Howbout raises $8M from Goodwater to build a calendar that you can share with your friends
There are plenty of calendar and scheduling apps that take care of your professional life and help you slot in meetings with your teammates and work collaborators. Howbout is all about finding time with your friends to catch up.
The company is banking on the fact that some Gen Z users are very hap
SoftBank-backed Delhivery contests metrics in rival Ecom Express’ IPO filing
Indian logistics firm Delhivery has publicly contested the accuracy of the metrics presented by competitor Ecom Express in its draft initial public offering prospectus, a rare confrontation in the lead-up to the latter’s market debut.
Delhivery, backed by SoftBank and already publicly
Alternative app stores will be allowed on Apple iPad in the EU from September 16
It was a matter of time, but Apple is going to allow third-party app stores on the iPad starting next week, on September 16. This change will occur with the next major release of iPadOS, the operating system specifically designed for the iPad.
The move is related to the European Union's Digita
Three and Vodafone's $19B merger hits the skids as UK rules the deal would adversely impact customers and MVNOs
The U.K.’s antitrust regulator has delivered its provisional ruling in a longstanding battle to combine two of the country’s major telecommunication operators.
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) says that Three and Vodafone’s planned $19 billion merger — announced
XP Health grabs $33M to bring employees more affordable vision care
Antonio Moraes, the grandson of a late prominent Brazilian billionaire, was never interested in joining the family-owned conglomerate of construction companies and a bank. Shortly after graduating from college, he founded one of Brazil’s first impact funds, which invested primarily in compani
Polaris Dawn astronauts perform historic private spacewalk while wearing SpaceX-made suits
A crew of four private astronauts made history in the early hours of Thursday when they opened the hatch of their SpaceX Dragon capsule and conducted the first commercial spacewalk.
The spacewalk, the riskiest part of the five-day Polaris Dawn mission, kicked off at 6:12 a.m. ET when oxygen
Keith Rabois says Miami is still a great place for startups, even as a16z leaves
Keith Rabois, managing director of Khosla Ventures, was having dinner with a “very successful CEO” in October 2018 when the CEO asked him a question: How many people does it take to create a whole new Silicon Valley? Is it 10,000? 100,000?
Rabois didn't know, but he decided to accept the c
Meta is making its AI info label less visible on content edited or modified by AI tools
Meta is changing the way it labels content that has been edited or modified by AI tools on Instagram, Facebook, and Threads. For this type of content, Meta is moving the “AI info” label to the post's menu. In the past, the label would appear directly under the user's name.
The co
Cohost, the X rival founded with an anti-Big Tech manifesto, is running out of money and will shut down
Cohost, a would-be X rival launched to the public in June 2022, is shutting down, the company announced via the social network’s staff account earlier this week. The service had operated much like Twitter, offering users the ability to follow others, view posts in a feed, and like and repost
Shopsense AI lets music fans buy dupes inspired by red-carpet looks at the VMAs
At the MTV Video Music Awards (VMAs) on Wednesday night, new technology allowed fans to shop their favorite artists’ styles as they appeared on the screen.
Though the drama from last night’s event focused on Chappell Roan confronting a rude paparazzi and Sabrina Carpenter‘s onsta
This startup is making manure out of other biogas power plants and now has $62M to play with
Working away on his PhD in Munich only a few years ago, Stephan Herrmann (now a doctor) couldn't have conceived of a time when his idea for a carbon-negative power plant would attract millions in funding. But now, together with Reverion co-founder Felix Fischer, he has a $100 million backlog of
Faraday Future gives CEO and founder raises and bonuses after delivering 13 cars
Faraday Future is doling out big raises and bonuses to its CEO and its founder, despite having delivered just 13 cars in its 10-year history and recently laying off or furloughing the majority of its workforce.
The company announced in a regulatory filing Wednesday that CEO Matthias Aydt’s s
Bolt has quietly settled its lawsuit with Fanatics amid ongoing boardroom drama
Online sports apparel retailer Fanatics has agreed to settle and drop a lawsuit that it filed against troubled one-click payments provider Bolt in March, according to court documents obtained by technewss.
The settlement occurred as Bolt was in the thick of a new gambit to raise a large rou
Why Y Combinator companies are flocking to banking and HR startup Every
Rajeev Behera's new all-in-one HR startup, dubbed Every, is either brilliant or crazy.
Crazy because multi-module HR software that does payroll, onboarding, and spend management for small businesses is already a jam-packed market. Competitors include unicorn startups Gusto, Rippling, and Deel;