Category: Military
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The impact investor and climate correspondent walk into a bar
Hello and welcome back to Equity, a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week Natasha Mascarenhas and Becca Szkutak took to their mics to sing a duet about this week’s startup news. Just kidding! But we did highlight some fun companies raising capital and talked…
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‘Nothing, Forever,’ an AI ‘Seinfeld’ spoof, is the next ‘Twitch Plays Pokémon’
“So, I was at the store the other day, and as I’m checking out, the cashier asks me if I have any coupons, and I say, ‘No coupon problem!’” recalls a pixelated, barely three-dimensional figure that vaguely resembles Jerry Seinfeld. “So I’m walking down the street, and this guy comes up to me and says,…
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India orders Vodafone Idea to convert government dues into $2 billion equity
The Indian government has ordered the telecom operator Vodafone Idea to convert all the interest it owes to the government into equity in the firm. Vodafone said it has been ordered to convert capital worth $1.96 billion into equity. The company “will take all necessary actions forthwith to undertake the aforesaid issuance,” Vodafone Idea disclosed…
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Grocery deliverer JOKR doubles down on Brazil as it secures $50M on $1.3B valuation
After a challenging few months that included closing markets, instant grocery delivery company JOKR told TechCrunch it raised $50 million in a Series C investment on a $1.3 billion post-money valuation. The funding, which The Information first reported that JOKR was seeking last September, follows a $260 million raise announced in November 2021. However, with…
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Is your startup heading to MWC? TechCrunch wants to hear from you
Nature is healing, the tech show is returning to in-person events. I’m not sure I’m entirely over CES less than a month after returning from Vegas, but we’re already in full planning mode for TechCrunch’s return to Barcelona. We’ll be sending an extremely scaled down team to this year’s event, but while we’re in Catalonia,…
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Watch Cambly CEO and Benchmark partner explain startup fundraising tactics
TechCrunch Live is back, and we’re thrilled to have hosted this conversation with Sameer Shariff, CEO and co-founder of Cambly, and Sarah Tavel, partner at Benchmark. During this hour-long event, you’ll hear how Cambly used a failed Series A fundraise to force the company into a cash-positive position. And once the company didn’t need outside…
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Binance to terminate tech offerings to estranged India partner WazirX
Binance will stop offerings its wallet and other tech services that it provided to WazirX, escalating tension with the Indian crypto exchange that it once sought to acquire. The world’s largest crypto exchange cautioned on Friday that Zanmai, the firm that operates the WazirX exchange, has not fully withdrawn assets stored in the Binance wallets…
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The Download: fighting pregnancy misinformation, and the ethics of organ donations
This is today’s edition of The Download, our weekday newsletter that provides a daily dose of what’s going on in the world of technology. How Indian health-care workers use WhatsApp to save pregnant women Across India, an all-women cadre of 1 million community health-care workers are responsible for making public health care accessible to people…
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Why invest in Ukrainian startups today?
Dmytro Bilash Contributor Share on Twitter Dmytro Bilash is a managing partner at Digital Future. The EU will invest EUR13.5 billion in research and innovation for 2023-2024 as part of the Horizon Europe program. For the first time in the program’s history, it will include targeted support for Ukraine. This is one of the first…
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Apple says it now has 935 million paid subscriptions
Apple had a rare quarter where it missed its revenue target due to problems in the supply chain and manufacturing. But its services revenue was a bright spot in the earnings. The company said it now has 935 million paid subscriptions across its services. These offerings, including iCloud, Apple Music, Apple TV+, Apple Arcade, Apple…