Wednesday, June 19, 2024

Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras

Four years after acquiring Shine, a French fintech startup that offers bank accounts to freelancers and very small companies, Société Générale has announced plans to sell Shine to Ageras. In 2020, TechCrunch reported that Société Générale spent around €100 million to acquire Shine. It wasn’t a huge acquisition but it attracted quite a bit of […]

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The fall of EV startup Fisker: A comprehensive timeline

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Here is a timeline of the events that led fledgling automaker Fisker to file for bankruptcy.

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Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck on reshaping the space economy at Disrupt 2024

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The future of the space industry may look a lot like its past, or so believes Peter Beck, founder and CEO of Rocket Lab. At TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 in San Francisco, he’ll be explaining how full-service, vertically integrated space companies will (again) be the big winners of this evolving space economy. Rocket Lab was started […]

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Société Générale to sell its freelancer challenger bank Shine to Ageras

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UK probes HPE’s planned $14B Juniper Networks acquisition

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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal “phase 1” investigation into Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) planned acquisition of Juniper Networks. The CMA said it’s in the early stages of assessing whether the deal is likely to “result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in the United […]

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Meta AI removes block on election-related queries in India while Google still applying limits

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Meta AI removes restrictions in answering election-related queries in India while Google is still restricting them.

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UK probes HPE’s planned $14B Juniper Networks acquisition

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The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has initiated a formal “phase 1” investigation into Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) planned acquisition of Juniper Networks. The CMA has said that it’s in the early stages of assessing whether the deal is likely to “result in a substantial lessening of competition within any market or markets in […]

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Meta AI removes block on election-related queries in India while Google still applying limits

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Meta AI removes restrictions in answering election-related queries in India while Google is still restricting them.

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How Abridge became one of the most talked about healthcare AI startups

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Ask any of the health-focused VCs to name one of the top AI startups and one name comes up over and over again: a company based in Pittsburgh called Abridge. And it’s a startup that launched before OpenAI was a household name and LLMs entered the common Valley vocabulary. In 2019, Shiv Rao, a practicing […]

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Kilimo helps farmers save water and get paid for it

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Cheap irrigation has transformed many regions around the world into breadbaskets, but it also means that there can be little left for other uses.

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Fisker failed because it wasn’t ready to be a car company

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Two years ago, an employee at Fisker Inc. told me that the most pressing concern inside the EV startup was not whether its Ocean SUV would get built. Fisker was outsourcing the manufacturing of its first EV to highly respected automotive supplier Magna, after all. The startup’s November 2022 start-of-production target was aggressive, but not […]

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Threads finally launches its API for developers

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Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it. Mark Zuckerberg sperately posted about the API launch saying “The Threads API is now widely available and coming to more of you soon.” In a blog post, Threads engineer Jesse Chen said that with the new […]

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SUSE wants a piece of the AI cake, too

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Suse on Tuesday is announcing its AI strategy and SUSE AI solutions, a new vendor- and LLM-agnostic generative AI platform.

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CuspAI raises $30M to create a Gen-AI-driven search engine for new materials

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The company says its platform functions like a search engine for materials, enabling the fast evaluation of a “vast number of novel structures.”

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Threads finally launches its API for developers

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Meta said today that it finally launched its much-awaited API for Threads so developers can build experiences around it. In a blog post, Threads engineer Jesse Chen said that with the new API, developers can publish posts, fetch their own content, and deploy reply management tools. That means developers can let users hide/unhide or respond […]

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