Now the EU is asking questions about Meta’s ‘pay or be tracked’ consent model

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March 1, 2024 · 8 min · 1613 words · Brandi Owen

Pitch Deck Teardown: CommandBar’s $4.8M seed deck

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March 1, 2024 · 9 min · 1824 words · Allison Dillon MD

Rabbit’s Jesse Lyu on the nature of startups: ‘Grow faster, or die faster,’ just don’t give up

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March 1, 2024 · 6 min · 1066 words · Michael Serrano

Rants, AI and other notes from Upfront Summit

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March 1, 2024 · 3 min · 569 words · Rebecca Thompson

Rec emerges from stealth to modernize Parks & Rec management and booking

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March 1, 2024 · 5 min · 940 words · Timothy Cunningham

Spotify, Epic Games and others pen letter to EC, claiming Apple has made a ‘mockery’ of the DMA

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March 1, 2024 · 5 min · 910 words · Kyle Moyer

Thoma Bravo takes critical event management software company Everbridge private in $1.8B deal

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March 1, 2024 · 3 min · 535 words · Lauren Robinson

Threads says it will make its API broadly available by June

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March 1, 2024 · 3 min · 427 words · Christopher Townsend

Ultraleap is bringing haptic touch to cars and VR headsets

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March 1, 2024 · 4 min · 838 words · Ronald Long

Ambani’s Reliance and Disney merge India media assets to form $8.5B joint venture

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February 29, 2024 · 5 min · 934 words · Dwayne Johnson

Bfree, a Nigerian startup enabling lenders to recover debt ethically, gets $3M backing

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February 29, 2024 · 5 min · 988 words · Justin Mason

Brave’s Leo AI assistant is now available to Android users

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February 29, 2024 · 3 min · 580 words · Alfred Ho

Don’t ignore Asia tech

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February 29, 2024 · 21 min · 4397 words · Jennifer Snyder