Category: Apps
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Second Byju’s auditor exits in a year amid bankruptcy proceedings
BDO, the auditor for Indian edtech startup Byju’s, has resigned with immediate effect, marking the second auditor departure for the embattled startup in about a year and further intensifying concerns about its financial health and governance. In a scathing resignation letter, BDO subsidiary MSKA highlighted multiple issues with Byju’s, including significant delays in financial reporting,…
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Roblox introduces new earning opportunities for creators, teases generative AI project
At the annual Roblox Developers Conference, the company announced on Friday a series of changes coming to the platform in the next few months and years. Most notably, Roblox is adding more ways for creators to earn money through their experiences, and the company is unveiling a project that will power generative AI creation on…
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Meta will let third-party apps place calls to WhatsApp and Messenger users — in 2027
Meta on Friday published an update on how it plans to comply with the Digital Markets Act (DMA), the European law that aims to promote competition in digital marketplaces, where the law concerns the company’s messaging apps, Messenger and WhatsApp. As Meta notes in a blog post, the DMA requires that it provide an option…
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C-Zero is raising $18M to make emission-free hydrogen using natural gas, filings reveal
By using readily available natural gas as the feedstock, C-Zero hopes to produce emission-free hydrogen for less than other green hydrogen startups. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Hydrogen startup C-Zero has raised $5 million of an $18 million funding round, according to an SEC filing. The company is developing…
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University of Texas opens robotics program up to incoming freshmen
The honors program is one of the first in the U.S. that allows incoming freshmen to apply for the program as part of their initial admission application. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. The University of Texas at Austin this week announced that it has opened its undergraduate robotics program…
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How a cold email to a VC helped salon software startup Mangomint raise $35M
Mangomint seeks to make it easier for spa and salon owners to run their businesses. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Back in 2017, Daniel Lang, Dan Poineau and Sandra Huber came together to build Mangomint, a startup that makes salon and spa operations software. Lang said they realized that…
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Wealthy Harris donors are reportedly pressing for ouster of FTC Chair Lina Khan
Some of Vice President Kamala Harris’ wealthier donors are informally asking for FTC Chair Lina Khan to be replaced, reports Bloomberg. It’s not really surprising: Her expansive definition of antitrust enforcement has countless industries frantic, and the largest corporations opposed her appointment from the start. Khan’s FTC, which has opposed mergers that would have been…
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Watch live as Boeing and NASA attempt to bring empty Starliner back to Earth
After 93 days on orbit, Starliner is coming home. The spacecraft is a “go” for undocking from the International Space Station at 6:04 p.m. EST, though it will be leaving its two-person crew behind, and you can watch the drama unfold live. Those crew members, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, closed the hatch…
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The maiden voyage of Blue Origin’s massive new rocket won’t be for NASA
The world will have to wait a little longer to see Blue Origin’s massive New Glenn rocket fly for the first time. That rocket had been scheduled to launch two spacecraft to Mars for NASA during an eight-day window that opens on October 13. But NASA announced on Friday that it was pushing the mission,…
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ChatGPT: Everything you need to know about the AI-powered chatbot
ChatGPT, OpenAI’s text-generating AI chatbot, has taken the world by storm since its launch in November 2022. What started as a tool to hyper-charge productivity through writing essays and code with short text prompts has evolved into a behemoth used by more than 92% of Fortune 500 companies. That growth has propelled OpenAI itself into…