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AI Will Radically Transform the Workplace — Here's How HR Teams Can Prepare for It
<div>HR intrapreneurs are emerging as key drivers of AI reskilling, thoughtful organizational restructuring and ethical integration, shaping an inclusive future where technology enhances both efficiency and employee development.</div>
Why This One Unique Marketing Approach is the Key to Business Growth
<div>Adopting this approach now will help you succeed and see consistent, measurable growth over the long term.</div>
Wall Street doesn’t seem too keen on a potential Salesforce-Informatica pairing
<div><p>Amid rumors that Salesforce is interested in buying Informatica, investors aren't taking kindly to the potential pairing.</p>
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Equities platform Midas raises $45M Series A as fintech retains its sparkle in Turkey
<div><p>Midas, a fintech startup that allows people in Turkey to invest in U.S. and Turkish equities, says it has raised $45 million in a funding round led by Portage Ventures of Canada. The startup is aimed at Turkey’s retail investor market and claims to have more than 2 million users. Its pitch is that it […]</p>
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How To Leverage Social Media to Optimize PR Success and Increase Your Brand Awareness
<div>Entrepreneurs can establish authority and trust in their industries through the strategic use of social media, leveraging platforms for podcast appearances, guest posts, and consistent, quality content that aligns with their brand's mission.</div>
Better Communicate Data with Your Team for $20 with Microsoft Visio
<div>Visio features a wide range of diagramming tools that can support projects across all industries.</div>
Expressing grief for a father in Tales of Kenzera: Zau | Abubakar Salim interview
Sorrent Studios' Abubakar Salim found a way to express grief in a platformer game made in honor of his father: Tales of Kenzera: Zau.Read More
Arena Breakout: Infinite launches in closed beta on Steam in May
MoreFun announced it's launching its PC FPS title Arena Breakout: Infinite in closed beta on Steam next month.Read More
Pitch Deck Teardown: Geodesic.Life’s $500K pre-seed deck
<div><p>While Geodesic.Life’s deck impresses with its aesthetic design, featuring a tasteful color palette, appealing illustrations and a concise text, it does have some crucial shortcomings.</p>
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How OpenAI and Microsoft reawakened a sleeping software giant
Just a decade ago, the world’s biggest tech beast was a relative minnow. Microsoft had become notorious for disappointing product launches, stagnant innovation, and losing top talent. The first true software giant was becoming a big tech dinosaur. Fast forward to 2024 and Microsoft is the planet’s most valuable business. Under the leadership of CEO Satya Nadella, stock has soared by over 1,000% in 10 years. In January, the company reached a $3 trillion market cap — larger than the whole GDP of F
TechCrunch Minute: Meta’s new Llama 3 models give open source AI a boost
<div><p>New AI models from Meta are making waves in technology circles. The two new models, part of the Facebook parent company’s Llama line of artificial intelligence tools, are both open source, helping them stand apart from competing offerings from OpenAI and other well-known names. Meta’s new Llama models have differently sized underlying datasets, with the […]</p>
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World’s biggest chipmaker TSMC set to increase prices
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has indicated it will increase the cost of chips made outside of Taiwan as the company reacts to pressures on its profitability.
The world’s largest maker of advanced chips for customers like Apple Inc. and Nvidia Corp., has sounded its price warning as government and big tech firms are cognizant of the geopolitical risks of having more than 90% of the world’s chips made in the country. Moves are already underway to spread the production of the m
Tesla’s newsy week, and is fintech having a moment?
<div><p>It’s been more than a minute since Tesla went public, but the EV company was inescapable on TechCrunch this week. From layoffs to pricing changes and more, it was a week dyed deeply in Tesla colors so we had to chat through the latest. But that was just one element of what we got into […]</p>
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Webflow acquires Intellimize to add AI-powered webpage personalization
<div><p>Webflow, a web design and hosting platform that’s raised over $330 million at a $4 billion valuation, is expanding into a new sector: marketing optimization. Today, Webflow announced that it acquired Intellimize, a startup leveraging AI to personalize websites for unique visitors. The terms of the deal weren’t disclosed. But a source familiar with the […]</p>
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a16z promotes Jennifer Li to help lead the new $1.25B Infrastructure fund
<div><p>Silicon Valley powerhouse venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz just promoted Jennifer Li to general partner to help lead infrastructure investments.</p>
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Apple pulls WhatsApp and Threads from China’s app store
Apple has, on orders from China’s government, removed the social networking apps WhatsApp and Threads from the App Store serving that country. Both applications are owned and administered by Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram.
The two applications had already been blocked by Chinese authorities, but still they saw heavy use, mainly from those who accessed them with a virtual private network that masked their internet protocol address and allowed users to sign in as if they were i
Langdock raises $3M with General Catalyst to help companies avoid vendor lock-in with LLMs
<div><p>Plenty of large corporations want to join the AI revolution, but many feel it’s too early to be locked into one foundational model. That means there’s a market for a layer between companies and large language models (LLMs) — something companies can use to pick LLMs easily without needing to commit for all time to […]</p>
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TikTok could still be banned in the US
TikTok is still on the brink of being banned in the United States after House Republicans included the proposed legislation in a package of bills which would secure foreign aid for Israel and Ukraine.
The threat from US lawmakers to ban the Chinese-owned video-sharing app unless owners ByteDance divest majority control of the company, elsewhere.
Back in March, the TikTok legislation passed the House and it has significant support in both chambers, whilst President Biden has indicated he will app
Meta AI is restricting election-related responses in India
<div><p>Last week, Meta started testing its AI chatbot in India across WhatsApp, Instagram and Messenger. But with the Indian general elections beginning today, the company is already blocking specific queries in its chatbot. Meta confirmed that it is restricting certain election-related keywords for AI in the test phase. It also said that it is working […]</p>
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Apple pulls WhatsApp, Threads from China App Store following state order
<div><p>Apple has removed the Meta-owned end-to-end encrypted messaging app WhatsApp from its App Store in China following a government order citing national security concerns, the news agency Reuters reported Friday. Meta’s newer, Twitter-esque text-based social networking app, Threads, has also been pulled from the App Store for the same reason, it said. “The Cyberspace Administration […]</p>
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