Category: Enterprise
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As more Instagram users engage with Stories, the app adds a comments feature
Instagram’s latest feature aims to boost user interaction within Stories. The social media platform now allows followers to comment on each other’s Stories, making the experience more community-focused, akin to livestreaming where users can engage in larger discussions. A few users have already spotted the feature, including marketing strategist Taylor Loren (@taylor.loren on Threads). Meta…
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The flat-rate real estate startup that’s got big players worried and BNPL’s turning a corner
Welcome to TechCrunch Fintech! This week, we’re looking at a new real estate startup that’s making big waves with its offering, Klarna and Affirm’s financials, a neobank focused on immigrants that’s growing fast, and more! To get a roundup of TechCrunch’s biggest and most important fintech stories delivered to your inbox every Tuesday at 8:00…
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Bluesky continues to soar, adding 2M more new users in a matter of days
As new users downloaded the app, Bluesky jumped to becoming the app to No. 1 in Brazil over the weekend, ahead of Meta’s X competitor, Instagram Threads. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. Social networking startup Bluesky continues to benefit from X’s shutdown in Brazil having now added over 2…
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Android’s latest update improves text-to-speech, Circle to Search, earthquake alerts and more
Android introduced five updates on Tuesday as part of its latest release of the mobile operating system. Available for smartphones, tablets, and Wear OS watches, the new features include audio descriptions of images, text-to-speech technology for web pages in Chrome, and the ability to look up songs with “Circle to Search,” among other things. Initially…
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Android 15 will be available on supported Pixel devices in the coming weeks
Google announced on Tuesday it’s releasing Android 15 and making its source code available ahead of the coming consumer launch, which will bring the new mobile operating system to supported Pixel devices in the coming weeks. The company also revealed that Android 15 will launch on select devices from Samsung, Honor, iQOO, Lenovo, Motorola, Nothing,…
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Learn startup best practices with MongoDB, Venture Backed, InterSystems and others at Disrupt 2024
From idea to IPO, Disrupt charts startups at every stage on the roadmap to their next breakthrough. TechCrunch will gather some of the startup world’s leading companies — but our partners provide more than just financial support. Their presence at Disrupt gives new and prospective founders the tools, knowledge and community they need to build…
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Volkswagen is rolling out its ChatGPT assistant to the US
Volkswagen is taking its ChatGPT voice assistant experiment on the road. Or more specifically, to vehicles it sells in the United States. The German automaker announced in January at CES 2024 plans to add an AI-powered chatbot into all Volkswagen models equipped with its IDA voice assistant. But the U.S. was excluded in that initial…
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Bitcoin ATMs are a hotbed for scams, FTC says
The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) published a report about increasing fraud at Bitcoin ATMs. These ATMs allow people to turn their cash into crypto, but they’ve become a tool for scammers to perpetrate fraud. Since 2020, the FTC says, fraud at Bitcoin ATMs has ballooned nearly tenfold, and just in the first half of 2024,…
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Hostinger Pricing Explained: Which Plan Should You Pick? If Any
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in AI, Apps, Climate, Cloud Computing, Crypto, Cybersecurity, Enterprise, EV, FinTech, Gadgets, Gaming, SaaS, Software, Startups“Wow, that’s a lot of plans!” was my first thought – and second and third – when I first tried to make sense of Hostinger’s pricing. The plans all seemed so similar, not just in price but in how they were presented, almost as if each one was a completely different product. The post Hostinger…
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BigEndian founders hope to use their deep chip experience to help establish India in semiconductors
India’s fabless semiconductor startup BigEndian has raised $3 million in a seed round led by Vertex Ventures SEA and India. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only. India, despite being home to 20% of the world’s chip designers, lacks a significant presence in the global semiconductor market. However, in recent months,…