Shekel Mobility, a B2B marketplace for auto dealers in Africa, raises $7M led by...
The World Economic Forum states that Africa has an average annual demand for 2.4 million cars and 300,000 commercial vehicles. This demand is...
After taking credibility hit, Carta announces it is exiting the secondaries business: “We have...
Roughly 72 hours after a prominent startup customer complained that Carta was misusing information with which it was entrusted — scaring many of...
The circular economy promises to remake retail. Why is it so hard to trust?
Thrifting is back, though this time it has a tech spin on it.
An entirely new generation has discovered the pleasures of digging through...
Google turns up the heat on AWS, claims Cloud Spanner is half the cost...
Google’s Cloud Spanner is now half the cost of Amazon’s DynamoDB “for most workloads,” Google says. And Google doesn’t want you to forget...
Tineco Pure One X Pet vacuum review: a lightweight cordless for pet lovers
Tineco Pure One X Pet: two-minute reviewAs the name suggests, the Tineco Pure One X Pet is aimed at those with furry four-legged...
Capsule’s new app combines AI and human editors to curate the news
A Paris-based startup called Capsule wants to transform the way users seek out their daily news. Instead of offering a standard news aggregator...
This fitness app shows Apple a better way to track my workouts
Ever since I was a child, I’ve loved staying active. That has continued into adulthood, and now I exercise daily using the Workout...
If your startup doesn’t seem impossible at first, it’s not hard enough
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A timeline of Sam Altman’s firing from OpenAI — and the fallout
In a dramatic turn of events late Friday, ex-Y Combinator president Sam Altman was fired as CEO of AI startup OpenAI, the company...
Best OLED TV Black Friday deals from Samsung, Sony, LG, more
If you don’t already know, OLED and QLED panels are totally different, with OLED including millions of individually lit pixels. That allows them...
