GitLab to reduce workforce by 7%
GitLab is the latest tech company to announce a round of layoffs, as the developer operations (DevOps) giant revealed today that it’s reducing its headcount by 7 percent. It has been a tough 2023 so far for the
Amid ChatGPT frenzy, a hundred followers bloom in China
Technological breakthroughs in the U.S. never fail to inspire challengers, followers and opportunists in China. It’s ChatGPT’s turn to capture the imagination of the world’s largest internet population. On WeChat,
Blobr raises another $5.4 million for its API monetization product
French startup Blobr raised a $5.4 million funding round (€5 million) led by German VC firm 10x Founders a couple of months ago. The company calls itself the ‘Shopify for APIs’, which is a good way to sum up what it
Lunar, the Danish neobank last year valued at $2.2B, raises $38M to shoot for the profitability moon
Lunar, a neobank out of Denmark, last year raised money at a $2.2 billion valuation from a splashy set of investors that included Heartland, Kinnevik, Tencent, IDC Ventures and comedian Will Ferrell, to fill out its
DoorDash introduces new safety features for riders including reduced notifications
Delivery company DoorDash is introducing new features for riders including reduced notifications, a request for customers to not text them while they are on a trip, and messaging promoting one-tap replies. DoorDash
Musk’s Twitter gets ‘yellow card’ for missing data in EU disinformation report
The first batch of reports by tech giants, adtech entities and others on how they’re tackling online disinformation in the European Union since the bloc unveiled a strengthened version of its Code of Practice last
Replo gives businesses a low-code option for creating Shopify landing pages
This is a tale as old as time: a small e-commerce owner wants to build a great landing page for their company, but the available tools only get them so far, and they don’t have the funds to hire a developer. This is
Coincover raises $30M to help protect digital assets from hacks and human error
Coincover, a digital asset protection company, has raised $30 million in funding led by Foundation Capital to protect people and their digital assets from hacks or human error, David Janczewski, CEO and co-founder
Arrcus snaps up $50M for a software-based alternative to costly network router equipment
Software may be eating the world, but it’s all still largely running across very physical, and often very expensive, equipment. That is now slowly starting to change, though. Today, a startup called Arrcus — which
Sling TV launches free ad-supported streaming TV service ‘Sling Freestream’
Today, Sling TV announced the launch of its free ad-supported streaming TV service, Sling Freestream, which offers access to over 210 channels and more than 41,000 on-demand movies and TV shows across a variety of