India’s Money View is in talks to raise a new round of funding at a unicorn valuation, two sources familiar with the matter told TechCrunch, in a boost to the local fintech community that has been rattled by the central bank’s stringent guidelines and funding crunch in recent months. Apis Partners is deliberating leading a…
Monthly Archives: October 2022
Patrick Pleul/picture alliance via Getty Images Elon Musk may have to pay $44 billion to buy Twitter, but he’s still the richest person in the world. A notorious workaholic, Musk doesn’t spend his money on lavish vacations or expensive hobbies. Here’s how Musk makes and spends his $228 billion fortune. Decades before becoming a father…
Other unspecified categories of apps have also been paused. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Apple has “paused ads related to gambling and a few other categories on App Store product pages” after developers and commentators criticized the types of advertisements showing up in the iPhone’s App Store, according to a statement from…
2050 is an important year for climate tech, with the Paris Agreement calling for emissions to reach net zero by then. In a conversation with GenZero’s Frederick Teo for SOSV’s Climate Tech Summit, we talked about realistic paths to hitting that goal and how startups can tackle what Teo called one of the most existentialist…
Former President Donald Trump speaks during the America First Agenda Summit in Washington D.C, on July 26, 2022. Drew Angerer/Getty Images Trump has tried to block ex-aides from testifying about efforts to overturn the 2020 election. Politico and The New York Times requested secret court documents related to his efforts be unsealed. A federal judge…
Image: Getty Images Toward the end of Meta’s earnings call on Wednesday discussing the company’s results for Q3 2022, CEO Mark Zuckerberg took a moment to address his metaverse doubters. “Look, I get that a lot of people might disagree with this investment, but from what I can tell, I think this is going to…
Enlarge (credit: Aurich Lawson | Tesla | Airplane!) Tesla’s controversial Autopilot driver assist might have just gotten even more controversial. According to Reuters, the company has been under federal criminal investigation since 2021 for misleading people about Autopilot’s capabilities. It’s the latest in a string of state and federal investigations, coming at a time when…
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On today’s quarterly earnings call, Meta founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg was on the defensive when it comes to the company’s investment in the metaverse. Once again, the company lost more than $3 billion dollars to its Reality Labs division this quarter, and Meta’s net income took a big hit. Since rebranding from Facebook to…
We’ve been fans of Boox ereader and tablet devices from Onyx for a while now, especially the Boox Nova Air C, one of our picks for best ereader. The Air C has a color LCD layer on top of the black and white E Ink, but now, the company is pushing its E Ink even…