IT総合 As Twitter/X rivals explode, news aggregator SmartNews struggles to retain users
News aggregator app SmartNews had a tough 2023, beginning with widespread layoffs in January and wrapping up with a lead...
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IT総合 IT総合 Podimo raises €44M to turn up the volume on its Netflix-style podcasting platform
We are fast approaching half a billion people listening to podcasts, and today one of the independent players hoping to ...
IT総合 Meltwater, the media monitoring startup, gets a $65M investment from Verdane
Meltwater, which first made its name around media monitoring and then got active in business intelligence using AI and b...
IT総合 Google Nest Renew and OhmConnect merge into “Renew Home” with a $100M boost from Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners
Another development today in Google’s long-term strategy to streamline some of its less-core business operations. ...
IT総合 Guardz collects $18M to expand its AI-based security platform for SMBs
Thanks to advances in AI, small and medium businesses have become a significant target in the world of cybercrime, accou...
IT総合 Durable cements $14M to build bots and other AI tools for small businesses in service industries
Builders, bakers and body conditioners might not be the first trades that come to mind when you think about how AI is tr...
IT総合 PwC is acquiring Surfaceink, the hardware designer that was once a close partner of Apple’s
A lesser-known but significant player in the Silicon Valley tech world is getting acquired today — a move that und...
IT総合 SumUp taps €285M more in growth funding to weather the fintech storm
SumUp — the fintech that provides payments and related services to some 4 million small businesses in Europe, the ...
IT総合 UK’s CMA is looking at whether Microsoft and OpenAI tie-up is a ‘relevant merger’
The whirlwind management drama at OpenAI last month ended with co-founder Sam Altman reinstated within a week of his sur...
IT総合 European neobroker Scalable Capital raises $65M on a flat $1.4B valuation
Scalable Capital, a Munich startup that aims to make investing in financial markets accessible to a wider range of consu...
IT総合 Mine digs up $30M for its no-code approach to vetting data privacy
Israeli startup Mine made a name for itself a few years ago with a tool designed for consumers to quickly run an audit o...
IT総合 Foretellix raises $85M to build and test scenarios for self-driving systems
On their way to building fully-autonomous vehicles, self-driving car makers are facing a tall task: training their AIs t...
IT総合 SoftBank Corp takes 51% of Cubic Telecom for $513M to drive into the connected car world
As automakers and technology companies continue to build ever-more sophisticated digital platforms into cars and other v...
IT総合 NomuPay, formed out of Wirecard’s ashes, acquires Total Processing for tooling and customer service
NomuPay — the payments startup that was formed out of some of the healthier pieces of the dramatically failed fint...
IT総合 Squint peers at $13M led by Sequoia for AR aimed at B2B to interact with physical objects
Apple’s and Google’s move into smart augmented reality several years ago, creating ways for people to use th...
IT総合 Dataminr, the $4B big data startup, is laying off 20% of staff today, or 150 people, as it preps to double down on AI
It’s a tough day for Dataminr, the New York-based big data unicorn last valued at $4.1 billion. TechCrunch has lea...
IT総合 European startup funding halved to $42B in 2023, says Atomico
The downturn in the technology sector — dragged by inflation, higher interest rates and geopolitical events —...
IT総合 PhysicsX emerges from stealth with $32M for AI to power engineering simulations
A lot of the buzz these days in artificial intelligence is around generative AI and how AI is being used to accelerate s...
IT総合 Black Friday online buying hits a record $9.8B in the US, $70.9B globally
A rush of deep discounts and the growth of flexible payment options were the drivers behind $9.8 billion in online sales...
IT総合 Adobe: Thanksgiving US online sales nudge up to $5.6B; Salesforce: $31.7B spent globally
Thanksgiving Thursday, when stores in the U.S. are closed and many are spending time off work, has become the de facto s...
IT総合 Emmett Shear, the ex-Twitch CEO tasked with stabilizing OpenAI, has some spicy social history
Emmett Shear, the interim CEO of OpenAI, may be out of a job by the end of the hour, day or week given how fast and unex...
IT総合 DeepMind and YouTube release Lyria, a gen-AI model for music, and Dream Track to build AI tunes
Back in January, Google made some waves — soundwaves, that is — when it quietly released some research on AI...
IT総合 X says 325K posts and 375K accounts ‘actioned’ over Israel-Hamas war violations
X, the social platform formerly known as Twitter, has been facing waves of criticism over how it has, under owner Elon M...
IT総合 More consolidation in grocery delivery: Getir acquires FreshDirect to beef up in the US
Getir, the Turkish instant grocery delivery startup, has made an acquisition to expand its presence in the U.S. and to f...
IT総合 Confirmed: Palo Alto has acquired Talon Cyber Security, sources say for $625M
Palo Alto Networks has just confirmed one more major piece of security startup M&A out of Israel: it has acquired T...
IT総合 At Bletchley, Rishi Sunak confirms AI Safety Institute but delays regulations for another day
A Frontier AI taskforce established by the U.K. back in June to prepare for the AI Safety Summit held this week is on co...
IT総合 Politicians commit to collaborate to tackle AI safety, US launches safety institute
The world is locked in a race, and competition, over dominance in AI, but today, a few of them appeared to come together...
IT総合 Who’s going (and who’s not) to the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park?
Ahead of the AI Safety Summit starting tomorrow morning taking place outside of London in Bletchley Park, today, the U.K...
IT総合 Wirepas nabs $22M to expand a IoT business based on distributed, mesh technology
Wirepas, a startup out of Finland that is building out an Internet of Things business based on a novel approach — ...
IT総合 Confirmed: Palo Alto Networks buys Dig Security, sources say for $400M
We reported in September that Palo Alto was getting ready to make yet more security acquisitions out of Israel, specific...