Hackers steal $200 million from crypto company Mixin Hong Kong-based crypto company Mixin announced on Sunday that it was breached and that the hackers stole around $200 million. “In the early morning of September 23, 2023 Hong Kong time, the database o...
VC firm Fuse closes $250M fund to invest in Pacific Northwest startups Funding for startups in the Pacific Northwest (PNW) fell precipitously early this year. From January to March, PNW financing dipped 80% to $246 million, down from $1.2 billion during the same period i...
What’s the best way to run a startup in a world full of advice? There exist myriad answers to the question of ‘how to found your first startup.’ But which of those answers apply to you and your situation?
Nx lands $16M to build ‘monorepo’ tools for software devs Nx, a startup developing tooling to make it simpler for software dev teams to work within a single code repository, today closed a $16 million Series A round with participation from Nexus Venture Part...
Decade of newborn child registry data stolen in MOVEit mass-hack Ontario’s government-funded birth registry has confirmed a data breach affecting some 3.4 million people who sought pregnancy care, including the personal health data of close to two million newborns ...
Snap partners with Microsoft on ads in its ‘My AI’ chatbot feature Snapchat has a new advertising partner in Microsoft for the ads it’s inserting into its AI product, My AI, an AI chatbot introduced earlier this year to the wider Snapchat user base. The company in Ma...
The current labor market is a gold mine of talent for startups The whiplash we've seen in the labor market over the last few years has created an environment that startups can and should take advantage of.
X will make audio and video calls a premium subscriber-only feature Last month X CEO Linda Yaccarino confirmed that video calls would be coming to the app formerly known as Twitter as part of its transition into an “everything app.” Now, new code in the X app reveals ...
Tinder snobs can now pay $499 per month to be matched with the ‘most-sought after’ profiles Tinder has rolled out its promised high-end membership, a pricey $499 per month subscription dubbed “Tinder Select,” which includes unique perks like the ability to be seen by more users, including Ti...
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