital by Natasha Mascarenhas originally published on TechCrunch
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With Zoom, Box, Okta and Salesforce reporting this week, we saw mixed results from enterprise SaaS companies operating in a tough environment.
Enterprise SaaS companies continue to navigate a complex economic environment by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
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For Wall Street, what you did last quarter matters, but often what’s ahead can matter even more.
The good news for long-term software growth by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
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