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Daily Crunch: After glitch causes a two-hour global outage, WhatsApp restores service

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million fine related to Android mobile devices. And we have five more for you: Smarter chips, guac optional : AI chip startup Axelera lands $27 million in capital to commercialize its hardware, Kyle reports. 8 questions to answer before your startup faces technical due diligence. The first was a $161.9 Startups and VC.

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Nomod raises $3.4M seed to allow merchants accept payments without hardware

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One, most of them are excluded from various payment ecosystems globally due to their size, and two, getting hardware from providers can be expensive. . based fintech Nomod allows these businesses to bypass the card terminal by providing a platform to accept card payments on their phone with no extra hardware.

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LambdaTest Review 2023 – Features, Pricing, Pros & Cons

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In this massive world of website testing and software development, LambdaTest holds a desirable reputation as a cloud-based, cross-browser testing software. The software makes it very simple to make your websites responsive, future-proof, and adaptive over a wide range of devices and operating systems.

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TechCrunch Experts: 3 articles on growth marketing and software development

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TechCrunch Experts continues to gather and share authoritative advice for founders who need help with growth marketing and software development. siewski, CEE mobile gaming lead, Google. When it comes to growth marketing, ‘so much of CRO is psychological’ Software consulting. Andrew Yakovlev, creator of Solydaria.

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This week in AI: Amazon ‘enhances’ reviews with AI while Snap’s goes rogue

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This week in AI, Amazon announced that it’ll begin tapping generative AI to “enhance” product reviews. Once it rolls out, the feature will provide a short paragraph of text on the product detail page that highlights the product capabilities and customer sentiment mentioned across the reviews. Could AI summarize those?

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GGV Capital latest to back Workstream’s goal of filling software gap for deskless workers

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These employees are often always in demand due to traditionally high turnover rates, and yet, many still rely on paperwork and videos. Workstream is one of the startups working on a solution for this problem, in its case, mobile-first hiring and onboarding tools. Desmond Lim, Workstream co-founder and CEO. Image Credits: Workstream.

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TechCrunch+ roundup: eVTOL takes off, pivoting with agility, when to hire a lawyer

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Use discount code TCPLUSROUNDUP to save 20% off a one- or two-year subscription. Transportation reporter Rebecca Bellan interviewed Tortoise co-founder Dmitry Shevelenko about his company’s transition “from using a hardware-as-a-service model to a take-rate scheme that gives it 10% of any sales made from its card payment-enabled bots.”.