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Real estate revolutions and beanie baby economies
The Equity podcast crew is wrapping up another eventful week, with real estate, AI agents, gambling, and secondary markets — which are, of course, a form of legalized gambling. Mary Ann Azevedo, Becca Szkutak, and Devin Coldewey started off this Friday’s episode with the acknowledgment that the X/Twitter ban situation in Brazil is possibly too
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The Equity podcast crew is wrapping up another eventful week, with real estate, AI agents, gambling, and secondary markets — which are, of course, a form of legalized gambling. Mary Ann Azevedo, Becca Szkutak, and Devin Coldewey started off this Friday’s episode with the acknowledgment that the X/Twitter ban situation in Brazil is possibly too […]
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OSOM is shutting down on Friday
OSOM always had a difficult road, with plans to launch a privacy-focused handset.
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OSOM always had a difficult road, with plans to launch a privacy-focused handset.
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Salesforce acquires data management firm Own for $1.9B in cash
Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash. Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack in 2021. The company reportedly considered — but ultimately decided against — purchasing data management software firm Informatica earlier this year. In a press release, Salesforce GM
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Salesforce has acquired Own Company, a New Jersey-based provider of data management and protection solutions, for $1.9 billion in cash. Own is Salesforce’s biggest deal since buying Slack in 2021. The company reportedly considered — but ultimately decided against — purchasing data management software firm Informatica earlier this year. In a press release, Salesforce GM […]
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Driverless car-sharing startup Vay steers toward B2B services
The new business-to-business division is a bet on what co-founder and CEO Thomas von der Ohe thinks is the future of mobility.
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The new business-to-business division is a bet on what co-founder and CEO Thomas von der Ohe thinks is the future of mobility.
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Drip Capital, a fintech that provides working capital to SMBs, picks up $113M
Drip Capital has raised $113 million in a combination of $23 million in equity and $90 million in debt to provide credit to more small businesses in India and the U.S.
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Drip Capital has raised $113 million in a combination of $23 million in equity and $90 million in debt to provide credit to more small businesses in India and the U.S.
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Endolith is using ‘Olympic caliber’ copper microbes to address the copper shortage
The stealthily operating startup thinks it can narrow the gap by helping miners extract more copper from their mines.
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The stealthily operating startup thinks it can narrow the gap by helping miners extract more copper from their mines.
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Mintlify is building a next-gen platform for writing software docs
Mintlify offers a collection of documentation-authoring tools, including tools that can auto-generate docs from codebases.
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Mintlify offers a collection of documentation-authoring tools, including tools that can auto-generate docs from codebases.
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German LLM maker Aleph Alpha pivots to AI support
Europe doesn’t have many large language model (LLM) makers but one of these rare AI beasts — Germany’s Aleph Alpha — appears to be preparing to rule itself out of the running, per Bloomberg, which has an interview with CEO Jonas Andrulis on its pivot to a broader generative AI-support play. The idea with a
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Europe doesn’t have many large language model (LLM) makers but one of these rare AI beasts — Germany’s Aleph Alpha — appears to be preparing to rule itself out of the running, per Bloomberg, which has an interview with CEO Jonas Andrulis on its pivot to a broader generative AI-support play. The idea with a […]
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Rivian’s chief software designer is coming to TechCrunch Disrupt 2024
Every automaker is aiming to build and sell the so-called software-defined vehicle. Rivian may have actually done it, but getting there wasn’t easy. Just ask Rivian’s chief of software Wassym Bensaid. In a bid to drive down manufacturing costs and improve the performance of its EVs, Rivian changed 600 parts on its flagship R1S SUV
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Every automaker is aiming to build and sell the so-called software-defined vehicle. Rivian may have actually done it, but getting there wasn’t easy. Just ask Rivian’s chief of software Wassym Bensaid. In a bid to drive down manufacturing costs and improve the performance of its EVs, Rivian changed 600 parts on its flagship R1S SUV […]
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Zamp targets growing demand for sales tax solutions
Until six years ago, many e-commerce and SaaS businesses could have avoided paying sales tax to states where they had customers, but no physical presence. But as online shopping grew, states realized they were losing out on tax revenue. The era of free-riding for online retailers ended in 2018 when South Dakota took Wayfair to
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Until six years ago, many e-commerce and SaaS businesses could have avoided paying sales tax to states where they had customers, but no physical presence. But as online shopping grew, states realized they were losing out on tax revenue. The era of free-riding for online retailers ended in 2018 when South Dakota took Wayfair to […]
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