The US DOJ's case against Google's ad business may benefit Meta, Amazon, and news organizations that pay Google a cut of revenue for brokering their website ads
Federal prosecutors are seeking a divestment of Google's multibillion-dollar online advertising business, saying its monopoly power harms advertisers and publishers.
Bending Spoons plans to lay off 75% of WeTransfer staff after acquiring the file-sharing service in July 2024; WeTransfer reportedly has 350+ employees
Italy-based app company Bending Spoons, which owns Evernote and Meetup, is planning to lay off 75% of the staff of file transfer service WeTransfer, TechCrunch has learned.
Sources: Apple will launch Image Playground and Genmoji as part of iOS 18.2; Sonos cuts its plans to build ~1M Ace headphones units per year to ~100K per year
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A writer who works for a tech company describes how he helps train AI models how to write, by making up pretend responses to hypothetical chatbot questions
Journalists and other writers are employed to improve the quality of chatbot replies. The irony of working for an industry … Mastodon: @michellemanafy@journa.host . X: @timkendall_path , @rosenzweigj...
Parents concerned about students' screen time at school are trying to opt their kids out of classroom tech, after working to ban smartphones in the classroom
After working to ban phones in the classroom, parents are now seeking a return to pencil and paper
Skype co-founder Niklas Zennström's Atomico raised $1.24B for its sixth batch of new funds, including a $754M growth-stage fund and a $485M early-stage fund
LONDON — Atomico, an early investor in top European technology firms from Stripe to Klarna, announced Monday the launch …
Australia-based SafetyCulture, which offers a suite of risk management tools, raised AU$165M led by Airtree at a AU$2.5B valuation, down from AU$2.7B in 2023
SafetyCulture has booked a fresh $165 million funding round, marking one of the year's largest single investments in an Australian scale …
Automation and IT monitoring company Progress agrees to acquire Raleigh-based file management platform ShareFile for $875M in cash and credit
Progress, a Bedford, Massachusetts-based software firm, on Monday announced that it intends to acquire file management platform ShareFile for $875 million in cash and credit.
Miami-based Finally, which offers bookkeeping, accounting, and finance tools for SMBs, raised a $50M Series B from PeakSpan and secured a $150M credit line
The SMB-focused bookkeeping, accounting and finance startup Finally has raised $50 million in a Series B round of funding and secured …
Audible plans to invite some US-based audiobook narrators to train AI on their voices, cloning them and paying for title recordings via a royalty-sharing model
The audiobook service is inviting some US-based narrators to train artificial intelligence on their voices
South Korea is hosting a summit in Seoul on September 9-10, seeking to establish a blueprint for the responsible military use of AI; 90+ countries are attending
Joyce Lee / Reuters :
London's e-bike boom is frustrating local councils over parking issues, as Lime and Forest expand; Lime trips during peak hours have grown 91% YoY in 2024
Joshua Gabert-Doyon / Financial Times :
An interview with Iconiq Capital's Matthew Jacobson on the firm's focus on M&A and secondary markets, investing in startups creating AI “applications”, and more
Investment group that acts as family office of top entrepreneurs bets on M&A and secondary markets
Source: Sequoia Capital completed its $861M purchase of Stripe shares from Sequoia limited partners last week; Stripe didn't receive any proceeds
- It also could become a model for how VC firms deal with long-in-the-tooth portfolio companies. … - Some LPs exited completely …
Sources: Tokyo-based chip startup Rapidus seeks to raise ~$696M from existing and new investors by issuing new shares to finance its chip development efforts
- Government-funded startup is approaching Mizuho, SMBC and DBJ — Rapidus part of Japan's campaign to regain leadership in chips
Some creators move from algorithm-driven platforms to subscription services; YouTube group The Try Guys launched 2nd Try, an ad-free $5/month streaming service
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