Spotify confirms price hike as premium plan increases to $10.99/mo in the US
[ad_1] Spotify has Announced that it is increasing the prices of its premium plans, which confirms reports that began to emerge for the first time weekend. The music streaming giant, which claims some 500 million users worldwide, 40% of whom are premium subscribers, revealed that its main ad-free premium subscription plan will increase from $9.99…
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5 Key Questions Climate Tech Founders Should Ask Impact Investors
[ad_1] agnes svensson Taxpayer agnes svensson is the director of impact at Norrsken VC, Europe’s leading early-stage impact investor. He has more than 12 years of experience driving sustainability, diversity and inclusion initiatives in the private sector (particularly fintech decacorn Klarna) and in non-profit organizations. the world is witness an exciting and necessary rise in…
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Gear Patrol’s acquisition of DPReview shows that it pays to be boring
[ad_1] In March, DP Review announced that parent company Amazon was shutting it downand the world of photography entered a dual state of shock and disbelief. For 25 years, DPReview has served as a trusted and authoritative voice in photographic equipment. But photo enthusiasts didn’t just turn to DPReview to drool over Canon’s newest lens…
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Elon Musk Says An ‘X’ Will Soon Mark Where Twitter Used To Be
[ad_1] Elon Musk has been calling his Twitter acquisition X Corp basically since he bought it, and that’s already its official legal entity name, but now it could also be the customer-facing brand for the bird app. Or soon-to-be-ex-bird-app, actually. Musk tweeted late Saturday that he would replace Twitter’s bird logo with an ‘X’ logo…
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Can Europe’s cannabis market avoid America’s mistakes? Investors step in
[ad_1] When it comes to to the European cannabis market, the biggest news this year is what didn’t happen. Contrary to what many people expected, Germany is not on track to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. In contrast, the most populous country in the EU diluted their legal reform plans after establishing contact with…
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FedNow may finally be live, but will it be too expensive for businesses to adopt?
[ad_1] welcome to the exchange! If you want this in your inbox, sign up here. It was a week full of events in the fintech world, with FedNow launch, former fintech CEO Bolt, and the company itself, were subpoenaed by the US Securities and Exchange Commission and more. Let’s dig in here. It’s time Last…
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Suspending access to medical abortions will threaten access to telehealth
[ad_1] Dana Northcraft Taxpayer Telehealth has revolutionized the way healthcare services are delivered, becoming an increasingly popular means of delivering remote healthcare to patients. This was particularly true during the COVID-19 pandemic when telehealth was a crucial part of combating a public health crisis. We now face another public health crisis: the continued erosion of…
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The European insurtech is showing a strength that the risk data does not fully detail
[ad_1] If only If you tracked down the US insurance tech companies that went public recently, you might think that insurtech is in its bust era. Fortunately, that is not true. The Exchange explores new companies, markets and money. read them every morning on TechCrunch+ or get The exchange newsletter Every Saturday. We saw earlier…
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Investor Opportunities Abound at TechCrunch Disrupt 2023
[ad_1] Like Audrey II in “Little Shop of Horrors,” the business stream is an insatiable beast, but without bloodshed. Investors need to keep their portfolios primed, and the best place to find early-stage startups with promising portfolio potential is, you guessed it, TechCrunch outage 2023which will take place from September 19 to 21 in San…
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This Week in AI: Businesses voluntarily submit to AI guidelines — for now
[ad_1] Keeping up with an industry that moves as fast as AI it is a difficult task. So until an AI can do it for you, here’s a helpful roundup of recent stories in the world of machine learning, along with notable research and experiments we didn’t cover on their own. This week in AI,…
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