by Harri Weber | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Rebellyous, a startup that’s striving to build “a better chicken,” has raised at least $20 million in fresh funding, TechCrunch has learned. Based in Seattle, the venture-backed company calls its production tech the “most advanced plant-based...
by Taylor Hatmaker | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Mentions of the “metaverse” were relatively few and far between in Meta’s quarterly earnings call this week — we counted a mere seven mentions compared to 23 for “AI” — but the company’s investment into its vision of a VR-connected...
by Kirsten Korosec | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Elon Musk was found not liable in a class-action securities fraud trial that centered on the Tesla CEO’s now infamous “funding secured” tweet. The central question in the lawsuit was whether Musk was liable for losses suffered by shareholders after...
by Christine Hall | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
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by Amanda Silberling | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
A group of 40 YouTube Music workers went on strike Friday. Employed by Alphabet subcontractor Cognizant, the striking workers allege that both companies’ management have leveraged unfair labor practices to get in the way of their union drive. “Right now,...
by Rebecca Szkutak | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements, Startups, Venture Capital
The venture secondaries market has been on the same roller-coaster ride as the broader VC market over the past few years, but it looks poised to break away in 2023. Like venture capital as a whole, the secondaries market was hot in 2021 as a bunch of new players —...
by Aria Alamalhodaei | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Voyager Space, a company developing a private space station, has raised $80.2 million in new capital. The new funding comes as Voyager continues its development of the station, Starlab, which is no doubt an enormously capital-intensive undertaking. The funding...
by Amanda Silberling | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
As more Twitter features break and glitch, users are becoming increasingly concerned about the platform’s stability. We’re about three months into Elon Musk’s ownership of Twitter, and a number of problems plague the platform, likely because so many...
by Taylor Hatmaker | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Twitter’s new owner is making moves to build in more revenue streams for creators — or at least he’s tweeting about it. Elon Musk announced Friday that the company would soon begin sharing advertising revenue with creators on the platform for the first...
by Aisha Malik | Feb 3, 2023 | Business Enhancements
Google worked to reassure investors and analysts on Thursday during its quarterly earnings call that it’s still a leader in developing AI. The company’s Q4 2022 results were highly anticipated as investors and the tech industry awaited Google’s response to the...