Month: April 2023
Amazon skips India business in earnings for first time in years
[ad_1] Amazon omitted India updates from Thursday’s earnings call and release, a notable turnaround for the e-commerce giant that has consistently highlighted rapid growth in the South Asian market. India’s absence from quarterly earnings, its first since early 2014, continues Amazon’s shutdown of multiple servicesincluding food delivery and wholesale distribution, in the country, leading many…
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Clubhouse needs to fix things, and today they cut more than half the staff
[ad_1] clubhouse, a once-rocketing social audio app created by Paul Davison and Rohan Seth, has laid off more than half its staff. The startup’s co-founders made the decision in response to changing customer habits in a post-COVID world and the complexities of remote work. according to a blog post. Those who were affected will receive…
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Daily Crunch: Citing slow growth and a desire to be ‘ahead of the AI age’, Dropbox CEO lays off 500
[ad_1] To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and biggest stories delivered to your inbox every day at 3pm PDT, subscribe here. Thursday is here, how the hell did that happen? Those days, they just keep coming. If you still don’t know if you want to participate in Disrupt, we’ve got you covered: There’s a…
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Microsoft makes its AI-powered design tool available in preview
[ad_1] Microsoft Designer, Microsoft’s AI-powered design tool, launched today in public preview with an expanded set of features. Announced in October, Designer is a Canva-like web app that can generate layouts for presentations, posters, digital postcards, invitations, graphics, and more to share on social media and other channels. Take advantage of user-created content and DALL-E…
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Google tests a new ad space in the Play Store ahead of its I/O developer conference
[ad_1] Google has been seen testing a new Play Store ad space ahead of its I/O developer conference in May. If publicly implemented, the change could significantly expand the company’s Play Store search ads business by offering developers access to new prime real estate for their app marketing efforts. The test comes two years ago…
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Appeals court rules in favor of Meta in state attorneys antitrust case
[ad_1] Meta won an antitrust lawsuit that pitted the tech giant against dozens of state attorneys general, led by New York, who alleged that Meta had illegally maintained monopoly power in the social media market through its acquisitions of the photo-sharing app. Instagram in 2012 and WhatsApp. in 2014, and which gained more power through…
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CommScope employees left in the dark after ransomware attack
[ad_1] CommScope employees say they haven’t heard from executives in more than a week about how the company is responding to a ransomware attack, which allowed hackers to steal vast amounts of corporate and employee data from its systems. The tech giant, which designs and builds network infrastructure products for businesses, hospitals, schools and federal…
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Energy Dome gets a $44 million raise on its CO2 battery for renewable energy storage
[ad_1] Italian climate startup energy domewho has developed a “CO2 Battery” for renewable energy storage, has closed a €40 million (~$44 million) Series B round, bringing the total raised for its innovative energy storage solution to €54 million (or just under of the 60 million dollars). The round was co-led by Eni Next, the corporate…
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Viacom18, backed by James Murdoch, to bring Succession and other HBO content to India
[ad_1] Warner Bros. Discovery has partnered with Mukesh Ambani-backed Viacom18 to bring HBO and other WB content to India in a big win for the Reliance joint venture service that is gaining increasing attention from rivals like Disney’s Hotstar, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. HBO Original, Max Original and other Warner Bros. TV series are…
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Bastion is an all-in-one cybersecurity solution for small businesses
[ad_1] Meet Bastion, a French startup that was created in October 2022 to help small businesses address cybersecurity risks without too much complexity. Created by former Palantir employees, the company has already raised $2.8 million. What sets Bastion apart from other cybersecurity startups is that it wants to be your first and last cybersecurity subscription.…
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