Meta is reportedly planning a fresh round of layoffs
The lack of clarity has resulted in staff noting that not much work is getting done, as managers have been unable to plan ahead, the report says. Certain budgets that would normally be finalized by the end of the year still haven’t been finalized, and decisions that would usually take days to be signed off […]
BuuPass raises Sh162.8 million for Kenya, East Africa expansions – Capital FM Kenya
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Kenya's BuuPass raises $1.3 million pre-seed – Techpoint Africa
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Highbeam secures $10M loan to provide credit, spend monitoring and more to e-commerce retailers
Co-founders Samir Shergill (previously at Microsoft, McKinsey and AppNexus) and Gautam Gupta (formerly of Shopify, Venmo and Alloy) spent years working with e-commerce firms to help them scale. Together, they arrived at the conclusion that while online brands have been built to maximize revenue growth, aided by a surge in tech and marketing solutions, e-commerce […]
Succeeding in Data Science With Technical and Business Acumen … – Robert H. Smith School of Business
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Africa Leads the Way in Crypto Adoption & Policy – Lexology
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Here are the tech industry’s 2023 Super Bowl commercials, with noticeably less crypto
This year, with crypto ads (mostly) out of the way, we got back to the basics with advertisements from tech companies that actually sell real things. Throughout the commercial, we watch how the Magic Eraser can edit photos. But some of these photos are made worse! In one snowy scene of a mother and child, […]
Caldera raises $9M from two rounds led by Sequoia and Dragonfly Capital
The startup was founded in March 2022 by Katz and Parker Jou, CTO of Caldera, in an effort to simplify the process of creating app-specific blockchains so builders can create layer-2 blockchains in the span of hours, opposed to months or years, the team said. “We started the company when we realized developers wanted to […]
Transit tech company Via raises $110M at $3.5B valuation
Via intends to use the funds to further its vision of being “able to provide every city in the world access to this end-to-end digital infrastructure, where they can plan, operate, analyze and continue to optimize their transit networks across every vertical in that transit network,” Daniel Ramot, Via’s CEO and co-founder, told TechCrunch. As […]
Is this the end of the BNPL boom?
Is this the end of the BNPL boom? by Mary Ann Azevedo originally published on TechCrunch source