KPMG, Coatue, VC firm Headline, and other investors are using AI to help pick acquisition targets and startups for investment, hoping for an edge over rivals
Accountancy firm KPMG, hedge fund Coatue and VC firm Headline among those incorporating the technology Tweets: @psb_dc Tweets: @psb_dc : I have so many questions ... first off, how...
The UK's FCA plans to investigate Apple, Amazon, Google, and Meta's moves into retail financial services over competition and consumer harm concerns
Financial Conduct Authority says Silicon Valley's resources might harm competition and disadvantage others
Stardust's privacy policy said it may share “anonymized, encrypted” data to third parties “whether or not legally required”, before being changed after pushback
Analysis of Stardust period tracking app, the top free app on the US App Store on June 25, shows it shares users' phone numbers with analytics company Mixpanel
This Privacy Policy explains how Stardust App LLC. Tweets: @motherboard : Menstrual tracking app Stardust is one of Apple's top three most-downloaded free apps right now. It's also...
Sources: Apple plans to use Apple ID data for identity verification and fraud prevention in its BNPL service, alongside credit reports and FICO scores
Tech giant will approve borrowers and fund loans itself rather than rely on a bank — Apple Inc. tiptoed into finance with Apple Pay …
Sources: Apple will use Apple ID data for identity verification and fraud prevention, rely on credit reports and FICO scores for its buy now, pay later service
Tech giant will approve borrowers and fund loans itself rather than rely on a bank — Apple Inc. tiptoed into finance …
Report: only 15% of GPs at European VC firms are women, managing just 9% of total assets; in the UK, 13% of GPs are women, managing 5% of total assets
Across Europe as a whole, 85% of VC GPs are men. — In worse than the average in the UK, where 87% of GPs are men.
Meta acquired synthetic data startup AI. Reverie in August, consolidating it into Reality Labs; AI. Reverie previously had a US DoD contract worth up to $950M
Synthetic data company AI. Reverie will work within group's Reality Labs division — An artificial intelligence company contracted … Tweets: @shashj , @aandgshow , and @aandgshow...
Q&A with Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: copycat features from big rivals have not impacted the company “in any real way” and making money is not a pressing concern
Financial Times : Tweets: @carnage4life , @chrismatyszczyk , @edzitron , and @psb_dc Tweets: Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : The telling aspect of this story is that Clubhouse's C...
Q&A with Clubhouse CEO Paul Davison: copycat features from big rivals have not impacted the company “in any real way” and making money is not a pressing concern
The app was pegged as the future of social media. After a lukewarm end to 2021, it faces an uphill battle to turn a profit Tweets: @chrismatyszczyk , @psb_dc , @carnage4life , and...
Clubhouse rolls out Replay on iOS and Android, letting users record live rooms and share them as a podcast or a clip on YouTube, Instagram, and TikTok
Clubhouse hosts and moderators will have a fresh tool in their kit today. The company is pushing a new feature live on both its iOS …
US startups led by Black women raised ~$494M so far in 2021, surpassing the $484M raised in all of 2020 but just 0.34% of the total US venture funding in 2021
Editor's note: This article is part of Something Ventured, an ongoing series by Crunchbase News examining diversity and access …
Pandemic boosted the “phone-ization” of PCs, which are adopting power efficient CPUs and thin designs, a trend which will accelerate with broader adoption of 5G
only bigger, more powerful and more capable. #tech #digital cc @ChristopherIsak @ChrisGGarrod https://www.wsj.com/... via @WSJ @mims Partho Dasgupta / @parthodasgupta : Phones have...
How Pinterest's neural network curates pins for users, pairing them with tailored ads on their search results, drawing 480M people to the site in Q1, up 30% YoY
Using neural networks, the site is able to find images—and ads—that will catch the consumer's eye Tweets: @glenngabe and @psb_dc Tweets: Glenn Gabe / @glenngabe : “Neural networks ...
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits
A look at challenger search engines like UK-based Mojeek, You.com, and Neeva, founded by former Google execs, all targeting Google as it fights antitrust suits
Challengers such as Neeva bet on alternative approaches as tech giant faces regulatory scrutiny Tweets: @psb_dc , @martinsfp , @paulnemitz , @francesca_bria , and @aghose Tweets: T...
Coinbase offers an exit package with four to six months severance pay and six months COBRA for employees who are not comfortable with its apolitical mission
Coinbase is offering a package for employees seeking an exit after the release of a blog post from its CEO outlining …
Central Bank of Brazil tells Mastercard and Visa to stop payments via WhatsApp in the country to evaluate risks and regulations
- Authority wants to assess risks to country's payment system — Lawyer says suspension is an unusual move by the bank
A look at the challenges workers of Silicon Valley giants like Apple, Facebook, and Google encounter working from home and how the companies are responding
Apple, Google, Facebook, LinkedIn and Uber set new policies for employees working from home as tech culture clashes with family life.
Big Tech's response to COVID-19 may have paused the tech backlash that dominated the coverage of companies like Facebook and Amazon over the past 3+ years
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