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TechCrunch’s Top 3
- 2001, A Starbucks OdysseyIn August, Starbucks acquired material related to plans for a blockchain-based loyalty program and an NFT community. Today, the coffee giant has added to the excitement and unveiled the Starbucks Odyssey. Sarah It has more on this steamy, hot award trophy.
- Twitter from Elon Musk, episode 265: Ivan “Third time’s a charm,” Elon Musk’s lawyers have written to Elon Musk’s lawyers for a third termination notice regarding a June severance payment to former security chief Peter “Mudge” Zatko, who argue that the move violates Musk’s offer. A deal to get the social media giant. Or so they thought. Twitter denies breaching this agreement.
- Africa’s hot and heavy fintech sectorKipa, a Nigerian financial management app for entrepreneurs, closes $8.4 million in new funding. take up As of last June, Kipa reported that it has 500,000 merchants using the app.
Startups and VCs
EV truck company Nicola merged with VectoIQ in a SPAC in June 2020 for $29 billion. Trevor Milton, Nicola’s former chief executive, launched the fraud trial, which serves as a warning to risk-averse investors who throw in money before a company can deliver products or generate revenue. Rebecca Reports.
“The reality is, if you’re a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm, no LP at your annual meeting will say, ‘How do you miss company X in Columbus?’ He is going to ask you. Like, that won’t happen. But ‘how did you lose the Y company in Silicon Valley?’ They ask you. They don’t want to miss those things in their backyard,” Chris Olson explained in a fascinating interview. Connie. Olsen spent six years with Sequoia Capital in California before co-founding Drive Capital in Columbus, Ohio in 2013.
Relatedly, for our city spotlight: Minneapolis last week; came Hosted a panel to discuss what Minneapolis investors are looking for (hint: it’s not just Minnesota startups).
Here’s a few more for you:
For Latham Pay Orchestra startups, market disruption is a boon.
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E-commerce in Latin America is plagued by high fraud rates. Barely 20% of adults own a credit card, and many can’t use them internationally.
It is true that e-commerce has been growing faster than other regions since the outbreak. According to a study, online sales in Latin America will generate $379 billion, a 32 percent year-over-year increase.
“The payment landscape in Latin America seems hopelessly fragmented and riddled with fraud,” said F-Prime Capital Principal Rocio Wu.
However, we believe that fragmentation actually provides a greater opportunity for vertically integrated payment orchestration startups to capture more value.
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Big Tech Inc.
Darrell This morning he tracked down Blue Origin and broke the news that the launch was aborted after a “mid-flight problem”.
We know you missed your Apple News fix over the weekend, so the team included Zach, Ivan, Sarah And Roman, have come together to bring you some stories related to iOS 16. First up are five new security and privacy features and nifty features you won’t want to miss. Then everything you want to know about the lock screen and how downloading iOS 16 turns your iPhone into a personal device, and finally the skin on Apple Passkey.
- Indian eyeHere’s what Google plans to do with some manufacturing for its Pixel smartphones. Manish He wrote.
- What not to leave in your hotel roomNot sure how to “get” the Meta Quest Pro prototype, but that’s what happened to a video game streamer in Mexico. Amanda It has more.
- not at allCan’t say Amazon hasn’t tried. The e-commerce giant is asking the European Union to accept its request to end an antitrust investigation into its use of third-party data. Natasha L He wrote that some advocacy groups are calling Amazon’s offer “weak, vague and full of loopholes.”
- Chocolate, salty balls maybe?Move over capsules and K-cups. Here are the coffee balls. Find out what it is came He had to talk about the coffee machine in Switzerland.
