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Today, Kakao Entertainment announced it has secured $966 million (1.2 trillion won) in financing from major investors such as Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund and PWARP Investment of Singapore. The…
The Inflation Reduction Act has spurred major investments in U.S. clean energy manufacturing, with automakers and battery manufacturers allocating tens of billions for increased EV production last year, and now…
Privacy advocates have the opportunity to analyze the regulatory reasoning behind two recent decisions against Meta that rejected Facebook and Instagram’s legal argument for behavioral advertising. noyb, a privacy rights…
Meta confirmed that they have rescinded full-time job offers to some candidates. We regretfully had to withdraw job offers from a few candidates as we reassess our hiring needs. This…
India will invest nearly $320 million to boost the use of RuPay cards and low-value UPI transactions, part of New Delhi’s efforts to foster growth of its homegrown payments network.…
OpenAI this week announced that it intends to start charging for ChatGPT, its popular AI-powered chatbot that can write essays, emails, poems and even computer code. In a statement on…
TikTok has revolutionized the way people consume and share information, and now Vylo is taking it a step further. With Vylo, users can record themselves discussing sports, current events, and…
Carta, a 10-year-old San Francisco software firm providing investors with portfolio tracking tools, has filed suit against its former CTO Jerry Talton. Talton was dismissed “for cause” on December 23rd.…
Last month, Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue subscription service launched in five countries and has now been expanded to include Japan. The original (launched 2021) and updated versions are available in…
Startups are recognizing three major trends in developed-world workforces: the digitalization of healthcare, platforming of employee services, and impacts of an aging workforce coupled with cost-of-living struggles for new parents.…
