South Korea’s digital lender Toss Bank in advanced talks to close $154M funding at a valuation of $2.1B
Fresh off a $153 million funding round in March 2023, South Korean digital lender and neobank Toss Bank is close to raising another $154 million...
Warner Bros. Discovery loses 1.8M subscribers amid Max rebrand
Warner Bros. Discovery reported its second-quarter earnings results Thursday, revealing that it dropped in 1.8 million streaming subscribers across HBO, Discovery+ and its new combined...
India resurrects data privacy bill following abrupt pullback last year
Ashwini Vaishnaw, the IT minister of India, resubmitted an updated data privacy bill in lower house of the Indian parliament on Thursday, months after introducing...
Waymo is bringing its robotaxi service to Austin
Waymo plans to launch a robotaxi service in Austin — putting the company once again in direct competition with rival Cruise. Austin will be the...
Xiaomi removes its Mi Music app from the Play Store
Xiaomi has silently pulled its music player and streaming app Mi Music from the Play Store in India, continuing its shutdown of various services in...
AFP sues Musk’s X for refusing to enter news reuse payment talks
Elon Musk-owned X, formerly Twitter, is facing legal action brought under copyright law in France. The Agence France-Presse (AFP) news agency has announced that it’s...
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Bryan House is the SVP of product and customer success at Elastic Path, where he leads the UX, product management, enablement and customer success teams....
Emtech to advance its regtech and CBDC stack solutions with $4M led by Matrix Partners India
Emtech, an African provider of central banking infrastructure, introduced its Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) Innovation kit last month. The kit caters to fintechs and...
India restricts import of laptop, tablets and servers
India restricted import of laptops, tablets, other personal computers and servers with immediate effect on Thursday, the Ministry of Commerce and Industry said in an...
Xpeng’s head of autonomous driving quits, rumored to join Nvidia
Xpeng, a prominent Chinese electric vehicle maker and a competitor to Tesla, has announced the resignation of its vice president of autonomous driving, Xinzhou Wu,...