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Cowboy owners in Europe can now book on-demand e-bike repairs and tune-ups
Cowboy is rolling out a new repairs and service program designed to give its e-bike riders more ways to keep their wheels on the road. The company just announced that it will begin offering a new on-demand service program for … Continue reading
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PayPal suggests it will be ready to offer ‘offline’ payments when DMA goes into effect
PayPal is working on a new consumer app for its mobile customers, and suggested that it will be “ready” to take advantage of the new EU regulation, the Digital Markets Act (DMA), when it goes into effect next month for … Continue reading
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Upstash’s serverless data platform hits ARR of $1M just two years after seed funding
Upstash announced a $1.9 million seed round almost exactly two years ago, and an idea for building a serverless data platform for data-intensive applications built with Redis and Kafka. That doesn’t feel like that long ago, but a lot has … Continue reading
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Plaid’s new president hails from Cloudflare, has IPO experience
Plaid has named Jennifer (Jen) Taylor, who most recently served as Cloudflare’s Chief Product Officer, as its first president. The move is notable in that it comes just months after the fintech startup hired former Expedia CFO Eric Hart to … Continue reading
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Security flaw in a popular smart helmet allowed silent location tracking
The maker of a popular smart ski and bike helmet has fixed a security flaw that allowed the easy real-time location tracking of anyone wearing its helmets. Livall makes internet-connected helmets that allow groups of skiers or bike riders to … Continue reading
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GM hires ex-Tesla battery guru Kurt Kelty to help with its Ultium problems
General Motors has hired battery expert and ex-Tesla executive Kurt Kelty to be the automaker’s new vice president of batteries — a brand new role for the company. His first day will be February 19. Kelty will join GM at … Continue reading
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AR glasses with multimodal AI nets funding from Pokémon Go creator
In the week when gadget lovers around the world are enchanted by Vision Pro, a young, brave startup is trying to carve out a space for its augmented reality device that features a form factor starkly different from Apple’s device. … Continue reading
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Closinglock, now with $12M, wants to prevent the 1 in 10 real estate transactions targeted for fraud
Users log into Closinglock’s portal where real estate transaction wiring instructions are accessed instead of provided via email. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Google goes all in on its Gemini model, launches $20 paid tier for Gemini Ultra
Google Bard is no more. Almost exactly a year after first introducing its (rushed) efforts to challenge OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the company is retiring the name and rebranding Bard as Gemini, the name of its family of foundation models. More importantly, … Continue reading
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Thea Energy raises $20M Series A for pixel-inspired fusion power plants
The startup is betting that software can supplant manufacturing precision in its quest to deliver reliable, inexpensive fusion power. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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