Twitter Co-Founder Biz Stone Backs Tutoring Platform Scoodle
Just Spices, the German spice mix startup, raises €13M Series B: Steve O'Hear
Just Spices, the German-founded spice mix brand, is disclosing €13 million in Series B funding. The round is led by Five Seasons Ventures and Coefficient Capital, with Bitburger Ventures also joining. A direct to consumer play, Just Spices offers two main pro…
India's top court rules indefinite internet shutdown in Kashmir unwarranted and amount to abuse of power: Manish Singh
India’s top court ruled on Friday that the indefinite shutdown of the internet in Kashmir was unwarranted and demonstrated “abuse of power” by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi -led government. India cut internet access in Kashmir in August last year after rev…
Twitter co-founder Biz Stone backs tutoring platform Scoodle: Steve O'Hear
Scoodle, a U.K.-based startup that, in its own words, wants to help tutors become influencers, is disclosing $760,000 in pre-seed funding. Backing the round is Twitter co-founder Biz Stone, alongside Tiny VC, IFG Ventures and a number of unnamed angels. Scood…
PayU acquires controlling stake in Indian credit business PaySense, to merge it with LazyPay: Manish Singh
PayU is acquiring a controlling stake in fintech startup PaySense at a valuation of $185 million and plans to merge it with its credit business LazyPay as the nation’s largest payments processor aggressively expands its financial services offering. The Prosus…
Meet MarsCat, a robot cat with lots of love to give and room to grow: Darrell Etherington
At CES 2020, one of the more well-represented gadget categories was definitely consumer robots – but none was more adorable than MarsCat, a new robo-pet from industrial robot startup Elephant Robotics. This robot pet is a fully autonomous companion that can r…
SiriusXM and Pandora test bundle discounts: Sarah Perez
It’s been less than a year since SiriusXM completed its $3.5 billion acquisition of streaming music service Pandora, but the two companies have already leveraged their collective assets to boost each other’s services. For example, SiriusXM talk shows arrived …
How Ring is rethinking privacy and security: Romain Dillet
Ring is now a major player when it comes to consumer video doorbells, security cameras — and privacy protection. Amazon acquired the company and promotes its devices heavily on its e-commerce websites. Ring has even become a cultural phenomenon with viral vid…
Over two dozen encryption experts call on India to rethink changes to its intermediary liability rules: Manish Singh
Security and encryption experts from around the world are joining a number of organizations to call on India to reconsider its proposed amendments to local intermediary liability rules. In an open letter to India’s IT Minister Ravi Shankar Prasad on Thursday,…
Lime is laying off about 100 people and ceasing operations in 12 markets: Megan Rose Dickey
Lime is hoping to achieve profitability this year by laying off about 14% of its workforce and ceasing operations in 12 markets, Axios first reported. “Financial independence is our goal for 2020, and we are confident that Lime will be the first next-generati…
Zuckerberg ditches annual challenges to improve 2030: Josh Constine
Mark Zuckerberg won’t be spending 2020 focused on wearing ties, learning Mandarin, or just fixing Facebook. “Rather than having year-to-year challenges, I’ve tried to think about what I hope the world and my life will look in 2030” he wrote today on Facebook.…
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