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Fire-sale prices for startups. Investors hung out to dry. Founders pulling the rip cord even when they’ve still got cash left in the bank.
The harsh realities facing creator economy startups are getting even harsher, prompting a stampede of founders looking for exits as they struggle to find growth and funding for their businesses. So far this year, there have been 35 completed or planned sales of companies in The Information’s Creator Economy Database—from creator-focused shopping apps to providers of pod
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Mistral AI releases content moderation API powered by its Ministral 8B language model. The €6 billion-valued European AI startup has backing from tech giants Nvidia and Microsoft. The European artificial intelligence powerhouse Mistral AI has announced the release of its new content moderation API, marking a step in its mission to deliver sovereign AI solutions.... Read more » Read more ›
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Taylor Swift's self-published "The Eras Tour Book" was released exclusively at Target on Black Friday. Read more ›
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On this week's episode of The MacRumors Show, we discuss the recently leaked design of the iPhone 17 "Air" and iPhone 17 Pro. Subscribe to The MacRumors Show YouTube channel for more videos Earlier this week, a report from The Information's Wayne Ma revealed that the iPhone 17 Air will have a thickness of between 5mm and 6mm, which would make it the thinnest iPhone ever. In comparison, iPhone 16... Read more ›
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Samsung DeX has had a good run, but One UI 7 will mark its end of the Windows app. Read more ›
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Riot Games added some new clauses to its Terms of Service that could put some players in hot water for unbecoming behavior that occurs “across the various places that touch their gaming experience.” Players can face penalties, suspensions and even “Riot-wide bans” if they are caught violating these new rules. The new clauses first appeared on Riot’s Privacy Notice and TOS on Tuesday. Creators have until January 3, 2025 “to... Read more ›
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Try ButcherBox, CookUnity, Firstleaf Wine Club and many more at a massive discount when you sign up on Black Friday. Read more ›
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Donald Trump has tapped Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy to lead the Department of Government Efficiency. Read more ›
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Apple’s second-gen AirPods Pro buds in front of the charging case against a dark background. | Photo by Chris Welch / The Verge Black Friday and AirPods discounts go together like, well, AirPods and iPhones. We thought the latest AirPods Pro were an incredible deal at their recently discounted price of $189, but they’ve dropped even further at Amazon, Walmart, and Target where you can now pick them up for... Read more ›
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Meta is said to be planning a fiber-optic subsea internet cable that will span the world and could cost north of $10 billion. The project, which was originally reported by subsea cable expert Sunil Tagare, could be formally announced early next year. However, sources linked to Meta told TechCrunch that the project is in the early stages. Only a few contractors would be capable of building out that infrastructure and... Read more ›
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Illustration: The Verge You don’t have to spend a fortune to have a robot clean your floors. Here’s our pick of the most cost-effective bots you can buy right now. Continue reading… Read more ›
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From 3rd January 2025, Riot Games will ban content creators for bad "off-platform conduct". Read more Read more ›
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Jump on these fantastic Black Friday sales with these WIRED Gear team-approved mattresses, mattress pads, sheets, and more. Read more ›
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Illustration by Nick Barclay / The Verge Meta is reportedly planning to build a world-spanning fiber-optic subsea cable for its own exclusive use. According to TechCrunch, the $10 billion project will create a new 40,000+ kilometer (about 24,850 miles) cable network around the world that avoids “areas of geopolitical tension” where subsea cables have been sabotaged, such as the Red Sea, the South China Sea, Egypt, Marseilles, the Straits of... Read more ›
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Yet another Final Fantasy 14 Ultimate Raid world first challenge has been scuppered by cheaters, who were busted due to a single pixel. Read more Read more ›
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The Chevrolet K5 Blazer was immensely popular during its time, blazing a trail for future SUVs. But what ever happened to the K5 Blazer? Read more ›
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TSMC founder Morris Chang and Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang have long-admired each other publicly — but Huang decided to keep his focus on his own company. Read more ›
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There are many deals on Black Friday that are as good as what Samsung is running for the Galaxy Watch 7 and I’m going to guess it’ll sell out quickly if you don’t hurry. The Galaxy Watch 7 is (seriously) down to $2.60 at the moment, thanks to an instant discount and and instant trade-in … Continued Read the original post: Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 7 is $2.60 for Black Friday... Read more ›
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Samsung and SK hynix to describe their next-generation GDDR7 technologies that will enable data transfer rates of up to 42 GT/s. Read more ›
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Brightcove, which makes software to help companies create and make money from videos, agreed to be taken private by Italian mobile app operator Bending Spoons for $233 million in cash in a deal expected to close early next year, the companies announced on Monday. The purchase price Bending ... Read more ›
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Last year, the board of now-collapsed fintech startup Synapse Financial Technologies discussed whether to remove the company’s CEO, Sankaet Pathak. At the time, discrepancies in Synapse’s ledgers were piling up, which the board was aware of. Andreessen Horowitz General Partner Angela Strange argued in favor of keeping Pathak in the role based on the belief that founders were best placed to run their companies, according to a person close to... Read more ›
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Gavin Newsom, California’s Democratic governor, announced on Monday that he would reinstate a tax credit for electric vehicle purchases if the incoming Trump Administration removes federal EV tax credits. But the state may not extend the credits to Tesla because of the company’s large market ... Read more ›
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If Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. had its way, the chip manufacturing powerhouse would be a neutral party in the battle between the U.S. and China for technological supremacy—a semiconductor version of Switzerland, one TSMC executive told The Information. Unfortunately, the company may find it increasingly tough to avoid picking a side. Last month, the U.S. Commerce Department launched an investigation into whether TSMC was still producing chips for Chinese tech... Read more ›
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Uber announced a new service on Tuesday to help companies label their data and train artificial intelligence models. Through the new service, Scaled Solutions, Uber will hire data labelers on contract to provide companies with human-written annotations, such as descriptions of images or rankings ... Read more ›
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Apple’s desire to make its products thinner could dampen sales in China if its engineers can’t overcome a design hurdle with the slim iPhone planned for release next fall—it can’t fit a physical SIM card tray, which is required in China. Apple plans to release its slim iPhone next year, alongside new versions of its traditional models, aiming to rejuvenate iPhone sales by providing customers with a compelling reason to... Read more ›
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The judge overseeing Google’s search antitrust case warned that he doesn’t want to delay the upcoming trial of remedies to deal with Google’s illegal search monopoly, now scheduled for the spring. At a status conference for the case on Tuesday, the judge said the incoming presidential ... Read more ›
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It’s a bit early to be offering predictions for 2025, but here goes anyway. Chances are very good that sometime next year we’re going to hear a bunch of complaints about newly released Apple iPhones dropping calls more often than previous models did. In other words, we’re in for a repeat of the “Antennagate” brouhaha of 2010, when similar connectivity issues on the new iPhone 4 became a big story.Assuming... Read more ›
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The consumer holding company Helen of Troy announced Thursday it would acquire nail care brand Olive & June, a notable deal as M&A activity for beauty startups remains slow. Helen of Troy will pay $225 million in cash for the brand, as well as a future $15 million earnout depending on ... Read more ›
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Employees at a Whole Foods Market store on Friday filed a request for a union election, the first such organizing effort at the grocery chain since it was acquired by Amazon in 2017. The proposed union would cover 300 employees at a store in Philadelphia who would join a local unit of the United ... Read more ›
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