Category: Military
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Bollinger Motors sues Munro Vehicles over similarity of its EVs
Two EV startups may soon be battling it out in court over alleged breach of contract and patent infringement. EV startup Bollinger Motors filed a lawsuit this week in the U.S. District of Southern New York against Munro Vehicles, and its head designer, over alleged breach of contract, patent infringement and trade dress infringement, according…
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Triple Whale raises $25M for its smart Shopify data platform
Shopify powers a massive number of e-commerce sites, so it’s also no surprise that there is a vast ecosystem of tools around it that help these merchants manage all aspects of running their stores. Triple Whale, a Columbus, Ohio-based startup, focuses on providing Shopify store owners with a single platform that brings together all of…
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Roblox to host a free virtual Super Bowl concert featuring Saweetie
Hip-hop artist Saweetie is performing exclusively in Roblox for the NFL’s Super Bowl LVII pregame on February 10, the National Football League announced today. The virtual concert will take place at 7:00 pm ET in Warner Music Group’s Rhythm City, a new destination on Roblox that was announced earlier this week. Rhythm City is set…
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How Fictiv is making hardware manufacturing more like building software
Over the past few years, we’ve spoken with hundreds of hardware startups, and there’s one phrase that has been showing up in almost every interview: “supply chains.” They were always important for people shipping physical products, of course, but the pandemic and the international logistics chaos that resulted from it made the pain of getting…
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BlockJoy raises $12M to help cut operating costs for businesses running blockchain nodes
BlockJoy, a startup providing white label blockchain nodes as a service, raised a total of $12 million from its seed and Series A rounds, the company exclusi1vely shared with TechCrunch. The Boston-based startup aims to reduce operating costs by up to 80% for enterprises running staking nodes and APIs as a service, the two co-founders,…
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TikTok introduces a strike system for violations, tests a feature to “refresh” the For You feed
TikTok today is announcing several changes to its service, including what it claims will be increased enforcement against bad actors as well as tests of new user-facing tools that will force a refresh of the app’s main algorithmic feed, known as the For You feed. The company said the changes are focused on keeping the…
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Some Salesforce employees just found out they’re part of the 10% layoff announced last month
When Salesforce announced it was laying off 10% of its workforce last month, you might have assumed that meant that everyone who was affected was informed at that time. With social media flush with people talking about Salesforce layoffs today, the company says these are part of that original announcement, but some folks are learning…
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Netflix to include more EVs in its TV shows and movies as part of new partnership with GM
Netflix and General Motors announced today that the streaming service will join the automaker’s “Everybody In” campaign that aims to accelerate mass adoption of electric vehicles. As part of the partnership, the streaming service says it will increase the presence of EVs in Netflix-produced TV shows and movies, where relevant over the course of the…
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ToolJet, an open source low-code app builder, wants to help companies do more with less
“Do more with less” has emerged as something of a business mantra over the past year, as businesses across the industrial spectrum have faced growing economic headwinds. Companies have been looking for ways to cut spending without jeopardising their output, which is also having a significant knock-on effect. Indeed, most of the big tech companies…
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Meet Beek, a startup bringing audiobooks to LatAm with big-name backing
Growing up in Mexico City, Pamela Valdes says she was a bullied child who was inspired by stories her parents told of other bullied individuals, such as Bill Gates, who went on to be very successful. “Those stories my parents told me in a way created my reality,” she said. Valdes recognized that her upbringing…