You’ve spoken! Meet the Disrupt 2024 breakout session audience choice winners https://ift.tt/xDLoX0B Tech Geeky Hub
Misinformation works, and a handful of social ‘supersharers’ sent 80% of it in 2020 https://ift.tt/xDLoX0B Tech Geeky Hub
Apple’s Design Awards nominees highlight indies and startups, largely ignore AI (except for Arc) https://ift.tt/lgr3X8H Tech Geeky Hub
AI models have favorite numbers, because they think they’re people https://ift.tt/lgr3X8H Tech Geeky Hub
MARS doubles down on India’s Infra.Market with new $50M investment https://ift.tt/C1kg25F Tech Geeky Hub
Cloover wants to speed solar adoption by helping installers finance new sales https://ift.tt/C1kg25F Tech Geeky Hub
Indian EV startup Zypp Electric secures ENEOS backing to fund expansion to Southeast Asia https://ift.tt/cZU7zLV Tech Geeky Hub
A venture capital firm looks back on changing norms, from board seats to backing rival startups https://ift.tt/cZU7zLV Tech Geeky Hub
The ups and downs of investing in Europe, with VCs Saul Klein and Raluca Ragab https://ift.tt/tTpJAMS Tech Geeky Hub
AI tutors are quietly changing how kids in the US study, and the leading apps are from China https://ift.tt/ZRB42AW Tech Geeky Hub
Startups Weekly: Drama at Techstars. Drama in AI. Drama everywhere. https://ift.tt/ZRB42AW Tech Geeky Hub
From Plaid to Figma, here are the startups that are likely — or definitely — not having IPOs this year https://ift.tt/ZRB42AW Tech Geeky Hub
Peter Thiel-founded Valar Ventures raised a $300 million fund, half the size of its last one https://ift.tt/WnDUAr9 Tech Geeky Hub
Farcaster, a crypto-based social network, raised $150M with just 80K daily users https://ift.tt/ckg3ERq Tech Geeky Hub
Microsoft’s new ‘Volumetric Apps’ for Quest headsets extend Windows apps into the 3D space https://ift.tt/ckg3ERq Tech Geeky Hub
The ‘vote Trump’ spam that hit Bluesky in May came from decentralized rival Nostr https://ift.tt/ckg3ERq Tech Geeky Hub
NYC-Dublin real-time video portal reopens with some fixes to prevent inappropriate behavior https://ift.tt/pBsAiWM Tech Geeky Hub
Contour Venture Partners, an early investor in Datadog and Movable Ink, lowers the target for its fifth fund https://ift.tt/pBsAiWM Tech Geeky Hub
SeekOut, a recruiting startup last valued at $1.2 billion, lays off 30% of its workforce https://ift.tt/pBsAiWM Tech Geeky Hub
OpenseedVC, which backs operators in Africa and Europe starting their companies, reaches first close of $10M fund https://ift.tt/7xk09Wm Tech Geeky Hub
Hollywood agency CAA aims to help stars manage their own AI likenesses https://ift.tt/hmYHGwJ Tech Geeky Hub
With AI startups booming, nap pods and Silicon Valley hustle culture are back https://ift.tt/hmYHGwJ Tech Geeky Hub
Adobe comes after indie game emulator Delta for copying its logo https://ift.tt/Wmza5R1 Tech Geeky Hub
Meta’s latest experiment copies BeReal and Snapchat’s core ideas https://ift.tt/Wmza5R1 Tech Geeky Hub
Startups Weekly: It’s the dawning of the age of AI — plus, Musk is raging against the machine https://ift.tt/Wmza5R1 Tech Geeky Hub
IndieBio’s SF incubator lineup is making some wild biotech promises https://ift.tt/Wmza5R1 Tech Geeky Hub
Mark Zuckerberg’s makeover: midlife crisis or carefully crafted rebrand? https://ift.tt/jTdEA0h Tech Geeky Hub
‘Got that boomer!’: How cyber-criminals steal one-time passcodes for SIM swap attacks and raiding bank accounts https://ift.tt/1UyRqkH Tech Geeky Hub
Google partners with Airtel to offer cloud and genAI products to Indian businesses https://ift.tt/1UyRqkH Tech Geeky Hub
Founders Fund leads financing of composites startup Layup Parts https://ift.tt/aZl1gX0 Tech Geeky Hub
VC fund performance is down sharply — but it may have already hit its lowest point https://ift.tt/aZl1gX0 Tech Geeky Hub
Infighting among fintech players has caused TabaPay to ‘pull out’ from buying bankrupt Synapse https://ift.tt/0ZPKkQj Tech Geeky Hub
Google built some of the first social apps for Android, including Twitter and others https://ift.tt/0ZPKkQj Tech Geeky Hub
Axmed raises $2M from Founderful to streamline drug supply chains in underserved markets https://ift.tt/Z0VBbiF Tech Geeky Hub
India’s Oyo, once valued at $10 billion, seeks new funding at 70% discount https://ift.tt/SBNY2QU Tech Geeky Hub
Lucid loses longtime Apple and Intel exec who steered software division https://ift.tt/2roMR3n Tech Geeky Hub
Quora CEO Adam D’Angelo talks about AI, chatbot platform Poe, and why OpenAI is not a competitor https://ift.tt/Slyz4Je Tech Geeky Hub
Sequoia’s Jess Lee explains how early-stage startups can identify product-market fit https://ift.tt/Slyz4Je Tech Geeky Hub
Hyundai antes up $1B for AV startup Motional and Elon unplugs the Tesla Supercharger team https://ift.tt/Slyz4Je Tech Geeky Hub
Alternative clouds are booming as companies seek cheaper access to GPUs https://ift.tt/aGebURJ Tech Geeky Hub
Google lays off workers, Tesla cans its Supercharger team and UnitedHealthcare reveals security lapses https://ift.tt/aGebURJ Tech Geeky Hub
Human composting and timber marketplaces: talking “industrial” VC with investor Dayna Grayson https://ift.tt/aGebURJ Tech Geeky Hub
Alliance DAO is attracting more Asia founders amid US crypto crackdown https://ift.tt/voKgNPB Tech Geeky Hub
Microsoft bans U.S. police departments from using enterprise AI tool https://ift.tt/voKgNPB Tech Geeky Hub
EU plan to force messaging apps to scan for CSAM risks millions of false positives, experts warn https://ift.tt/voKgNPB Tech Geeky Hub
Tiger Global-backed Innovaccer in talks to raise $250M in new funding, sources say https://ift.tt/UONMCe1 Tech Geeky Hub
Google lays off staff from Flutter, Dart and Python teams weeks before its developer conference https://ift.tt/UONMCe1 Tech Geeky Hub
Screenshots suggest TikTok is circumventing Apple App Store commissions https://ift.tt/JBiHIXR Tech Geeky Hub
Twitch’s TikTok-like discovery feed is rolling out to all users https://ift.tt/JBiHIXR Tech Geeky Hub
EU watchdog questions secrecy around lawmakers’ encryption-breaking CSAM scanning proposal https://ift.tt/JBiHIXR Tech Geeky Hub