The animated VTuber Ironmouse won Content Creator of the Year at the Game Awards
This year at the Game Awards, the coveted Content Creator of the Year award went to Ironmouse, a fan-favorite VTuber. It marks the first time that...
Secondaries investors tell us what’s hot heading into 2024
Since the market corrected in 2022, late-stage funding rounds have been few and far between. It’s been hard to predict what is still attractive to investors...
Bitcoin continues climbing, Block releases hardware wallet, Robinhood expands to EU and VCs may...
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With its second app, Amo wants to make photo-sharing as simple taking a photo
Less than three weeks ago, French startup Amo released ID. As I hinted in my article covering this much-anticipated launch, ID was Amo’s first idea. Today,...
UK’s CMA is looking at whether Microsoft and OpenAI tie-up is a ‘relevant merger’
The whirlwind management drama at OpenAI last month ended with co-founder Sam Altman reinstated within a week of his surprise dismissal and a much bigger role...
Threads is rolling out its hashtags without the hash symbol globally
Meta’s social network Threads got a major update Thursday as the company started rolling out tags (without the hash symbol) on the platform. Users will be...
India’s top VCs face fresh obstacles as startup investment plummets
High-flying venture investors in India managing hundreds of millions of dollars are tempering expectations, making early-stage startup bets that in best-case scenarios they hope will return...
ContactMonkey lands $55M investment to grow its email software for internal comms
Email is quite profitable, as it turns out. Or rather, email communications software is.
Today, Toronto-based ContactMonkey, a platform that lets companies create, send and track internal...
Amazon is piloting a new $9.99 monthly grocery subscription for Prime members in three...
But, Prime members didn’t always have to pay for Fresh deliveries on orders above $35. Amazon started charging delivery fees for Fresh grocery orders that are under...
Backed by Cresta founders, Trove’s AI wants to make surveys fun again
Surveys have become an integral part of many aspects of our lives, but most of them are tedious, leading to ineffective responses and actions. Dinghan Shen...