Monthly Archives: January 2023

India to spend $320 million to promote homegrown payments network

India will spend nearly $320 million to promote cards on RuPay and for low-value UPI transactions, the latest in a series of moves by New Delhi to fuel the growth of its homegrown payments network. New Delhi approved a plan … Continue reading

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OpenAI begins piloting ChatGPT Professional, a premium version of its viral chatbot

OpenAI this week signaled it’ll soon begin charging for ChatGPT, its viral AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code. In an announcement on the company’s official Discord server, OpenAI said that it’s “starting to think … Continue reading

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Inflow, a platform for managing ADHD through cognitive behavioral therapy, raises $11M

Inflow, a company developing a platform to manage ADHD using cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) techniques, has raised $11 million in a Series A round of funding. ADHD, or “attention deficit hyperactivity disorder,” is a condition impacting as much as 10% … Continue reading

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Twitter makes algorithmic timeline default on iOS

Twitter is making the algorithmic timeline named “For You” the default feed on iOS. If you are getting a sense of déjà vu, you are not dreaming. The company has tried to pull this stunt previously only to give the … Continue reading

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Hack the Box, a gamified cybersecurity training platform with 1.7M users, raises $55M

There’s long existed a divide in the world of computer hacking between those who are taking a malicious approach to crack a system, and those who are using the same techniques to understand the system’s vulnerabilities, help fix them, and … Continue reading

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Global spending on mobile games falls 5% as high inflation causes market to cool

Mobile game spending fell 5% last year, to $110 billion, according to Data.ai. Nevertheless, downloads rose 8% to a record 90 billion.

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Kleiner Perkins-backed Vylo thinks the future of news is video commentary

TikTok has revolutionized the way people consume and share information. Now a startup called Vylo wants to take the short video format a step further and lets users share their thoughts about sports, current affairs, and other categories of news … Continue reading

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Project Eaden’s fiber technology poised to spin threads into whole cuts of ‘meat’

Project Eaden, a Berlin-based food technology company, believes it has cracked the code for producing whole cuts of plant-based meat alternatives using a proprietary fiber spinning technology. Investors think so too, adding €2.1 million (about $2.3 million) of additional funding … Continue reading

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Carta, previously sued for gender discrimination, is now suing its former CTO

Carta, the 10-year-old, San Francisco-based outfit whose core business is selling software to investors to track their portfolios, has sued its former CTO, Jerry Talton, who the company says was fired “for cause” almost three weeks ago, on Friday, December … Continue reading

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Which tech companies make Glassdoor’s 2023 Best Places to Work list?

There are 41 tech companies on this list of Employees’ Choice Award winners, including a technology giant that has received this honor every year for the past 15 years. The post Which tech companies make Glassdoor’s 2023 Best Places to … Continue reading

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