CJEU ruling on Meta referral could close the chapter on surveillance capitalism
Mark your calendar European friends: July 4th could soon be celebrated as independence-from-Meta’s-surveillance-capitalism-day… A long-anticipated judgement handed down today by the Court of Justice of...
Tech Live Trends wishes you a Happy Fourth of July! : Tech Live Trends
Yours Truly is enjoying some time off for the Fourth of July, so Tech Live Trends will be “closed” today. Have a great Independence Day...
‘GAFAM’ tech giants, ByteDance and Samsung expect to face EU’s rebooted antitrust regime
Seven tech giants have informed the European Union that its rebooted antitrust regime — the Digital Markets Act (DMA) — will apply to them. The...
ClickUp, a productivity platform that was last valued at $4B, cuts 10% of workforce
ClickUp, the software-as-a-service startup that offers a workforce productivity platform and counts storied investors Andreessen Horowitz and Tiger Global among its backers, has laid off...
Intense Power-Fantasy Action Swings Onto Quest 2
There are some experiences that can only exist in VR.[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlOYiw1C1mM[/embed]Whether it be donning a weaponized suit and soaring through the skies at break-neck speed or...
UK’s early-stage media tech VC GMG Ventures rebrands to Mercuri, closes £50M fund
UK-based early-stage media technology venture capital firm GMG Ventures has rebranded to Mercuri. It has also raised £50 million ($81.35 million) for its second fund...
Smartstaff raises $6.2Mn in Series A as it expands its blue collar workforce management platform
Smartstaff, the Blume Ventures / Nexus VP-backed blue collar workforce management and recruitment platform, has bagged a fresh $6.2Mn in Series A from existing and...
India’s Flipkart begins customer lending in bid to boost sales
Flipkart has begun lending to customers, expanding its financing offerings in a move that could potentially boost sales even as its chief rival Amazon has...
The remote work startups that will last aren’t actually remote work startups
Back in 2020 when the pandemic forced people to work from home, entrepreneurs saw an opportunity to build tools to fuel this new transition to...
Twitter said only verified users will be able to access TweetDeck after 30 days
After swathes of users were unable to access parts of TweetDeck over the last few days, Twitter started rolling out a new version of the...