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.
Month: September 2024
Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase
Existing subscribers Canva teams subscribers are being moved to a new, more expensive pricing model. | The Verge The price of some Canva subscriptions are set to skyrocket next year following the company’s aggressive rollout of generative AI features. Global customers for Canva Teams — […]
Ziina banks $22M as growth explodes for the UAE-based fintech for small businesses
The Dubai-based startup, which now counts 50,000 retail and business customers in the UAE, has netted $22 million led by Altos Ventures. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Bang & Olufsen debuts the $1,549 Beoplay H100 headphones
Luxury audio brand Bang & Olufsen is know for its high-end design and equally exorbitant prices. Typically the company’s earbuds and headphones are more expensive than most competitors, but not astronomically so. That’s changed with the company’s flagship noise-cancelling headphones though. Following the $999 Beoplay […]
Xavier Niel replaces Coatue’s Laffont on board of TikTok parent ByteDance
French billionaire Xavier Niel is joining the board of directors of TikTok’s parent, ByteDance, the company told the South China Morning Post. It’s an interesting move as Niel isn’t a name that comes up very often for high-profile board positions. He is replacing Philippe Laffont, […]
X lets you edit DMs — here is how to use the feature
X, the social network owned by Elon Musk, is finally rolling out one of the most sought-after features for direct messages: the ability to edit the message. Over the weekend, X made the edit message feature available to iOS users. One of the engineers at […]
Payroll startup Cercli inks $4M to build the “Rippling for the Middle East and North Africa”
The potential of Cercli’s payroll platform has attracted investor interest, leading to $4 million in seed funding. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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.
NYT Connections bot uses AI to highlight each day’s top mistakes
Connections, the daily word game from The New York Times, isn’t exactly easy. In fact, the solve rate dips below 50 percent some days. To help highlight where players are going wrong, a new bot is employing AI to guess the thought process they’re using […]
The UK government will investigate Ticketmaster’s dynamic pricing model after Oasis chaos
It’s not only Taylor Swift fans and the US government who aren’t happy about Ticketmaster. The UK government is set to look into the company’s dynamic pricing model after millions of Oasis fans scrambled for tickets to the band’s reunion tour over the weekend. Once […]