You.com takes aim at Google and Microsoft with multimodal chat search

You.com founder Richard Socher knows that his company has always been a David going after the Goliath in search, Google, and to a lesser extent Microsoft. He likes to... Read more »

IFC leads $17M investment in South African insurtech Naked

Naked, a South African insurtech company that helps consumers to insure their cars, homes, and valuables, has raised $17 million in Series B funding led by the International Finance... Read more »

Smartrr bags $10M for its customer experience approach to e-commerce subscriptions

Getting a subscription service going and keeping it, complete with fulfillment and delivery, is complicated. Brands use technologies that can cause them to end up with double billing and... Read more »

Passwordless authentication startup Descope lands whopping $53M seed round

Capital might be harder to come by than it once was in startup land, but some firms are bucking the trend — hard. Take Descope, for example, which today... Read more »

Yext hops on the generative AI train with Yext Chat, an enterprise-focused chatbot

Looking to cash in on the generative AI craze, Yext, the platform for online brand management, today announced an AI-powered chatbot called Yext Chat. Taking inspiration from OpenAI’s ChatGPT,... Read more »

Marvel top boss wants to space out show releases on Disney+

Marvel’s top boss Kevin Feige thinks that the company might adjust its plans when it comes to releasing shows on Disney+ and space them out for better consumption. In... Read more »

Europe to ‘assess’ Adobe’s proposed $20B Figma acquisition on competition grounds

Adobe’s proposed plan to snap up digital design rival Figma for $5 billion has attracted the attentions of the European Commission (EC), which announced today that the proposed merger... Read more »

The on-demand delivery trilemma

Ali Ahmed Contributor Share on Twitter Ali Ahmed is a serial tech entrepreneur with expertise in on-demand delivery and robotics. More posts by this contributor How to win in... Read more »

Oligo raises $28M to secure open-source libraries at runtime

Oligo Security, a Tel Aviv-based startup that focuses on runtime application security and observability to detect and prevent open-source vulnerabilities, is coming out of stealth today and announcing that... Read more »

Sprinklr cuts 4% of global workforce amid slowdown

Customer experience firm Sprinklr has laid off roughly 4% of its global workforce — or more than 100 employees — as it realigns its headcount amid the ongoing economic... Read more »
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