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To avert more UK antitrust woes, Meta to limit how it uses ad data to boost Facebook Marketplace

Facebook's parent Meta has given key assurances to U.K. antitrust regulators as it looks to counter concerns over how it uses advertising data to benefit its own products.The news comes in the same we...

May 2023

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Memcyco raises $10M to protect businesses from brandjacking

Memcyco, a Tel Aviv-based startup that provides businesses with tools to guard against website impersonation, today announced that it has raised a $10 million seed funding. The round was led by Capri ...

May 2023

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Google introduces Product Studio, a tool that lets merchants create product imagery using generative AI

At its Google Marketing Live event today, the tech giant announced that it's launching Product Studio, a new tool that lets merchants easily create product imagery using generative AI. Brands will be ...

May 2023

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Apple Launches Tap to Pay on iPhone in Australia

Apple has announced the launch of Tap to Pay on iPhone in Australia, allowing independent sellers, small merchants, and large retailers in the country to use ?iPhones? as a payment terminal.Tap to Pay...

May 2023

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Jia, a blockchain-based lender of small businesses in emerging markets, raises $4.3 million seed

Jia, a blockchain-based fintech providing loans to micro and small businesses in emerging markets, has raised $4.3 million seed funding, and an additional $1 million commitment for on-chain liquidity,...

May 2023

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NFX's James Currier: Where unicorn ideas come from and why founders 'have to keep pivoting'

Are you a seed-stage founder who's building a unicorn?NFX Founding Partner James Currier would like to save you some time: Startups that grow into billion-dollar companies have three basic forms of de...

May 2023

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African payment service provider Nomba raises $30M, backed by Base10 Partners and Shopify

Nigerian payment service provider Nomba has raised $30 million in a pre-Series B investment to support the delivery of bespoke payment solutions for African businesses. The round, which values the com...

May 2023

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Uber Freight offers carriers a fuel card powered by startup AtoB

Uber Freight, the logistics business spun out of Uber in 2018, is partnering with transportation fintech startup AtoB to offer carriers fuel cards and spend management software.AtoB, a four-year-old c...

Apr 2023

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An SEC Dissenter Says the Regulator Must Ease Off Crypto

[photo1]Joel KhaliliSomething needs to be done about crypto. In 2022, billions of dollars were lost to crypto bankruptcies and hundreds of millions more to hacks. The mess has spilled over into tradit...

Apr 2023

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Elon Musk says Twitter will finally remove legacy checkmarks on 4/20

Elon Musk said that Twitter will finally move to remove the legacy blue checkmarks on April 20 or 4/20 because he can't let go of that joke. This is the "final date," he said in a tweet. If the move g...

Apr 2023

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Hong Kong's ZA Bank wants to be the go-to bank for crypto startups

As the collapses of Signature Bank and Silvergate sent crypto companies scrambling, a virtual bank from Hong Kong is extending a warm welcome to web3 startups.Hong Kong-based ZA Bank is now allowed to...

Apr 2023

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WhatsApp users in Brazil can now pay merchants through the app

WhatsApp is introducing the ability for users to directly pay businesses through chat in Brazil. This means that people in the country can have end-to-end shopping experiences from discovery to paymen...

Apr 2023

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Parenting A Transgender Child Through Sports Bans

[photo1]Ed. note: This is the latest installment in a series of posts on motherhood in the legal profession, in partnership with our friends at MothersEsquire. Welcome Laura Altieri to our pages. Clic...

Apr 2023

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Creator CRM company Pico rebrands to Hype, raises $10 million

Creator CRM company Pico is now rebranding as Hype and launching Hype Kits, which are pre-designed web templates for different kinds of creators looking to build a landing page.The company is also rai...

Apr 2023

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Sequoia backs startup making it easier for businesses to invest in US Treasury Bills

Amit Jain, former head of Uber's Asia Pacific division, said on Monday that his new venture, Zamp Finance, has secured $21.7 million in seed funding.Zamp Finance simplifies the process for businesses ...

Apr 2023

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Oxfam Novib and Goodwell target East African startups with EUR20M Pepea fund

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib, a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a EUR20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startu...

Mar 2023

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Ramp reports 4x revenue growth, says it still has 'vast majority' of equity funding

2022 was a tumultuous year for many fintech startups. But for Ramp, it was a year of opportunity.The company shared today that it saw its revenue grow by 4x last year, buoyed by what co-founder and CE...

Mar 2023

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Alibaba founder Jack Ma returns to China after a year of uncertainty

Jack Ma's whereabouts are making headlines again, roughly a year after the billionaire founder of Alibaba disappeared from the public eye.Ma had chosen to stay abroad despite China's efforts to restor...

Mar 2023

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UK competition authority is concerned about the $61B Broadcom-VMware deal

The U.K. Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) expressed concern today that the $61 billion Broadcom-VMware deal announced last year could result in more expensive servers for U.K. businesses."We ar...

Mar 2023

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To compete with Silicon Valley, European startups need their own Nasdaq

Why can't European tech companies compete with Silicon Valley giants? It's a perennial conundrum for the continent's IT leaders -- and one that Phill Robinson is trying to solve.After a globetrotting ...

Mar 2023