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Good morning, you wonderful specimens of humanity! It’s Friday, and I’m writing this from a hammock in a sunny North Auckland garden, so life isn’t all that bad. (I can assume WFH stands for Work From Hammock).
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Startups and VCs
Everything in the insurance world is go, go, go. Mary Ann Lemonade acquired Metromill and reported that it immediately laid off 20% of its workforce. Of course, in a world where there is a fair amount of management and operational overlap between the two companies, it’s always sad to say goodbye to beloved colleagues.
And don’t miss it AryaAn article about how the exploration company is developing a new reusable orbital vehicle. ” of [space] The search ecosystem is going to change dramatically over the next 10 to 15 years,” explained co-founder and CEO Helen Huby. “If you make this happen, you have a huge advantage of being one of the first in the market.”
A few more recipes to get you into the weekend:
- Taking the joy out of everythingA startup is charging $1.99 to write strings to feed into platforms like DALL-E, and I despair of humanity. Come on, that’s half the fun! Thank you very much Kyle This afternoon I was confused and angry. Jerk.
- Making it rain in AfricaZCrest Capital, known for its debt and equity capital markets investments, recently ventured into venture investments with a $10 million “emergency fund” for African startups in pre-Series A level companies. take up Reports.
- Driving lessons for industrial vehiclesPolymat Robotics launched to bring plug-and-play autonomy software to any industrial vehicle. Kirsten Reports.
- The more you learn: You know, I’ve never read one of Devin’s articles that didn’t make me go, “Huh! I didn’t know that!” Today, Shinkei Systems’ AI guided fish harvesting robot gave me that moment of joy.
All My Monkeys Are Gone: Legal Disputes at the Intersection of IP and NFTs
Image Credits: Bryce Durbin / TechCrunch
In 1962, Andy Warhol got lucky when he presented images of Campbell’s soup: for several reasons, the company decided not to sue him for trademark infringement.
One wonders how the situation might have played out 60 years later if Warhol had issued a series of NFTs with his iconic soup labels.
In her recent TC+ post, CORPlaw founder Kristen Corpion explored trademark infringement, the first sale doctrine, and why Seth Green ended “the most interesting and important IP legal issues affecting the creation, transfer and use of NFTs today.” To buy back the Bored Monkey who stole $100,000.
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Big Tech Inc.
He never gives up. He tries never to let go. It probably won’t run and fire you. But TikTok may be considering a music service, report Aisha And Ivan Unfortunately the mandatory quota of music matches in an article less. Don’t worry, guys, I’ll talk about it.
Meanwhile, Annie Kenya is considering banning Facebook after the country’s National Co-operation and Integration Commission found that the social media site was not doing enough to clean up hate speech.
- Is multimedia coming to Twitter?It looks like the social media platform is experimenting with allowing you to post images, videos and GIFs on the same Twitter. Ivan Reports.
- We don’t want your sarcastic ads.Roku missed the mark in its quarterly results, and blames the ad slowdown on being short. Lauren Reports.
- The bank account goes down, stocks go upAmazon reported a revenue loss of $2 billion. The stock price is up because the stocks seem to like this kind of thing Lauren.
- Special price for you. For you, it’s doubleTwitter Blue has received a price increase from $2.99 to $4.99 per month, according to reports. Ivan.
- Where would you take someone after the Peekaboo disaster? to the ICUInstagram pretty much copied BeReal for its Dual Camera feature, but missed the point along the way. Amanda He explains.
- Is there anything they can’t do?Video memes, maybe music soon (see above) and now TikTok has started testing HTML5 mini-games with a few partners. Sarah Reports.
