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The TechCrunch High 3
- You can’t handle the jet: Elon Musk said that he was going to guard free speech, even for the individual behind Elon Jet, the Twitter account monitoring his flights, however alas the account has been completely suspended. Amanda has extra.
- If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em: It was that Apple fought what they name “sideloading” alternative app stores on the iPhone, however as a way to adjust to European legal guidelines, the patron tech large is now reportedly permitting them with iOS 17, which is able to come out subsequent yr, Ivan stories.
- Cash flow conundrum: Mary Ann stories on Nilus, a startup that secured $8.5 million to automate monetary workflows for firms to extra simply handle buyer funds.
Startups and VC
Wow, you all had been consuming up the fintech information in the present day. Okay, right here is one other one. Bondaval, a London-based B2B firm offering credit score groups with assurance that clients pays their payments, raised $15 million in Series A funding, with Catherine writing that Bondaval has now expanded into new use instances for credit score managers at giant firms, together with these within the vitality sector.
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- You look mahvelous: Bollywood star Deepika Padukone has a success on her arms along with her skincare startup, which took in $7.5 million, Manish writes.
- Taking off: Ingrid stories on one other spherical of funding for Defend AI, which provides it a $2.3 billion valuation. The corporate, with its military autonomous flying tech, is a brilliant spot within the protection sector, which continues to draw investments.
- I would like a greenback, or 1 billion of them: Visa is committing $1 billion to Africa over the next five years to focus on partnerships and put money into companies tackling issues starting from meals insecurity to the underbanked, Tage writes.
- You’ll be able to wager on this: Blockchain has confronted its justifiable share of challenges this yr, between crypto winter and different scandals, Mike writes, however it appears to be discovering its stride within the sports betting market.
Expensive Sophie: When can I register my worker for the H-1B lottery?
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Expensive Sophie,
We’re a pre-seed startup fascinated about sponsoring an early worker’s H-1B visa to remain within the U.S. and work for us.
How does the method work?
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Massive Tech Inc.
The U.S. Nationwide Safety Company warned that Chinese hackers were exploiting a zero-day bug in two of Citrix’s networking merchandise. Carly writes that “the critical-rated vulnerability permits an unauthenticated attacker to remotely run malicious code on susceptible units — no passwords wanted.” Ooof!
One other warning that Twitter information is coming. Natasha L writes that Elon Musk reportedly forcing tracking ads on Twitter is placing him on the quick listing for a talking-to by the European Union. Additionally, Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey had a good one-day run posting on Revue, Twitter’s publication platform, earlier than the social media large introduced it was shutting it down. Amanda has extra on that.
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