Facebook launches Facebook Business Suite, an app for managing business accounts across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger
Facebook this morning launched a new app designed to make it easier for businesses to manage in a single place their pages and profiles across Facebook, Instagram and Messenger. The app, Facebook Business Suite, combines access to the business’s key updates and priorities, and offers a way to
Here's what's happening at Disrupt 2020 today
Rise, shine and build your business startup fans. It's day four of Disrupt 2020, and this is your daily snapshot of just some of the heavy-hitters, events, breakout sessions and all-around opportunity that's yours for the taking.
Looking for the complete lineup? You'll find it in the Di
Darkstore launches FastAF app for same-day product delivery
Darkstore, the tech-driven fulfillment solution to enable e-commerce companies to offer same-day delivery, has just released a consumer-facing app called FastAF. Right now, the app is only available in Los Angeles.
FastAF is built on top of Darkstore, which already has relationships with a number o
APAC cloud infrastructure revenue reaches $9B in Q2 with Amazon leading the way
When you look at the Asia-Pacific (APAC) regional cloud infrastructure numbers, it would be easy to think that one of the Chinese cloud giants, particularly Alibaba, would be the leader in that geography, but new numbers from Synergy Research show Amazon leading across the region overall, which gen
Amazon’s first five climate fund investments include Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s startup Redwood Materials
Redwood Materials, the recycling startup founded by Tesla’s longtime CTO and co-founder JB Straubel, has landed Amazon as a new investor and customer.
Amazon’s investment in Redwood Materials is one of a handful announced Thursday that stems from the e-commerce giant’s $2 billion
Superhuman’s Rahul Vohra asks 6 VCs how to raise funding when the sky is falling
When I wrote about how to run your startup in a downturn, the world was on the brink of recession. The economy contracted sharply — and the effects of the 2020 recession will persist.
If you are a founder, you can help. You can build companies that connect people, create employment and spark last
X1 Card is a credit card based on your income, not your credit score
There are many reasons why you could have a good or a bad credit score. But if you're just entering the job market, you may end up with reliable income and a low limit on your credit card. X1 Card wants to solve that by setting limits based on your current and future income instead of your cred
A closer look at the new Apple Watches
I'm very much still working on a full review of the new Apple Watches — specifically the Series 6. As of this posting, I've had the wearables in my possession (and on my person) for a little under 24 hours. It's a special circumstance attributable to the virtual nature of this week
Alternative protein companies have raised a whopping $1.5 billion through July of this year
"speakable-summary" dir="ltr">Companies like Perfect Day, Impossible Foods and a host of other startups that are developing replacements for animal-farmed goods used in food, clothes, cosmetics and chemicals have raised a whopping $1.5 billion through the first half of the year.
That’s accordi
Ansa Biotechnologies wants to usher in a new era of DNA manufacturing
Daniel Arlow has spent the last eighteen years studying genomics and synthetic biology. The arc of his career has taken the first-time founder of the new startup Ansa Biotechnologies from MIT to the famous Keasling Lab at the University of California at Berkeley and now to the world of startups.
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Connected fitness startup Tonal raises another $110 million
Connected home fitness startup Tonal announced today that it has raised an additional $110 million. The latest round of funding includes existing investor L Catterton and new names, including Delta-v Capital, Amazon's Alexa Fund and Mousse Partners, along with athletes Stephen Curry, Paul Georg
Supercell’s CEO talks about its majority owner Tencent, finding its next hit and more
Mobile games maker Supercell has been one of the great, understated breakthroughs of the European startup world. The Helsinki-based mobile games maker built an empire out of Clash of Clans, raking in tons of money and catching the eye of world-class investors and eventually a new strategic majority
A conversation with Tunde Kehinde of Lidya on finance and the digital divide
Small and medium businesses have been some of the hardest hit in the COVID-19 pandemic. And all that has been as true in emerging markets as it has been for SMBs in the developed world.
Tunde Kehinde has had a front-row seat witnessing and responding to that crisis. He’s the CEO and co-founde
SmartNews’ Kaisei Hamamoto on how the app deals with media polarization
Six years ago, SmartNews took on a major challenge. After launching in Japan in 2012, the news discovery app decided that its first international market would be the United States. During Disrupt 2020, co-founder Kaisei Hamamoto talked about how SmartNews adapts its app for two very different marke