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How a tiny 4-person startup, Supaglue, caught Stripe’s eye

Supaglue’s team will accelerate the work Stripe’s been working on real-time analytics and reporting across its platform. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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The final countdown: Early Stage 2024 ticket savings end tonight

The final countdown is on! Today, March 29, marks the final opportunity to grab your early-bird savings for TechCrunch Early Stage 2024 — a one-day event set to ignite your entrepreneurial journey on April 25 in Boston. Don’t miss out … Continue reading

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Palmsy is a device-only “social network” to satisfy your posting itch

When you sign up to a new social network, you have zero friend, zero follower, zero like. But as you start posting content, you might get more and more likes and comments. That could lead to new followers. And that … Continue reading

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Google hints that Apple is set to support RCS by this fall

Google briefly showed a section on the new Google Messages page claiming that Apple is set to roll out Rich Communication Services (RCS) support for iPhones this fall. This indicates that the iPhone maker is likely to extend RCS support … Continue reading

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Byju’s founder floats share offer to make peace with estranged investors

Byju Raveendran, the founder of embattling edtech group Byju’s, has made a last-ditch attempt to placate the Indian startup’s disgruntled investors, informing them that the board is weighing an offer of renounced shares to prevent dilution of their holdings. In … Continue reading

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X’s Grok chatbot will soon get an upgraded model, Grok-1.5

X.ai, Elon Musk’s AI startup, has revealed its latest generative AI model, Grok-1.5. Set to power social network X’s Grok chatbot in the not-to-distant future (“in the coming days,” X.ai writes in a blog post), Grok-1.5 appears to be a … Continue reading

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Bumble’s new CEO talks about her critical mission: to spice things up at the company

The bigger concern for Bumble is user fatigue. People aren’t downloading dating apps as enthusiastically as they once were, which means less subscription revenue. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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SBF’s prison sentence marks the end of the crypto grift era — so what’s next?

Nearly everything else that’s being built on or enabled by blockchains replaces something that’s already being done fairly well. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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Apple dismisses Microsoft monopoly comparisons

A week after finding itself at the business end of a landmark lawsuit from the United States Department of Justice, Apple is staunchly denying any parallels between itself and Microsoft in the 1990s. It’s a comparison into which the U.S. … Continue reading

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Uber Eats courier’s fight against AI bias shows justice under UK law is hard won

On Tuesday, the BBC reported that Uber Eats courier Pa Edrissa Manjang, who is Black, had received a payout from Uber after “racially discriminatory” facial recognition checks prevented him from accessing the app, which he had been using since November … Continue reading

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