Month: April 2023
Edtech giant Byju is under the radar of India’s financial crime agency
[ad_1] India’s crime-fighting agency searched three facilities of edtech giant Byju’s and its founder Byju Raveendran, it said on Saturday, seizing several “incriminating” documents and digital data. The Directorate of Compliance said it conducted the searches under the provisions of the national anti-money laundering law FEMA, but declined to provide further details. The agency has…
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As the US Cracks Down on Cryptocurrencies, Hong Kong Gives a Warm Welcome
[ad_1] in a balsamic In mid-April, thousands of people lined up to enter the Hong Kong Convention Center, where the city’s inaugural web3 festival was taking place. Most had flown in from mainland China, but many others had traveled from Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand and even the US to see what the city had to…
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Satellite-to-phone race heats up with voice calls and access across Canada
[ad_1] The ability to contact a satellite to send a text or contact emergency services may soon be an effortless reality as startups move from proof of concept to actual product. Canadians on Rogers’ network, which just signed a deal with Lynk, will get direct satellite phone connections across the country; And not to be…
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Daily Crunch: First Republic Bank shares hit record low as feds discuss bailout
[ad_1] To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and biggest stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3pm PDT, subscribe here. In today’s episode of our Equity podcast, the team takes a deep dive to reflect if the fall in First Republic shares is a victim of the collapse of SVB, or if there…
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OpenAI Closes $300M Stock Sale At $27B-29B Valuation
[ad_1] Updated to note that the Microsoft investment closed in January. The money from the VCs reported here, part of a takeover bid, is separate from that. open AIthe startup behind the widely used conversational AI model ChatGPT has garnered new backers, TechCrunch has learned. Venture capital firms including Tiger Global, Sequoia Capital, Andreessen Horowitz,…
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Electric vehicle owners in Texas face a $200 annual fee
[ad_1] States have taxed motorists at the pump for more than a century. However, as electric cars gain traction, what happens when people stop refueling altogether? State lawmakers are increasingly imposing annual fees on EV owners, arguing they should pay because they still rely on public infrastructure to get around. Texas is on track to…
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Amazon is developing an enhanced LLM to power Alexa
[ad_1] Amazon is building a more “pervasive and capable” large language model (LLM) to power Alexa, Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said during the company’s meeting. first quarter earnings call yesterday. An LLM, such as ChatGPT, is a deep learning algorithm that can recognize, summarize, and generate text and other content based on knowledge from vast…
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First Republic shares plunged 40% on reports the government could intervene
[ad_1] First Republic Bank shares plunged nearly 50% on Friday, adding to the pressure on the troubled bank and adding to its growing market confidence woes. As of noon ET, the stock was trading at $3.72, down 40% from Thursday’s close of $6.19, after dipping as low as $3 at one point on Friday. Before…
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How we use data-driven personas to radically improve the customer experience
[ad_1] Most of the conversations around people happen with marketing or product teams. These groups use personas to define typical customers by their demographics, tastes, values, backgrounds, goals, challenges, aspirations, etc. A person profile includes a picture and some statements that represent the person. You can include where to reach that person, especially for marketing…
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Reddit is testing Discord-like channels for community chat
[ad_1] Reddit Announced on Thursday that it is testing Discord-like chat channels with select subreddits. With this move, the social network is trying to provide more avenues for community members to interact with each other, in addition to the usual asynchronous commenting system. The company said it’s starting this test with 25 volunteer subreddits; the…
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