Monthly Archives: February 2023

YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki steps down after nine years

The long-serving Google employee is one of the highest-profile females in Silicon Valley.

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Atlassian and Envoy briefly blame each other for data breach

Australian software giant Atlassian and Envoy, a startup that provides workplace management services, were at loggerheads on Thursday over a data breach that exposed the data of thousands of Atlassian employees. As first reported by Cyberscoop, a hacking group known as SiegedSec … Continue reading

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5 product management tips that can help startups thrive in 2023

Alex Lychak Contributor Alex Lychak is head of product at Nebula, an IT company with Ukrainian roots that develops mobile applications and web products. Last year was akin to a ride through hell. Global macroeconomic instability, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, … Continue reading

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Disney’s Hotstar suffers outage in an apparent domain renewal mess

Disney+ Hotstar is suffering an outage for some users in India in the middle of a popular cricket match, drawing flak from customers at a time when the Disney crown jewel is already facing several setbacks in the South Asian … Continue reading

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Autonomous cargo drone airline Dronamics reveals it’s raised $40M, pre-Series A

Autonomous aircraft have long been thought of as having the most potential, though not in the realm of glitzy people-carrying drones so much as the more sedate world of cargo. It’s here where the economic savings could be most significant. … Continue reading

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Co-Creation Hub’s edtech accelerator puts $15M towards African startups

Africa’s largest innovation hub Co-Creation Hub (CcHUB), is launching a $15 million accelerator program, dubbed The Edtech Fellowship Program, to back and support 72 startups across Nigeria and Kenya over the next three years, TechCrunch has learned. According to a … Continue reading

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SEC charges Terraform Labs and founder Do Kwon with defrauding investors

The US Securities and Exchange Commission has charged the collapsed blockchain firm and stablecoin operator Terraform Labs and its founder Do Kwon with defrauding U.S. investors who purchased the digital assets Terra USD and Luna. The US financial regulator accused … Continue reading

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Binance-backed web3 gaming startup Unagi gets funding to expand fantasy sports platform

Web3 gaming company Unagi today announced a €4.7 million ($5 million) seed round of funding, as the French startup prepares to expand its NFT fantasy sports platform beyond football (“soccer”) and into the basketball realm. Unagi, which doesn’t yet have … Continue reading

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Can ‘we the people’ keep AI in check?

Technologist and researcher Aviv Ovadya isn’t sure that generative AI can be governed, but he thinks the most plausible means of keeping it in check might just be entrusting those who will be impacted by AI to collectively decide on … Continue reading

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Here are the features coming to iOS 16.4

Apple released the first developer beta of iOS 16.4 on Thursday and while this update is designed for a small base of users, the iPhone-maker has given us a glimpse of the features to expect when the stable version of … Continue reading

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