Tesla fires dozens of workers one day after launching union campaign

Tesla fired more than 30 employees who work at its factory in Buffalo, New York in retaliation for union organizing, according to a complaint filed with the National Labor... Read more »

Jumia laid off 20% of staff in Q4 2022 amid work to reduce losses by half this year

Jumia, as part of its streamlining efforts, reduced headcount by 60% in Dubai and “undertook overall headcount reductions that resulted in over 900 position terminations across its 11 markets,... Read more »

Stelo Labs raises $6M in a16z-led round to help crypto wallet users protect themselves

Stelo Labs, a web3 security company, raised $6 million in a seed round led by Andreessen Horowitz, the company exclusively told TechCrunch. The company was co-founded by Ben Scharfstein,... Read more »

Microsoft says Bing can be provoked to respond outside of its ‘designed tone’

Microsoft has acknowledged reports of Bing’s strange responses to some queries over the past week since the launch of the updated search engine. Some users have reported receiving rude,... Read more »

Tile takes extreme steps to limit stalkers and thieves from using its Bluetooth trackers

Apple took a big PR hit as news spread that its item tracker the AirTag was being used for stalking and car thefts, which led the company to retool... Read more »

So that founder you backed turned out to be problematic. Now what?

Venture capitalists often say that they don’t just back a company because of its vision, but also because they believe in the founder or founding team and think they’re... Read more »

Puzzle is building a modern accounting package for today’s API-enabled startups

A company starting from scratch today is probably going to use a stack of financial software with the most modern fintech tools. These could be things like Stripe for... Read more »

Sequoia backs open source data-validation framework Pydantic to commercialize with cloud services

Pydantic, the popular python Python library and open source data-validation framework used by some of the world’s biggest companies, has a new commercial namesake and the backing of one... Read more »

Consumers find chatbots disappointing, but that won’t harm adoption

A lot’s changed since Tay. The advent of AI tech like ChatGPT dramatically improved the chatbot experience, showing that chatbots aren’t necessarily destined to deliver underwhelming back-and-forth conversations. But... Read more »

Paramount+ reaches 56M subs, raises prices as it combines with Showtime

Following the major integration of Showtime into Paramount+ two weeks ago, Paramount reported its quarterly earnings this morning, announcing that Paramount+ gained 9.9 million subscribers in Q4 to bring... Read more »
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