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Daily Crunch: Patreon rival Fanfix projects paying creators $50M by end of 2023 by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch
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In this issue of Max Q: Isar Aerospace's new funding; Boeing's Starliner crew flight test delayed again; News from Virgin Orbit, and more
Max Q: The Starliners are not aligned by Aria Alamalhodaei originally published on TechCrunch
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We compared pass/fail rates in our users’ mock interviews with whether users marked themselves as OpenToWork on their LinkedIns. Here are the results.
Should you post that you’re #OpenToWork? A tale of two labor markets. by Jenna Routenberg originally published on TechCrunch
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As the stock market cooled last year, it led to a dearth of startup IPOs. That could be about to change. The Wall Street Journal reports that Klaviyo, the Boston-based marketing automation startup that has raised over $775 million, is going to pull the trigger later this year. If it’s true that the company has […]
Report: Klaviyo to IPO later this year by Ron Miller originally published on TechCrunch
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Today Twitter users are noticing that an image of a dog has been added to a place of prominence. You can see it for yourself on Twitter.com, where you will be greeted with a pup: The particular dog image — a shiba inu — corresponds with the logo of the dogecoin blockchain and cryptocurrency. Normally […]
Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon by Alex Wilhelm originally published on TechCrunch
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Generative AI is hot among venture capital firms now, with $4.5 billion invested in 2022. Narrato, a AI content creation and collaboration platform, announced today it has joined the ranks of other generative AI startups with VC funding. Based in San Francisco, Narrato raised a $1 million pre-seed round led by AirTree Ventures, the Australian […]
AirTree backs generative AI content creation and management platform Narrato by Catherine Shu originally published on TechCrunch
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Spotify is shutting down its live-audio app Spotify Live, a spokesperson for the company confirmed to TechCrunch on Monday. The company says it will continue to explore live features on its main platform. The news was first reported by Music Ally. “After a period of experimentation and learnings around how Spotify users interact with live audio, […]
Spotify is shutting down its live audio app Spotify Live by Aisha Malik originally published on TechCrunch
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Quantum computers have the potential to carry out highly complicated calculations in minutes that would have taken classical computers thousands of years to work out. But much of the industry is still in its infancy, partly because of a lack of domain experts and software tools that match the progress of quantum hardware. Now companies […]
Tencent backs Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing in $18M round by Rita Liao originally published on TechCrunch
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Twitter was supposed to ceremoniously remove legacy verification checkmarks on April 1. While it appears to have put those plans on hold for now, the Elon Musk-led social network has revised the label attached to the check mark to make it virtually impossible to differentiate between those who earned it and all who paid for it. […]
Twitter’s new label makes it hard to differentiate between legacy and paid verified accounts by Ivan Mehta originally published on TechCrunch
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In a major blow to shared micromobility companies Lime, Dott and Tier, Paris has voted to ban rental e-scooters from their streets. Many in the industry fear the move in Paris, where free-floating scooters initially took off in 2018, will have ripple effects in other cities. Paris has been one of the most heavily regulated […]
Paris votes overwhelmingly to ban shared e-scooters by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
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Tesla said Sunday it delivered 422,875 electric vehicles in the first quarter of 2023, just beating Wall Street estimates of around 420,000 units. The company produced 440,808 vehicles in the same period. The delivery and production numbers are record results for the EV maker. In the fourth quarter of 2022, Tesla delivered 405,278 and produced […]
Tesla Q1 deliveries beat expectations as China helps boost sales by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch
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Lyft hails new leadership, layoffs come for Lucid and Waymo retires its self-driving minivan by Kirsten Korosec originally published on TechCrunch
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You can spend a lot of time searching for something, but if you’re looking in the wrong places, you’ll never find it.
How you invest your time is just as important as how you invest your money by Jenna Routenberg originally published on TechCrunch
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