Carta is making it too difficult to cancel subscriptions, some founders say

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Cap table management firm Carta is under fire from some founders who say cancelling their subscriptions is too hard.
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Tesla’s loss is Zoox’s gain

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Zoox co-founder and CTO Jesse Levinson told the crowd at TechCrunch Disrupt 2024 that he didn’t think Tesla would launch a robotaxi ride-hailing service in California (or anywhere else) next year, despite what Elon Musk had claimed. The “fundamental issue is they don’t have technology that works,” he said at the time. But it seems that […]
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Google Launches Gemini 2.0 with Autonomous Tool Linking

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Gemini 2.0 Flash is available now, with other model sizes coming in January. It adds multilingual voice output, image output, and some trendy “agentic” capabilities.

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Yahoo cybersecurity team sees layoffs, outsourcing of ‘red team,’ under new CTO

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Yahoo laid off around 25% of its cybersecurity team, known as The Paranoids, over the last year.
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ServiceTitan’s IPO is a big winner that could inspire fintechs

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

ServiceTitan, which offers financial and customer management software for the trades, went public in a big way on Thursday, much to the delight of retail investors. The stock quickly popped from its opening IPO sales price of $71 million to $105 a share in modest trading volume. It is currently maintaining an above-$100 price. ServiceTitan’s […]
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How U.S. Firms Battled a Government Crackdown to Keep Tech Sales to China

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

An intense struggle has unfolded in Washington between companies and officials over where to draw the line on selling technology to China.

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Threads rolls out its own version of Bluesky’s ‘Starter Packs’

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Meta’s Threads is rolling out its own take on Bluesky’s “Starter Packs,” which are curated lists of suggested accounts that help new users find people to follow. Instagram head Adam Mosseri announced on Thursday that the social network is testing a way for users to find and easily follow collections of profiles that post about […]
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Adobe shares plunge 13% on disappointing revenue guidance

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

Adobe shares tumbled after the software vendor issued revenue guidance that fell short of analysts’ estimates.

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ServiceTitan pops to $101 in cloud software vendor’s Nasdaq debut after selling shares at $71

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

In the first notable venture-backed tech IPO since April, ServiceTitan shares jumped after the cloud software company raised about $625 million in its offering.

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You can make ChatGPT sound like Santa Claus for the holidays

Posted on December 12, 2024 by Techme101

OpenAI is making ChatGPT sound like Santa for the holidays. The startup announced on Thursday that ChatGPT users could access a new “Santa Mode” voice for the month of December. The feature allows users to speak with ChatGPT’s existing real-time voice feature, Advanced Voice Mode, but with a Christmas twist. The voice sounds, well, “merry […]
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