Thursday, August 15, 2024

Franki’s app rewards you for posting video reviews of local restaurants

Franki is a social discovery and video-based review app where users can interact with a community of foodies, discover local dining spots, and create their own videos showing off their favorite restaurants. Franki recently underwent a brand refresh, which included the introduction of a new “Social Club” rewards program. This program rewards creators for posting […]

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Binance restarts services in India after seven-month regulatory halt

Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency exchange, has resumed operations for users in India after a seven-month hiatus imposed by local authorities for alleged illegal operations in the country. The exchange said Thursday it has registered as a reporting entity with India’s Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU), a government agency tasked with scrutinizing financial transactions. India had […]

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Palo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads

Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is getting a lot of grief for a recent trade show event in which two women posed with lampshades on their heads. The debacle — which unflatteringly recalls the CES booth babes of the early ’90s and 2000s — reportedly happened at a happy hour hosted by CyberRisk Collaborative and […]


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Wednesday, August 14, 2024

Video of Eric Schmidt blaming remote work for Google’s woes mysteriously vanishes

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, who has since moved on to greener and perhaps more dangerous pastures, told an audience of Stanford students recently that “Google decided that work-life balance and going home early and working from home was more important than winning.” Evidently this hot take was not for wider consumption, as Stanford — […]

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Meet Black Forest Labs, the startup powering Elon Musk’s unhinged AI image generator

Elon Musk’s Grok released a new AI image-generation feature on Tuesday night that, just like the AI chatbot, has very few safeguards. That means you can generate fake images of Donald Trump smoking marijuana on the Joe Rogan show, for example, and upload it straight to the X platform. But a new startup is the […]

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Palo Alto Networks CEO apologizes for happy hour display featuring women with lampshades on their heads

Cybersecurity giant Palo Alto Networks is getting a lot of grief for a recent trade show event in which two women posed with lampshades on their heads. The debacle — which unflatteringly recalls the CES booth babes of the early ’90s and 2000s — reportedly happened at a happy hour hosted by CyberRisk Collaborative and […]

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Databricks reportedly paid $2 billion in Tabular acquisition

Analytics and AI giant Databricks reportedly paid nearly $2 billion when it acquired Tabular in June, a startup that was only doing $1 million in annual recurring revenue, according to Bloomberg. That’s a pretty outrageous exit multiple, and it was purportedly fueled by a battle between Databricks and Snowflake. Tabular had over $30 million in […]

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Stoke Space’s initial launch plans at Cape Canaveral take shape

Stoke Space is nothing if not ambitious. The five-year-old launch startup has generated a lot of hype due to its bold plans to develop the first fully reusable rocket, with both the booster and second stage vertically returning to Earth.  Those plans got a major boost a year ago, when the U.S. Space Force awarded […]

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Kiteworks captures $456M at a $1B+ valuation to help secure sensitive data

Mark up another unicorn and large funding round for the cybersecurity industry: Kiteworks, a company that builds tools to secure email communications, file sharing, and other situations where people are working with sensitive or proprietary data outside their firewalls, has raised $456 million from Insight Partners and Sixth Street Growth. The investment values the company […]

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The defense tech acquisition spree has begun: Autonomous factory startup Hadrian acquires Datum Source

Hadrian announced they bought Datum Source, a software company founded by SpaceX alums that uses AI to help hardware companies find manufacturing partners.

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India’s top court clears way for Byju’s insolvency proceedings

India’s top court has put on hold a tribunal ruling that halted Byju’s insolvency proceedings in a win for U.S. creditors that are seeking $1 billion from the edtech startup. The Indian Supreme Court ordered on Wednesday a stay on the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal’s recent approval of a settlement between the Indian cricket […]

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