Monday, April 3, 2023

Quantexa raises $129M at a $1.8B valuation to help navigate online fraud and customer data management

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Financial fraud and other online crime continue to present major threats to businesses, and they remain a key focus for regulators requiring more rigorous efforts to keep illicit activity at bay. Now, London-based Quantexa — one of the big startups providing AI and other tools to major banks and others in financial services, governments and […]

Quantexa raises $129M at a $1.8B valuation to help navigate online fraud and customer data management by Ingrid Lunden originally published on TechCrunch

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Black former Tesla worker payout for racial bias slashed from $15M to $3.2M

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Owen Diaz, the Black former elevator operator at Tesla’s Fremont factory, has seen his payout in a racial bias lawsuit slashed from $15 million to $3.2 million. Monday’s verdict from a federal jury in San Francisco came after a week-long trial, in which Tesla was once again found to have failed to prevent severe racial […]

Black former Tesla worker payout for racial bias slashed from $15M to $3.2M by Rebecca Bellan originally published on TechCrunch

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Daily Crunch: Patreon rival Fanfix projects paying creators $50M by end of 2023

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Hello, friends, and welcome to Daily Crunch, bringing you the most important startup, tech and venture capital news in a single package.

Daily Crunch: Patreon rival Fanfix projects paying creators $50M by end of 2023 by Christine Hall originally published on TechCrunch

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Should you post that you’re #OpenToWork? A tale of two labor markets.

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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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Report: Klaviyo to IPO later this year

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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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Twitter’s new dog icon is sending dogecoin — sigh — to the moon

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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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AirTree backs generative AI content creation and management platform Narrato

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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

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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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Tencent backs Singapore’s Horizon Quantum Computing in $18M round

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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’s new label makes it hard to differentiate between legacy and paid verified accounts

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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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Sunday, April 2, 2023

Paris votes overwhelmingly to ban shared e-scooters

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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 Q1 deliveries beat expectations as China helps boost sales

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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

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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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