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• Google’s latest Pixel Drop will let users post high-quality photos, videos on Instagram (Techcrunch)
  Google today announced the latest set of Pixel-related features for phones, tablets, and watches, such as 10-bit video support for Instagra…
• Alibaba's Ant Financial is raising $3B in debt to finance a global M&A spree | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Alibaba affiliate Ant Financial announced a surprise deal to acquire international payment service Money Gram for $880 million last month,…
• A pot of gold at the intersection of DevOps and generative AI? (Techcrunch)
  Generative AI isn't just about creative endeavors and parlor tricks. Investors and Big Tech alike are betting that it will also affect ente…
• What Square’s acquisition of Afterpay means for startups | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  "Buy now, pay later" may be effective at driving retail conversion, but scale matters and long-term margins look slim for BNPL startups.
• Maxar completes $6.4B sale to private equity | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Maxar Technologies completed its sale to private equity firm Advent International in a deal valued at $6.4 billion.
• Google goes all-in on artificial intelligence, renames research division Google AI (Techcrunch)
  With Google’s I/O developer conference kicking off later today, Google is setting the scene for what it expects to be one of the big themes…
• Snap turns to search giant Baidu to court Chinese advertisers (Techcrunch)
  first struck a deal with Baidu that authorized China’s largest search engine to be a reseller of Snapchat ads for companies in Greater Chin…
• ‘The Merge’ could be good news for China’s Ethereum enthusiasts (Techcrunch)
  The much-anticipated network update on Ethereum could provide a new way for China's crypto enthusiasts to participate in the blockchain eco…
• Lunar Outpost eyes up first-mover advantage for moon markets (Techcrunch)
  “This is going to be the largest market in human history.” Justin Cyrus, co-founder and CEO of Lunar Outpost, is referring to the space eco…
• Has Y Combinator's new deal changed the early-stage investing game? (Techcrunch)
  Has Y Combinator truly changed the early-stage startup investing game, perhaps in its own favor?
• SoftBank mints QuintoAndar a new unicorn in Latin American real estate tech (Techcrunch)
  Quinto Andar, the Brazilian real estate technology developer, has secured a massive $250 million Series D led by Soft Bank, as the Japanese…
• Cobre secures $13M to help CFOs in Colombia automate corporate payments | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Cobre's corporate treasury platform gives CFOs visibility and control over their company’s financial transactions and to automate their pay…
• Better Tomorrow Ventures closes on $225M fintech-focused fund, which is triple the size of its last (Techcrunch)
  Early-stage fintech-focused venture firm Better Tomorrow Ventures has raised $225 million for its second fund — triple the amount it raised…
• iPod Not Love Kim Jong Il Long Time (Techcrunch)
  It looks like North Korea won’t be getting its version of the iTunes Music Store anytime soon.
• How PayJoy built $300M in revenue by letting the underserved use their smartphones as collateral (Techcrunch)
  Lerato Motloung is a mother of two who works in a supermarket in Johannesburg, South Africa.
• Clearlake and Insight reach $4.4B deal to take software maker Alteryx private | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Private equity firms Clearlake and Insight have reached a $4.4 billion deal to take software maker Alteryx private.
• Reid Hoffman on the evolution of ‘blitzscaling’ amid the pandemic (Techcrunch)
  "Blitzscaling itself isn’t the goal," said Hoffman. "Blitzscaling is being inefficient; it’s spending capital inefficiently and hiring inef…
• Pro-rata is easier to get than ever today, but investors are thinking twice (Techcrunch)
  Whenever pro-rata rights are involved, you can always smell some drama.
• Code analysis tool AppMap wants to become Google Maps for developers (Techcrunch)
  In December 2021, a vulnerability in a widely used logging library that had gone unfixed since 2013 caused a full-blown security meltdown.
• In Amazon scuffle, Visa's loss could be Affirm's gain (Techcrunch)
  Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it would stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in the U.K.
• Amazon aggregator Thrasio begins layoffs, names new CEO (Techcrunch)
  The layoffs and new CEO appointment are the latest developments in a series of ups and downs for Thrasio.
• Chris Sacca advises new fund managers to strike right now (Techcrunch)
  Chris Sacca is a billionaire today, and he credits his success to having an "unfair advantage" 10 years ago when he first launched his fund.
• Italy's DPA fines Glovo-owned Foodinho $3M, orders changes to algorithmic management of riders (Techcrunch)
  Algorithmic management of gig workers has landed Glovo-owned, on-demand delivery firm Foodinho in trouble in Italy where the country’s data…
• Kapital secures $165M in equity, debt to provide financial visibility to LatAm SMBs | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  In 2023, Kapital's customers grew to 80,000 small businesses in Mexico, Colombia and Peru.
• Y Combinator's latest cohort had only one LatAm startup in large part because of AI (Techcrunch)
  Brazilian startup Salvy, a mobile carrier for businesses, was the only company based in Latin America in Y Combinator's latest batch, the a…
• PalmPay raised $100M Series A last August, claims to have 5 million users | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Africa-focused payments startup PalmPay raised a $100 million Series A round last year.
• CryptoPunks maker Larva Labs launches their new NFT project, Meebits (Techcrunch)
  The creators behind CryptoPunks, one of the most popular NFT projects on the web, just revealed their latest project, called Meebits.
• The biggest French startups in 2024 according to the French government (Techcrunch)
  The French Secretary of State for the Digital Economy as of this year, Marina Ferrari, revealed this year’s laureates during VivaTech week…
• Sidebar Delivers Personalized Mobile Apps And Content To Android (Techcrunch)
  We recently wrote about Sidebar, an app that wants to help smartphone users with the process of finding the perfect apps for their phones.
• New Zealand gets its first crypto, web3-focused VC fund (Techcrunch)
  New Zealand-based VC Global from Day 1 (GD1) launches $5 million web3/crypto fund, the country's first dedicated fund in the crypto, blockc…
• New research: Vast majority of VC-backed UK startups do *nothing* on climate emissions (Techcrunch)
  startups have done nothing to either measure or offset their carbon emissions, according to new research shared exclusively with Tech Crunc…
• How much does ChatGPT cost? Everything you need to know about OpenAI's pricing plans (Techcrunch)
  How much does it cost to use OpenAI's ChatGPT?
• Dara Khosrowshahi and Marcelo Claure to back former Sequoia India partner's startup (Techcrunch)
  Amit Jain, who previously led Uber’s Asia Pacific business and served as a partner at Sequoia Capital India, is working on a crypto payment…
• FrankieOne nabs $16M to provide fintechs with ID and fraud management as a service | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Fraud continues to be a major issue in the world of digital transactions, a situation that research shows was only compounded in the last 2…
• To secure early-stage funding, entrepreneurs should build ESG into their business models (Techcrunch)
  ESG has been under the microscope for the past 12 months with pressure from some Republican politicians in the U.S.
• Google expands AI-powered virtual try-on tool to include dresses (Techcrunch)
  Google announced Thursday that it expanded its generative AI-powered virtual try-on tool to support dresses, allowing users to virtually we…
• 2019 Africa Roundup: Jumia IPOs, China goes digital, Nigeria becomes fintech capital (Techcrunch)
  2019 brought more global attention to Africa's tech scene than perhaps any previous year.
• Pure Storage Prices IPO At $17 | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Enterprise storage company Pure Storage has raised $425 million after pricing its IPO on the NYSE at $17 per share, as originally reported…
• Sequoia-backed Zamp Finance makes it easier for businesses to invest in US Treasury Bills (Techcrunch)
  Sequoia-backed Zamp Finance simplifies the process for businesses to invest their excess capital in US Treasury bills.
• HopSkipDrive beats new California ride-sharing emissions targets (Techcrunch)
  HopSkipDrive, a ride-share service for kids and teens, beat new emissions standards in California, bolstering its pitch to schools.
• Project IDX, Google's next-gen IDE, is now in open beta (Techcrunch)
  At Google I/O on Tuesday, Google announced that IDX, the company's next-gen, AI-centric browser-based development environment, is now in op…
• Ivorian e-commerce startup ANKA, formerly Afrikrea, raises $6.2M pre-Series A | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  A study by McKinsey & Company on general e-commerce activities in Africa says consumer spending will reach over $2 trillion in the next thr…
• Balancing risk: Modern architecture's role in the BNPL playbook (Techcrunch)
  Buy now, pay later (BNPL) is an old form of payment that is new again in a big way. And that could mean trouble for BNPL fintechs that are…
• Why TransUnion led blockchain fintech Spring Labs’ $30M Series B | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Consumer credit reporting agency Trans Union recently announced it had invested an undisclosed sum in Spring Labs, which is building out a…
• Google-backed Glance pilots Android lockscreen platform in US (Techcrunch)
  Glance, which operates a lockscreen platform targeting Android smartphones, is setting its sights on the U.S.
• 4 tactics for building robust open source DevOps toolsets (Techcrunch)
  While using OSS is free, assembling an OSS DevOps toolset, with an average of 15 tools per company, isn’t without challenges.
• X1’s income-based credit card is about to launch publicly (Techcrunch)
  The credit card market has become increasingly crowded, with consumer fintech startups locked in a fierce competition to differentiate thei…
• Lightspeed says India not for the faint-hearted amid Sequoia split | TechCrunch (Techcrunch)
  Bejul Somaia of Lightspeed staunchly defended the opportunities in India days after Sequoia's decision to segregate the India venture.
• Pan-African e-tailer Jumia grows 3Q revenue, e-payments and losses (Techcrunch)
  Pan-African e-commerce startup Jumia released its third-quarter financial results today.
• VW Group CEO Herbert Diess is coming to TC Sessions: Mobility 2022 (Techcrunch)
  Volkswagen Group, one of the world’s largest automakers with nearly 9 million vehicles sold last year, ratcheted up an already ambitious st…