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LinkedIn, now with more than 830 million users, has carved out a place for itself as a hub for the world of professional workers: a social network optimized for people in knowledge and related industries looking for jobs or recruiting to fill job openings; for people to connect with others in their

Another strike against use of Google Analytics in Europe: The Italian data protection authority has found a local web publisher’s use of the popular analytics tool to be non-compliant with EU data protection rules owing to user data being transferred to the U.S. — a country that lacks a

A decade ago, SumUp was one of the army of fintechs that made names for themselves with dongles that turned basic smartphones into card payment terminals. Today, the London-based company has expanded into a wider range of business services that are used by some 4 million small and medium businesses

It’s almost Shakespearean. Juul, the e-cigarette company that took the U.S. by storm five years ago — and which was valued at its peak at $38 billion — is about to get kicked out of the country, according to the WSJ. Per the outlet’s report earlier today, the Food & Drug

MasterClass, an education platform that sells subscriptions to celebrity-taught classes, has cut 20% of its team to “adapt to the worsening macro environment and get to self-sustainability faster,” CEO David Rogier tweeted on Wednesday afternoon. The layoff impacts roughly 120 people across all

OctoML,thewell-fundedmachinelearningstartupthathelpsenterprisesoptimizeanddeploytheirmodels,launchedamajorupdatetoitsproducttodaythatwillmakeitfareasierfordeveloperstointegrateMLmodelsintotheirapplications.Withthisnewrelease,OctoMLcannowtransformMLmodelsintoportablesoftwarefunctionsthatdevelopersca

Venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz announced last week that it closed its third Cultural Leadership Fund (CLF), an investment vehicle led by partner Megan Holston-Alexander. The fund formed four years ago with a mission to explicitly raise money solely from Black investors. As part of the new

Kune Food, a Kenya-based cloud kitchen has closed down today, affecting 90 employees — some of whom were hired as recently as last month. The startup, founded in December 2020 to offer ready-to-eat affordable meals, conducted a trial in Kenya in the early months of 2021 before officially beginnin

Given the dire predictions about the impending (and basically already here) climate crisis, the world can't get enough climate tech funds right to power new innovation that can address the issue. FTSE 250-listed investment firm IP Group has been investing in the area previously but has clearly

Our daily lives are more linked into a globalized grid than ever before. Products are sourced and shipped from afar; traveling to a place 3,000 miles away can be easier than getting across a big city in traffic; and information disseminates to anyone and everyone at the tap of a finger. A startup c

Google News is refreshing its desktop site with a new design that allows you to track global and local news on one screen. The redesign puts Your Briefing, Local news and Top Picks section on a single page in different columns so it’s easier to catch up with news on topics and regions you car

Barack and Michelle Obama are heading to Audible. On Tuesday, the Amazon-owned company announced an exclusive multiyear first-look production deal with the former first couple's Higher Ground media company. The deal comes after it came out that the Obamas and Spotify had decided not to extend t

Germany’s competition regulator is looking into possible abuses related to how Google operates its Maps product. It’s the latest proceeding the Federal Cartel Office (FCO) has opened against Google — with earlier (ongoing) investigations into the tech giant’s News Showcase l

Sales and marketing has seen a huge boom in the last several years, fueled by developments in user experience and design, innovations around how companies can parse and leverage big data analytics to understand more about their target audiences and tech to connect with them effectively. That’