Network your way to opportunity at TC Sessions: SaaS 2021
TC Sessions: SaaS 2021 kicks off in just five days on October 27. Attendees from around the globe will be in the virtual room ready to connect with founders, investors, engineers and journalists. Are you ready to take advantage of every networking opportunity to build a stronger SaaS-based startup?
Twitter rolls out the ability for anyone to host a Space
After steadily expanding access over the course of the year, Twitter announced today its audio chatroom feature known as Twitter Spaces is now open to anyone who wants to host a Space across iOS and Android. Earlier this year, the company had limited access to hosting Spaces to accounts with at lea
Lessons from founders raising their first round in a bull market
For Manu Bansal, founder of Lightup.ai, raising a seed round from a16z was not a very difficult journey. His previous company, Uhana, launched in 2016, was backed by NEA and had been acquired by VMWare in three years.
So he had demonstrated ability when it came to not just building a product, but b
Amazon rolls out in-store pickup for products ordered from local retailers
Amazon is rolling out “Local Selling,” a set of services that allow local and regional retailers to offer both in-store pickup and fast delivery to nearby customers.
With this new option, sellers can offer in-store pickup for products and services to shoppers in specific ZIP codes. In s
Surface Duo 2 review: Getting better
If challenging the status quo was easy, we'd see a lot more of it. In the world of smartphones, this means daring to think outside the rectangle, a form factor that has been the default for more than a decade and a half. Slowly but surely amid stagnant smartphone sales, companies have been test
The climate policies tucked into Congress' budget package are signals to investors
The climate measures in the budget reconciliation package now before the U.S. Congress could unlock an investment boom in clean energy, zero-carbon transportation and efficient manufacturing that would allow us, as a nation, to reverse the course of rising greenhouse gas emissions that threaten our
Netflix employees stage a trans solidarity walkout, pose list of demands
Netflix employees staged a walkout yesterday in response to the company’s handling of a Dave Chappelle special that premiered on October 5. At the same time, Los Angeles-based trans activist Ashlee Marie Preston hosted a rally in solidarity with Netflix workers participating in the walkout. N
Google launches a bug bounty program for Android Enterprise
Android 12 is now officially avaable for Google’s Pixel phones and wl slowly roll out to others in the coming months. Chances are, you think of Android as a consumer product, but over the course of the last few years, Google has put a lot of work into making it an enterprise tool, too. ItR
Inside a European push to outlaw creepy ads
European Union lawmakers are mobilizing support for a ban on tracking-based advertising to be added to a new set of Internet rules for the bloc — which were proposed at the back end of last year but are now entering the last stretch of negotiations ahead of becoming pan-EU law.
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Find out what it takes to make smart early bets in the space industry at TC Sessions: Space 2021
The space industry is bustling with commercial and private industry activity, and new startups are entering the fray all the time. But which are the ones to back, and how can you tell? There’s no definite answer, but at TC Sessions: Space 2021 this December, we’ll have some of the best
FIN7 hackers set up a fake company to recruit for cyberattacks
"speakable-summary" style="text-align: left;">FIN7, a financially motivated Russian hacking group, has set up a fake company to lure unwitting IT specialists into supporting its continued expansion into ransomware, security researchers have found.
According to researchers at Recorded Future’s
Google lowers Play Store fees to 15% on subscription apps, as low as 10% for media apps
Google is lowering commissions on all subscription-based businesses on the Google Play Store, the company announced today. Previously, the company had followed Apple’s move by reducing commissions from 30% to 15% on the first $1 million of developer earnings. Now, it will lower the fees speci
Register today for the iMerit ML DataOps Summit
You know the expression “garbage in, garbage out,” right? There's absolutely no place in artificial intelligence or machine learning for bad data, and that's just one reason technewss is thrilled to announce the iMerit ML DataOps Summit, in partnership with iMerit, on December 2, 2021.
NFT sci-fi card game Parallel raises at $500M valuation from Paradigm
It’s no secret that NFTs have been a hot space for crypto speculators in the Ethereum ecosystem to diversify their holdings, and whe some see a golden opportunity to shl bad art to suckers, others believe that NFT-based gaming is destined for the mainstream and that products that na the mecha