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South Korean prosecutors request 5-year jail sentence for Samsung chief Jay Lee

South Korean prosecutors sought a five-year prison sentence and a 500 million KRW fine, equivalent to $375,000, for Samsung Electronics Chief Jay Y. Lee at an appeals court on Monday. The appeals case comes 10 months after Lee and 13 … Continue reading

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Raspberry Pi releases the Pico 2 W, a $7 wireless-enabled microcontroller board

Meet the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 W, a tiny board designed around a microcontroller that lets you build hardware projects at scale. Raspberry Pi is once again using the RP2350, its own, well-documented microcontroller. But what is a microcontroller again? … Continue reading

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Entrepreneur Marc Lore on ‘founder mode,’ bad hires, and why avoiding risk is deadly

Entrepreneur Marc Lore has already sold two companies for billions of dollars, collectively. Now he plans to take his food delivery and take-out business Wonder public in a couple of years at an ambitious $40 billion valuation. We talked with … Continue reading

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Apple will never stop thinking about making a TV

It’s not exactly a secret that Apple has explored the possibility of building a television. Before his death in 2011, co-founder Steve Jobs famously told biographer Walter Isaacson that he’d “finally cracked it,” but no full-fledged Apple TV (as opposed … Continue reading

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Australian government drops misinformation bill

The Australian government has withdrawn a bill that would have fined online platforms up to 5 percent of their global revenue if they failed to stop the spread of misinformation. The bill, which was backed by the Labor government, would … Continue reading

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Latin America fintech will be a market to watch in 2025

Heading into 2024, Mike Packer, a partner at fintech-focused QED Investors, predicted we’d hit the bottom for funding to Latin American fintech startups during the year. While momentum wasn’t a straight shot up and to the right, Packer’s prediction may … Continue reading

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Executive assistants, high salaries, and other ways early-stage founders will trigger a seed VC

While most seed investors believe founders should spend their raised cash however they want to, those VCs will still be judging founders’ cash management. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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These alternatives to popular apps can help reclaim your online life from billionaires and surveillance

Not every app or service is trying to monetize your personal data. Here are some of our favorite alternatives to popular apps. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The curious case of Nebius, the publicly traded AI infrastructure ‘startup’

On October 21, a new ticker opened to Nasdaq traders: NBIS, a truncation of Nebius, a fledgling player in the AI cloud infrastructure space. Casual observers could be forgiven for wondering where this company had come from, as there had … Continue reading

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How a digital “you” can sit through your agonizing web conference calls

Now you can appear to be on a Zoom call in your office, even when you’re sipping a margarita in a hammock far, far away. Courtesy of a months-old startup called Pickle, its pitch is simple: just submit a five-minute-long … Continue reading

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