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Mangomint, which makes software for salon and spa operations, raised a $35M Series B led by Altos Ventures and says it has processed $1B+ in transactions (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7

Roblox plans a generative AI tool to let creators make 3D scenes using text prompts, and announces new social features like Party and Music Charts (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 AI

Meta plans to enable group chats between WhatsApp/Messenger and third-party apps in 2025 and voice and video calling with such apps in 2027, to comply with DMA (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7 WhatsApp

Pavel Durov says Telegram now has 10M paid subscribers and removes the People Nearby feature, saying it had “issues with bots and scammers.” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-7

Salesforce agrees to acquire Own Company, which provides data management and protection services, for ~$1.9B in cash; Own was valued at $3.35B as of August 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Salesforce

Microsoft plans to use StopNCII's hash database to block revenge porn in Bing, joining Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, Snapchat, Reddit, Pornhub, and OnlyFans (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Database Microsoft Facebook Snapchat Instagram Reddit

Google rolls out Ask Photos, the Gemini-powered search feature in Google Photos announced in May, in “early access” to select customers in the US (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Google

YouTube announces AI detection tools to protect creators from having their likeness copied and plans to give creators controls over AI scraping (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 AI YouTube

The US, UK, EU, and others sign a Council of Europe treaty to ensure that the use of AI is “fully consistent with human rights, democracy and the rule of law” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-6 Europe AI

YouTube expands its existing parental controls to let parents link their account to their teens' account and gain insight into the teens' activity (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 YouTube

The nonprofit Cosmos Institute launches to cultivate AI technologists “equipped with deep philosophical thinking”, with plans for an AI lab, a VC arm, and more (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 AI

Seattle-based Revefi, which seeks to automatically detect and troubleshoot companies' data-related issues, raised a $20M Series A led by Icon Ventures (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 Seattle

Paylocity, which provides HR and payroll software, agrees to acquire corporate spending software company Airbase for $325M; Airbase was valued at $600M in 2021 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5

Google releases Android 15, making its source code available on the Android Open Source Project; supported Pixel devices will get the new OS in the coming weeks (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 Android Google Open Source

X launches a new TV app “on several app stores” in beta, as part of an effort to court advertisers, creators, and partners around a “video-first platform” (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5

Anthropic launches Claude Enterprise, offering a context window of 500,000 tokens and GitHub integration, but refuses to disclose the price (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-5 GitHub

The UK's CMA says Microsoft's acquihire of the Inflection team doesn't cause competition concerns, but designates the deal as a merger (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Microsoft

Spotify expands daylist, a personalized playlist that evolves through the day depending on listening habits, globally for free and adds support for 14 languages (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Spotify

Neko Health, which offers AI-based full-body scans and was co-founded by Daniel Ek and Hjalmar Nilsonne, launches in London, its first city outside Sweden (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 AI Sweden London

Bluesky says that, as of September 2, it had added over 2M new users in the past week, in the wake of Brazil's ban on X (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Ban Brazil

Instagram adds a comment feature for Stories; by default, only followers you follow back can leave comments (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 Instagram

Spotter launches Spotter Studio, a set of AI tools that analyze 2B+ top performing YouTube videos to help creators brainstorm video ideas, and more, for $49/mo. (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-4 AI YouTube

Dubai-based Ziina, a P2P payments app with 50,000 retail and business customers, raised a $22M Series A led by Altos, bringing its total funding to $30M+ (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-3 Retail P2P Dubai

Doccla, whose “virtual bed” tech helps doctors monitor patients remotely, raised a $46M Series B led by Lakestar after raising a $17M Series A in September 2022 (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-3

A look at NightCafe, a bootstrapped generative art marketplace with 25M users who created ~1B images; source: it has $4M annualized revenue with a ~50% margin (techcrunch.com)
2024-9-2

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