by Darrell Etherington | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Sonos rarely misses, and its first ruggedized, weather-resistant smart speaker, the Sonos Move, was no exception. This year, it released the Sonos Move 2, a sequel that looks, on the outside, pretty much identical to its predecessor, but that has improvements under...
by Sarah Perez | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Snap is closing down a division of its company designed to offer its AR expertise to enterprise customers. The initiative, called AR Enterprise Service, or ARES, was first announced in March of this year, and included a Shopping Suite for brands that allowed them to...
by Lauren Forristal | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Yaysay, an AI-powered shopping app, launched in beta today to gamify off-price shopping and bring the experience to mobile. Created by Casper co-founder Philip Krim, Yaysay combines concepts from social media, video games, online ticketing platforms and dating apps....
by Sarah Perez | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Walmart is returning to Roblox, but this time with a virtual world where gamers can discover new virtual items and accessories to personalize their experience, not browse or shop items from Walmart itself. The retailer a year ago had launched two Walmart-branded...
by Frederic Lardinois | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Cloud detection and response company Gem Security today announced that it has raised a $23 million Series A round led by GGV Capital, with participation from IBM Ventures, Cisco and Silicon Valley CISO Investments. It was only in February that Gem announced its $11...
by Romain Dillet | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements, Startups
French grocery delivery startup La Belle Vie is acquiring Frichti, another food delivery service that was placed under court-ordered receivership. TechCrunch can confirm that the court picked La Belle Vie’s offer over three other offers, as Les Échos reported earlier....
by Natasha Lomas | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements
X (formerly Twitter) appears to have removed an option that allowed users in a handful of markets to directly report misleading information about politics. An Australian digital research group called Reset.Australia spotted the change and posted an open letter (via...
by Carrie Andrews | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements
One of the big lessons of the social finance backlash is that empowerment without education can do more harm than good.
by Kyle Wiggers | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements, Startups
Lumu, a startup that helps enterprises identify and isolate security compromises, today announced that it raised $30 million in a Series B round led by Forgepoint Capital, $6 million of which is debt. Ricardo Villadiego, Lumu’s founder and CEO, says that the new...
by Kyle Wiggers | Sep 27, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Looking to cash in on the AI craze, Cloudflare, the cloud services provider, is launching a new collection of products and apps aimed at helping customers build, deploy and run AI models at the network edge. One of the new offerings, Workers AI, lets customers access...