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The tech behind Artifact, the newly launched news aggregator from Instagram’s co-founders

TechCrunch

It’s an ecosystem where publishers are failing left and right and misinformation is rampant, as the founders surely saw themselves while working at Facebook. The startup’s existence, in some ways, can be credited to the COVID pandemic, as that’s what brought the Instagram co-founders, Systrom and Mike Krieger, back together.

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Performance marketing agency MuteSix bets on content and data to boost DTC e-commerce

TechCrunch

“They demonstrate best-in-class expertise with Facebook and Google paid ad platforms. But regardless of whether you can afford this, we think you’ll learn interesting lessons from our conversation with their CRO, Greg Gillman. What can you tell us about MuteSix as an agency? What type of clients do you work with?

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Daily Crunch: In latest earnings release, Twitter admits to miscounting users for the second time

TechCrunch

It’s Thursday, April 28, 2022, and Haje’s blood pressure is slowly returning to what passes for normal after raging about Social Security numbers for a few minutes. Twitter admits it overcounted accounts : Hey guess what? Meanwhile, Alex looked into what the acquisition could mean for Twitter’s advertising revenue.

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Apple devices spoofed, Musk eggs on Zuckerberg and Better.com goes public

TechCrunch

That’s our job, and we’ve compiled them in the nifty little digest that is WiR. In this week’s edition of WiR, we cover a $70 device that can spoof an Apple device, hackers stealing Americans’ health data from an IBM system, and Elon Musk pledging to fight Mark Zuckerberg in a proper cage match.

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6 cybersecurity trends we’re thankful for

The Parallax

You might think of cybersecurity professionals as tech’s collective “ watchers on the wall ”—the guardians who let you know when doom is coming. But in light of this week’s venerable holiday, we didn’t have to think long or deeply to come up with a handful of events and developments many security experts see as positive for consumers.

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How founders raised money so far in 2023

TechCrunch

Financially, the world is a little bit wobbly right now, so investors want to see decks that show that founders know how to optimize for break-even, then profitability. Lemme put my little soapbox away and look at what else has been alive in the land of startups this week! Now the average is 16. Do more with less, get to the point.

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Toil and trouble and … startup acquisitions!

TechCrunch

This week we saw Naver acquire Poshmark , Duolingo buy its first company , Spotify acquire content moderation tech company Kinzen , and, um, Twitter got closer and closer to striking a deal with Musk. When we see high-profile acquisitions happen in close proximity, the human response is to think that there’s a trend forming.