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Oh hey! how are you today? We’ve had a very busy day on the site today, with a veritable cornucopia of news pouring in all over the internet. Below we have selected some of the most interesting pieces for you. Have fun (to the extent of enjoying another day’s news to try and panic as little as possible about cuts and whisper advice). – Christine And came
TechCrunch’s Top 3
- WhatsUp on WhatsAppThe messaging giant has been preparing for this moment since August, and it’s finally here: Communities! The new chat group allows more people to join and offers voice and video calls for up to 32 people, as well as emoji galore, polls and large file sharing. Sarah Reports.
- You might want to switch to polka dots.: Strip reduces 14% manpower, and Paul The CEO points out that “recruiting more than the world we’re in” has led to the decline. Unfortunately, the day is kind of waning, so if you can read more with your stomach, head over to Big Tech Inc. Go on.
- Where is Ajit Mohan?Well, the former head of Meta India is now at Snap and serves as the president of the company’s APAC business. Manish And Jagmet Write it down.
Startups and VCs
“Most designers have no real-life manufacturing experience and are drawing things that are not useful for the factory,” said Xianfeng Wang, founder and CEO of Pacdora. To bridge the gap between designers and manufacturers. Wang’s team created Pacdora for packaging like Canva plus Figma. Rita Reports. The platform offers thousands of packaging templates for all kinds of products, from shipping boxes and coffee bags to lotion bottles and yogurt bags.
“I’ve always wanted software to help us do this internally,” says Juan Meisel. Christine. With his new startup, Grip is building a logistics solution. “I started consulting some companies on the side. They got their ButcherBox in the mail and were trying to send anything from frozen milk to chocolate, flowers and pharmaceuticals.
Okay, well, here’s another handful of startup news stories:
ProTech in Review: 3 Investors Explain How Finance-Focused ProTech Startups Survive the Fall
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How are financier-focused asset technology investors responding to the downturn in the public markets?
Senior reporter Mary Ann Azevedo He interviewed three VCs to learn more about how they advise the companies in their portfolios, which types of startups are best at handling failure, and how they manage risk.
- Pete Flint, General Partner, NFX
- Zach Aarons, Co-Founder and General Partner, MetaProp
- Nima Wedlake, Principal, Thomvest Ventures
Three more from the TC+ team:
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Big Tech Inc.
Cheer up guys! We know you don’t like scrolling through a paper grocery list—okay, we know scrolling through that tiny phone screen is a hassle. Well, Amazon and Mojo Vision have a treat for you, or rather your eyeballs. Today, they introduced that proof of concept feature Brian “It’s the first major third-party user app on a smart contact lens,” he says. That’s right, Alexa shopping list integration for contact lenses with a computer interface.
Today, layoffs, layoffs as far as the eye can see. As we’ve shared Stripe news with you before, and as you’ve probably heard last week, Elon Musk is making some staff cuts at Twitter. Natasha L Now he’s reportedly planning to cut Twitter’s headcount in half. Meanwhile, Kirsten Lyft wrote that it is cutting 13 percent of its workforce to reduce operating costs.
And we have five more for you:
