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Roboadvisor Betterment launches crypto offering with four themed portfolios
Betterment, a roboadvisory platform which manages over $33 billion in assets, has finally launched its crypto offering after completing a private beta phase. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Moon set for November traffic jam as both ispace and NASA target launches
If all goes to plan, Florida’s Space Coast could see two separate lunar missions take off in November. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
OatFi secures capital to power BNPL services for SMBs
The buy now, pay later (BNPL) market was once seen as a bulletproof investment, given the meteoric rise of players like Klarna and Afterpay during the pandemic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Starship partners with Grubhub to bring sidewalk bots to colleges
Autonomous sidewalk delivery robot company Starship Technologies is partnering with food ordering and delivery company Grubhub to provide robotic delivery services on college campuses across the U.S. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Samsung seeks smart TV growth with first Tizen OS licensing deals
Samsung has confirmed the first third-party smart TV makers to ship with its Tizen operating system (OS), with several manufacturers preparing to launch Tizen-powered TVs this year across Europe and Australasia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google removes The OG App from the Play Store as founders think about next steps
Almost a week after Apple removed The OG App from the App Store, an Instagram client that promised to provide an ad-free and suggestion-free feed, Google followed the suit and booted the app off the Play Store.9 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Purple Elephant Ventures, Kenya’s tourism-focused startup studio, raises $1M pre-seed funding
A Kenya-based venture studio with a focus on tourism, Purple Elephant Ventures (PEV), has raised $1 million pre-seed funding to build the next generation of startups that use technology to modernize the tourism sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Twitter nudges you to share the tweet instead of taking a screenshot
Screenshots of tweets are one of the most popular ways to share tweets with friends or post them on your other social media accounts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
UK to probe Inmarsat and Viasat’s $7.3B merger on competition grounds, says it could lead to pricier in-flight Wi-FI
The U.K.’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has announced that the proposed merger between London-based satellite communications company Inmarsat and its U.S. rival Viasat raises potential competition concerns, and plans to launch a full-scale investigation into the deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Uber’s former security chief found guilty of covering up 2016 data breach
Uber’s former head of security has been found guilty of criminal obstruction for attempting cover up a data breach that saw tens of millions of customer and driver records stolen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Party Round’s rebrand is banking on founder bank accounts
Party Round wants you to know that the party isn’t over. In fact, it just rebranded, put the music just a little bit lower, and finally put out some appetizers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
White House proposes voluntary safety and transparency rules around AI
The White House this morning unveiled what it’s colloquially calling an “AI Bill of Rights,” which aims to establish tenets around the ways AI algorithms should be deployed as well as guardrails on their applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
VLC-developer VideoLAN sends legal notice to Indian ministries over ban
VideoLAN, the developer and operator of popular media player VLC, has filed a legal notice to India’s IT and Telecom ministries, alleging that the Indian bodies failed to notify the software developer and did not afford it a chance for an explanation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
App Store experienced sharp revenue drop in September, Morgan Stanley says
Apple’s App Store suffered a 5% year-on-year dip in net revenue in September according to a note from Morgan Stanley analyst Erik Woodring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rivian taps Capital One exec Diane Lye as its first CIO
Rivian has hired Diane Lye as its first chief information officer, a position that the EV maker says is necessary to expand globally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Amazon is launching a dedicated hub for its affordable shopping options
Amazon is launching Amazon Access, a new hub for customers to explore the programs, discounts and features that the online retailer offers for affordable shopping, the company announced on Monday. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Truepill, a digital health unicorn, conducts fourth round of layoffs in 2022
Truepill, a platform that helps other companies offer diagnostics, telehealth services and prescriptions, has conducted its fourth layoff of the year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
YouTube TV users can now subscribe to standalone networks without a base plan
YouTube TV launched a new option that allows subscribers to purchase add-ons without subscribing to the full channel offering in the service’s Base plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fairphone adds fully refurbished handsets to its modular reuse mix
Away from the premium smartphone feature-utility hyperbole swirling around dynamic islands, mobile devices remain much of a muchness. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Square now supports Apple’s Tap to Pay on iPhones
Block, the company behind Square and Cash App, now supports Apple’s Tap to Pay for iPhone feature for merchants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hacker breaches Fast Company systems to send offensive Apple News notifications
U.S. business publication Fast Company has confirmed that a hacker breached its internal systems to send offensive push notifications to Apple News users. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Cionic gets $12.5M to accelerate its assistive mobility wearable
There’s been plenty of excitement on the robotic exoskeleton front in recent years. For the most part, these devices slot into two categories: 1) workplace assistance and 2) mobility assistance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Document onboarding startup Flatfile nabs $50M from investors, including Workday
Data cleansing — prepping data for applications like predictive analytics — takes time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
NASA’s DART anti-asteroid satellite successfully smashes into space rock
NASA has completed a key step of its “Double Asteroid Redirection Test” (DART), smashing a satellite roughly the size of a vending machine into a small moon that’s about half-a-mile in diameter. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apple starts manufacturing iPhone 14 in India
Apple has started assembling the iPhone 14 models in India, it said Monday, locally producing the current lineup for the first time in the same calendar year in the world’s second largest smartphone market as analysts predict a greater shift in the American giant’s future manufacturing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Samsung launches credit card in India
Samsung has launched two credit cards in India, entering a crowded category that sees over 50 companies fiercely compete for consumers’ attention in the world’s second largest internet market. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rad Power Bikes and Cycle pilot consumer e-bike subscriptions
Rad Power Bikes, a popular American e-bike brand that has raised over $300 million in the past two years, will start offering bikes as a subscription service next week. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Breaking Bad creator is making a new show for Apple TV+ with Rhea Seehorn
Apple TV+’s original programming has received a major boost with the company landing a deal with “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul” creator Vince Gilligan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Alibaba Cloud pledges $1B to boost overseas alliance
Alibaba is known for its sprawling e-commerce empire, but like Amazon, cloud service has been a big driver of its revenues in recent years. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Florida escalates the fight over a controversial social media law to the Supreme Court
After an appeals court struck down key portions of a state law designed to prevent social media companies from freely making content moderation decisions, Florida wants the Supreme Court to weigh in. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Berlin’s Kaiko Systems nets €2M to help maritime technical operations go paperless
From healthcare to manufacturing, traditional industries have been getting a digital makeover over the past decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Google is integrating Assistant and Calendar reminders with Tasks
In its latest step of the app cleanup drive, Google is folding in Assistant and Calendar reminders in its Tasks app. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
YouTube’s ‘dislike’ and ‘not interested’ options don’t do much for your recommendations, study says
There is no secret that both viewers and creators are confused by the puzzle that is YouTube’s recommendation algorithm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Slack adds persistent information layer to channels called Canvas
Slack has succeeded in large part in the enterprise by allowing people to communicate in a number of ways while integrating with many common enterprise applications. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
This Mac app makes it easy to create your own AI images with Stable Diffusion
Everyone wants to get in on the AI image generation action, but if you’ve been intimidated by the existing options out there based on Stable Diffusion, including the Midjourney Discord bot, you’re in luck. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Swedish last-mile delivery companies Instabox and Budbee to become Instabee in $1.7B merger
Swedish last-mile delivery companies Instabox and Budbee have have announced plans to merge in a 18 billion krona ($1.7 billion) deal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Autonomous electric truck company Einride rides into Germany
Autonomous and electric truck maker Einride is rolling into Germany, representing its first new market in Europe outside its native Sweden. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
YouTube encourages creators to make Shorts directly from replies
If one short video app has a feature, everyone else has to have it. That’s the rule. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Adobe snaps up Figma for $20B, taking out one of its biggest rivals in digital design
Big news in the world of digital creative tech: Adobe today announced that it would acquire Figma for $20 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Lightyear opens to stocks and ETFs across the UK and Europe
U.K.-based fintech Lightyear is extending its stock-trading offering to include a wide selection of U.K. and European stocks, as well as exchange traded funds (ETF). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Chameleon raises cash to help SaaS companies build better onboarding experiences
Chameleon, a startup providing low- and no-code tools designed to help software companies personalize the appearance of their apps, today announced that it raised $13 million. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
GoPro’s Hero11 gets improved image quality, stabilization and a Mini version
This year marks GoPro’s 20th year. It’s been an interesting journey for a company that has become synonymous with a specific product category for well over a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Hone raises $30M to grow its corporate learning platofrm
One of the co-founders of FanDuel has raised $30 million to fund a startup — Hone — that’s providing a platform for “enterprise-scale,” exec-level learning and development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Ashby lands $21.5M to automate key aspects of recruiting
As hiring remains challenging in an economy where jobs are plentiful (depending on the sector), venture capitalists continue to pump money into HR startups focused on assessing and onboarding candidates. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Roku’s latest update adds short-form video, a universal save list and ‘continue watching’ feature
Alongside its fall hardware update, which included new streaming and audio devices, Roku today unveiled the features it has in store for the next version of its media software, Roku OS 11.5. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Gotham Greens just raised $310M to expand its greenhouses nationwide
That’s not a typo. $310 million, with a zero at the end. This latest round brings Gotham Greens’ total funding up to $440 million since its 2009 launch. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Rocket Lab, Sierra Space sign agreements under US military’s rocket cargo project
Rocket Lab and Sierra Space have signed separate agreements with the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to explore how their respective flight systems — Rocket Lab’s Electron and Neutron rockets, Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser spaceplane — could be used for superfast cargo delivery on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Tesla wants your vote for new Supercharger locations
Tesla said Thursday it is turning to the public to help determine where to locate its next Superchargers as the automaker continues to expand its network of EV fast-charging stations in North America, Europe and Asia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Uber wants court to nullify Kenya’s new ride-hailing law that caps service fee at 18%
Uber has appealed to Kenya’s apex court to annul the new digital taxi-hailing regulations claiming that some aspects are unconstitutional, discriminatory, discouraging to foreign investments, and infringe on its rights and those of its riders and partners. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Bloomingdale’s goes all-in on metaverse with new virtual store
Bloomingdale’s virtual store will initially feature collections from brands like Polo Ralph Lauren, Marc Jacobs, David Yurman, MCM, Byredo and Baccarat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices